Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-29
lust GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne TALKS Of Vmious Plans for Debutante
Doings-She Hears of Some of the Doings
OF Interesting People

~ WAS so delightful to see Mrs.
William Donner at the Horse Show
rostcrday. And every one was greet
he her joyously. Mr.. and Mrs. Bonner
have been living in Buffalo Tor two
Years. Years but they are now back IN mia
SInb;o. and have opened their house
d.'raiS South Eighteenth street, once
u. ioro o. They will do much entertaining
mUt;, I,,n;no the month for Dorothy Rodgers,
W.s Donner's daughter by her first
Marr;oue. she will be introduced Mt
tea on November 70.
Dorothy has been away for almost
ere years, but she has many very good
sricnds here and IL she is as charming
and MS populnr as her beautiful mother,
shc'lI certainly have n wonderful win
Tor Dorothy resembles her mother,
having the same dark brown eyes and
hair, She is quite toll and graceful
and goes in for sports quite good deal.
You should see her swim, she's really
marvellous! She went to school at Fox
wos graduated in the spring of 1920.
| Last winter she spent in Paris at Miss
Ferris school and she gave a good
deal of her time to studying music, for
she il very proficient at the piano.
! Yesterday Mrs. Donner had her box
s,,od with debutantes. She was enter
calming for Anna Newbold, having given
n luncheon before taking the girls to the
show. Today she will give n luncheon
for Alberta Reath and entertain for her
at the show.
WHAT q lovely summer Fanny Wis
w ter has had She has been travel
Ing in France and EngSnd and having
N, ,,.tl iva In
tbis country the end Of this week prob
ably and will Join Marina and the rest
/ of the family in Saunderstown. Ma
rinn came back just last week from
Wyoming and I undertand Is giving a
small dance this evening at which the
remaining philadelphians in Saunders
town, will surely be "among those
present" And there we're good many
there this summer.
! The Copes spent most Of the time
there and In fact I hear Nancy has a
bunch of girls up now visiting her.
Rosamond Stewardson, and Jane Yeat-
man, who by the way hns just come
home from Europe, and Hope Wilson.
The Wisters will stay up till the end Of
next month. And aren't they wise?
Have you ever been in New England
during October? II you haven't and
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gorgeous with the changing colors Of the
trees, and the wonderful high tides on
the coast.
Saunderstown you know is just across
the bay from jamestown and about
| half hours trolley ride from Nara
gansett Pier. Mrs. George Biddle has
house up there, but for the first sum-
mer in years the Biddles have not
stayed there. They went abroad and
rented their house to Mrs. Joseph Fox
and it was there that Emily Fox and
Ned Cheston were married two or three
weeks ago. incidentally, l hear that
Mr.. and Mrs. Chcston have taken
house on Springfield avenue In Chestnut
Hill for the winter and will soon be
moving in. The Jim Chestons have also
moved to Chestnut Hill.
T HEAR there is to be n fcte at the
i home of Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon
Rocricke in Wynnewood on Saturday,
October s. 1t is to be given under the
management Of the Hahnemann Hospital
Board, Of which Mrs. Leonard Ash
lcratt is president. There is to be q
Gymkhana. gypsy encampment, n
musicale and bridge and any amount of
nmuscmentS for the kiddies. Then, too,
Y
sounds like n most interesting fete and l
hope it will prove successful one.
T HEARD quite touching little
L story the other day. Several of the
women who had gone to the Mayors
Office for the special meeting he called
on Monday morning were standing
together talking when n Colored man
annroached Mrs. Blankenburg and said
"Scusc me, Ma am, but wouldn't you let
me black your shocs?" Mrs. Blanken-
burg thought she did not want them
don" just then and there, but he said
pleadtngly: "Oh, please do let me,
ma am: 1 always did your husbands
when he was in this Office, and I'd so
Ike to do yours, too" And Mrs.
Blankenburg, large hearted woman that
she is. stopped and let him shine her
shoes, thereby making his day thoroughly
rich and full in happiness.
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