Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-07
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NIl certainly some pOlo pihser' 'Ou
,.r bo will be twenty -one next Mon
dov. but as he is in mourning for his
ar.rdmothcr there will belno celebration.
Rod is going to sail for Europe on
Novcmbcr q, and he will join Tommy
Hitchcock. the polo player, who is
,,udying at Oxford. Rod will return
% This country in January, but in May
he again will go to Europe.
Mrs. Thomson is planning to go with
bsr son in May and to take n house in
England during the polo season, while
Rod takes part in the international polo
tournament, which by the way. will be
,be first Que over there since the war.
After the golf season they Will prob
ably travel on the continent.
T,UTH PACKARD is to be intro
~ duccd this afternoon at tea given
AZ her home in Villanova by her par
ants Mr.. and Mrs. George Il. Pack
ard Ruth Is sister Of Mary Pack
ard Billings and Betty Packard, you
know, and a very sweet girl. She and
her family returned several weeks ago
from the Adirondacks. where they
spent July and August at their camp.
A large number Of the debutantcs
will receive with her, some among them
being Jane Hepburn didn't I tell you
abe Is popular as can bel. Ivsbeth
how'd. Elsie DUPONT. Augusta Harri-
son. Virginia Carter. Anne Ashton,
Russell Tucker. Ottilie Morris, Eloipe
Sullivan. Margaretta Harrison, Polly
Griscom. Rita Hcckschcr. Mary Lloyd
Norris. Anne Barclay. Mary B.
Thayer. Anita Strawbridge and a great
many others.
WHAT time poor Mrs. Roland
w Taylor has had in the last year
You remember she and her two daugh-
ters Marjorie, who is now Mrs. Gordon
Hardwick. and Elizabeth. were at the
hotel in Old Point Comfort when It
was burned down. And now this sum-
mer she had gone to Winter Harbor,
Me-. with Elizabeth for the warm
months when Elizabeth was taken down
with appendicitis and had to be rushed
to the Bar Harbor Hospital, where
she was operated upon. Everything
went we'll after that and they were on
their yacht coming home when Mrs.
Taylor was taken very III and just
reached Boston in time to be taken to
the Bay State Hospital, where she. too,
was operated upon for appendicitis.
am glad to be able to say that she Is
convalcscing and will return to Gwyn-
edd Valley in week or two. Elizabeth
Is with her now and will, Of course, ac-
company her home. Such experiences
L., hn giN lao, H.
on the nerves, say nothing Of the
physical strain. l am glad 1t has all
come out well.
THAT was pretty tea Mrs. Edwin
l. Benson gave for her granddaugh-
ter, Virginia Carter, yesterday after
noon at Chestnut Hill. Virginia
looked very sweet IN her simple but
exquisite white frock. which had Just
enough tule in the trimming to give it
an airy effect.
Her flowers were beautiful. +
never saw such dahlias and chrysanthe-
NUNS and roses. Each tea ] 20 to I
think, well, those are the prettiest
flowers ! have ever seem" and yet, at
each one there Is always some new
effect in bouquet or some special bloom
| have not noticed before and / am
fairly carried away with the beauty and
fragrance of them all.
There were great many persons
there: in fact when ] went in about 8
o'clock 1t was as much as ! could do to
to get into the drawing room where they
were receiving. People often say they
are bored by teas. but If they are
strictly honest with themselves, they
will aCkuOwlplVa it's mara rho ;Joo 20
going than the actual being there, that
borcS them for when you do go Won
always have a dandy time and YOU see
so many people you know, and the
girls always look so pretty and shy and
their frOCkS are 50 dainty and sweet.
nlD YOU happen to notice the frock
~ Mrs. Antclo Devereux was wear
Ing on the last day of the Horse Show
q. bryn Alawr? lt was most remark
spIe ana also most becoming to her. She
Is so tiny aud dainty that she can
wear odd gowns like that one, and If
you did not see it you really ought to
near about 1t. 1t was n navy blue
Russian blouse dress made with an
extremely short skirt. The blouse was
neld in with Il narrow leather belt and
me whole thing was rib knitted by
hand. Mrs. Devereux wore gray silk
stockings and tan low shoes with those
new buckles which appear to come out
OF the shoe like vamp. turn over and
end IN long fringe which spreads over
the foot: They are very becoming to
a small foot or long narrow one. Mrs.
DeVereux s foot is very small She wore
iarg" blue hat, of sort of turquoise