The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-23

The gray days and the rain areS
things Of the past. Sunshine and soft
airs are belated characteristics of June
that have made summer seem real in
stead of summer In name only.
In old plantation parlance this is
Zine growing weather. and one can
Imagine how country gardens are
masses of bloom and how corn and
wheat have begun to billoW and to
wave green banners, at the call of the
sun and it's quickening power for
growth and beauty.
The annual migration of the different
classes of society, much slower this
Sear than usual has begun. Colonel
Alexander Cameron and his family are
established at Cameron Lodge in the
beautiful Piedmont region, near Cor
donsville, Orange county. Mr.. and Mrs.
John L. Anderson are summer neigh
bors to Colonel and Mrs. Cameron, for
they are at Frescati, famous and his
toric Orange county mansion, with it's
lovely lawn sloping down to the turn
pike. Mr.. and Mrs Frederick w. Scott
will be at Royal Orchard. near Alton,
for the summer and Mr.. and Mrs. Bev-
erly Il. Munford and family have also
taken country place in this most pic
turesque of Virginia neighborhoods.
a.
ter part OF June In Boston visiting
friends there. She will be missed from
the pleasant circle Mt the Chesterfield,
where she has had her residence during
the winter and spring. Miss Emma
Moorehead Whitefeld, Miss Efie Aylett
Eofer, Miss Mary Johnston and her two
sisters and Miss Mary Moore are
among the Richmond people who have
gone abroad for the summer.
Mrs. Robert G. Scott, accompanied by
Mr.. Madison Scott and Mrs. Kitty Me-
Gilvra Scott and little daughter, viii
spend the summer at Elkton, Va, in
stead of going to the Maine coast as
usual
Among the notable country houses
thrown open for the summer in upper
Virginia are Powhatan. in Clarke coun-
ty, where Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Mayo
have always large house party: the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph L. VIII
lard and the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Westmoreland Davis. Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Fairfax have delightful home
in this section of Virginia, where MIR.
and Mrs. David Tenant also live.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bruce and little
daughter, recently returned from Eu-
rope, are at Staunton Hill, one of the
stately Southside Virginia mansions,
that, with its encompassing lands,
stands as a survival of plantation life
at its best and highest. Stanton Hill
has taken on its distinctive character
from having been in possession of the
Bruce family for generations, Mr.
Charles Al. Bruce now being its host
The Executive Mansion has been
closed virtually since June 5th for Mrs.
SWansons continuous duties as hostess
OF the Virginia Building during this
month have kept her at the James
town Exposition. To say that she has
far more than fulfilled pubic expec-.
tation of what the Virginia people ex-
pected and demanded of her, in the
dispensing of State hospitality, would
be but doing scant justice, for Mrs.
Swanson's praise Is on the lips of all
visitors to the Jamestown Exposition
who cannot say enough of her admira-
BILE courtesy and cordiality, and the
perfect way in which the Virginia
Building has been furnished and ar
ranged by her
Mrs. William r. Beale and the AS
sistant hostesses have. according to the
popular verdict, been Mrs. Swanson,s
Invaluable aids, and have done much to
endoW the Statehouse Ilrawing-rooms
with an atmosphere that has the true
flavor Of the finest old-time Virginia
hospitality, the sort that must always
r-be the most perfect, because the sim
piest and the most unaffected
At Womun's Club.
The gathering at Woman's Club to-
morrow afternoon will be at $40 r. NJ,
when the following ladies will act as
hostesses: Mrs. c. w. p. Brock, Mrs.
John G. Freeman, Mrs. Lewis H. Blair,
e Miss Mary c. Hatcher Mrs Seddop