Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-26

SAW Eleanor Gummey on Chestnut
street the other day with her mother,
W-s Charles Francis Gummey. Elem
snr is coming out this season you know.
Thave heard of number Of parties
,.hicb viii be given In her honor, among
sham a dinner dance at the Bellevue
ct,otford, Eleanor Is very sweet look
ins she has soft, rather light brown
hair and brown eyes, and when / saw
hsr she was wearing a frock Of brown
taireta silk made with draped over
sLirt. The sleeves OF the bodice were
of darker brown georgette and her hat
was a brownish henna straw trimmed
nth small flat flowers.
Mrs. Gummey was wearing very
dark suit and round, straight brim-
nod silk hat of the same shade(a sort
~ dark gray blue). The Gummeys have
a country place in Penllyn, and In town
live at 2128 Locust street.
MOTHER girl who is coming out
"A next year is Sophie Yarnall. She
"a tho Youngest daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charlton Yarnall, whose winter
home is at Seventeenth and Locust
streets. Agnes, her. older sister, did
not make her debut formally as we
were still in the throes of the war or
the armistice (for no social gayeties
started up till the year after the armi-
stice you remember), but she will do
her going out this year as she did last.
Sophie, whose name Is Anna Sophia, is
named for her grandmother, Mrs. Alex
ander Brinton Coke, who was Miss
Sophie Norris. Mrs. Yarnall was Miss
Anna Brinton Coxe, you remember.
It was Mr.. and Mrs. Charlton Var
nall who had the first meeting Of the
Parents League at their home last
spring. when IL was decided TO curtail
The entertainments for the younger peo-
pie; that is. to have earlier hours for
The children's parties and not such
elaborate entertainments.
understand, by the way, that plans
have been got together to really carry
out the suggestions formulate and ac-
cepted at that meeting. And it's a
mighty good thing. The children will
lose nothing by It, that's sure, and
will have everything to gain through
the earlier hours and less elaborate
dinners. I sometimes wondered how
they stood some of the parties they went
10 at the age of fourteen and fifteen.
At one affair l heard of given before
one Of the dancing classes q dinner of
eighteen courses was served, and the
children themselves got worried and
wondered il they could eat all In sight.
Manners being thing of the past, sew
eral OF them arose and ran thrice
around the table Ito make room for
more" as one expressed it to me
later.
However, this is DEPRESSING entirely
from the fact that Sophie Yarnall is to
come out this year. Sophie is very tall
and has fair hair, though not so fair
as her sister Margery, who you -remem-
Der married Arthur Newbold, Jr. She
is graceful and dances very we'll and is
very popular in the younger set.
T1HEY were twelve, ten and eight
i years of age, and Jack, the eldest,
was the ringleader in most of the ex-
elements which took place in their
house. They have lovely summer
home with little lake and an island
with a delightful little summer house
thereon.
Well, these dear little children had a
governess who was very, very fond
OF them, and while they did not say
Just how they felt about her, you might
have been able to draw your own con-
clusions in the matter had you been
there the day mother announced, 'Chil-
dren, have asked Miss Brown out to
spend the day with us on Thursday,
and I want you to help me give her
q happy day
Well, Thursday arrived, and mother
had to go into town in the car, but she
sent Jack and Eleanor to the station in
their pony cart to meet Miss Brown.
They did SO and explained that
mother had had to go in. but would
be back for lunch and they were to drive
her home. Miss Brown was delighted
she was with her dear little pupils once
more.
They reached the house and Eleanor
politely did the honors, took Miss Brown
to mothers room and helped her off
with her coat and hat and escorted her
down to the porch. They sat quiet for
a while, Miss Brown industriously
making uplifting remarks, and then
Jack proposed a row on the lake. The
lady was delighted and off they started,
Jack and Eleanor and Frances, too.
And they rowed straight to the island
and having landed Miss Brown first,
they pulled blithely off and left her
there.
Mother came home an hour later and
called to her pets: "And where's Miss
Brown, didn't she come?' Oh, yes,
she came, and we were so sure she'd
start lessons in another minute, we put
her on the island" said Eleanor COM
poscdly. NANCY WYNNE.