Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-24

x/OU will be sorry to hear that Mrs.
4 i George Dallas Dixon, Jr.. has been
operated upon and is in a very serious con-
dition. As I heard of it she and Dal, who
has lately returned from overseas, nave
been living with Mrs. Dxon's mother. Mrs.
John G, Groome. at Bryn Mawr, and were
about to move into a house they had just
taken in Ardmore when Mrs. Dixon be-
came suddenly very ill on Thursday and
was sent at once to the hospital. Ihe last
reports have not been very encouraging,
but Mrs Dixon has youth and strong Will
power and that is always help IN re-
covering from an illness. She was Agnes
Groome. you know. a sister of Mrs. Leland
Thompson and Jack Groome, who married
Gladys league in Augusta last month.
yITASN'T it lovely out at Bala yesterday
w at the Country Club, when the tennis
tournament started? So many pretty girls
in their tennis fannels and the courts so
fresh and green and white and the specta-
. tors SO interested
Molly Thayer and Sidney Franklin look
ing perfectly sweet, were out playing. Molly
and Paul Gibbons were partners ana old
Franklin was playing with young Glops'
was quite diverted to see two daughters ana
their fathers playing together opposite varl-
daughter, Rebecca, who would have been
debutante last season. and Joe Carpenter
with his daughter Virginia, who belongs
to the younger school set and has several
wears vet before her time to come out.
Though the tournament started yesterday
at Bala it is under the auspices OF the ihil-
adelphia Cricket Club, and that's why
there are so many Chestnut Hill people in
it-Mrs. Dick Nalle and Dorothy Newbold
and Margaretta Dixon and Mrs. Gilbert
Harvey, Mrs. Edward Lavino, Charlie Jen-
nings, Russell Thayer and Mrs. Clement
Wainwright and Morris Wistar. and all
from around there, besides Molly Thayer
and Virginia Carpenter.
IND tell you I heard that Coey Brown
LIS on the ocean on his way home. Mrs
Brown had moved into their country house
at Devon just about two weeks ago, but
she had no hope that Captain Brown
would be home before the middle of next
month at the earliest. Now she mas had
word that he is on the seas. He IL hnd a
wee daughter at home whose acquaintance
: he will have to make. for she arrived sew
eral months after he left for France.
She is named for her grandmother, Mrs.
Arter, and every one says she's perfectly
sweet baby. Her small brother thinks so,
anyway. He crazy ABOUT her' anu 'oo
cute for anything with her.
MD you go out to the Germantown Mid
u way Lane yesterday? 1t was awfuHy
attractive. They had School House lane
between Wayne and Greene streets, sep
arated from the rest Of Germantown by
large tollgates of black and white painted
wood and you had pay toll to get IN
i hut then you paid it to such attractive
looking toll takers that you die not mind +;
YOU even were anxious to give it to them.
The affair was given for the benefit OF
the Germantown Hospital and was great
success. The women who got it up had the
mos, fascinating booths arranged at various
places in the block on School House lane,
and the tents or counters were covered with
wide red and white striped awnings. ]
doubt not that large sum was gathered
for the hospital.
NANCY. WYNNE.