Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-26
. JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Talks of the Doings in the South and
North These Days-Lenten Class to Meet Today
y Mary Judges Her Countrymen

TT SEEMS to me that things are really
l pretty gay In the South despite the
I,epten season. and many have gone up
70 Lake Placid, t6o. Rosemond Wurts,
one Of the two Wurts debutantes this
ycar. is up at Lake Placid with Mary
I,oodmcn aud several others. Did you
tnow that Rosamond and her sister
Eleanor nre going TO Europe in June
with their aunt. Mrs. Edmund RI. Nc
Cullough? Rhoda Brooke will go, too.
She Ia not actually y niece OF Mrs. No
CnlIoueh. but she is the stepdaugbter
~ Mrs. McCu'lough's s brother. Trench
ard Ncwbod. and the Wurts and she
have had several parties together this
season. In fact Mrs. Newbo'd gave
thc tea which introduced her own
daughter and the two Wurts girls back
in October.
The Wurts girls are the daughters
NJ Mr.. and Mrs. Robert -'Kenpedy
Wurts. the latter having been Miss
Katherine Newbold She is sister OF
Mrs. Mccullough. who was, Miss Ethel
Newbold. and Of Trcnchard Ncwboid,
whose wife was formerly Mrs. George
Brooke. II viii be wonderful ,cx-
rcricnce to so ,ovrr this summer, think,
and ] have heard of quite number
who intend going or who have already
sailed. IT,. T.
ALIX DOLAN was to go on .Satur
n day. but ! believe she and her
grandmother. Mrs. Nelson Brown.
have been held m again for a few
days. However. IL they have not sailed
vet they are going in very few. days.
Mrs, Brown makes Paris her home now.
So AIiy viii visit her for n while. Mrs.
Brown came on last summer, YOU know,
and visited her daughtcr Mrs. Clarence
Dosn in Newport aud here in Rose.
mont.
lean Bullitt sailed about n week ago
for Paris and will be over there for some
time She is Mr.. Logan Bulli,ts
daughter. you know. and has spent lot
nj her time abroad. She and her family
were in Antwerp when the. war broke
out in l0ll aud they escaped to London
younger brother, Lieutenant Richard
Stockton Bullitt. was Que of the first
ofltbc Twenty. eighth Division men to
give bis life for his country.
ITO RETURN to the doings in tn
l. South. They sure did have some
party at the annual George Washing
ton costume bail The fancy frocks
ing lasted until late in the morning. A
great many philadelphians were there
Mary Brown Warbnrton and the
Charles aud Gurnpc Muuns. the Ned
Brownings. Miss Edith Fisher. VIII" is
their guest the Paul MlIscS aud any
number Of others.
hND speaking Of the South, did 20
4. La,
returned from Pensacola. Fla. whore
she was stopping with .Jeanie Knowles
for several weeks. Some Of the girls
who were staying there. Mary among
them went over to New Orleans for
the Mardi Gras. aud. though ii was not
80 much fun as usual the old pre-.
war Mnrdi Gras spirit dors not seem
Ia BE- in thugs these daysl. they had n
wonderful time. There wcr" lots Of
naval offi"crs-for there ARE plenty OF
destroycrS there and then quite II
number Of the aviators few down t!ouI
Pensacola for the party. too.
TNHE Sidney Keiths and the Brintou
l. Robertscs have been up in Newport
visiting their respective SONS. Sidney
keith. Jr.. and laurnncc Roberts. whu
are at 81. Georges Schoo,. And IN II
few weeks most OF tnc boys aud girls
will he coming home for .thc Faster
holidays and. oh . my goodness me d.
then won't there be round OF doiu:s
for the younger set
THE debutantes' Lenten sewing cas-.
l. will meet today at the home Of Mary
Tahncstock. The class was organized
] think | told you. bv Frances I.ench and
Elizabeth Ann Taylor, The first meet
ing was held last Thursday at the Tay.
lors' house. and today the members will
decide where to hold the next. The
members include Nancy Dunning, Mabel
Reid, Peggy Dal'ctt. Elizabeth Ross.
Rachel Price. Mildred T.ongstrcth.
Helen Shelton and Eleanor Jones. be =
sides the three already mentioned.
MISS \. has little morning elias.
A'l for small tots and tho other day
she was giving said class n lesson in
geography. and the subject was the
Alps. She described the way in which
travellers on the great snowy noun
tains were often saved from death and
starvation BY the big st. Bernard dogs,
who hunted through the snow for them,
and who had fastened about their necks
TASKS Of brandy to revive tho half.
frozen mon or women they found
The children were wildly interested
and listened in silent awe. Then Mary
spoke: Miss A." said she. "T sup
nose a great many Americans will be
going over there now
NANCY WYNNE.