Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-01
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT!
Informal Meeting Of the Sunshine Len.
ten Union Society Of Helpers Com
mittee (known Familiarly IN Town
a. the s. L. u. 8. H. Committee)
By SARAH ID. LOWRlE
AN ELEC7iON OF OFFICERS

point and come to some dcriSoh ABOUT oui
mill girl scheme. llscads down y, the list, l,st:.,
get next to Mrs. Biddlc Cndwnlnder Bump:
Mrs. Bump told me she positively would
not belong TO this board If she hnd to sit
next to the Potts woman. Third. get
for the Disfwashers' League benefit. She
will do II. I'm sure, IL tell her she won't
hnve to go or buy tickets. Fourth. get
Mrs. Nubly Potts to buy a double amount.
Fifth, see Lillian Gardener about her
house for a musical for the slums' fund.
She may us. well do it. III suggest she
gives the refreshments. too. l know there
Is something elsc---rememher to ask the
janitor II his wife knows what she Is doing
to take that girl out Of that splcndid posi-
tion I got for her at Madam Duvals. She
could not expect to learn more than to rip
hastings in n year. ENTER Miss Lucrc-
tin Snirc.)
Miss Snipe. Always an early bird. ! sec.
Miss Pickle.
Miss Pickle. oh. Miss 1ucrctia. YOU are
the very person I came early to get. !
do want TO know your opinion.
Miss Snipc (uside). She may want TO know
it. but whether she acts upon IL is another
Miss PICKLE. Who shall we elect for rrcsi
Miss .Snipe. Why. ! thought the committee
had decided on Mrs. Cndwalndcr Bumit.
Miss Pickle. Well you sec she ~ so partir-
ular about who she works with. and who
she appoints chairmcn of committees that
I'm afraid she will make some Of the
women angry.
Miss Snpe. Nonsense. I've known Mary
Bump when she was just plain Alnry
Thomas and as for who's who and what's
whnt-well. when you're doing this work
TO stop to look in social register is all
wrong.
Miss Pickle. That's what think. But
then Mrs. Nubly Potts..
Miss Snipc lhorrihedly). Mercy preserve us
from her! 1t is one thing to snnb people
BECAUSE they are not in your particular
set. but to toady to them to get into
thers-wel. it is work for the city that
we are doing, not for Mrs. +. Nubly
Potts!
Miss Pickle. Then how about Mrs. William
Pen Holder Jones. Miss Ihicretia?
Miss Snipe. I've known Patty Jones before
that absurd daughter made her write
pen Holder before Jones. and like her.
She is a good woman. But she would
never do for the president of the =. l.. Y.
year it was eat and grow thin. This year
i is soul germs. Now, why not Mrs.
Drag?
Miss Pickle. Well. yes. Mrs. A. Drag is
the only ono left. but she is so absent.
minded and she has SO many children.
Miss Snipe. But my dear Miss Pickle.
she means we'll and she interests people
and if she forgets you can nudge her.
Miss Pickle. Here they all come. Will you
read the names on this card when the
nominations are asked for? (Plnces card
in her hnnd,: To save time l put them
down before came: President, vice pres
dent. etc. Agoes back to her seat).
list). Why. If she put them all down
before. did .hc ask me:
Enter Mrs. B. &. Bump. Mrs. w. p. II.
JOnes.)
All, n,i.,, NJ >S.- r,..- III, - A.,
the chair during the election Of officers?
know ] am little out Of order asking
YOU myself, but 1t Is to save time.
Mrs. Bump. Yes. will certainly. but who
is to be nominated?
Miss Pickle. Oh, ah-Aliss snipe is chair.
man OF the committee. you must ask her.
And. dear Mrs. Jones, will you be secre-
tnry until the new one is elected?
| Mrs. Jones. OF course I will, but Pen
! Holder says am a perfect fool at busi-
Mrs. Bump. Patty Pen Holder Jones, there
| is no business about this; it is only Il
| matter Of form and II you don't take It
that Potts woman will. (Enter Mrs
| Potts.
Mrs. Potts. Did hear my name. Howdy-
do 4 ionss Mis- Pickle Miss Lueretia is WE'LL
Mrs; Bump (aside'. She will be calling out
! Mary" next.
Mrs. Potts. I was afraid vas late, but
Alec Van Ripple kept me talking in the
| square about that absurd bal masque he
wants me to be patroness for and then
| Mrs Willie Talcott Joined us and your
daughter. Mrs. Pen Holder Jones, no alto
gether am late. guess. Well what has
the Sunshine Lcnten Union on hand for
today. (Seats herself next to Miss Snipe. }
Enter other members of the society,"
Miss Pickle Ito Mrs. Bump and Mrs. jones'
We must get Lillian Gardener interested
she is so rich and we need these young
Mrs. Bump Awfully faddy, hear. like he,
father and mother were.
Mrs. Jones. ] cannot get her to listen tc
| soul germists.
Mrs Bump. She Is on our committee I,
look into the condition OF factory girls
doubt If she has done much. She Il
away from home great deal That il
the way with them. no sense of respon
Miss Pickle. Yes. she has been on that com
mittee three months and never had
chance to give her report: there has beel
SO much else on hand I think 1t woul'
be we'll to make her treasurer center som
more members,. don't you, Mrs. Bump
And if you would just call for the repor
Of the chairman Of the Nominating Com
mttee we could begin:
Mrs. Bump (rising and rapping sharply
Ladies', will you please come to order
Miss Lucretia Snipe is the chairman q
the Nominating Committee, I believe
. Miss Snipe, will you make your report?
> Miss Snipe. I will read the names on til
card given me. OReads) President. Mr.
4. Drag; vice president, Mrs. Willial
b. Pen Holder Jones secretary. Miss Pickle
treasurer, Miss Lillian Vanderbilt Gar
@ dener.
Mrs. Bump. Ladies'. you have heard IL
, list Of officers for the Sunshine I.ente
Union Society of Helpers. All those
a favor Of
q Enter Mrs. Drag
Is Mrs. Drag (beginning to talk at once). Su,
IS n time MS I've had-every child down wi
n the smallpox (evcry one starts away
10 oh, I mean chicken pox--not contagiou
- the doctor says, though very infectious
y or. maybe. It. Is the other way And o.
OF the nurses has developed epileps
Is Yes. I assure you left her whoOping nj
;. battling about with the cook sitting on ht
es And
IA Mrs. Bump. We are having an electio
In Mrs. Drag. ] ain sorry to interrupt, b
- - I think we must proceed. All those