Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-21
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy ,nne Hears of Another DebuaneShe Speaks OF the
Criticisms OF the Unthinking Cro,cd-Ritten.
house Square Market Today

VIE hOumhn u. 'rlsCOmS VIII lhtrouuCe
y their daughter Mary next season. Every
day we hear of another debutante, it seems
TO me, until sometimes wonder how on earth
there will be- enough days to bring them all
out and | do not wonder that mothers are
choosing days as far ahead as January when
1t comes to parties at the hotels.
Of course the Grscoms will not bring
Mary out of n hotel. for they have their
lovely big place at Dolobran which was built
by Mary's grandfather, the late Mr.. Clement
A. Griscom. I understand that her grand
mother, Mrs. Clement A. Griscom. will give
a tea out there in October to introduce the
young debutante.
Mrs. Rodman Griscom was Miss Annie
Starr. you know. the Starr family as
well as the Griscoms will bc interested in
giving Mary Griscom good time. And it is
likely that there will be any number of par
seties.
1t is some time since there has been n
debut in the Grscom family. and the coun
try home, with its picture gallery and ball
room, is an ideal place for entertaining.
nON'T you love to hear people talk about
~ things they do not understand? | know
that sounds sarcastic, but really. my dcars.
. Unp comments l HnNp ntHrO on lnHI nHfhUp
, last week are enough to make one roar with
laughter 1t appears there were not enough
bands. also not enough rifles to 90 around.
Now that sounds too absurd. doesn't it?
But there not one or two, but many. in
this town who did not and do not vet know
that members of gun battalions do not carry
rifles, they shoot guns; that strctcher-
bearers and ambulance corps members do
not carry rifles that each regiment has only
one band and that were viewing the re-
turned Twenty eighth Division, which had
in it four regiments, and therefore four
bands and no more.
Another thing. the city had bands about
every two or three blocks for the men to
march to. They played the sidewalks
or on the grandstands, and it was all mar
velous. I have never seen such a splendid
set of fine, well built men.
But there are always some to find fault.
SO it goes. If. we all liked the same people
and the same things it would be fierce,
wouldn't it? But at the same time we
might as well show n certain amount of
human intelligence now and again. and
somehow when | had heard seven times
about the want of rifles in the parade and
ten times about there not being enough
bands ] felt | must stand up on my two
feet and remark: You know. dearics, that
wasn't n circus we went to see last week.
1t was the men who returned from fight
ing in one of the worst places along the
line in the late war. There's been a war,
you know. and the philadelphians in line
were what were left of our own home town
men who fought and died over there
for us
THE COLONEL Danes. Chapter No. .. will
give a delightful affair tomorrow after
noon at their house, 400 Locust street. Is
is to be reception for all the nurses in
the city who did work overseas during the
war. The reception will last from 4 until
g o'clock and will he quite large affair.
Mrs. James Large. who has lately been made
president of this chapter, is taking n very
great interest in the party and has asked
number of the Danes to receive with her.
& Tile Colonial Danes have done a lot toward
entertaining soldiers and sailors and last
Sunday they had n huge supper there for the
seamcn. at which some hundred men were
present.
THE Flower Market will open this morn
L ing, you know, and it's certainly going
to be as great as a picture, if nothing
else, and something tells me from the
amounts taken in in previous years it will
be successful financially, too and of course,
that's the great thing. Mrs. Eli X. Price
Is chairman of the Market and she has
had number Of splendid and most efficient
assistants.
I do hope it will he clear and remain so
all day. Yesterday was so questionable it
was hard to predict the weather.
Among those who are interested in the
market are Mrs. Henry Brinton Coke,
Mrs. Joe LedS, Mrs. Andrew Wright
Crawford. Mrs. Willis Martin, Mrs.
Charles Wood. Mrs. Sam Henderson and |
can't begin to tell you all those who will
be there.
ISN'T it lovely the ideas children get? yr-
L ginia was eating her soup slowly and
carefully. You have to eat slowly when
you are only four and you have to be very
careful not to spill tiny drop and not to
make single little scoopy sound. 1t was
that lovely creamy tomato soup which is so
pink and pretty, and Virginia loved every
y little mouthfuI. As she neared the bottom
of the plate she became slower and slower,
and then when you could see the bottom
and the spoon took up more soup Virginia
looked puzzled. and raising her eyes to
mother, said, ooh mamma, see the hole
made in my SOUP"
NANCY wYNNE.