Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-04
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Announces the Birth Of Little Son DR.. and
Mrs. Thomas Royster-She Chats About Other Bits Of
Ne,us-Ho,v We Soldiers Loue One Another

(XERE you not delighted to hear that
wv Helen Borda Royster has a little son?
Word came this week that'the young gen.
Itleman had arrived on the 2sd Of Decem-
[ber. Doctor Royster is a surgeon in the
navy and was unable TO obtain long enough
fIeave to come for Helen last January, so
[she went to the Virgin Islands, where he
A was stationed, and they were married at
fSt Croix on January 10. Helen stopped
<At st. Thomas on her way and was Joined
by Mrs f. G. Hakenson. who acted as her
natron of honor I remember the we'd
Hing was scheduled for January is, but the
|lboat was delayed and the event actually
BOX place on January 10. How the time
Noes fly! 1t does not seem anything like
"a year since we said good-by to her. And
here it is January again.
Helen is the dearest girl and will mako
fthe sweetest kind Of a mother. Tom
Royster is a southerner He Is cousin
\ of the Doctor Royster who married Birdie
Page. a daughter of Judge Page, Of Vir.
ginia. and relative Of Mr. s. Davis Page.
Of this city. He Is the son Of Mrs. s. A.
Royster and his home Is In Townsville.
IN C. He studied medicine up here and
WAS at one time stationed at the Arlington
Hospital. think It was there that Helen
<fmet him.
~ I hope when the mastering out is over
Rthey will come up here again. Helen is
lone of the bestowed girls in the set of her
Y Age She came out the same year as
sErances Mears, Frances Sullivan, Marian
e fEharpless Butler and a number Of others
,tshe is a sister of Andrew, George and
4 Charles A. Borda. Jr, and of Mrs Harold
Cross, Katherine, Eugenia and Edith Borda.
IN HEAR that Mrs. Tony Geyelin has gone
- down to Newport News, and what do
YOU think is the reason for her trip there?
|siNone other than to meet Major Geyelin,
y who is returning from France. Tony Geyelin
\ has been with General Atterbury and his
Engineers, doing great work over there.
and is expected home today or tomorrow.
u 5ust think of being able to say that any
one special person Is coming home and
4. oven where he is to land! Not three
a months ago we would not have known a
< hing about 1t until he was here, and then
& ne would have talked in undertones about
Il, war still being a present thing. But
4 now there is no further need for silence
I and we can rejoice with Mrs. Geyelin on
! The return Of her husband. You know Mrs.
NGeyelin? She's very pretty. extremely fair
&and statuesque. She's the daughter OF
|f3dr. and Mrs. Stanley G. Flagg. Jr.. and
$.has been spending the winter with the
Fraggs at their Villanova house and in
l(town at 1928 Spruce street.
NOES II seem possible to you that Anne
Townsend is old enough to be going to
rrs Wurts's dancing class? Weii' she
and what is more, the Brownings are
a dinner for her before the class on
fonday night. Anne is very pretty, ana
I'm be prettier still as she grows older.
Vill YOU ever forget what lovely look
hg-indeed, really beautiful-woman her
mother was? She was Daisy Godfrey. you
Remember She died about two years ago
pneumonia. 1t was such sad time;
er husband was very i'll of the same dis
kase and her mother. Mrs. Lincoln Godfrey,
was away. She was so full Of life and
eauty it did not seem possible that she
pould die, but death is not to be reckoned
nth in that way. And little Anne and her
kather were left sorrowing.
only slightly wounded, lriVate
@D M was able to take great deal OF
Notice of the other patients at the big base
Z hospital in which he was confined. There
We're a number Of foreigners in the mad
Mouse" but a few Americans. The man
" next to him was an American soldier from
f{hese parts, incidentally, whom he de-
(! scribed in this picturesque way: HE does
Il nothing but complain about his imaginary
q AILMENTS and talk about his money, his
sautomobiles. the many pages devoted by
T4he Social Register to his family and the
position he will hold when he gets back to
america. He asks me to buy things FOR
lin when SO to town, ana tnen he never
hays me. He eats all the fruit buy for
nysel. He never thanks anybody for
inything He acts the brute to the nurses.
I've named this bird Harris, because he
harasses me so. Oh, this war!"
NANCY WYNNE.