Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Talks OF the Days Doings Among the
Debutantes-She Hears of a Main Line
Intercst-Jar1 Won't Stay On

THE debutante event of today will
= be the dance which Mr.. and Mrs.
Bob Montgomery will give at their
home, Ardrossan, in Villanova, to In :
troduce Jessie DaCosta, daughter OF
Mr.. Charles Da Costa. Her mother,
you remember, died more than year
ago, and Mrs. Montgomery is to chap
erone her at most of the affairs this
year. Mrs. Montgomery and Mrs. Da
Costa were very intimate friends, and
It is especially fitting to have her intro
duce Jessie. Mr.. Da Costa will give
a dinner for Jessie before the dance,
and there will be several other dinners
as well. Lucille Carter will entertain
Tor Florence, who you remember, was
a debutante last year, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Pepper Vaux will give a dinner
for Miss Nancy Mexican.
MFRS. RICHARD G. NORRIS is
AVA giving large luncheon for Helen
Sewell ont at the Philadelphia Country
Club today and great many Of the
debs are going. About forty five in all
including Mildred Carpenter, Augusta
Harrison, Mary Hobard, Rita Heck
scher, Sarah Barringer, Maisie Stewart,
Nancy Mexican, Helena Mitchell, Kitty
Merrick, Mary Howland. Elizabeth
Jeanes, Ottilie Morris, Henrietta Will
son, Russell Tucker, Virginia Carter,
Jane Coke. Eleanor Gummey, Evelyn
Page, Jessie Da Costa, Elsie Du Pont,
Elizabeth Frazier, Mary Norris, Polly
Annabelle Wood, Marjorie Gibbon,
Dorothy Stevens, Marie Louise Thomp-
son, Anita Strawbridge, Carol Smith,
Frances Ross, Ruth Packard, Mary
Sitter, Anne Ashton, Mary Rowland,
Charlotte Starr, Mary Bayard, Eloisc
Warriner, katherine Porter, Margaret
Curtis, and one or two others.
LAVE you heard about the sale
IL which is to be held at the Women's g
Club in Ardmore on Wednesday and
Thursday Of this week? The people of
Gladwynne are in charge Of It, as.
sisted by members Of the Church OF
the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, and it's for
the benefit of Gladwynne Hall, which Is
20 be erected at Merton Square.
understand the ground on which this
hall il to be erected has been already
presented by two men who are mem
bers Of the Church of the Redeemer.
Some of the women who are interested
in the affair are Mrs. Efingham b. Nor
ris. Mrs. William Il. Philler, Mrs. Will
liam II. Walbaum, Mrs. Edgar How
ard, Mrs. George Fales Baker; Mrs.
James d. Winsor, Mrs. Daniel Moreau
Mrs. A. Degrauw Warneck, Mrs. Henry
Abbott, Mrs. r. Meade Smith, Mrs.
William Runk, Mrs. Thomas Liggett,
Mrs. b. Vail Marsh, Mrs. Francis
King Wainwright, Mrs. Livingston
Biddle. Mrs. George W. G. Drexel,
Mrs. Henry Pepper Vaux, Mrs. Her
bert Clark, Mrs. Samuel Vauclain, Mrs.
George W. KendricK, Sd, Mrs. George
Calvert Carter, Mrs. Jacques Vauclain
and Mrs. Heron Crossman.
WHAT do you think of Sophie Nor
w ris's scheme to run a regular social
bureau of efficiency? She's going to be
at the head of the social part, under
stand. and will run q ball for you from
printing the invites. addressing them,
seeing to the decorations, in fact, every
thing but have the ballroom cleared up
after the parties, which Is, Of course,
not the part of hostess. Sophie Is a
daughter Of the Heide Norrises. you
know. and a niece Of Mrs. Arthur Ryer-
son. Mrs. Arthur Rush, Miss Sophie
Borie and Adolph Borie, of New York
Her mother was Miss Bessie Borie.
Sophie was abroad for some time dur
ing the war and did some fine work In
the canteen at the front. I have not
heard yet who the girls are who will
work with her. but she is in regular
firm, with Offices at the Stock Ex-
change Building, ana she intends to
make it great success.
MOLLY was eating her bread which
Avl mother had spread with jam. And
when mother did not seem to be looking
the little red tongue skipped out quickly
and removed the jam from the top and
then Molly asked for more. Finally
mother said "Dearie. you must not
ask for more. Mother has spread that
bread thoroughly" but, muvver,"
said Molly, wat jam won't 'tay on my
bread at all"
NANCY WYNNE.