Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
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-.., Uynne Sees Handsome Ciothes-She Hears OF
Dances to Be Given,in Old Harrison House.
Other Bits Of Interest

.,u Mrs. Charlton Yarnall on
II go in Pittenhouse Square, and
j suno' soaring a beautiful suit OF
she T s," duyetyne. The cost was 2
dirN 'ucde, and was embroidered
b"e tbe bottom In a darker brown
srolna W with this she wore q hand
alk tnrsSll nreclniece Of sable, and her hat:
scne. wss also brown, wss trimmed
xnlso ,s . deep orange ostrich festner'
,vr ,oo heard shout the dances
n ,s., the Emergency Aid Is getting
1nast 1ns, affairs for It's various com
~! beny For instance, this Friday. the
nittees, Iii he under the auspices OF the
dance ,,.c W Tor the Chinese famine
connm','ts which Mrs. Joseph Leidy Is
funo, y, There are to be three others
tnslims; W. ssr;es: April for the Home Re-
70 m' snrii Z. National Find for the
ml nrnbens Of Italy and April 10,
war Mho " fnfantile Paralysis Fund. The
iot ~ are 10 be inexpensive aud
ut,il tS,nl tbe affairs are going to be good
fup; r;u take many Of the older people
~ 10 these dances back to former
rno suvben the old Harrison house, now
au,I ..douarters of the Emergency Aid,
vac IN home of the late Mr.. Harrison
wa MI h;s daughter, Mra. Barry. lived
anu anu, u" for wears with her children. the
m... me-, Mrs Hollingsworth Sitter, and
PPnrs,lvn Barry. and another daughter,
Nav Barry, who 7 think married
boSsv" TSo marble floors and the great stair
.,'.s NV ars still ae they were in the old
L. and the old porte cochere, which
nnu turned into the Emergency Aid
han vas once the great place for the
p.lrr,,s r.vr aid coachman to drive under,
;m ria carriage horses to take the
,.dis, ds out. cracking his whip to make
lie horses prance and rattle their
%autifu chain trappings. =.
Ilswellyn Barry is living in New
.york most Of the time now. i can sec
Kim now. when az a little girl l used
~ 40 to Rittenhouse Square to play,
ws,fips up Walnut street aud into the
cnb always wearing brown clothes
and alwsys a brown derby hat. The gal
i.ry Of the old house Is the same as In
farmer days, and the room that was
".sd AZ a sort Of aviary Is still there
and the old fashioned carved marble
maptels. II was a beautiful old home
some fifty years ago. ...... at ,
II was idle for q great many years
after the Barrys moved from there, you
nov. and few years ago Mr.. Stotes-
hurry bought it. and during the war Mrs.
Stotesbury turned it into an officers
club and the kitchens are fitted exactly
unto date, which makes it easy for the
Emergency Aid to run q cafeteria
there. hope you are going on Friday
nisht Of this week. as think it will
really be very interesting and besides
The Chinese Famine Fund Is a worthy
cause. Mr.. Harding, too, has appealed
to US all to help it along
ARE you going up TO the Musical
n Art Club. at 1871 Ranstead street,
this afternoon; You know the as
sociate committee OF the club and the
Women Writers are to give a tea for
Frances Starr there. and hear q great
many persons have been invited. Miss
Starr is quite fascinating to talk to
and has. think, grown even prettier
thnn last year.
The Charlotte Cushman Club is to
have tea this week too, on Friday.
and II is for all the stars who took part
in the benefit given last week at the
Walnut Street Theatre. It will be
quite wonderful to meet Wilson and
Hopper and Frances Starr and Guy
Bates Post and Hal Forde and all the
rest Of them, won't it? Certainly /
have never known such generous people
as actors. There last week IL was not
enough for Francis Wilson and Miss
Starr to appear and entertain the peo.
pie. but they each gave two hundred
and fifty dollars for an engraving Of
Ada Rehan which was auctioned Of by
de Wolf Hopper al the benefit. They
gave the engraving Jointly to the Cush-
man Club after paying that large sum
Tor it.. Besides having the late Miss
Rehan's signature, it also bad John
Drew 8 (for Mr.. Drew came all the way
from New York to open the benefit you
know and all the other actors and ac-
lIreSses who took part in the afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Rollin II. Wilbur had
presented the engraving to be auctioned
of
Joey was playing with the baby,
:, when Miss Baby raised herself up in
the coach and almost fell out. Joey
was too small TO stop her. SO he called
loudly for mother. Mother did not hear
y hrSt, and thinking 1t was just play,
dld not hurry when the call finally
Neched her. When she arrived in the
nursery. there was the baby half ont of
me coach and Joey indignant at having
received no response to his calls, at
Sce pnce remarked as Mother turned the
oa0y rIght side up: "T fink you ought
70 DC panked.' NANCY WYNNE.