Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-07

\ yIST n COSSZ ~ J our PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Hears Of Miss Ferguson's Ilness-She
Speaks OF the Debutantes Magazine Just Published in
Ne,v York-Junior Leaguers Hard Workers Here

+, SAW Kitty Porter in town the other
a.v. She was wearing dull blue
Xs"j anti and an awfully attractive
W. felt hat, trimmed In most un..
sr., way, Instead Of having quill
us"a few feathers on one side, there
%ss a whole bird-it looked like a
rsrrokeet-perched on the brim It was
d psd and green and blue and very pretty.
Cray stockings and gray and black slip.
osrs completed the costume.
Kitty IS a. great friend OF pesgy. Fer
s,son q, and did you hear that Peggy
Rss scarlet fever? Luckily, 1t is only
= iisht case, but the name scarlet fever
s,wsys is alarming and It is hard luck
g.. peggy to get sick when she Is doing
A. well at art school. She Is taking
illustration, and goes to all sorts OF
risces sketching! even to the wharves.
khe has done some very good things,
Soo. Have you ever seen any Of them !?
sunpose she must have caught the
fever on one of her trips.
AM awfully interestet,to hear about
i the magazine the Younger Set.
which the debutantes and members Of
ne % Junior League Of New York
have decided to publish. Not only
Nave Nave they decided to publish II,
S"t The first number is out. It's
very good, I think, and they have
= Killing contribution. Extracts from
the Authentic Diary oka Little Girl In
ia New York." which IL quite re.
markablc. In fact, 1t bids fair to rival
Daisy Ashforth's "Young Visitor
The magazines proceeds are to be
devoted to the Big Sisters: l under
stand It is hoped to make It sell
supporting. They are going to have a
,nnsic nMpg art and theatrical department
and though the staff Is amateur, they
viii have Gloria Thomas, who Is
charles Augustus Thomas daughter,
for the play critic, and several other
persons whose knowledge Is not that
~ the amateur, generally speaking.
! There Is a full social calendar In the
book. and the former social calendar
will not be sent out any more. Though
II is not a Junior League organ. there
will be n department devoted to the
Leagues activities.
T HAVE heard number OF persons
i criticizing our Junior League. They
say "New York's league Is wonderful
/ It's always doing something. The league
That's not true at all, you know,
. simply because our girls do not dress
themselves up as, "lamp shades and
{ ''tops" and other weird things, and
! do not give somo great big annual en-.
fcrtainnlent Is no proof that We are not
active here. The Junior League was
started primarily to interest girls OF
the younger set In good works. Every
girl who joins the league. IS supposed
10 do social service work of one kind or
another, and let me tell you our Junior
1.eaguers are as busy as they can DC
doing good work. ,,
met one member recently. who told
me with enthusiasm that they were
roinr 70 punt one Of the rooms in Il
nurses home attached to one OF the hos
, pitals with their own hands. Another
was driving visiting nurses to distant
cases in her own car severa! times u
week. Lots of the girls are Girl scout
captains, and a great many work Tor
the Seamen's Institute. It's, very
active organization, but 1t does not
advertise itself very much here.
THE children have been taught to be
i polite and when introduced to others
to speak nicely to any lady or gentleman
who happens IL for tea and wishes to
talk to them. The other day Tommy
and Polly. who is only three and very
shy. were in the drawing room with
mother, when Mrs. c. came In.
Mother called Tommy to speak to the
lady. and he bowed very prettily and
said Glow do you do. Mrs. c."
Then it was Polly's tYn. and mother
TO Mrs, c." Polly flushed, and
then came slowly over to.mothpr's side.
Mother took her hand and said: polly.
this is mothers friend. Mrs, c.
And Polly sulpcd and said, "Is it?'
NANCY WYNNE.