Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Hints of Two Engagements to Be
Announced Soon-She Hears Several Debuts Haze
Been Postponed Until Next Season

r,WO Of our best dancing men, I'd be
i willing to wager, are about to for
.ote the single life and engage them.
selves TO very attractive girls. No. they
Nave not told me yet, but that docs not
n.le me my the less s,ire. When YOU
sse a certain gentlcman's 8 car In front Of
. certoin lndy's house every evening of
tte week, and in the day time. too !;
snd whe, she moves out Of town for the
summer nnl you see said car sitting in
,he road in frcnt of the summer home
a, we'll, yon don't imagine the youn.
man has regular job as stenographer
tbere. for instance. or of landscape
.ordener or something like that. You
Inst know they're engaged. And when
they are good and ready they'll an
nounce It. .
reors, at least. that the lady in qucs-
lion has spent in this part of the cour.
trr Usually it's been Westward. no |!
pnt this year she and her family are
home, or. rather, near home. and the
eager swain Is around home. too.
The other dancing man is very musi-
cal, And why not, may I ask? Music
oentle girl, whose name is not girlsh.
mo. I think r,imor is about right.
They will both be nice engagements,
TINT will please everybody. because the
Girls are wonders and the men exceed
irply well liked. Now what more could
YOU ask, on hot August day!
AS USUAL, after hearing Of many
"A girls who will come out next year,
we begin now to hear of those who have
changed their minds and will wait a
year. For instance, Dorothy Hodge is
not coming out until the year after this.
You know the Hodges. Dorothy and
NIuriel. are in Europe with their father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll
Hodge, and they have decided to stav
there until December, when they will
come back to this country and Muriel
will finish her studies in New York.
Dorothy will keep up her music through
the year and wait for things social till
Muriel is ready, too. Both the Hodge
girls are talented musically. One plays
The fiddle and the other the harp. l
think. They were among the first mcm-
bers of the Junior Music Club. which
started on the Main Line some four or
FIVE years ago.
TIIE circus at Narragansett Pier on
i Saturday night must have been quite
a wild affair, and much fun. 1t wns
one Of the ways of entertaining the polo
players who are at the Pier. and was
Sctten up by twenty men who arc
spending the summer there, most Of
them being l'hiladelphians. The circus
was held at the Scarborough Beach
Bathing Club, where a huge circus tent
was raised about ring. in which vari-
Gus amateurs and professionals did oil
sorts of unique and amusing stunts.
The audience was dressed in circus Co.'S
tune also. There were clowns. ring
leaders. bareback riders. chariotccrs
and many queer animals. Altogether.
It was great fun. am told: in a letter
received yesterday. The Philadelphia
men on the committee were the Philip
Randolphs, Senior and Junior; Jack
Fell John Converse, Ned Welsh. Frank
Samuel, Caryl Roberts. Glen Vain.
wright. Billie Wright and John LOwber
Welsh The John Lowber Welshcs gave
dinner before the circus, and so did
Mrs. Alexander Brown.
no GO back to girls who are changing
4 their minds about coming out tor
having their minds changed for them by
their parents. which amounts to the
same thng), Florence Michel will not
make her debut this season. Helen made
hers last year. you remember. and had
very good time. She is most Won
derfully popular with all the young
people. The two girls went abroad with
their father and mother in July. and,
understand, Florence is to devote next
year to music and the year after to
going out Florence is ms fair us Helen,
and very pretty, too. They live out on
Chestnut street in one of those hand
some houses beyond Thirty ninth street.
ITllEL had been very naughty and
~ Mother was obliged to give her n
severe scolding. She stood listening to
Mother and finally agreed that she was
sorry. and was therefore dismissed to
join her nurse in the garden. BE 1t
known that Ethel is four years old and
believes in expressing herself clearly
where she feels it safe 20 do so. So
when she reached her well-tricd nurse s
nde she said, in very bored tone :
"Oh, she makes mo sick.'
NANCY WYNNE.