Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07

~,r,s nice to have the Hepburns home
.ssin. for they surely are attractive
IL. saw Marie Louise lunchins at
\. Ritz the other day. She has been
s.ct from Europe about q fortnight,
"a nv but she was looking well. She
u, decidedly stunning In a dark blue
..,,s French, of course, you could not
.l.tske IT. embroidered in a lighter
I.de of blue wool. She wore also a
ssisck mushroom shaped straw hat with
!, .dse of Jet clears" falling over the
i,,m and a black chantilly veil which
ARMED a band about the crown hung
lawn over the left side Of the brim.
Marie Louise has dark brown eyes
.,d black hair. Jane, too, is dark and
~ pretty. Both .of;them have been
inch entertained since they came back.
Z = they were in Europe the better part
= year, you know, and we certainly
! al miss them.
AIRS. GEORGE STOUT and her
M daughter Mary will be coming
home from Boston this week. They
nave been visiting Mrs. Stout's son BY
her first marriage. She was formerly
Mn, Addicks. you know: Billie Ad.
dicks IL at the Boston Tech. or the
silSsacfusetts Institute Of Technology,
Ekich Is the Official name, under.
Ind. Mary Stout 10 to come out next
water and she has developed into .
\ IiFiectly stunning girl. She has very
;i1ndsome eyes and haiy and carries her
n awfully well. All the Stout chill
;lfen are great horsewomer. And there
o. o. doubt about 1t. there's nothing like
at for exercise and good health. The
Sl6us have beautiful place IN Devon.
M; Stout was formerly Miss Anne,
0Shame Wood and a daughter Of the
III John Price Wetherill. - ,
nHE other day I heard that Patty
" Baker was to be married on June Z,
bot It seems that she hasn't really de-
cided on any date yet. after all. Patty
a one Of the attractive Baker sisters
and the daughter Of Mrs. Louis G.
Baker, Of Bala. She is engaged to Ben.
jamin Clyde Briggs. Of st. Paul, Minn.
The wedding will take place some time
this spring, anyhow.
LAVE you seen those curious long
IL legged dolls that are the, rage at
present? don't mean the rage among
the children. but the children of
larger and should-be saner growth. ]
had seen them in stores and had
heard that some women had them for
ornaments, and but, believe me, I did
ut think it was true until the other
day when I stopped in for a cup Of
tea with n friend, and there seated in
chair near us was one of these thin,
long.legged individuals, about two feet
long and some eight inches wide. It
vas dressed in old rose chiffon and had
coquettish head Of bobbed hair. It
Vas positively grotesque, and yet every
woman who came in raved over it.
Thought 1t was SO cute and fascinating
and 50 easy to place about; so pictur.
ePQue.
sometimes I wonder what the chill.
dren Of the next generation will be
Ike. when l realize the tastes given to
thsSittle ones of these days. The queer
blue pigs and pink cows and orange .ele.
plants and green ducks, to say nothing
d yellow dolls, henna dogs and burnt
orange cats. II we now have cubists
10 art what weird and nameless thing
shall We have in the years. to come,
when the present distorted ideas given
y children shall have fully developed in
their maturing minds?
Really, don't think it's funny any
more. No one loves nonsense more
Than l do. have a rabbit named
Roberta and. tiger called cav
~ah.' | have duck named Gwen
dolyn Maude" and monkey known as
Marmaduke,' but they look like u rab-
DIT and tiger and a duck and a
monkey. They are not green and pur.
ple and sky blue pink. And I do not
mink these grotesque. distorted, pre-.
historic and 'peculio" things are going,
7? help the children to think right
hSout anything at all.
Why can't we be sane once more? /
s;,ssS Ss foolish If we must, but not feeble
WHEN Bobbie went to spelling class
" the other day Miss Anne asked
I'm; I'm How do you spell swear" And
Cofreet, dear said Miss Anne: "Now.
10 you know what that word means?''
lou bet l do replied Bobbie.
loud ought to heard grandpa and
nsddy making up their income tax tn
'oer night NANCY WYNNE.
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