The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-17
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Hot Springs, Va, December 16.-No.
body could be found in Hot Springs
this week who could remember such
warm weather In December. Day at
registered eishty-oight degrees. Golf.
ers have played without coats or
sweaters, and doors aud windows all
about the Homestead Hotel have been
open to tho halniy breeZeS,
Dir. and Mrs. Melville e. Ingalls. Jr.,
of New York, are among those who
have taken long outdoor tramps, their
last adventure being an expedition
tain to Healing Springs. where they
were met Nby a driver and trap, and
taken back to the Homestead.
Charles Hinckle. of Cincinnati. who
siderable entertaining this weei, be-
fore his departure for New York. He
entertained at dinner one night for
5r; Robert s 4; , Black and Mr.. and Mrs.
on the return trip from New York.
where they exhibited in the horse
show.
F. w. Hanewinkle, OF Richmond,
to take advantage of an unusually
clear atmosphere for some pictures he
wanted Tho peak is 4,245 feet high,
more than O thousand feet above Flag
Rock, which many people who come
here climb for the view
Mrs Rodman Wanamaker, hatless
and coatless drove the twenty miles to
Of tbe Week n pnn bo aGK t ahg i WtS
her Miss Georgia Hull. While pass
ing through Warm Springs they had
look at the famous trick COW Spotted
Mary. notorious in the neighhorhood
gates nor doors succeed in barring
the entrance of Spotted Mary to pre-
cincts she desires to explore. She
mounts steep steps to terraces or
piaEzas; frequently enters tho post
Office, and with sphinxlike look dis
appears through the door opposite to
that through which she came. She
knows where choice cabbages and let
tuce heads grow in neighboring gar
dens, and visitors at tho old Ander-
son home stead'have frequently waken-
the stems of the veranaa and traverse
1T till she reached those leading into
the garden, down which she would
slide her great body. and wander oft
! bered TIT bits.
Spotted Mary e well known by all
visitors who como to the Springs. and
Miss Mary Johnston. the novelist, who
Is building a summer home here. has
threatened to perpetuate her ia me in
one of her books.
Mrs. Rodman Wanamaker, with Mrs.
John Wanna maker, who has been TAX
Fling the "kur" for several weeks re-
turned to Philadelphia last night At
ter ,aNcourse of the treatment here she
finds herself able this year to spend
/ Christmas at home, much to the dis
appointment of tho colored children
of the neighborhood, TO whom last
winter she gave a Christmas tree. with
all the accompanying goodies. when
she spent the holidays here. During
| her stay at the Homestead, Mrs. Wan
ameker has been supplied with guam
titles of roses, orchids and other flow
ers from her own greenhouses. and has
! distributed them generously among
her acquaintances here.
Miss Georgia Hull returned with
! the Wanamakers, having fully re-
covered from the accident to her foot
| received last week, which compelled
her to spend a number of days in a
| wheel chair.
w. D. Blabon. who, with Mrs. Blabon.
has been here since the LIST OF No
| vember, was critically Ill early in the
week with an attack of acute indl-
gestion. and only recovered sufficient
lly a few days ago to be taken by
his physician, DR.. Guy F. Hinsdalc.
to his country place in Bryn NIawr.
opposite that of Mrs. George w.
| Childs
| Miss Jean Hinsdale, who, with DR..
. and Mrs. Hnsdale, is occupying the
Presidents bungalow this winter. left
this week for Philadelphia. to attend
1.-the coming out of Miss Weatherly,
I. daughter of Mrs. F. Muproe Smith. She
twill also make round of visits in
New \ ork and Boston. HE.