Arizona republican., 1921-03-30

 another world' in which she played a prominent part for many months, Mrs George W. P Hunt, wife of the minister to Siam, has returned to her Arizona home.
 Mrs. Hunt and her daughter, Miss Virginia Hunt, returned to Phoenix on Friday, slipping in quietly to have few days with the nome folks before their arrival became known. Despite the attentions showered on the Americans in the Far East they are delighted to be back in Phoenix.
 Tt is all so different from our life over here and we were really lonely for our own people," said Mrs. Hunt T remember many years ago when lived on a COW ranch 50 miles from railroad and 1 thought I was out of the world But what is 60 miles from a railway compared with the distance from here to Siam. We left Bangkok on February 10 and with the eXcep tion of three days in Hong Kong came directly through, arriving in San Francisco on March "A. To receive mail in 43 days time was fortunate for I have known letters to take as long as 60 days to reach us from our beloved America"
 Looking over her beautiful home on the McDowell road, Mrs. Hunt gave a sigh of content at the thought of be- i ing there once more.
 We were of course comfortably | housed at the legation where we had | a world of servants at our command well trained servants who cared for every detail. A cook who asked only one questionable number of guests, and the color scheme preferred-for the cooks in Siam also arrange the table decorations and are masters in | the art. All the servants there are marvels to Americans, especially | those who are not used to service such as they render and for the aver age wage of s17 a month";
 While the servant problem is elim- mated in Siam there are other dis comforts and the greatest of these, according to Mrs. Hunt, is the mos quito.
 "I imagine we have the only lega- ton in the world equipped with a screen porch" she said MT Hunt introduced this improvement in Siam and it was great blessing to us. | There are no doors or windows to l the houses and the shutters are only closed in case of rain. The mosquitos become very active late in the after noon, and at night they are ferocious All the beds are draped with mos lquito nettings and unless we were din ing with kings and princes we went to bed early to escape the pests until | we added an Arizona porch to the | legation"
 Mrs. Hunt said there were not more tan 75 Americans in Bangkok, but with the many who made up the dip lomatic circle they were constantly | entertained and did their bit of the | ent tertaining
 Althoueh girls are never included | in the list of guests at the kings ban- quet, an exception was made of the little daughte of the American min ister, and Miss Virginia attended the function After the dinner the kins chatted few moments with the Ari- zona girl and appeared greatly inter ested in her views Of Siam. Although Virginia is still in the school room Mrs Hunt allowed her to attend tn foreign officers ball as something to remember when she came home.
 Mrs. Hunt said it was one of tn most impressive affairs she ever at tended. with the diplomats of man, lands in full dress uniform and wear ing their decorations. While the Siam esese people are small, she said. the, are unusually graceful dancers an' exceedingly fond of dancing.
 | Tt Is OntY recently llldt AtAtN LAetN become thoroughly interested in danc ing and have the best Americai dancers to teach them the lates
 smart dances There is much enter
 taining over there. weekly dances b,
 the clubs in addition to the more for
 nal affairs of state"
 In the absence of a head Of tn
 Danish legation. Mir. Hunt acted a
 head of the legation. and in that ca
 pacity welcomed the Prince and Prin ' cess Alex of Denmark to Siam on tn
 occa sion of their visit there. Tn
 American minister and his wife wer
 included in all the functions given Il
 honor of the distinguished guests
 who were most cordial in their man
 ner. said Mrs Hunt. She also eX pressed her pleasure in her frequen meetings with the king, who is mos democratic in his manner.
 The Siamese people, she said wer l charming-clever and well educated
 and the months she spent in Siam al
 ways will be a happy experience.
 even if she is ''so glad to be home
 "If we had not left in February W r would have had to remain until Jui, when we could have secured the frs reservation. That would have pre- ] vented placing Virginia in summe
 school. 60 we decided to leave in tn u -