Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14

NHE first debutante tea OF the season
= will be given this afternoon. Mr.
and Mrs. J. Howard Rhoads will in.
troduce their daughter Esther at Q
tea and garden party, at their country
home in Bala. The tea will be held il
the afternoon and will be followed BY
supper and dancing in the evening out
In the garden. Lanterns will be huns
about the place, and altogether it will
be most attractive.
The debutante will wear dainty
frock of white net over satin and will
carry bunch Of roses. Mrs. Rhoads
will wear a gown of orchid colored
georgette crepe.
A number of the debutantes will re-
ceive with Miss Rhoads and Mrs.
ksRhoads has asked several Of her friends
to assist at the tea table. The Rhoades
have number of young officers from
West Point at week END party. Lieu
tenant James Logan Rhoads, brother OF
i Esther, is West Pointer, you know.
Elsa Montgomery, Of New Haven,
Conn, is also staying at the Rhoades
sover the week -end.
How wise some of the parents are to
\ give the teas in June. Do you know
that there are eighty three debutantes
lacheduled for next year already, to say
rnothing of those whose parents have not
lyet decided on the matter. Eighty three,
mind you, and no one is apt to give a
tea after December Is nor much before
October 10 in the fall. Why the dates
will fall over each other, so far as i can
see.
Every one is talking about it and de-
Gliding now whether it shall be November
4 8 or October 3 or December 10.
< snCTOBER has been chosen by Mrs.
~ William A. Lieber on which to give
tea for Edith Newlin. Edith is the
\ daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Newlin,
3 and they live way, way out in the coun-
try at Indian Run Farm, Whiteland,
near Downingtown. too far from town to
give tea there. Mrs. Lieber, who was
Genevra Norris, is a cousin of Mrs.
Newlin through the Harrison family re-
lationship Mrs. Norris and Mrs. Eisen-
brey, the mothers of Mrs. Lieber and
Mrs. Newlin respectively, were Harri-
sons) and has offered therefore to give
the tea for Edith at her home in Bryn
Mawr.
Alice, the older sister, is at Bryn
Mawr, and has never cared much for
social doings, SO she did not make her
debut, but Edith has been going to
things social for some time, in the
younger set that is, though most of last
year the family were in mourning for
4 Jack, who was killed in France.
Mr.. Newlin is brother of Delaney
..Newlin, James Newlin, DIR. Arthur
Eewlin and Mrs. George Bispham Page.
\ Mrs. Newlin was Miss Alice Edith
Eisenbrey, a sister of Charlie Eisen-
brey, Stephen Eisenbrey, Miss Anna and
Miss Sarah Eisenbrey> and of Howard
Eisenbrey who married Augusta Frost.
The Eisenbreys used to live in Harrison
row on Locust street, and Mrs. Newlin
was married from therv.
believe there is possibility of
Sarah Meade Harrison's peing intro
duced at the same tea, for the girls are
cousins and very fond of each other, but
Sarah herself is not sure that she wants
to come out this year. You see Mar
garetta, her sister, is only one year
younger, and it seems they have always
gone to everything together, and so
Sarah may wait, as she is very young
yet, and come out with her sister the
following year. I understand the fam
lily has put the decision up to her, as it
were.
II WAS right in my surmises yester-
= day; there is a. rummage sale on at
500 Chestnut street, and it's going to
keep up today and it's for the West
Philadelphia Hospital for Women. I
didn't see how that store could be left
AS lonely as all that-no rummage sale
in the week. And somehow the things
in the window looked good to me. They
always do, for that matter. 1 believe
Il could get me whole winter outfit for
next season there and wear it to all the
teas and dOings and have every one ex-
cited to death about how good looking
II was, don't you?
sCPEAKING of rummage sales, I
~ heard a good lady the other day, who
knows number OF highly respectable
reduced people and who has given them
things to wear which were contributed to
her for that purpose (all confdentially,
you know. declare that the rummage
sales had about ruined her charity in
that respect. No one sent her any
clothes for her poor any more, they
all went to the rummage sales.
NANCY WYNNE.
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