Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-09

w earnest Yesterday. with the open
~, of tbe tennis at Mannheim. And by
lhs s,oiock the great stands on either side
o., ~ ,bc end of the courts were well
sma,, sMa There is never SO great crowd
nn'.b .bo first day, for the very good
ss Oh s are seldom played off in the be-
Xn,no However, the big players were
s smona those working, 1'ilden paying
Lisck Thayer, and Anderson playing
gyd Thayer. Jr. .. ,..
0'Norris williams was another early
.,.,or and Davis and Johnston and u
pmber of others were all Dn the
mrts n. one time or another during the
S%u' Sr And thank goodness 1t was not hot
guy Tho rrandstand. The air was just
.hout on right for comfort and the club
% house and grounds were beautiful as
they always are.
nHROUGH an error OF printing, l
.unnose had Eleanor Rooms dance
s..s down Yesterday as SeDtember 30.
:. "a" 10 not it's September 20, and it's
.o,np 70 be given Mt the Merton Cricket
sybs sEmb In fact, it cannot be called a
iance ot nil. as more than five hundred
tnritotions have been issued, and you
Lnnw more than five hundred consti-
VT The bali Is being given by Eleanor's
,.ronts Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick s.
Enons, Of Ardmore. and understand
ths dancing will start at 0 and continue
nrt;l 2. II will be the first ball OF the
snoson, and is one of the earliest ever
sIrsn Tor debutantes. It's bound to be
Sary nretty affair, for the Merton ball
veny, seoy lends itself SO well to decoration
I'D the supper room and inclosed
nnrches n are such attractive places for
the "eats.'
WHILE on the subject of debutante
w affairs, I hear the Sam Boyles have
Aecided not to give n tea for Mar
Snerite after all, and her official coming
emt viii be Mt the dance which her
Wncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
W Jeffords, will give on December Is
NJ the Ritz Carlton. There are just, 50
many parties and things going on that
few teas will be given this year 1t
seems. They are very trying Affairs al
ways, I think. 1t really is herce 10
stand all afternoon just shaking hands
and shaking hands for all you are worth.
Your face gets in n set smile, and your
arm is Just about finished before the
afternoon Is over.
Back in the dark ages when l was
deb, YOU simply had to have tea or
you were not out, and the girls who
Slipped out never received as many IN.
yitatinns as those who had teas. But
ch the fatigue Of that time! I'll never
forget it. In the last few years the
custom is growing less and less and It
would not surprise me If In five years
time there would be an end OF the IN
troductory tea.
On the other hand, unless debu-
tantes parents give large ball TO
which the older generation is invited.
she never meets any one but those or
her own age. SO it's all problem, Is it
not?
T HOPE we'll have clear Saturday
/ today (there have been so many on
which the rain has fallen, If they have
not been actually all-day rainy days.
for one Of the very sweetest of our
little brides is to be married today out
in the little Episcopal church in Jen-
kintOwn. Helen Sewcll. daughter OF MIR.
md Mrs. Robert Sewell, is TO become
the bride of Henry Brinton Coke. Jr.,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Brinton
Coke.
And it's going to be beautiful we'd
ding, of that there's no doubt, for not
only will the bride be pretty, but she
has chosen so many fascinating brides
maids and their frocks are to be the
sweetest, Frenchiest things I have heard
about for some time. But I won't tell
you about them till after the wedding.
as it's so apt to spoil the effect If you
know what to expect. One thing will
tell you and that is Helen is going to
have her mothers mothers veil OF
Venetian lace draped on over her tulle
veil and it Is most exquisite bit OF
lace. But that's all I'll tell you about
it,
told you the other day that Henry
Coke is graduate Of Harvard, and l
had heard that he was in business, but
that is a mistake. He has not gone
into business, but is student at Penn's
law school and goes into his third year
OF law next month.
The wedding is to be followed by a
breakfast at the Sewell place in Rydal.
Both Babs and Betty Sewell are to be
maids of honor and you know how sweet
and pretty they are. And know Mrs.
bewell will be stunning. She looks as II
she were the girls sister and not their
mother. don't think have ever seen
such young looking mother in law as
Henry Coke will have.
zach day brings more of the buds
~ home from the various summer re-
sorts, Libby Wear, who is the
daughter of the Joseph Wears, Of Chest
nut Hill. and whose mother was Miss
Aael!ne Potter, came home yesterday
with other members of her family after
a summer spent up in Kennebunkport,
Me. Libby Is to be introduced later
IN the season. Ellen Harrison, who
mas been up in York Harbor with her
mother and Augusta, is coming home
next week. No dates have been set
tied on for her parties as yet. l judge
they will be given later in the fall
aiter they have moved into town. They
I'VE on Eighteenth street, opposite Rit-
tenhouse Square.
HOW do harp on longer skirts But
n n then when you have friends In
raris and they write you that they
are gre, getting longer and longer, you do
aeel as If YOU ought to pass the
news along. In fact one person wrote
recently and said: "You cannot have
!1ur skirts too long over here. 1t would
utmost be quite all right to forget TO
wear stockings; no one would know it,"
somehow 1t bothers Nancy a bit,
because. while she admires and ap-
proves the longer, more dignified skirt,
sne SI really does not like those that sweep
along IN the dust and have to have
.apes on the edges to keep the hem from
cutting tu through. And furthermore, she
n mas again and again announced she did
.Ue ,h oeliHye the women would stand for
ano on, tTaillng skirt. 1t Is not sanitary
ahu the% have had so much ease in the