Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-16

mi OplC seems the thing this week
A'A with tho exception Of a few theatre
parties aud q dinner dance or so for the
debutaDtcs; no balls, no large affairs
Every one is finishing his or her Christ
mas shopping. taking in the morning
musicale at the Bellevue yesterday
perhaps, or the opera tonight.
Next week there will be many balls
There's the Evous's on the 25d, the
Benedicks' on the 10Th aud the lio
land TnvlorS' that same night Going
some, tn say.
There will probably be brilliant
house gt the opera tonight, os La
Bohome' is II great favorite. The El
N, Prices viii entertain in their box
aud the Joe Lippineotts will have tn,
Bertran lippincott box for the eve
Mug.
ITO GO back TO yesterdays musicale
it was certainly well attended The
crowd was not so great. as for the first
one, but the ballroom was well filled
and the rows of boxes up und down
stairs both were full OF smart people.
Charlotte Brown entertained ia hcI
box and looked exceedingly well in
London smoGe du"etyne suit and hat
of the same material. Pretty little Mrs
Eugene Diron Newbod was one of hei
guests. She looked charming in gray
suit and fur aud rose pink velvet
turned back 'oquc. Mrs Edmunt
Thayer-'lnap Thompson that WAS. you
know--was another guest. She was ~
a chocolate brown hat and suit which
was very becoming.
Cornelia LeiJy Chestou looked very
we'll. She is in mourning for her grand
mother, Mrs. Philip Leidy, who died ~
the late summer, so her hat was OF dui
mourning silk and her coat OF pisGb
duvatyne. 1t was very becoming. oht
was in her mother box.
Mrs. George w. Childs DreSel hat
Mrs Anthony Drexel Biddle in her box
Mrs. Drexel was in black, with llrg'
black velvet hat trimmed with ostrlct
feathers. Mrs. Biddle's frock was o
black velvet and her rather. small Dlact
hat was untrimmed. Mr.. Van hensse,
laer was in the box during the concer'
also.
Mrs. Stotesbury had several guests
She locked very we'll herself in u wine
coloreJ suit and sable furs. Her rather
small. high crowned hat OF the SAM
shade Of velvet was trimmed with yelVe'
dahlias. Altogether 1t was most tasn
ionable and smart audience.
U,HE news about Mrs Claxton is en-
J. couraging new. On Sunday sn'
epoke aud recognized two OF her emil
dren, aud was conscious fer an hour OF
more, aud yesterday again CONSCIOUS
ness returned for greater period o.
time. ,,, 40,
Mrs sto-er, who was Miss Elizabeth
Claxtou, has come gu from Boston t'
be with her mother. Mrs. ClaXton hat
been living this year with her secone
daughter Margaret, who married Nor
gan IIeba d. Emile, her youuges
daughter i. IN the West for the year
visiting relations. Now that hel
mother is improving she will probabl!
lid you know that tho II. Pepr
~ Smith, Jrs., have another baby? 4
little girl. born on Saturday ut theu
home, 134 East Seventieth street. Mrs
Smith, YOU remember, was Carol Harri
man, daughter of the late Il. II. llar'
rimau. They were married in July
1917, and after Mr.. Smiths return
from the service settled in Bryp Mawr
but later Mr.. Smith, who was with thu
,remount department during said war
was sent TO New York by his business
company and they are now living there
They have a country place in West
~
deal of their time. The first baby, borr
last year, was a little boy.
TIME death of Mrs. Nelson yestcrda,
J. must be a great sorrow to her fam
lily. She was ninety years Of age JUS
think of i'll Aud most wonderful OLE
lady. Several years ago she and be
daughters broke up their home OF
Twelfth street near Spruce and tool
apartments at the Gladstone, wher'
they have lived since.
Mrs. Nelson WAS the widow o
Thomas Nelson and the mother o
DR.. Tom Nelson, Mr.. Lewis Nelson
Mr.. William Nelson, Mr.. Frederick 3
Nelson and Of Miss Emma and Mis-
Mary Nelson. Her life was filled will
good works. She was one of the found
ers Of the Society for Organizing Char
ity and was active in its behalf fo
many years. Mrs. Crawford Madeirl
after her grandmother. you know.
(. r HEAR that tho Women Writers ar,
Frances Starr, the actress, at thei
clubrooms in the Art Alliance Building
next Tuesday afternoon at half after I
o'clock. Miss Starr arrived in this cit!
yesterday to play in 'Tiger. Tiger.
She is n very charming woman and ha
consented to talk to the guests at th
TEA for few minutes. She is very at
tractive and it will be more than inter
estsng to hear her.
Miss Julia Blankenburg, who is pres
ident of the club, and the entertainment
committee whose chairman is Mis-
Agnes Repplier, I'd, will receive will
Miss Starr, NANCY WINNIE.