Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-28
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPL 2
Nancy lynne Hears That DR.. and Mrs. Royster viii
Return Here to Liue-She Sees attractive Frock,.
The Tale Of the Leg of Lamb

TT CERTAINLY was a delightful
i week. end. And 40 many people went
% Tho shore one wondered how the
.roins and hotels could accommodate
tbem. but they did. and this morning
avery one who had to come back to
town had beautiful coat Of tan on his
or her manly or tininanly countenance
as the case was. -,
" I heard a delightful piece Of news
Yesterday: that Helen. Borda Hoyster
and her husband and baby are. coming
hack TO the States to live. In fact,
tbey expect to be near Philadelphia.
and won't that be fine? Mrs. Roystcr's
friends are very many, and will be so
slad to welcome her back.
Won remember she married Tom Roy
ster during the war. when he was un-
ohle TO come home for her. So she
brayely sailed away to the Virgin
, Islands by herself, and was married to
him there. They have been stationed
at st. Croix for nearly two years,
though they have been home for one
Mrs. Royster is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles A. Borda. of Jenkin-
town. and A sister of Mrs. Harold Cross
and Of Edith and Eugenia Borda. There
aro also number of brothers in the
fomiiy. You remember Helen took up
nursing in the Arlington Hospital
shortly before our entry into the war.
Pnt sbe was rather delicate In those
days. and was obliged to give up her
studies before graduating.
c,pEAKING of Jenkintown reminds
y me of Rita Sturgis, who was mar.
ried there two weeks ago. / hear that
she and her husband, who is Nigel
Cholmeley Jones, are visiting the Oil.
ders In Lenox, Mass. for part OF
their wedding trip. Dick Glider was one
member. Mrs. Sturgis, who spends the
sprinr and fall at Laburnums. the old
Sbarpless place in Chelten Hills, Is
eoing this week to Maine, where she
will be the guest Of her aunt, Miss Van
Buren, at her summer home at Small
Point, during July.
r SAW Mrs. Henry Rittenhouse on
i Chestnut street one day last week.
She was looking awfully well. l have
always thought her such an attractive
and extremely capable woman. She
was looking very pretty in dark blue
crepe de chine dress trimmed with pip
ings Of cream, or rather pale tan pom
gee. A strip Of the tan went down the
middle of the back Of the frock, which
was a one piece affair held in. at the
waist with a narrow belt or blue.
fat uuillings Of blue ribbon. Mrs. Rit-
tenhouse s little daughter, who was
with her, wore Mary Ellen dress OF
tan and white, and q mushroom hat OF
brown straw.
ONE day last week Mother was
~ moving out to the country and was
very pressed for time. The trunks had
not come yet and the maids had not ar
rived. and it was getting toward 4
o'clock. SO taking Elsie, aged eight. to
the window. she pointed out the meat
shop. which could be seen short dis
tance away in the village. and tol d her
to go with her little sister, buy a shoul-
der Of lamb and bring 1t back with her.
Very important, the two little girls
started forth. but halfway to- the shop
Elsie suddenly asked Ethel. What did
WHY. no. said Ethel. ~ think she
said a leg of shoulder. :" "What shall
we do?" asked Elsie. And slowly they
continued on their way. arguing and
arguing. Finally they decided thusly:
~" said Elsie. Twill 20 In and say:
PleaSe let me nave ShOulder OF leg,
and you speak up quickly and say, oh,
wa Wanted % "S and t shen % '% we be Sr .Sre T t" be-
right" So they practiced and prac-
ticed, and when they got to the store
they walked fearfully in.
Up spoke Elsie to the attentive
butcher. II want-er--a shoulder of
leg" said she. "Oh. no, Elsie" piped
up Ethel, 'it was leg of shoulder
mother wanted" The butcher looked
from one small girl to the other, and
then he smiled and took shoulder of
lamb from the icebox and said, ''This
is what you want"
And it was some days afterward that
they confded to mother what they had
planned to do. so the butcher would not
think they did not know what they
were asking for.
NANCY wYNNE.