Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-21
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Chats About the Harrison Dinner-Dance
4 Tontght-She Hears About the Tea to Be Civen to
4 Auxiliary No. l, Red Cross on Monday

THE first Of many parties that have
/ been planned for Augusta Harrison
will be given tonight by her father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Custis
Harrison. Jr., at Chuckswood, their
home In Villanova. Augusta Is the Uar-
risons' eldest daughter, though 1t just
seems impossible that she is old enough
TO come out.
Do you remember Augusta and Ellen
playing in the square In their smart
iittie tailored coats? 1t seems only
year or so ago and yet here is Augusta
coming out and Ellen q sub deb. Time
do fly, do II not?
A UGUSTA'S party is to be n dinner
~ dance for the debutante set. It will
be very pretty. Autumn foliage and
dahlias will be used in the decorations
Of the rooms and the small tables will
have dahias and chrysanthemums.
Augusta is tall and more of blonde
than brunette, and very smart look.
ing. She is having dandy time, the
wee bird told me. and ! rather thought
she would myself, because she has h
charming disposition and is very pop
ular with the girls as well as the boys.
MRS. HENRY BRINTON COKE
lu tells me that Auxiliary No. 1 Of
the Southeastern Chapter of the Amer
lean Red Cross, IL to have a reunion
Mt Red Cross Headquarters on Monday
afternoon at 3 o'clock. There Is to be
n short business meeting and then a tea
and good time. Mrs. Coke, you know.
Is chairman of that auxiliary and the
women connected with it did such mag
nifcent work during the war and since
then, when there was need. that they
remain banded together and are ready
for any emergency. They have given up
their own headquarters. at 1912 Spruce
street, but meet now and again when
there is occasion at the headquarters,
21S South Rittenhouse square, as they
will on Monday.
was very interested to hear of the
work the women of that auxiliary did
during the war. You know originally
they comprised the Philadelphia General
Chapter for Preparedness, and then when
the war came they entered as body
into the Red Cross as Auxiliary No. /.
For a short time they had rooms on the
second floor of 60S Chestnut street. and
then later moved to 1912 Spruce street.
where they virtually occupied the entire
house, various rooms being assigned to
various activities. Such excellent work
did these women do that about the mid
die of the war the Pennsylvania Della
ware division of the Red Cross took
over the whole auxiliary as an instruc-
tion department. Mrs. Coke had been
made director of the Pennsylvania
Delaware department of knitting and
Mrs Ben Brush, who is vice chairman
Of the auxiliary, was made director of
the department Of garments for the di-
vision first. Finally the whole aux
iliary was used, as | said before. but
i never lost its identity as Auxiliary
No. /.
This auxiliary undertook the first big
feeding of the canteen. In fact. Mrs.
Coke says the women have been simply
wonderful throughout the whole work.
Mrs. Thomas J. Dolan is the second
vice chairman Of the auxiliary. and Mr..
Tom Reath is their treasurer. Mrs.
Theodore Cramp had the canteen de-
partment. Mrs. William Norris, Mrs.
William Campbell. Miss Mary Girvin {;
in fact. l can't begin to tell you all of
those who took part in the work and did
it indefatigably. And on Monday they
are to have this party. which will be a
real reunion and renewal of the ties
which bound these earnest women so
closely together during the great war.
ISAW Mrs. Tom Newhall on Chestnut
i street the other day looking too smart
for anything. She was wearing a one
piece frock of dark blue gabardine em
broidered in blue and held in at the
waist line with a handsome blue cord.
Her hat was rather high crowned
model with a narrow brim; it was of
henna velvet and she wore with it a
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