Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-10

~ ment! 1t came out yesterday
Martha McAllister and Sewell Borie
Martha is the daughter of the Ruther
ford McAllsterS and came out abou
four years ago. Sewell Borie is th'
second son of the Charles Louis Borie'
Of Rydal. His mother was Miss Heller
Sewell, a daughter Of the late Genera
Sewell, of Camden, and his father is thu
son of Mr.. Beauveau Borie and
grandson of the late Mr.. Charles Louis
Borie, whose home many years ago was
at 1902 Spruce street.
Louis Borie Sewell's eldest brothc,
married Mary Alice Clay, of this city
He has another brother, Henry =
Borie, named for his late great uncle
and there are one or two other brothers
No date has been named for the wed
ding, but people don't wait long thest
days, you know.
r HAVE been hearing quite gooC
L deal about Lord Ribblesdale since
Mrs. Astor's marriage to him was an
nounced, and it does seem astonishing
that the first news about the wedding
told us in Philadelphia very little about
him. In fact, one wonders what the
cables were thinking about when II
was reported with the first news that
little was known about him.
We in Philadelphia naturally are in
tcrestcd in Mrs. Astor, as she was Ava
Willing, the daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Willing, of this city,
and made her debut here and was
married in this city TO John jacob
Astor. She lived as a young girl at the
old Willing house on South Broad
street, opposite the house which was
owned by the late John G.. johnson, on
Broad below Lombard, and next to the
old Dundas house there.
When Miss Willing married Johr
Jacob Astor many person was said
to have shaken his or her head, for
rumor had it that she did not really
care for him that another man, q
Philadelphian who remained unmarried
till his death several years ago. would
have been her choice, but that hcl
mother urged the Astor match. There
was much gossip about it at the time
though the wags made up the awful
pun "John Astor and she was Willing.
Oh! Nancy, how could you ever repeat
such a fearful joke? Anyway, we all
know how it turned out. and that the
Astors were divorced some eight or ten
years ago, and that he was drowned on
the Titanic in 1912 returning from
Europe.
Rumor had it that Mrs. Astor was
much sought after in England. Be that
as it may, she did not marry during hel
former husbands lifetime.
To return to Lord Ribblesdale. My
dears, he was gentleman in waiting tc
the late Queen Victoria and master o.
the royal buckhounds. John Sargent
painted his portrait in his riding clothes
and from a copy l saw of it he is won
derful-looking man.. The highest type
Of aristocrat and with twinkley eyes
which show humor in their depths.
They tell a story of him. One time
in the House of Parliament, when 6
great question was being discussed, h,
was so absorbed apparently in thu
speeches that many eyes turned to hin
and number wondered what thoughts
were in the mind of this splendid speci
men of English manhood. Later it de
veloped he had had n wager with some
one as to how many members of Par.
lament were baldheaded, and he was
quietly counting them to himself while
the speeches were going on. He had tC
pay strict attention, as sometimes &
member would arrive late or one would
leave or move to another place. As
soon as I heard that. liked him;
almost loved him. You know | love
anybody to be simple.
1t appears the late King Edward
was very fond of Lord Ribblesdale anC
always called him "thc Ancestor be
cause he looked so like one. In fact
they say it was the king who suggested
that Sargent paint the portrait of Lore
Ribblesdalc and call it THE Ances.
tor" He's six foot three inches, minus
his shoes. Some size, that.
He is brother inelaw ~ former
Premier Asquith through his first mar
in the East. Captain the HOnorabl,
Thomas Lister, the elder, named for his
father, fell in the Somaliland expedi
tion in 1904, and Charles, the younger
an exceptionally bright young maD, was
killed at Gallipoli in the Great War.
From other bits of gossip / have heard
Queen Victoria always spoke of Lord
Ribblesdale as the most perfest lord
in waiting ever imposed on her by any
administration.
Osborne Park, where the former Ava
Willing will live henceforth, it being the
old country seat of the Listers, is q
wonderful place. The house is made OF
granite brought from the Yorkshire
Fells close by and the grounds arc at the
junction of the Ribble and Stock6ecl
rivers.
Lady Ribblcsdalc, as you know. is q
cousin of Charlie Willing and George
Willing, of this city. Mrs. b. Franklin
Pepper is another cousin. l do so hope
that this marriage in the middle span
of life will prove to be happy one fol
her.
NANCY wYNNE.