Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-25
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne Tells Date OF Arlington Hospital FeteShe Hears
Jarious Bits OF Gossip about People in Her Daily
Comngs and Gongs

ono meets now aud again since the war
Is it not? saw Emily rhuycr Dixon Just
recently ou the street. She looks perfectly
lovely in her widows weeds. but 50 sau.
And it must be extra sad for the wives anu
mothers now that the boys are coming nome
every day and they realize that thcir sous
and husbands will not come back. Mrs. IL.
Franklin Pepper is another widow, whose
husband. Mai ior Pepper was killed about the
same time Beau Dixon: and Mrs. Nortou
Downs is still another whose husband was
killed
Joan Packard Elliot. whose husband Dick
Elliot. lost his life in the explosion OF MS
ship. has gone abroad to do Red Cross work
for six munths or more. She has no emil
drcn. but Mrs. Peppcr. who has been mar
ried some ten or fifteen years. has several
children Mrs. Dixon has two. think. ana
there is II wee Downs baby.
All honor to these brave women who saw
Z, their husbands go without faltoring and who
have borne their losses magnihccntly.
NN TIE other side We see happy rcunious
" With the return Of BASE Hospital No. ~
came many Of the doctors who had been sep
aratcd fsom thcr wives for nearly two years
They arrived last Thursday and Friday aud
went to Dix AT once Many Of the wives
went down to them. hut they nave all Drcn
those doctors and 80 was 'harles MltcncH
and John Flick.
hear that Joe bailey is home. too. aud
has been mustered out aud he aud Eth"i
have gone to rlO'teviliC.- Va. Jor -
studying law there and :" mas taken ho"se
that Ethel may he near him. lie Is the Soo
OF former Senator HalIcy. "i ieNas' 70" re-
rrcmbc. He married Ethel lluhu about Il
year ago. just tw" days before saiiing tor
France.
... ,.
MI KS NobE'l i'hoih' 'hs "'e '""'
A'A st. Ninrcnt's Home is to b"the oche'
fciary Of the welfare dances at the hitS
next week. Mrs. Lesley is president OF the
home. You know. aud it appears that theS
have so many little children out there TINS
year ,duc. to the "hu aud war; that IL
quite impossible TO carry them up and down
stairs to the garden every day. and so the
women on the board of the home are anxious
to raise money for tn" inSta'lation OF an
elevator ont there. The wcitarc dances next
week will be ono Of the ways pf raising money
for this charity. Associated with MIS- Les
ley on the committee are Mrs. Robert max
tor Bckucll. Mrs. Ashton Devcreux. Mrs.
James Mundy. Mrs. Arthur Primrose baugh.
Mrs. Fielding Otis Lewis and several othcr
prominent women.
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annual fetc for the Abingdon Hospital. Inc
date IS June . ana inc aha,r '"'s 'e"' W
be called the RAINBOW tpte. anu w!
know tnat name mas poSs'o'i,ieS. ! nav
been told that thcre Is even 10 oe ,ne po, vi
gold at the cpd OF tue ra'npo"' !, VIII oH ~.
an open arr Da|aar' as usual ana 'nere VIII
be an awiullS attra"'Nc Tea garuen "p"cr ,"e
direction or MIS-. iarciaF Warour'ou anu a
Elkins. Jr. That ought to make MT Tor
II 'hcre ONE ,n'ns 'h"' r'"p,' WIZ ~ W wv
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vaii-'hat II 10 say VIII pI'V"' tals,is
ah" us ''l US 'n"' 80 Iii 49,
are ho'reao'E 'arsei ~ pus,t' W." q.
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there TO Dc real i've '''' .'oSa uos' ""o
mas seen service overseas any .n'' '".'.
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sec !, TO DC qu,'t n inusu", f. u"u Inn "op AZ;
wonderful day MIS- Heorse llor"'e i'ori,
mer is chairman oi tne anar' as SUE was ,"s'
year ana tue committee 'n.'uoIs ,'e'
Iohn I,ocr,; Mrs, iu" noo'T' "smrn pr tns ,ins
Edward Marsha'' and Nrs' ''a"''pc' "u''e''
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