Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-16
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Chats About the To,onsend- DahIgren
Wedding She Lan,ents the Death OF Robert Ken
nedy Wmts, Jr.--Vmous Matters Discussed

IT'S beginning again. l mean this
awful uncertainty about Eagles
A6are. Ia it Eagles Mere, Baglesmere,
or Eagles Mere? I go through this
every summer, because it's perfectly
!: nice place and lots of people will go
there. The Anthony Geyelins and their
family of Bryn Mawr are going up next
week TO spend the summer, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Thouron, of Ardmore, have
taken cottage up there, too.
ISN'T it interesting that Madeleine
Dahlgren and Reggie Townsend were
married in Paris? They have both been
5 doing war work, you know, Reggie at
Red Cross headquarters in Paris, and
Madeleine was in Paris too, but 1 am
not sure what organization she was
with. She lived with her aunt, Mrs.
Harry Symes Lehr, all last winter, but
early in the spring she had the flu and
then pneumonia and had quite serious
lesce. and believe Reggie was able to
get there to see her. You know, she
X is the daughter Of Mrs. Drexcl Dahl
I gren, of 15 East Ninety sixth street,
New York, and granddaughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Drexel, Of
this city, Her sister Katharine mar
ried Richard Smith Emmett, Of New
York
Reggie is pretty we'll known here.
10. He is Princeton man, class of
W., and naturally he's "A friend of all
~ O men who were there about that
4 me- Jack Riegel. who was his room
- tie, and Bob Wigtou, Newton Wigton.
4 A'ho was two classes below him, Bob
s'cy,ean, who was '13, and others. The
wedding took place in st. Joseph S
church, in Paris, on Friday.
I Mr.. and Mrs. Townsend are expect
g pig to start for home the latter part
vf this month. Their engagement was
tlnounced after Madeleine went over
seas last fall. .......
: ISN'T it sad about the little Wurts
= boys death? He was named for his
father. you know, Robert Kennedy
Wurts. Jr. His death occurred on Fri
day after severe attack of acute di-
abetes I feel so sorry for Mr.. and
Mrs. Wurts. He was such an attractive
boy and the first son. His sisters. who
are all older. are Marion, Eleanor and
s Rosamopd Wurts. Mrs. Wurts was
Miss Katherine Newbold, sister of
Mrs. Edmund Mccullough and daughter
of Mrs. William Henry Newbold.
Little Bob was just ten years old. He
3 will be sadly missed.
OF course the party the Wurts were
X to have given on July 2 is called OFF.
TT WAS a hot and sultry day, said
i she, just by way of getting start,
and the trolley car was crowded, not
exactly crowded, either, but just filed.
A certain gentleman, who had been
. filling his soul with music over at Will
y low Grove, was coming home, seated
comfortably at the window watching the
daisies and buttercups and clover skim
rapidly past him.
The car stopped, as almost any car
will do, when properly managed, at a
crossroad, and woman got on with a
good many bundles. bunch OF flowers
and n small boy. Taking the seat next
to the gentleman, she settled Little Son
in another hitherto empty seat directly
in front of her. Whereupon the gen
4 tleman, being a kindly person, at peace
with the world and all that sort OF
thing. arose and traded seats with
Little Son, And pretty soon he felt {
touch on his knee, and looking dowr
beheld Little Son smiling in an embar
rassed way.
n "He wants to thank you," explained
his mother. And Little Son expanded
his friendly smile and remarked appre'
ciatively, "Thank you, Man,
NANCY WYNNE.