Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-20

N 4 EN- u tcH Tess week We VIII start
"a in again today. for Viola Beale
Homer, who is spending the winter with
her aunt; Miss Constance Beale. will
be introduced by Miss Beale at her
home, 2J4 South Twenty first street,
from until o'clock.
Hope Beale Cromwell and Mamie
Lewis Beale. cousins of the debutante.
will receive with her. and Sarah Har
rison, Margaret Dallett and Evelyn
Smith will be the debutautes in the
party.
viola's mother was Miss Beale.
Her father is Henry Homer.
A MOTHER debutantc affair today is
"A the dinner dance which the Will
liam Goodman, Jrs.. will give at the
Bellevue Stratford for their nieces.
Mary Ernestine Appleton and Mary
Irotter Goodman. You know the two
Marys are first cousins. Mary Ernes-
tines mother was Miss Goodman and
Mary Trotter's father was Sam Good
man, who. you will remember. died
about fifteen years ago. Her mother
married Howard Seaver some years
after her first husbands death.
A theatre party and supper will he
given by the Sanders twins for their
cousin. Anita Evans, and that will about
hnish the debutante affairs tonight.
AM looking forward to hearing Mr..
i Walter George Smith S account of
AFFAIRS in the Near East tonight at the
Stotesburys'. Mr.. and Mrs. Stotesbury
and the Armenian committee Of the
Emergency Aid are giving the affair.
and members of the executive commit
tee of the Emergency Aid will receive
with Mrs. Stotesbury They will be
" Ma
Brinton Coke. Mrs. Arthur Lea Mrs.
George Fl. Lorimer and Mrs. Edward
Browning.
There will be several of the younger
girls who will act as ushers at the
affair. including Hope McMichael. Jean
Bullitt. Sarah Penrose, Hannah Wright
and Jean Hancock.
Besides the talk by Mr. Smith, who,
by the way. returned in the summer
from trip in the East. where he went
to investigate conditions for the gov
ernment. there will be music. Mr.
Smith is, as you know, president of
the American Bar Association, an emf
nent lawyer and man of affairs. His
wife. who died many years ago. was
Miss Elizabeth Drexel. a sister of Mrs.
Edward Morrell. of San Jose, Torres
dale. He is a man of deep learning and
his opinion is greatly respected by those
Many of us will go down to the Sup
per Club at the Bellevue after the af-
fair.
T'HE skating out at the Merton Col
Il Club was wonderful on Wednesda!
and Thursday before the heavy snow
came, but then such snow as yester-
days could be brushed off and the
crowds ut the pond were certainly large
On Thursday Charles Kuenze de Bergen
Of st. Moritz. Switzerland. skated be-
fore a number of people who had beer
given the high sign; in other words told
on the q. t, what might happen, anc
so were there in force; and he certainly
did cut some wonderful figures.
Did you know the Ice Palace in West
Philadelphia will be opened next montf
and there will be skating there, too? It's
wonderful sport, so healthy and ex
hilarating.
Mrs. Joseph Chapman and Mrs
Ronald Barlow and various other Mail
Liners were ut the Golf Club on Thurs
day to watch Mr.. de Bergen.
ISN'T it funny how rumors so around
l. Now every one has been all ago
over an engagement which they say will
be announced at party very soon. SOM
II started the rumor and passed it on t,
Others and one of these gossip effect
started that grow and grow and grow
and though the person who told me SAT-
he was not sure it was so, he though
It was. And said ''Well, ] wouldn
he surprised and altogether every on
has gotten quite excited over it. An,
now hear from some one else that i
isn't so at all. So what am l to think
What do you Think?
The She in question is tall and fair
with bright blue eyes and golden hair
Don't n.ind if wax poetical once in
while. 1t relieves the monotony o
things.
Which reminds ME of a house I say
recently which is being finished as
residence and which has many rows O
straight windows, and then over tn
staircase the windows are droppe
about foot lower than others acros
the front. / asked why the thusnes
and was told by the architect "It's t
relieve the monotony." 1t certainly re
lieved it all right, but I'd hate to tel
YOU what it looked like in consequence
NANCY WYNNE.