Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Talks Of the Crowds on Christmas Shop
ping Bent-She Sees Smart Costune-Opera To-
night and Opera Supper Club in Foyer Follo,Us

hlD you ever see anything ike the
~ crowds on the streets these days
Why l tried to walk block OH Chest
nut street yesterday and 1t was all ]
could do to get along. And isn't it a
happy holiday crowd and 1t seems to me
it's q buying crowd now, too. l saw
Mrs. Paul Depckla Mills near Broad
street wearing stunning top coat OF
sealskin which came to the bottom OF
her frock. Her hat was a very good
looking model of n sort of elephant
breath duvetyne. the brim outlined with
dull red embroidery. 1t was small and
had an upturned brim. She was looking
very well.
TtHE Pennsylvania Society of Mny-
l. flower Descendants will have din
ner at the Bellevue Stratford on Tues
day the 21st of this month and
the dinner will celebrate the terccnten
ary Of the landing of the Mayflower. All
the members of the society are invited
and will be allowed to bring guests pro :
yided they notify the secretary, Mr..
Henry Norton Lewis. The members will
Of course, get in touch with Mr.. Lewis
and ask for the formal invitations.
which will be sent to the guests they
desire to entertain.
The committee having the affair in
charge includes DR.. George Fales
Baker, Mrs. G. Howard Colket, Mrs.
Thomas Fl. Ball, Mr.. Ashbel Welch
and Mr.. Henry II. Belknap.
A ND for the younger set, on the night
"A Of the 21st there will be the per
formance of the Domino Club of the
Episcopal Academy. In fact, il will bt
their annual play and they are to give
IL for the benefit of the Home for In
curables.
Prominent in the cast will be FLOYD
Gibson as Helen Cartwright. Stanley
Deacon as Jack Brookfeld and Ralpt
Kinder, John Lee, Samuel Fretz. Car
los Cardeza. John McLustre, Clintor
Longwell, Eli Kirk Price, Jr., Leigh
ton Appleman, F. Schoff. II. Kinder
Henderson Supplee, Jr.. John Worsing
Craig Muckle and Laurence Schoff.
Mrs. Blessing Is coaching the boy.
and the patronesses ore Mrs. John Cad
walader, Mrs. Henry II. Wharton, Mrs
Robert L. Montgomery. Mrs. Stotes
bury. Mrs. Ralph Kinder, Miss Annt
NJ. Fox, Mrs. Walter Cooley, Mrs
Theodore Faires, Mrs. Beniamir
Deacon, Mrs. George w. Stuart, Mrs
Philip Clarkson, Mrs. Joseph Gaskill
DR.. Anna Gibson, Mrs. Frederick
Richie and Mrs. Eli Kirk Price.
OF COURSE every one is looking for
~ ward to the performance oi
"Mefstofele' tonight at the opera. And
to tell the truth am rather glad Carusc
was not scheduled to sing. because i
seems he will keep to his engagements
and after his accident in Brooklyn ant
in New York several days before, /
does seem as IL It would be safer I,
rest. though I hear the accident will
not impair his voice at all.
Tonight the house will be very bril-
liant. Every one will entertain in tn
boxes and a great many will entertain
nfterward at the Opera Supper Clu'
lance In the foyer.
The Aleck Yarnalls will entertain
in Mrs. Alexander Brinton Coxe's box
and the Frederick JOrdans will hav
Mrs. Herbert NJ. Howe's box. Mrs
Jordan was Miss Grace Howe, you re
The Nicholas Biddlcs will entertai
in the Bertram Lippincott box and tn
Eli Kirk Prices will have az thei
guests their daughter Rachel, Sara
Harrison and Philip Price, to whoi
Sarah is engaged.
TNHEN today there will be the larg
l. debutante luncheon which Mrs
Howard Wenthcrly will give for Virgini
Earle and Margaret Curtis, to whic
affair she has invited about forty {
the dcbutantes, And in the evenin
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel l.. Hebard. c
Chestnut Hill. will give dance fo
butante of the season. Several dinner
will be given before the dance, an
altogether ! think we are to have
very busy day of it.
THE other day Louise, who is six
l. heard about a poor little boy an
girl. who probably will not have an
Christmas il some kind person doc
not help them. Their father is dea
and their mother sick, and someho
they fear Santa Claus might not gt
to them. And even IL he does come, O
he surely will, he can seldom bring any
thing but toys. And you see this littl
Willie and Mary need clothes and mil
and nourishing food and help to nurs
their mother back to health. Wei
Louise heard mothers friend telling he
about it, as she sat nearby playin
with her doll.
Suddenly she left the room and cam
back In few minutes with her sma
bank in her hands. She opened it an
poured its contents into mother
friends lap, a perfect prodigality c
giving, no thought of how much, Q
giving just part. All she had sh
gave, though she had saved for months
Then MS she turned to 60 back to pla
she suddenly pointed her small pin
and white finger toward the heaven
and said "Do you think He'H take m
up there for that?"
NANCY WYNNE.