Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-20

hHANb VIII DC TWO important Iehs
this afternoon. Eveyn and Mary
Page, the two attractive fair haired
daughters of the Howard Wurts Pages,
will be introduced by their parents at a
tea given at their home, 1913 Clinton
street, from until half after 8 o'clock.
And Susan Groome, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry G. Groome. and niece
OF Mr. John G. Groome, of this city,
will be introduced ut the Wellington,
where she and her parents are spending
the winter. The Groomes live in War
rentoh, Va, you know, hut came up
here to introduce Susan. Their tea will
be from 4 until Z o'clock.
Susan Groome's own mother is dead.
you know; she was Miss Anna Wright,
q sister of Mr.. Charles y. Wright, who
married Miss Carrie McMurtrie, and Of
Mr.. William Townsend Wright. whose
wife was Miss Coke. SO Daisy Wright
Forbes. William Coke Wright and Hebe
Wright Dick are Susan's first cousins.
Mrs, Groome died when Susan was u
very little girl and few years later
Mr.. Groome married Miss Mary Upton,
OF Chestnut Hill, the present Mrs.
Groome. OF course on the Groome side
Of the family Susan's first cousins are
Agnes Dixon, Martha Thompson, Of
New York, and Jack Groome. who mar
ried Gladys league, Of Augusta
The Groomes have visited here a good
deal, so Susan knew a number Of the
debutantes before she came up to 90
out. Indeed she and Mary Ernestine
Appleton, who is also from Warren
ton, are among the buds having the best
times.
nON'T you think the two Pages are
~ sweet? They are so dainty and bright
and full Of fun. Evelyn would have
come out last year had there been any
comings out, so it is nice for the two
sisters to be going about together this
year. - .'-
There's lot of that this season. ism
there? The two Wurts girls, Eleanor
and Rosamond; the two GlenGinnings
Mary and Ellen; really the two
Thayers, though Peggy is not supposed
to be making her debut Marina and
Fanny Wister, daughters of Owen Wis
Ter; Juliana and Patty Baker and sev
eral others.
Then the number Of cousins is re
markable. Caroline Barclay is 8
cousin Of the Wisters; Polly Goodmar
and Mary Ernestine Appleton are first
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Grifhths are cousins; the Pages, Wurts
Rhoda Brooke. Wisters, Caroline Bar
clay and Celestine Warder are all mixee
up IN some kinds of cousinship, anC
Margaret Thayer Graham is relative
Of Peggy and Polly Thayer.
TALKING of relationships made m
u think of Elizabeth Barlow and Mrs
m H. T.,
cousin. / don t remember which but
do want to tell you this. I have heart
several people say they wondered VIII.
they were not asked to the party at tn,
Lilacs last week for Elizabeth. 1t wa
not big party, only fmelre men ant
girls, and not the dinner dance whicl
was spoken of in the beginning of tb,
season. No large affairs have beef
giyen nor will be for Elizabeth unit
after the first of the year,
pESIDES the two teas there will b
~ the Colonial costume dance at tn
Samuel Price Wetherills's house give
by the Yorke Stevensons for DcboraI
Logan this evening All the lads an
llssies are to go in Colonial dress an
they will dance a Sir Roger de Coverle
and there'll be wonderful decoration
m everything, and it will be YER
pretty, think. .t...
The Pages will give q dinner 70
Evelyn and Mary after the tea and tn
guests will go to the Stevenson dance
and Mrs. Ralph Derr, of 1000 Spruc
street, will give a dinner in honor O
her niece, Roxalene Dickinson, befor
the dance.
THERE was an interesting meeting
J. at the Art Alliance yesterday after
noon when Mrs. Mary Elliott Hobbs, @
Kelmsett, England, spoke on "The Po
sition of Women in Agricultural an
horticultural Development. The won
en- of the Garden Club and the Societ
of Little Gardens took an active inter
est. Mrs. Charles Davis Clark wa
pouring tea. saw Mrs. Howar
Lewis and Mrs. andrew Crawford
whose husband has been so prominen
IN civic reform lately.
Mrs. Joseph wainwright kept Mrs
Hobbs on the jump with the question
she asked her as to child labor reforr
after the lecture was over Mrs. Hobb
is very pleasant looking dark -haire
woman and spoke with good deal @
bumor.
A s THE colder weather IL advancin
~ 1t has become necessary for Qu
friend Ellen to don warmer things, an
SO she appeared in a full suit of war;
undergarments one day last week, re
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