Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-25
lust GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Goes the Anniversary Ball and Is Glad
She Doesn't Haze to Wear Crinohne--She Tells
OF Continuation of Supper Club

WELL, It really was a very lovely
w affair last night. The decorations
.roro very old. fashioned, much red vel
GOT TO the fore and the howers and
.orns and little tinkling fountain on
N, stage were charming.
There was something rather pulling
.. tho heart strings when the first cou-
,,,os made their appearance on the stage
ond walked down the center OF the moor
=. ,,r, for the march and qundrille.
aorchoy, in retrospect, one saw the
,ouohinr he.les and bGaux of long ago
.a"sh IA sthnir stesds, and the fact that 80
,ony W. OF those who had attended thnt
srst tH bali had left us for the other worid
ems n solemn thing.
Rut there were some or those %ho
nod becn ut the first ball there one
NJ the first persons l Sa" was none
~ SStLor tbon Mrs. Parrish. Ninety two
80 .nar. nld she Is, and l heard hes say
En- another woman n the d.eSs.ng
~ .mn ~ am the only frivolous mem
~, nf nv family; my son and daugh-
-. both refused to come. so L came
With my grandson. She Is a marvel
Mrs John Wister was also there,
I'D nv the way never saw Mrs.
T'a a." los Stcwalt Wurts, Mrs. Wister' g
G"", GIa"cbter look swecter. She wore q
,own Of the o i days, with real lnce
SNnc and her hair was parted ana
arranged in the proper coils, and she
wos one of the very prettiest there.
Mrs. Walter lIopkinson looked aw.
fully pretty. too, with her lovely bright
hr'r arranged low in her neck. Mrs
3tckowskt was perfectly beautiful In
Tm" six and velvet, and Mrs: rom
Ashton wore wonderful PINK BLK
gown of the enrly sixties.
T. was altogether very pretty
aTair, and the dancing was extremely
yrorcful, But strange revolution came
mon me, and l had horrible fee ing
.hot I was not Of the past after all:
E'nr somehow or other, was glad l
,,id not have TO wear those yards OF silk
sNout nv feet every day, and that
rou'd step out on that floor afterward
"a dance in q frock that was some nine
inches from tho ficor and that was not
nullcd in SO tight about the waist l
rould not breathe, and that had straps
and srecves over my shoulders, and that
my sinners had thin Gather 80 es AMI
po;ntcd toes, and did not have to thin6
70 hold my train off the floor, nor fear
that I would step on some one else s
train as | danced a'Cng.
And though grant you that in some
cases the frocks are far too short and
rhe bodiceS too low and that these cut
away under the arms are extremely
%gly these days. think we are more
comfortable and am glad we haven't
me bother Of the crinoline and hooped
,krt. :, :,
It's awfully graceful and disnitied
and p city and one cannot imagine that
here could ever be anything but dig
aiied and graceful behavior in such
gowns but. well, I'd rather live IN
1927 as far as fashions are concerned,
Now, isn't that awful? It's rank
arresy, | know. but sometimes | get a
little tired hearing how bad we ell arc
-hesc days. Because if one reads bit
ne finds that in a. ages there are al
ways some who so too far, and some
Who will be shocked. and some who
keen an even mind and calm outlook
md think that after all it's the inten-