Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-22

xyOU know It has come to be quite the
i rage to go West for the summer and
.rond several months at one of the great
spuobes which are a part Of Wyoming
ond New Mexico and the other great
roIl,np country out there. The two
rounger Harrison girls and Charles,
od with their father, Charles Gusts
Harrison. Jr.. are at the Struthers
port,s camp in Wyoming, and the
George Dalins Dixons and Alexander
Won Rensselaers are at a Wyoming
oamp. too. Peggy and Polly Thayer
ere snending the summer Mt the j. Y.
Stewart ranch in Wyoming and having
= most wonderful time. / heard the
other day that they had gone over. to
the Yellowstone for the day and that
polly had fairly electrified every one
AZ the hotel there by taking the first
yiolins fiddle from him and playing like
Tho Young 'wiz" she is for the assem-
Med guests. I can just see her in her
r;ding clothes, with the gold burned
Nv The sun on her dark hair, and those
isuphing eyes of hers grown serious
while she played her dear instrument.
polly is genuinely fond of music not
onIy of playing. but of music for itself.
She is fond of good music, too-not
iozz and ragtime, but fine things. She
never misses an Orchestra nor any Of
Tho visiting symphonies, no matter how
Mg n marty or dinner she may have been
invited TO attend that evening. And she
hos studied hard for Il number of years.
She spent several summers in Mime
epolis, where the great teacher Auer
was then located, and she has gone over
10 New York two and three times Il
week TO continue her studies under n
well known teacher.
WHILE Peggy is not musical like
w Polly, she is by no means taken up
with things social only, though both Of
thnm 40 to most Of the parties and are
usually the bellies Of the evening. Peggy
took up first AID and home nursing and
such things during the war, and she has
kent Il up and works every morning at
one of the hospitals. She comes in from
Haverford on n very carly train every
day and stays here until l o'clock. And
except for this holiday this summer she
has kept at 1t pretty steadily for several
, years. That IS certainly worth while, Is
It not?
FRANCES LEACH. too, does some
i work nj one of the hospitals. |
tlInK IL Is Illt I llll'll'll lOl Ilull pl
the day that way. and has been doing it
tor a couple of years. When you look
INTO the life Of very many of these girls
YOU find It is full of worthwhile things
as well us laughter and dancing and
theatre going. Not many but have
some fine interest. Bobbc Brocke has
kept it up since the war. too. She is
Mrs. Jack Mason'S sister, you know,
and her name is Elizabeth. but she has
always been called Bobbic. And Betty
Trotter, too. has been doing fine work.
The war developed quite number of
pathologists and biologists among us.
and most of them became so interested
IN the work they wanted to keep 1t up
afterward.
THEAR that Mrs. Clarence Dolan and
Rose are on the water now returning
from Paris. where Mrs. DOan has been
staying for several months with her
mother. Mrs. Nelson Brown. Rose has
been over there for more than year
and has been doing reconstruction work
IN France. She was over before that,
as during the war she drove an ambu-
lance. She and hor mother will arrive
In New York on Wednesday. probably,
and will 90 straight 10 Newport TO join
Mr.. Dolan. who has been up there since
the beginning of July.
Uncle JAMES took Charlie to the
~ movies the other afternoon. 1t was
one Of those Western pictures. with
much pistol and heavy william" CON
tanned therein. In fact. Uncle James
thought it far too mplodramatic and
was about to suggest that they go see