Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-12

vell, IeDanOH, La. i'u NhoW' She huu
h,d time with her ankle. I do not
srow inst what the trouble was. but
.he vas obliged to go to the Presby-
t.rian Hospital for an operation about
Al, weeks ago. and had been very Ill
,ince. She and Mr.. Freeman and their
uple girl will not open their town
house before November. II all goes
veil, they hope to so to Hot Springs
In October.
Mrs. Freeman was Emile Henry,
,ou remember. and is very popular in
Tho Younger married set. The Free
mans have the house which was for
merly occupied by the Ned Croziers, ut
2I2G Locust street.
r HEAR there will be a debutante in
! the Wcightman family this year
Aubrey Weightmans daughter. and a
most attractive deb she will be. The
date for her party has not been def
nitely settled. but she is to be intro.
duced BY her father and stepmother In
Che fall. Fannie Is great grand
daughter of the late William Weight
man. the multi millionaire. who built
Che house at Eighteenth and Walnut
streets. now occupied by the George Fl.
McFaddens. Mr.. Aubrey Weightman's S
father was n brother Of William
WeIphtman. Jr.. whose wife married
Mr.. Jones Wister some years after Mr..
Wegbtman's death. and Mrs. Penfeld,
~ New York, is therefore Fannies
great aunt.
Fannie is tall and has the fairest,
tishtest curly bair I've almost ever
,een and very blue eyes. And she has
ope of the most infectious laughs you
aver heard. Fannie went to Miss lr-
rims school for several years. and last
ssasou she was at Dobbs Ferry.
nWO interesting debutantes OF the
u coming season who have been abroad
This summer will be starting home soon
now, ready for the fray. as it were.
One Is Dolly Duane, who has been In
Europe with her mother, Mrs. Russell
Duane, for about three months. and the
other, Babs Clayton. VINO has been
travelling with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Clayton.
The Russell Duanes spent last win
Ter at Green Hill Farms in Over
brook. but ] understand they will take
apartments in town n: the Bellevue
| Etratford for the season. Dolly Duane
b quite pretty and has dark brown hair
like her mother, and such an attractive
smile. Pabs. too, has brown hair and
/ most wonderful color.
have heard of several dates for their
coming out parties already, nut far be
Il from. me to state them positively.
Why, | have already seen about seven
dates for one debutantc. and you know
i Is not within reason to believe that
any parents have planned seven dinner
dances within three weeks for their
daughter. Therefore, as I generally 90
on the theory that it's never we'll to
believe anything l hear and only half
pf what ] see. l am not going to give
dates from hearsay, but / will wait till
] know them from Mrs. Duane and
Mrs. Clayton themselves.
Mrs. Russell Duane was Miss May
Morris, and IS a sister of Mr.. Roland
Morris, who was Ambassador to Japan
turing the Wilson Administration. Mrs.
benJamin Coates, who was Miss Anna
Norris, is sister.
do not know why / seem to insist
on writing about Dolly and Babs as II
!hey were connected or special great
friends. They are friends, OF course,
OUT are not especially intimate. The
zeal reason for 1t all is that they are
Solh abroad and are both sailing for
home soon.
=, Babs Clayton's sister Mary married
Ralph Earle, and they are at present
N their cottage in Ncntnor. They have
!ne most fascinating bungalow there.
Ns boathouse on the thoroughfare,
an. .na they can go canoeing right from
'ne'r porch. ,
7 WONDERED if I could maintain
my attitude that the younger set
was lhnntcly right In its moral tenets
~ the face Of a letter I received from
M ~. interested and outraged mother the
"tTrr "tmI day' She had gone with her
dda.iureh TO an invitation subscription
samce soa IN the suburbs recently and had
twa en some OF the girls going out be-
sTseh s,so danccs, sitting in the cars out
,ai, aIe win the boys and actually par
hS hfan'hS OF the drinkables brought by the
euyS s IN their hip pockets. This is true
n.h nave heard OF It from several
SS.ner mothers who took their daughters
.a uUm'e early In the evening when they
saW now things were going. But can
A'aaHtain my attitude because of this.
e,e msa,h II was for want of proper chap
..HusG w. mat such things went on, Oh,
ioe'; mere were chaperons there, but
tbo u khown the chaperons were doing
fos. oe sell same thing. Am l not there
mue, ne correct In blaming the elders for
sstS Sn 'hat Is said about the younger
mo,eH iou cannot expect boys and girls, no
srIr ;f now well bred, to behave prop
~ II 'nelr elders give them an example
srd d,'eeuom from restraint and manners
OPy them.
it seems to me that It ia high time
we we elders paused n biz and took stock
VI ourselves. If the present and coming
and d'"''nh "a VI, Is not what 1t should be,
hr,. II luxury and lack of self denial
Gang Gang thiS country Of ours to ruin, the
md ~, 10 going TO date back to this year
'ne years before this, too.
do one believes in fun more than l
kind 'us ns sWhy can t we have the right
AS woIi NJ iul' which exercises our minds
In "t,l n,, as our bodies? Are we TO grow
ono u'terly witless because there is no
thou,h,Iolu lukes time to think? The
sAousnt!essncss a u1s of the times is to me
s,a more serious thing than ANYTHING