Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-25
lust GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Tells of the Birth OF Daughter to Mr.
and Mrs. Algernon x. Clapp-The Ashtons Enter
tain at Dinner for Captain and Mrs. Cwibaldi

r HEARD yesterday that the Alger-
non Clapps have wee daughter:
ebc was born on Friday, April %, and
ig lovely baby. You know Mrs.
Clam was Nancy Jeffreys, n daughter
cf Dr. and Mrs. William Jeffreys, oi
Nancy is awfully pretty and attractive
and Is very much liked. You remem .
bcr "" Inst year how the Clapps electrified
Docirfv by eloping to Elkton. 1t was
sOmc fine in May. along about the ex-
ANS ont at the University Of Pennsyl-
,"nia for I remember Algernon was
,Inr for an exam and decided to get
married instead. They went to Europe
Imring the winter, and since their re-
,rrn have been living at the Clapp
homo. 1908 Walnut street. | hope the
nor' non'ru' daughter looks like her mother,
for she will certainly be pretty small
person if she does.
TTOPE McMICHAEL GARlBAJD1
II and her attractive husband have
been staying here before, going 70
Woyiro where they are to live for the
hosf mart of this year. You know they
worc married down in Washington on
Inri, i6. at the home Of Hopes aunt!
Tbe Thomas G.. Ashtons gave a dinner
iar % them on Saturday. Hope is great
friend of Emma Dorr, you know. and
s,avod with her for some time while
IN ihis city before her marriage. Emma
l. a niece Of the Ashtons. 4,
saw Hope on the street and found
lor Looking extremely well and radi-
sntlv happy. She gained n little In
weight while on the other side, and
her face has rounded Just enough to be
owfully becoming. She has very
nrctty brow and lovely soft hair. and
sbc is certainly wearing lovely clothes.
She had on smart wrap OF dark oiue
ond a small hat which was very becom-
hmu ~. They will go to Mexico in few
Ia,s J"h I understand, but / did not get
n"G Glance 70 AJAX her myself, for when
"a n,.nv of us are all talking together
~ really hard to pin anybody down
10 answering questions.
TT THE Women's Committee of the
| Home for Consumptives in Chestnut
uul does not make enough money to
;nstoU electric lights In the home at
,ts marty Mt the Philadelphia Cricket
Crb next week. it won't be the fault
of soid committee. because it really is
yorkinp awfulIy hard and it has dandy
affair on hnnd.
There nrc to be movies and a bazaar
for children on Friday afternoon at tho
rInb and danring in the evening. ! met
Miss pnulinr Bowie the other day. and
she told me IL lot about it. and II every
one working on the committee Is as in
tprcsted as she is, it will certainly be
90.
She tells me they have electric ap-
nlianccg for the patients and no cleo
tririty to attach said appliances to. and
tho lighting in the hospital is so poor
that it really makes things gloomy. The
greatest thing on earth and most es-
Scntial to patients suffering from that
disease. is cheerful atmosphere. With
Miss Bowie on the entertainment com
mittcp are Mrs. Dgby Baltzell. Mrs.
John Chapman. Mrs. Francis Murphy.
Mrs. Cushman Ncwhall. Mrs. Clifford
pcmbcrton, Mrs. David Pepper. Mrs.
Clayton Plntt, Jr.. Mrs. Henry z. Rust,
Mrs. Mary NJ. Stcwardson. Mrs. Oliver
Boyrr ,Tudson and Mrs. John Muir.
hear incidentally that Mrs. Clayton
Plat has made some stunning garden
hats that are to be sold at the fair. and
there are ali sorts Of novelties to be had.
Some Of the other women interested,
home. are Mrs. Fred Dunn. Mrs Ed
gar Earle. Mrs. Alfred Mason. Mrs.
Charles PIatt Sd. Mrs. Thomas Potter.
Ir.. Mrs. lIollinshcad W. Taylor and
Mrs. lIollinShcad y. Taylor.
TSN'T Eleanor Wurts q lucky per.
son: She spent last summer abroad.
YOU know. going over with her aunt.
Mrs. Edward Mccullough. and her sis
terS Rosamond and Rhoda Brooke, and
now here she is going again this sum
m"r. This time she will be with her
grandmother. Mrs. William Henry
N"wboId. and they will spend the sum
mer in France. Switzerland and Italy.
lshoda Brooke is still on the other side
and will remain there for a while. She
IS IN Spain at present. ! hear. Mrs.
Mccullough and the Wurts girls came
back before Christmas. If my memory
serves me right. Eleanor Wurts Is a
dnught"r of the Robert Kennedy Wurts,
and her elder sister is Marian Wurts
Marian came out about three years ago
and Eleanor and Rosamond two years
ago They are all very good looking
girls, NANCY WYNNE.