Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-29
GUESTS At GREENBR|ER
KNITTING OWN CLOTHES
Clink Of Needles Heard Everywhere
rs Gossip Yields to Real
Yarns.
NOTED CORRESPONDENT THERE
William II. Marshall, Washington
Representative Of London Times.
Is Guest OF Dinner Given by Lady
Wllllams.Taylor.
Especial to Tho Times Dispatch. J

Especial to Tho GlmcS- DlSpdtCh'J
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. w VA.
April 2s.-Judgins from the way in
which women and girls. and even Kid
dies OF eight and ten. arc knitting
t.icir own sweaters at White Sulphur
Springs in the Grccnbrier colony. man
ufacturcrs may have to make siren
nous efforts to compete with nome
manufacture One woman at tho
Greenbrtcr boasts that she is on her
sixteenth; another has made four since
her arrival here three weeks ago. ana
on all Sides ono hears the click OF
knitting needles. and the CONVERSE
tion is nine-tenths Of lingering yarns
and the other tenth Of war. MISS
Edith WINS has just finished one oil
tho most attractive sweaters seen nero
this season. of two threads OF sea
green and ono OF mustard !ciio"
knitted together. with collar and cuns
OF tho yellow. With a saucy littic
yellow banded hat to match In the
sea-srcen straw. it is an effective com
bination worn with wool skirt In
large black and white check.
Homespun is used widely FOR smart
sports clothes. and somc OF tho women
here who know the wonderful cana
dian homcsnuns woven on mana rooms
and dyed with vegetable dyes at Muir
ray Bay, Tadousac, and other Cana
dian towns, and also in the maritime
provinces have purchased over the
border some homespuns dcliciousiY
soft and wonderful in color. dyed by
the inhabitants themselves with their
fadclcss vegetable dyer. One young
woman has flesh pink homespun
sports skirt with great knitting baE
made from the same material and en-
hroidcred In Uardhngcr stitch with
wide band in crcwels In jade green,
pale lavender. orange and soft brown.
She has a Norfolk sports suit. TOO. with
bag to match this. embroidered In
black, dull green, lavender and yell
low Tho color OF suit and bag are
delicious rosc-coIor. and other home
spuns are done in old blue. white with
pin stripes OF blue. lavender. pink and
rose and all sorts Of colors and weavcs.
the serge weave being IA popular one.
Mrs Frank L. Mitchell. OF New York
and Washington. arrived at the Green
bricr on Monday by automobile. ac-
companied b. Miss Lippincou. OF
Washington.
DR.. J. G. Marshall. house physician
OF the marlborough Blenhetm. at At
Iantic City. and Mrs. Msrshall and II.
B. Richmond. assistant manager OF
the same hotel. arrived at tho Green
bricr TO spend few days.
Charles p. Fritz. OF the firm OF Fritz
& La Rue, Of Philadelphia. arrived at
the Grecnbrinr on Monday. accom-
panied by Mrs. Fritz. for a stay OF two
weeks.
Walter l.. Hobbs. OF Brookline. Mass,
accompanied ny HTS. came ntTC
for a short stay for golf and riding.
Lady Wiiliams-Tayior entertained
this week dinner in honor Of Will
liam III. Marshall. tho Washington rep
rcscntativc OF tho IonGon Times. who
has spent some time here and Just
returned To Washington, leaving Mrs.
Marshall here. Sir Richard and Lads
Crawford. r. c. Jones aud Carl Bocert.
of Toronto. were tho other guests.
Tho Canadian colony will welcome
S. w. Jacobs. OF Montreal. a promin-
ent business man and owner Of some
OF the worlds greatest asbestos mines
in tho Canadian eastern townships.
Mrs Joseph Pulitzer and Miss Maca-
row. who come here every spring
TO take the cure, arrived on Thurs
day. Mrs. Pulitzer is one Of the most
ardent opponents OF long daily walks
as part Of the reducing regime
taken up By so many women at the
Greenbrier and walks several miles
daily. Miss Evelyn Burden thinks
nothing OF a fourteen mile hike and
Mrs. william Ambrose Taylor and
Mrs. Charles Fl. Ditso-, of New York.
with Mrs Ogden Mills. arc among
those going for this healthful form OF
exercise.
At tho Greenbrier Hotel where acres
and acres OF land run wild with
underground and woods. there is COM
paratively little land that can be cast
F.. ly put under cultivation. yet tho work
is going on. and this spring there Is
total OF more than $50 acres under
heavy cultivation. J. Howard Slocum,
who has been pushing the work to It's
greatest possibilities, has had forty
acres cleared this spring, thirty of
which Will bear potatoes. Corn. cab
hage, carrots, white beans and onions
are other vegetables snat will come
fresh to the Greenbrier tables from
tho gardens. The regular summer
garden has been enlarged and the ad-
vanced produce will probably be
doubled. Mr.. Slocum has contracted
with local gardeners and farmers to
supply other green things and pota-
toes beside, which Is giving a wonder
full market to the White Sulphur pco-
pie. The supply needed is large and