Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-01

N Nbnl nuppy ucW ycuT, anu one
"A full of peace and happiness! That
Is the wish we all want to have greet
us this year. is It not? Do you remem-
Der when you we're about ten how long
the years seemed, ana now that you
are three times ten, and perhaps plus
more or less, you find they are getting
shorter and shorter.
And when the three times ten change
into three score and three score and ten
the years will seem scarcely more than
a day.
SO they tell us those who have reached
the three score and ten and four score.
"Looking back, it seems but n day.
Well, IL we can only look back on years
we'll spent we shall not have lived in
vain, shall WEI
And so with the beginning of this
year, on January /, 1921, Nancy wishes
her friends and readers a very happy
new year.
DIDN'T you love the noise last night?
~ don't suppose I'll ever grow up.
but / love to hear the whistles blowing
and to blow horns and find, stocking
filled with toys on Christmas and all
the other foolish things that 60 with
this season. And so ! loved it all last
might. =. .,o,.ro nor.
Ihere are TO DC lOCs Oh tncdllt poi
ties this evening. One for Eleanor
give, and the Tom Dolans will give one
for Sarah, to be followed by supper at
the Ritz. The Howard Weathcrlys will
give a debutante dance for Carol SMITH
and Kitty Knight and then there VIII
be the New Year meeting of the supper
Club, and any number Of parties have
been planned for that.
ST,HE Opera Supper Club is to hold
l. it's next meeting on Tuesday, eve
ming In the foyer. The Opera Cup Is
growing more popular at each meeting.
Many persons who do not care ior
opera and do not attend have Joined the
club, just the same, and go to the foEer
for the supper ana dance "neh 'ne
opera is over.
Tuesday night will be an extra gay
enc, as a great many of the: younger
set will 60 TO the opera that night, ana
the younger people love to dance even
more than the older, who like to sit anu
watch said dancing.
THE Coxes' ball at the Bellevue
i Stratford last nighs was another
beautiful affair. and the New Year was
ushered in with great ceremony. Jane
looked dear, she is 50 young and sweet
There's q something very, very attrac-
live about her think, mud she's very
popular too. The decorations were en- =
tfrely in green and white.
It has certainly been ono week "i
balls, and every one as beautiful ms
could be. les always hard for me to
say which ballroom I like best. l see
the Bellevue and think nothing could
be prcttier. thcn.I see the foyer and
excIaim over its unique beauty. and
then I 20 to ball like the Straw
bridges, where the decorations were
really the most exquisite | have ever
seen at any affair. and | think well
there's no place like this. And so 1t
goes. :.
The Liv Biddles entertained at din
ner for Mary Law, Mrs. Biddlc's sis
ter, before the ball last night. and, the
Edward Burton Robincttes gave din =
ner at the Bellevue -Stratford. Mary
Hebard's parents gave her dinner and
the Orville Bullitts entertained too.
Mr.. and Mrs. Langdon Mitchell gave
a dinner for Valentine Mitchell. and
the Ned Brownings entertained for
Anita Strawbridge.
T WAS sorry TO hear of the death on
l. Tuesday of James Kempton. He is
a brother of Mrs. Randolph Justice
you know, and of Mrs Fred Dunn
He married Sallie Amber, of Balti-
more, about five years ago. and leaves
two darling little boys, Billie and James
Murray. lie was son of the late
William Branson Kempton, and Mrs
Kempton, of this city Mrs. Kemptor
lives with Mrs. Justice, in Bryn Mawr
but they are spending the winter il
town this year. The funeral took place
in Baltimore on Thursday. How sudden
these things are. lie was i'll only three
days. NANCY WYSNE.