Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
lust GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne Talks OF the Mask and Wig Party for Miss
Smith-She Tells About Relationships
Party for Blind

THE party at the Mask and Wig to-
p;yht which the Tom Harts are
.iying for Evelyn Smith will be no
5oubt one of the delightful affairs Mask
and wig Clubhouse parties always are.
Evelvn is sister of Mrs. Hart, mho
was Margaret Smith, you remember,
and they are the daughters of the late
Mr, Harry Smith. Their mother was
Miss Margaret Newbold a niece Of the
iate John Lowber Welsh. She is at
married q second time. Mrs. Adams
Ived in her uncle and aunt's home
,ben young girl. Her cousin. Mary
welsh. who afterward married Persi-
for Frazer and later Cories Morgan
,ond who died several years ago). came
out about the same year. and the two
grew up like sisters.
isn't it a coincidence that after the
death of Mrs. Morgan. Mr.. Morgan
married Mrs. Ross Smith? Why. you
ask? We'll. because the late Ross Smith
was brother of Mr.. Harry Smith.
who was Mrs. Hart's and Evelyn
smiths father. The third coincidence
Is that the Mr.. Adams. who married
Mrs Smith and who was killed in au
automobile accident in Cape May sew
thot and his first wife was Miss Mabel
smith. sister of Harry and Ross.
So they are all intcrmarried and the
Adams girls. Phoebe Harding and
Elizabeth Snowden are nicces of Mrs
Adams as well as her stcpchildren and
6rst cousins of their half sisters, Mrs.
Hart and Evelyn Smith, though Mr..
Adams and his second wife were no
blood relation.
brother and the brother died. what
relation was the blind bcggar to the
brothcr?' and after you have insisted
and argued for hours that they must
have been brothers., you suddenly find
that the blind bcggar was Il woman,
and so she was the sister Of the brother.
But this relationship is not puzzle
at ali il you reason it out. It's all per-
Ecctly simple.
To go back to the party tonight.
It's to be for members of the debutante
set and u few of the younger married
(olk.
nOROTHY PURCHAS has come on
~ from Milwaukee to visit the Edwin
Atlces in Germantown for Il couple of
weeks. You remember her engagement
10 Edwin Atlee, Jr.. was announced
several weeks ago. Her sister, Nancy.
was married to one of the Gilpins just
about two weeks ago. 1t will certainly
be nice for her to have her sister marry
and come on here too to live.
Mrs. Atlee is giving tea this after
noon for Miss Purchas. You remember
my telling you that the two Purchas
girls are daughters of Mrs. J. w. Cost
wick Purchas. of Milwaukee. and they
,l,o -.
every one who has met them
T WONDER if we were asked which
L sense VIC would hold OH TO if we were
asked to choose which four to let go
and which to keep. 1t seems to me
it would be take anything but my
eyes" And yet. do you know we arc
asked very seldom to say or do anything
to me. and SO when | heard that Mrs.
Charles A. Potter. Mrs. Edward
Shakespeare and Mrs. Fox were get
ting up card party for next Monday
afternoon to assist those who are blind
I was glad.
The proceeds from the party arc to
be given toward the Pennsylvania Home
Teaching Society and Free Circulating
Library for the Blind, and to the
permanent blind relief war fund for
soldiers and sailors of the Allies. Be
sire cards they are to have musical
tea, and it will be at the Ritz Carlton,
on Monday afternoon at two o'clock.
A number Of prominent women have
taken tables and others have given their
names as patronesses. Among those
who will entertain are Mrs. ]. William
White. Mrs. John Gribbel. Mrs.
Thomas G. Ashton. Mrs. Nicholas Bid
die, Mrs. Robert Downing Mrs. Alex :
andcr Fox. Mrs. George +. Fox, Mrs.
Efingham r. Morris, Mrs. Fitz Eugene
Newbold. Mrs. Samuel Kerr. Mrs.
Theron Crane and several others whose
names I do not recall.
0F COURSE there are debutantes and
" debutantes., but when you are en-
Saging person to help in your home,
aud are looking forward with joy to the
fact that at last you will have some
one to answer the bell instead of hav-
ing to do so yourself when He is coming
10 call, and said person says: "What
about evenings? ] shall want to GO
out good deal. l am debutante,
YOU know" Well. what do YOU know
about that? NANCY WYNNE.