Evening star., 1916-04-30
Hot Springs, Va.

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/ HOT SPRINGS Va April 29.-One
of the largest Easter throngs that ever
spent the holiday at the Hot Springs
has been here for the last week The
Homestead Hotel has been filled and
many visitors have been compelled to
/ take quarters in houses in the village.
( Several summer residents opened their
, cottages and entertained house parties
/ and the Princeton and Yale students
, who came for the Easter holidays owned
! the resort temporarily. almost every en-
tertainment given while they were here
being in their honor.
The concert by the Princeton Glee Club
was the feature of the Easter vacation
This was followed by a dance at which
the men far outnumbered the young
women in the Homestead. Easter morn
ing the men of the glee club attended
the First Presbyterian Church in a
body, and in the afternoon gave a sa-
cred concert in the lobby of the Home
stead, which was abloom with Easter
lilies, roses and azaleas. Leaving here
In private car. they went to Atlantic
City. and will not return to college
before the first of May
Mr.. and, Mrs. J. Ross Proctor of New
York gave large dinner for the Prince
ton men al Fassefern farm. and Mrs A.
Kelly Evans gave a luncheon there for
the college chums of her sons, Joseph
and Conky Whitehead.
Mrs. Frederick Sterry entertained a
house party at the Pillars for Miss Pru-
dence Sterry, having with her Misses
Caryl Hackstaff and Marie Thayer and
Alexander Carver, Fell w. Foster jr:
George Watson Hall Smith and Alden
kimbal, all Princeton students
Mr.. and Mrs. Mathew Love Akers of
Louisville. who occupied their cottage,
plands. through the winter and spring
nave announced the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Jane Gutherine Akers. to
Pendleton Colston Beckley of Louisville
The wedding is to occur at Uplands
early in June.
Mrs. Seth Barton French left here
early In the week to attend the we'd
dlns or Miss Irene Langhorne Gibson.
GOV X. Livingston Beekman of Rhode
Island and Mrs. Beekman arrived here
In private car this week to stay
through May.
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and
Miss Grace Vanderbilt were among the
arrivals for Easter They will stay
INTO the middle of next month
Mrs J: H. Mccullough. who went I'D
10 New York with her brother, W. Earle
Dodge. early in the week, returned today,
ana with Mr.. Mccullough Will stay
through May
Mr.. and Mrs. Rawson l.. Wood of
New York gave their annual Easter
party this week for their small son,
or more children to the chicken farm
TO see the chickens hatched in the in
cubators- At last years party each
child brought home a tiny yellow
chick as a souvenir. but as bathrooms
were turned into chicken houses and
other complications ensued. chicks
were not distributed this year The
children included the small sons and
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs T. Morris
Carnegie. Mr.. and Mrs. l.. J. Knowles
Mr.. and Mrs. William =. Palmer, Mr.
and Mrs. George a. Ellis, jr, and Mrs
I. NJ. Sheylin.
Among the Easter dinner parties
given at the Homestead this week was
one in the Japanese room, at which
Mr.. and Mrs John b. Cady entertained
for twenty friends The table decora-
tions were Easter lilies and pink gladi-
the guests included Mr.. and Mrs. Ber-
tram &. Work. Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Fish. Mr.. and Mrs. g. F. Swift, jr.: Mr..
and Mrs. J. X. Secor. Thomas G.. Glass,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Carter. Mr. and Mrs.
Sinclair Berdan. Mr. and Mrs. w. S.
Hackney and Mr.. and Mrs F. G.
Mather.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. J. Henderson of New
York gave dinner. at which the
favors were chickens, bunnies and
Easter eggs. and Miss Julia Carson of
Pittsburgh gave dinner for Mrs Fred
Sterry and the party of young people
she is entertaining at the Pillars.
Fred G. Infnan, who spent Easter
here, left for New York this week. and
was one Of the ushers at the wedding
today of Miss Lillian Hyde and QUEEN
tin F'eitner at Bay Shore. Long Island.
as the guest Of Mrs. Charles kohler of
New York. returned to Washington
this week to finish painting the por-
trait of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.