Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-30
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Chats About Tearing Down of a Veil
Kno,on Old House in Chestnut Philadelphian
Practices on Organ in ''Mouie'

NJEDL, after October, Chestnut Hlli
w will feel as IL It had lost Its eye.
brows or something, because the Dust
Pan is to be torn down. Just imagine
Chestnut Hill without the Dust Pan
Do you know the place? I'm sure
you've heard of IT, If you don't know it.
1t stands at the intersection Of German
town avenue, Bethlehem pike and Sum !
NIT avenues IL Summit or Sunset, |
always get them mixed? The real and
proper christened name is Maple Lawn
Inn, but it's always been called the
Dust Pan, probably on account of the
dusty location, and it always sounds
sort Of familiar and affectionate.
The house is more than 200 years
old, and was originally wayside inn
] suppose people travelled out Bethle-
hem pike as much then as they do now.
although possibly not so fast. After
that for time it was country store,
where all the people used to gather to
gossip. Perhaps that's how it came to
be so well known, because everybody in
Chestnut Hill does know it.
I don't believe there are many fam
lilies that haven't stayed thereSfor
time, while the house was being done
over or something of that kind, and
even il they haven't STAYED there they
knew they could, And lots of prom
inent people have lived there-I mean
people like George Washington. It
probablv was his headouarters once.
almost every old house has been at some
time during its long life. Wouldn't it
he funny to feel that perfectly plain
Known stono house NAV some time be
visited bv neon,e from all over the coun-
try ;ust bacanso ,,o, once 1;vod therep
d.. 80 J;I no,,,,.,, j., ',oss;,r ,yby tbe
nat p., :, - - tn.,, Jo,,,o2 did
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s vel, 'se s 'e"son .a,,o 10 'na, nt"t;on @ for Won
reeueu , ioi .io'e' ;,,r
NM" INC ''o,'e9e up .n pl.,,,e,
PIKE or something that they never uiu
oelore. anu II nuy pe lhae .ne IT.. IT.
ure Oh having an eAlehsI9n I9i, VI .n1 tLo Lotto
VIII n,ane CheS1nuI III M '
aoou' iosins 'he bus' "h'
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ABOUT Eilzapeth CasahaVe the Vther
aaF. she ana her mothcr anu all ner
pro.ners.she nus apou' hVe-are NV uoMn
IN atiahtic Clty ior tne summer nliNu
pe.h very iusrai. anu nei st.J 1',s"
,aienI 10 ~, .ne iean
us n. ..,, III Gnu W. a,;ns
sne sun "orhs a' ~ anu ese,s nHt taunas nins
~ ST. W one a.;na onfootI,,
,I..a'.i 80 4L.t ~ ;,',.,i,ad thorn
GU. ~ .baso tafnno tho n,a,,;os start
90 ao,,rso h,,, ~ tbot t;me tho aloe =,
tr;c;ons and things whatever thew all
oro nro trv;nn evsr tho now nicture
f,t the afternoon and If she cared to
in,l, IN fron, ber work sba could pct
6rst shot Mt all the new plays, but she
prcfers TO practice because she loves it
so. Her mother plays beautifully on
tho harm. The Casanaves live in Over :
brook in the winter.
no YOU know any of those discon
~ certinp people who see something
amusing in a verv nearby neipbbor. and
turn to Won and remark quietly in a
conversational tone "Do Won see the
same thing 7 do?" and keen their faces
perfectly solemn and expect you to do
the same thing? Difficult, very. There
are so MANY Of them in the world. But,
at least. they know what you are going
through. With children it's different,
and vet so often they cause the same
effect.