Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-08
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
|autfuL Women in Beautiful Go,Uns and Je,cels Welcomed
the Return Of Opera Last Night-Mrs. Livingston
Biddle Recovered From Illness

FTER a cessation Of opera for three
weeks every one turned out In won
fui new gowns and looked perfectly
art.
frances Gilmore had a box party OF In
listing looking w~omen-Phoebe Harding,
Is rather fair, and Agnes Lewis. Mrs.
nore's cousin, and Ethel Wirgman
bkes. It always seems strange TO see
bel In evening clothes, she is such a
pical sportssuit girl. But, bless you, she
ks simply stunning in evening frocks,
"A she lived up to her reputation Tor
5oks last night. Agnes is always good
boking. She has such pretty eyes and Is
kiways well-dressed. She's engaged to
N fielding Wilcox, you know, a brother OF
The Mark Wilcox who married Margaret
keating. and Of M~arjory Wilcox. who Is
Engaged to Alberto Santa Maria.
N Patty Borie was in the Glen Newbolds'
9fbox with Mary Newbold and Miss Robert.
eaon. Patty and Mary are first cousins,
&you know. Patty's mother was Miss Nan
f.nie Newbold, a sister Of Clement. Arthur
4nd John Newbold.
Es Mrs. Alexander willicms Biddle enter
ftained in the stotesbury box and had
MOUSE Brooks. Mrs. Stotesbury's~ daughter,
with her. Mrs. Biddle is a stunning look
Ming woman. She had also Mrs. Barclay
MWarburton as a guest. In fact, every one
vas there. 1t was a most brilliant night.
Junior McAll, after a two weeks
W. holiday, /. going to start work again
Ton Friday at the home Of Genevieve Dillen-
heck, 1923 Upsal street, Germantown. Mrs.
10. C.. Lippincott, Of Lincoln drive, Ger
mantown, Joan Lippincott's mother, has
'tdonated the p~rettiest pink-and-white
gfchecked Bingham for the girls to make UP
INTO summer dresses for the French chill
#dren. They sent over a large shipment Of
~clothes before Christmas. you know, and
Il also gave $40 toward the cocoa fund that
Mrs. Kelly, vice president Of the mission,
n has started. You know the French chill
\ dren hadn't had any cocoa since before
n the war, and the first time they were given
\ som they fell on 1t with n low growl," so
4 to speak, and loved 1t so that they tried to
make 1t last as long as possible.
And another thing that's being done
to help along this work: One of the men,
bers has a Sunday school class-perhaps
\ several of them have-but this one also
has a practical turn of mind. and she's
7 going to put her Sunday school class to
Il work knitting sweaters. And the sweaters
Hare to be sent to the McAll as a part Of
&.their next shipment of clothes for French
Refugees.
AREN'T you glad to hear that Mrs.
7 ;,,oton ylipuy Riddle 10 hetfar2
*she has had such a long illness. You
KNOW she was at the hospital wit. infu-
Elonza during the very first outbreak OF the
Nhpidemic. Then she went nome and was
ouite Ill for a long time, and it has only
Been since New Years Day that she has
been able to be up and around as usual.
E AS she is better, Liv has gone off on a
2Shooting trip this week. Mrs. Biddle was
ugenia Law, a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs,
Ernie Law.
S9rHERE'S to be a most interesting lecture
>>4 out at Mannheim tonight by Mr.. Theo-
*11pre Justice. on the Evolution OF the
Morse" It's a very instructive lecture,
E1covering a period Of more than four million
Iyears, beginning with the little four-toed
KEohippus Of the Eocene Epoch, when cats
#were larger than horses. wouldn't 1t be
n great II things were like that nowadays.
land the pet OF the house suddenly loomed
PUP in your window in the small hours and
\ playfully leaped over on your bed? The
q lecture is under the auspices OF the French
AWounded Fund, and National League girls
will take up a collection for French
4 Orphans. There's to be music, too. but l
Il can't tell yoL what kind. because that's to
be a surprise. Some Of the people on the
I George Newhall, Mrs. Tolbert Richardson,
4 Mrs. Laurence Mellor, Mrs. William B.
Kurtz, Mrs. William Price Newhall. Mrs.
A William p. Barba. Mrs. Nicholas Petry and
Miss Emily Tattersield.
r AM so glad for Emile Williams Hop
L kins's sake to hear that Johns Hopkins
1 has been mustered out and Is home again.
wonder when Bill Hopkins will come
/ home? He was with the Hancock men
over in France. You know their mother.
4 Mrs. Johns Hopkins. died since Bill went
overseas. He Is engaged to Christine
\ Stockton and I suppose will be married
very soon after he returns to this country.
! Christine is a sister of Mrs. Lin Taylor.
i who was Mary Stockton. Johns Hopkins
was married to Emile Williams about a
year ago. I can't quite keep track of the
4 time all these marriages took place, can
you? I know there was one on August
Is, 1917, and another on August Is that
summer, and still another on September q,
and SO OH, but it's hard to keep track Of
4 whose was when. NANCY WYNNE.