Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-16

-Ts killing down at Cape May on
thursday nights. You know they
nave n leap year dance (just why it's
Ian year when this happens to be 1921,
"a couldn't be leap year ~ II tried, l
don't exactly know, but that's what
.hsv call it, and the consequences are
.ho son,e). In other words, it's the
nisbt Mt the Red Mill when the girls
mt nat Tho men TO 20 with them for the
nnrsning. and all through the evening 1t
g. Tho girls who ask the men TO dance.
They have n lot of fun over 1t, but l
donit quite know whether the men like
n or not. It's hard to tell.
The one last week was very gay Tor
,be Younger set, and Carol Harris and
Mildred White, Of Baltimore, gave
birthday party for Tommie Watkins
o,sr ot the Lafayette Hotel after the
y.nc;ng was over. They had an orches-
tra and ice cream and a birthday cake
al lighted up with many candles at
,n;dnIpht and every one had wonderful
'S There we're Dorothy Schuster. and
A,icc Carrigan. of Pittsburgh; Carol
n.rris of course Barbara Shoemaker,
who Is staying with Carol; Emma
Norris. Gwladys Hopkins, Roger Bis
rbam. Roger Berger, Of Allentown I;
R;liv Longstreth, Rosalie Waters, Of
baltimore; Crenshaw MacElroy. Crosby
Royd. Alfred Muench, Bunny Heulings,
Rsmey Harris and Mildred White.
AIRS. GEORGE LEWIS is the best
lM looking person. She was on the
beach at Cape May on Sunday wearing
blue and white checked gingham bath
Inc suit trimmed in white rickrack
braid. She wore n cap to match the
suit and blue stockings. Pansy Scott,
who Is spending the summer In Cape
May with her brother and sister in
law. the Hutchie Scots, was stunning
tho other day in q white linen skirt and
waist topped with Bulgarian sweater
Of black and white.
1t was by far the best looking sweater
I have seen this season, and that is
saying something, for the sweaters this
year in variety and style and color seem
Tar more numerous than ever before.
THE much talked-of longer skirt has
i not made its appearance here as yet.
and / muchly doubt that it will. OF
course the short skirt has not been
worn in the extreme here by really nice
people. But the normally short one is
10 much more comfortable than the
old long one, something tells me that
common sense will win out here should
they lengthen them in Paris to the
ankles and below, as in the days OF
eight or ten years ago. Women here
will not wear them. They are not clean ;
they sweep up the dirt of the streets ;
they are heavy and they are ungraceful.
] don't honestly believe they will be
worn longer than six inches from the
ground, and most Of them will be eight
or ten.
CPEAKlNG of Paris, Paulina Bell
~ Whelen, who has been staying there
for a while and who is now at Dcau
vile with her young husband (they are
on their wedding trip. you know, has
written home that every one il wearing
black and black and white in Paris.
Colors are absolutely out Of it. Black,
black, black, and fancy black at that.
The evening frocks are of tullc and
shiny jet and chiffon and velvet. and
they are simply beautiful she says. |
wonder If it will be taken up here as
much
Certain it is that black is becoming
to most people. 1t adds to the fairness
Of the complexion and Is the most dura
bic thing to wear.
MIR. T is keeping house by him :
A'A self this summer, and his family
is having a beautiful time at one of
the Maine resorts. Fortunately, he will
be able in short time to go up and
join them, as he misses them very
much. However. he has had n very
valuable old family retainer to come In
and cook meals, and so he has managed
The other day he bought him q
brand-new sponge, and it being hard
as is the way of new sponges. he took
IT into Lefty and asked her to soak il
in water for day for him. When she
brought it to him next day he saw that
u was not as good sponge Az he had
thought when buying it, and he said
u don t think that's as good a sponge
as my last one, is it, Letty|' "WelI
sah said she, ''to tell de truf. seems
o. dey don't make EN- so goods dey
wIeter."
NANCY WYNNE