Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-26

IAyE you heard what the commit
,oo Of the SATURDAY. Evenin'
Oing Class has done? More powel
tSam saw I! Well, they have ISSUED
'anneal to the members of the class
ing ap thot they CO. operate with then
sA,1 ,nh1;toroting the exaggerated dances
beIn nut the dancing on a higher
nu wise. sensible women! They
nrt the matter up to the younger
ave and something tells me those boys
.I' evils will respond and CO. Operate
MI sbom. And something also tells me
'a tbev had better. for when these
na. "a. tart TO correct something they
eeilv eui,l see that it is corrected.
STp' Tbe appeal is signed by the following
lne " Who form the committee IN
Eolueo' aueo of the class: Mrs. John White
rsary. chairman; Mrs. II. II: Bayard
Powie, Mrs. Norton Downs, Mrs. Paul
bSnckIa Mills, Mrs. John Sargent
Eswbold, Mrs. Robert Leaning Mont
omery, Mrs. Sydney Thayer and Mrs.
3hsr'ton Yarnall.
tho Younger set would take it up
sorn would be no trouble in getting the
i nbit Of dancing properly, and behaving
M tbev should, and when they came OUT
Ssy'd keep on as their mothers and
stbers did in the dark ages.
7 take nv hat off, as it were, figura :
3;,elv speaking, to the committee and
tbo boys and girls who will, | know,
Pespopd to the appeal. It's splendid
hing!
R-,yEN though it is so far off, have
N never heard anything like the prep
Irations on foot for the Devon Horse
kbow The women interested in the
&ork simply include every one ON the
asain Line so far as l can find out, and
|rst week they had meeting over which
&Jrs. Alexander Brown presided, as Mrs.
Rsrklie. who is chairman of the show,
4 absent in California.
And at that meeting they decided to
krd M the show with a wonderful
kageant. As said pageant is to be under
Inc direction of Mrs. Otis skinner, 1t
Eil be some pageant, believe me. DO
lou remember the one the Indoor Horse
khow had in the First City Troop Ar
bory several years ago? 1t was beau
Efui thing, indeed, and feel sure this
Fill be beautiful, too.
we will hic to the Bellevue
Stratford to see the play which the
h, Francis Junior Aides are to give for
he benefit of the st, Francis House for
| must sSy / am always
bterested in that charity, because it
oes reach a class which hitherto has
zen so little helped. Lately other
nj
ost prominent of the fashionable fra
eruites of girls in the city has under
Bken to help he one near Devon,
hink it is ST. Martha s. St. Francis
lone started about ten years ago. Leta
ulivan Hoffman, who died last summer
bortly after her little boy was born,
yas one of the first of the younger
iris to interest herself in st. Francis
ouse. and her sister. Frances Sullivan,
as first president of the Junior Aide. |
remember at one of the first perform
noes they gave at the Bellevue for the |
,netit of the Home Lcta appeared in a
ry pretty dance.
Mrs. Frederick Nathan, who started |
lie Aides with Frances Sullivan, is en-
neeriug the play this year and from
me of the thing / hear about the
hearsals believe it will be very
arming. Any way I hope to go and
e it,
SAW Anne Ashton the other day.
What beauty she is developing into.
{ ways thought her most attractive as
little girl, and now that she is growing
to the near debutante age she is simply
armiDg. Her hair is most wonder
color and she wears such smart
,thes. Her mother. Mrs. Tom Ash
}, has always had extremely good
ste Anne was wearing a dark frock
lich was topped with coat of nutria
a soft upturned hat of nutria, which
is remarkably becoming.
'ERHAPS prohibition and some of
the, consequent happenings have
Irped our vision a bit and made us
Spicious of the property of even our
st friends. For instance, the wife
a most abstemious man, on being told
her husband that he had dined at
ON s. IA dear old friend) and had
q some of his fine old wine for dinner.
lied him on the telephone no less than
zee times the next day to inquire
xlousIy whether he had died from
od alcohol yct?" +
NANCY WYNNE.