Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
UJST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Talks About Winter Sports-Also About
an Interesting Pageant to Be Ciuen Next
Week-And an Engagenrent

~ COURSE, l like snow and ] love
J cold weather, and ! think the coun.
try looks very beautiful when It's all
covered with white and the youngsters
Nv Wonderful timc--but wasn't it
INV ,o COO the sun on Saturday? Do
@ n,,' mink Won could show me anything
~ utterly frightful and depressing
,hon = city street after n snowstorm?
Bat in thc country it has been won
Jorfnl People haven't had to 60 to
4Ioto Placid or Canada for winter
snnrta. they Just go to Chestnut Hill.
1,ho steep hills there are solid with
oitbcr icc or heavily crusted snow, you
t,,u ,,nnT and people who know how have
hoon skiing there for the last three or
fo,r DAYS / even saw ono thought
f,i father strapped on to skis and pull
ing his Youthful daughter around on
bor sled. She loved it, too And of
"o,,rso there's been lots of skating at
tbc club. and wonderful coasting any
where
1rAvE YOU heard about the Pageant
II of Nomanhood that is to be given
ot tbp Academy on the 1Gthy That $
noyt Monday. in the evening, and
tbcrc's dancing aftcrward. 1t is
undpr the auspices of the Community
Srrvicc of Philadelphia. and hear that
thousand girls representing some
sixty organizations are to be in 1T.
Mrs. II. $. Prentiss Nichols is pres
dcnt of the committee that is getting
!, i"'"r "n Mrs. Lewis r.. Dick is secrc-
tary, Mrs. Harold Delaney Downs is
trcasurcr. and among those who are
interested are Mrs. Barclay Warbur-
ton Mrs. j. Howard Pew, Mrs Wal
tcr / Freeman. Mrs. George a, Pier
col Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, Mrs.
Tronl Miles Day. Mrs. Norman Mac
Icod. Mrs. O. J. De Roussc. Mrs
nobson Altcmus. Mrs. J Hampton
Moore. Mrs. Ii. Gordon Mct ouch Mrs
lanes Starr. Jr., Mrs. Robert Won
Ncsrhziskcr. Mrs. j. Willis Martin.
Mrs Theodore j. Lewis. Mrs. Henry
+. Brown and Mrs. Otis Skinner.
Mrs. skinner is always interested in
ANYTHING like a pageant. and she is so
sweet about giving suggestions aud
helping with things of this kind. Nat e.
urslIy she has more practice than a
rood many of us in that kind of thing
ISN'T il nice that Rodcrick Tower and
i Flora Payne Whitney are engaged:
Why? Oh, just because it's always
nice when q member of good Phiia-
dcphia family becomes engaged to- n
member of good family from some
where else. She is the daughter of the
Harry Payne Whitneys. and made her
debut in New York in 1916. Roderirk
was graduated from Harvard in 1913
and during the war was Il captain III
the aviation. lie is the son of the
CharIcmagnc Towers. you know, and Il
r 'I,, It.
who lives in Baltimore: of Helen, who
is now Mrs. William Abbott Robertson
i think she was married Just about Il
year ago. wasn't shetland is living out
in San Diego Calf, and of Geoffrcy,
who is not married at all.
MARY was playing about with her
1'l doll, bundling her into the carriage
and wheeling her busily in and out b"-
tween chairs. Daddy was sitting quietly
reading his paper not paying much al =
tcntion TO the busy buzz Of conversation
that was addressed entirely to the doll.
But all at Onrc hc saw the doll carriage
stopped directly in front of him. and
the talk had stopped for u minute.
Looking syIyly over the top Of his paper
ho saw Mary bending over Hhc carriage
shaking small, reproachfuI finger di-
rpcIiy before pair Of unpcrturbed
blue glass eyes.
"Now listen" she said STORMY, "Il
! hear You do that again TIL take you
right oui aud give you good spanking.
But she ddn have TO. because there
WASH a sound from the carrage--aftcr
that And fortunately Mary was not
quite big enough to spank Daddy for
the sudden loud shout that he gave.