Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

INTHAT a splendid time the John IL.
wv Valentines do have! They have
lust come back from n visit OF three
weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. Ambrose
Clark I'M In Westerly. X. |. But that
means more than it sounds, for during
that visit. they motored over to Sara
toga 10 the races and attended several
polo matches on Long Island. MIR.
Valentine is devotee of polo, you
know. and wherever he goes Mrs. VAL
cntine goes along.
He was in the service and was sta
toned good deal of the time at Camp
Kearney, out in San Diego. Calf, but
Mrs. Valentine spent most of the time
out there too. Mr.. Valentine was a
major when he was mustered out of
the army.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark and Mr.. and
Mrs. Valentine attended the United
Hunt meeting held on Long Island last
Saturday. and then the Valentines mo-
tored home to their place. Highland
Farm, Bryn Mawr.
On the 18th Of this month they will
70 to Long Island again to attend the
Futurity races, which will be held on
that day.
They are both extremely fond of
horses, you know, and ride great
deal taking part in most of the hunts
about the countryside.
5 CyPEAKING Of. motoring home DID
~ you ever sec anything like the way
in which it is growing and growing!
Small wonder when one can scarcely
AIot
these days. and you can about do every
thing but sleep in your motor. he
member the time a certain social leader
went to luncheon and bridge and had
her maid meet her in her car at
o'clock and changed into dinner gown.
then and there; or rather, while she
was on her way out in the country to q
half after dinner? 1t was early, as
the guests were to go in to the opera
later. Anyway, to- return to motor
ing. Almost everyone who has car
will use it to come home from Maine
and other n England resorts this
year. ..s.,,',.~-s
We, who, stay at home or else go
away on short trips to NEARBY places
have no idea of what the difficulties Of
travel are. You don't want to go any
distance without a. well filed pocket
book, either, believe /, for the first
thing you know, You'll get stranded
somewhere and have to stay two, three
or even four days, waiting for accom-
modatiOns unless you have a car and
then you can yell defiance at the rail
ways and beat it.
The w. w. Hepburns came Down
from Northeast Harbor on Sunday night
with Brackley with them in their ear.
The three girls had gotten train ac-
commodstions and gone ahead several
days before to open the house.
And the Ledyard Heckschcrs, who
nave been for three or four weeks up
there, left yesterday in their car. 1t
takes about three days, all told. to gct
home, taking it rather easy.
Another party coming down from
Northeast who started Saturday in
ciudes the James Fahnestocks, of Hav-
erford. anl their daughters, Charlotte
and Mary. The latter, you know Is to
make her bow as debutante this sea
son. Eleanor Jones and her brother
Frank are with the Fahnestocks. Flea
Z nor is debutante of the coming season.
too. Her aunt, Mrs. Frank Kennedy.
gave a tea for her in June. Mary
Fahnestock and Mabel Reid were both
honor guests at that tea, too.
I HEAR that Phillippus Miller, Jr.,
= has been transferred from Camp Dix
Hospital to the hospital in Railway.
What time he has had He was hurt
IN the -Argonne Forest last year and
was in various hospitals in France
then he was sent over here in February
apd has been at Dix since then.
He was badly gassed, you know, and
the after effect has been very severe.
Sometimes he feels n good deal better
and has been allowed to go home for a
week; then again he is so ill it is not
possible for him to get out of bed. But
the doctors see improvement and he is
now in Railway. 1t must be awfully
hard for a big, fine, strong fellow such
as he to have to wait so long to get
we'll But indeed he is happy that he
has all his limbs and his eyesight. So
many of the men have lost their sight.
We are just beginning to see them now
ia the streets. And it does sadden me
so. And when ] think of the French
and English, who have so very many,
it's fairly staggering.
I WAS walking along SAMSON street
4 between Twenty first and Twenty
second recently, and as l passed the
row Of small houses on the north side
OF the way I thought of Mrs. William
Cochran, who had lived there, and of
Mrs. Roberts Francis Harrison's
mother and of their deaths last year,
and then I began placing the houses to
myself. Which was Mrs. Almy's and
which had been Mrs. Roberts's and
which the Athertons? And then
thought, (Which one is the Sparks 'sf''
But, believe me, l did not have to
wonder long, for as looked up there
in the parlor window at 2123 on the
paper that kept the dust from sitting
In, read, "Aplin's blankets" I'm
some detective, ! am.
NANCY WYNNE.