Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-08
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Talks of Several Happenings Wurss
Dancing Class Meets-Havertord School Ddce Pre-
ceded by Various Dinners-Tro Rumnage Sales

DID YOU know that Mrs. Norton Downs,
II Jr., has been named by the Main Line
Liberty Loan committee to act as sponsor
to the ship which Is to be launched here
next month and which is to be named by
that committee? Mrs. Downs was Alice
Chapman Thompson, a daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Chapman Thompson. of Merton,
She married the late Lieutenant Downs
about two years ago. Lieutenant Downs,
who was the son Of the late DR.. Norton
Downs and Mrs. Downs. of Fordhooke
Farm, Three Tuns, was killed in October
when his airplane fell into the English
Channel.
MRS. CHARLES STEWART wURTss
AV4 Dancing Class met again last night,
and the boyt and girls had a fine time
Most of the subscribers like the classes In
between the holiday times better than the
big ones, because at the Christmas. Easter
and Fancy dance that are always extra
guests, and that crowds the room good
deal.
Last night there were several dinners
before the class. Then last night, too,
there was the Haverford School dance, and
a great many Of the school set went to
that. The Tristram Colkets gave dinner
before that dance for their sons. iris and
Bill, and Mrs. Alfred Paul Morris enter
tanned for her two daughters, Ottilie and
Priscilla, at the Merton Cricket Club, while
the w. w. Hepburns gave a small dinner
for their son. The dance was a great sue
cess and did not break up until nearly IL
o'clock
no YOU know it is absolutely marvellous
- what tho rummage sales have grown
to be Of late. There's very little rummage
about 1t so far as I can see, and yet the
things are sold at rummage prices, and
that's tho beauty of It.
But, for instance, at the affair for st.
Edmond's Home which opens on Monday
they have number OF brand.new hats
and frocks that have been donated by
Walnut street dressmakers and shops.
To be sure they are not from this
springs stock, but they are from the fall.
and the fall styles are not to be sneezed
at, believe me. The sale is to be at 1909
and 1911 Chestnut street. Nice and con-
venient, isn't it? And it seems to me they
have everything but the kitchen stove for
sale; and who knows but that kitchen
stove may De III tne tnlllSS thoy
TNHEN the week after the Independence
i Square Red Cross Auxiliary Is to have
a rummage and make a speciality Of hats,
and spring ones at that, and they have
.brand-new ones promised them; so you see
you won't have much difficulty In getting
fixed up for Easter this year, will you?
You will not
The Red Cross rummage will be held at
tho workrooms at 60s Chestnut street, on
March II, Is, II and IS. I wonder If
the Diving Venus" will turn up at either
of these sales? You remember the time
they had with her several years ago? Some
one gave her to jefferson Hospital sale
and then she was sold for SO, and the next
year IL she did not turn UP at the Presby-
terian charities sale! The following year
the Diving Lady was donated to a Catholic
rummage sale, and the last heard Of her
she was on a table to be sold for the BEN
eft of day nursery.
She's Of the soda water fountain type.
Her diving costume is fashioned Of blue
paint and she has her arms high UP over
her head. In her native heath, water must
have cascaded freely down her shoulders
IL,
She is slightly monotonous. Perhaps she'll
10 70 ST. Edmond's or perhaps she'll turn
I'D at the Red Cross. Anyway, / always
keep looking for her, thinking how her
poor china arms must ache.
r HEAR that Mr. Thomas Willing Balch,
one of the vice presidents Of the His
torical Society, is going to take his turn
at being host to the enlisted men at the
reception tonight. He will make a short
address. Do you know, think the enter
tainments for enlisted men are almost more
necessary now than they were during the
war? There are so many sailors who
have liberty" and don't know what to do
with IL, and the ones who are just 'fussinx
around" waiting for their discharges get
so bored and disguised and crazy to get
home that they need a whole lot of help.
I heard one Of them say the other day,
when somebody asked him II ho knew
where there was dance that night, "All
know about Philadelphia is the last train
out, because I took 1t the first time
landed here in the middle of tho night"
and the poor thing was hunting frantically
for some amusement that wasn't theatre
or a movie. So tonight l hope he finds
1900 Locust street and has good time.
Miss Marguerite Palsho and Miss Lillian
Krerner are going to sing number OF
solos, and of course there's to be the usual
community sing. NANCY wYNNE.