The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-16

ments there in the morning. during the
concert hour. made a very pretty
scene on several bright, sunny days
this week. Among the hostesses were
Mrs, A. W. Biddle. Mrs. w. T., Strong
Mrs. W. p. Sargent, Mrs. L. L Carpen,
ter. Mrs. Charles II. Ditson. Mrs. George
r. BENJAMIN, Mrs. Josiah Copley Thaw,
Mrs. c. L. VanTleck. Mrs George
Swift, Jr.. Mrs. William +. Sheehan.
Mrs. Frederic Stcrry. Mrs. Bennett oil.
yer, Mrs. T. j. Milton and Mrs Jackson
Kemper.
Kenneth and Evander Schley, Tiffany
Richardson and Edmund Rogers ar
rived last Saturday and are occupying
one OF the Homestead cottages. The
four gave dinner party to a number
| of friends In the Japanese room Tues
day night and have been numbered
each day among the horseback riders
and golfers.
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. cady we're din
ncr hosts the other evening In the
japanese room for company which
included Mr.. and Mrs. a. j. Partridge
Mr.. and Mrs. G. b. Lamb, Mr. and Mrs
| w d. Sargent, MIR. and Mrs Park NJ
Wooley. Mrs. G. c. Barrows and John
Pillsbury. MIR. and Mrs Partridge. on
another evening. gave late supper
| party In tho grill following a bridge
| which had entertained the same com.
|
| rooms. In fact. this is a coterie that
has been feted nearly every night for
the past ten days
| MIR. and Mrs. Edwin II. weathcrbee
4 and Miss May Weatherbce, who have
been travelling through the South since
the middle of the winter, Terminated
| a ten days visit here on Thursday and
made the day trip to Washington.
where they Will DO for some little time
before going on to New York. They
sail for Europe In six weeks. and will
be away until late In the autumn. It
Among the dinner parties In the Jap
| anese room tho end of tha week was
one at which Mr.. and Airs. c. T. Van
| Week entertained Mr.. and Mrs. sidney
Walker. Mr.. and Mrs William Good
man, Mrs. g. l. Higgins, Miss lsdwina
Thornburgh, Miss Emily Ehret, Harry
S. Ehret and Stuart Stickney
Mr.. and Mrs. Melville e. ingalls, have
closed their villa here and gone to Gin
! cinnati. They Will sail for Europe on
Tuesday next. but will be back in July
and spend the balance of the season
hero.
Mr.. and Mrs Eben Jordan. of Boston.
arrived Wednesday TO remain hore for
a month. Miss Ruth Harrison, of Gin
cinnati. came the same day, opening
for the season her villa. generally
| known as the Presidents cottage as
It was the one Air. Taft occupied when
last here. Mrs. David Dunlop, who has
been visiting III New York for several
weeks. is expected back Wednesday
with her daughters. the Misses Mcrcer
and Lemoine Dunlop. They are return
ing TO Barton Lodge. which they have
| been OCCUPYING all winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. a Vandergrfft. of
Washington. entertained Saturday
night AT an old-faahloned Virginia
country dinner at the Daniel Boone
Log Cabin. The cabin presented a cosy
Interior. lighted mostly by huge open
fire OF cordwood Tho dinner guests
i Nandcrgrift and Edward Cady Newton
Perry and George a. CARAT
Mrs. Frederic Sterry arrived sew
eral days ago and opened her villa.
! The Pillars. for the Easter season. She
Is accompanied by Miss Constance
Robertson and Mrs. Sterry's daughters,
the Misses Prudence and Virginia
sterry Mr.. sterry came down Thurs-
day morning to remain over Sunday.
The daily calvacade of horseback
riders has been increasing In size each
morning. and lately there have often
! been 200 horses out at time. Angler
= Duke gave riding party. taking a
company of his friends through tho
Cascades the other morning Miss
Dorothy Williams has been riding with
Miss Chappell and Mr.. and Mrs. w. II.
Chappcil, and Miss Helen Voorhees, with
MISC ". " Putnam and Miss Carolyn
Putnam Other Of the daily riders have
included Mr.. and Mrs. George a. Ellis
Mr. and Mrs. II. *. Knapp. Miss Annie
Wheeler, Miss Jane Murphy. Miss
Helen Murphy. Mrs. II G. Kellogg and
y " Kellogg. Mrs j. IIir whitney
and Miss Whitney, Mr. and Mrs. W r.
Egncr. Miss Louise Dickinson. Miss
Constance Robertson. Miss Rose Dick
inscn and Miss Prudence Sterry