New-York tribune., 1922-08-13
Hot Springs Colony
Finds Midsummer
Full of Activities
Diplomatic Representatives
and Entertainments Given
in Honor of the Foreign
Guests Add to Cayeties
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

special Dispatch TO The Tribune
HOT SPRINGS, Va, Aug 12.-Mid-
summer is finding very gay and very
colorful period in this winding Allie
ghany valley. Much Of this is due to
the diplomatic representation from
Washington and the attendant festiv-
tiles in honor Of the foreign visitors.
The Peruvian Ambassador and Sonora
de Pezet have been much in the atten-
tion of people here. They were given
large luncheon early in the week at
Fassifern Farm by Mr.. and Mrs. j. I.
Hendricks. They also were given a
dinner by Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ward
man, of Washington, whose guest is
the Spanish Ambassadress. Sonora de
Riano.
DR.. Charles Bruggman. secretary of
the Swiss Legation. arrived from
Washington, and took part in the invi-
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph D. Eddy, of New
York. The tournament lasted from
Tuesday to Thursday Members of the
New York colony present were Mr.. and
Mrs. William A. Barber, Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley l.. Wolf, DR.. and Mrs. Thomas
T. Gaunt Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph r
Looming, Captain and Mrs. William NJ
Talbot, Mr.. and Mrs. Melville E. In
gals, Mrs. Henry Evans, Mrs. Albert
Loening, Mrs. w. Earl Dodge and Mrs.
William L. Strong.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Earl Dodge enter
tanned at lrocheon for Mr.. Joseph W.
Hartman before his departure for
New York and Newport, after fort
night here: Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Evans
had as dinner guests early in the
week in the new restaurant MIR. and
Mrs. William A. Barber, Captain and
Mrs. William NJ. Talbot, of New York,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas jefferson
Ryan, Of Washington.
Captain and Mrs. Talbot have bought
ldylwood, the property for number
Of years of Mrs. Zachary Wainwright
Tinker.
Miss Margaret Conroy, of Lima,
Peru, and delegate to the recent con-
ference Of the League of Women Vot-
ers in Washington, gave picnic on
Monday at the Cascades. The com.
pany went out on horseback, and in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph D. Eddy.
the Misses Margaret and Mercer Dun
lop, Mary Denman Clark and Mary
Gallery and Mr.. Frank Akers. Mrs.
Terah Haggin motored to White Sui
phur Springs with Miss Margaret
Brown, of New York, for luncheon at
the Greenbrier. Mrs. Haines- Smith, Of
London, who was Mrs. Haggin's guest
at the White. Cottage, has gone to
Erie, Pa. to visit her parents.
Mrs. Louis Nj. Fulton, of New York.
had as dinner guests on Tuesday DR..
and Mrs. Lanier Cole and Miss Agnes
Hooker.
An event of Thursday was the "Vil-
lage Vaudeville" given by the Hot
Springs Dramatic Society, and for
which the patronesses included Mines.
Blair, Henry c. Drayton, Robert
f. Drayton, William A. Piatt, Albert Fl.
Childs, Winfield X. Shires and Albert
Looming. supper was held last night
on the village green for the benefit Of
the Valley Nursing Association and
Hot Springs Hospital. Mrs. Stewart
Waller, of New York. who helped to
endow the hospital, is at the Home
stead and interested herself in the
Maffitt, of St. Louis. here with her
father, Mr.. Julius Walsh, presided at
one of the booths, custom she has
followed for years.
Mrs. Edgar Park, of New York, had
another booth. Mr.. Park has returned
to New York after week at Boxwood
Farm. Lady Thornton, of London.
came in on Monday with Mr.. and Mrs,
c. Blair, of Charleston, for brief
visit on an automobile tour of the yir-
ginias. Mr.. and Mrs. Snowden Wright
arrived by automobile from Baltimore
and are later to go to White Sulphur.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Luke and their
family came down from New York by
automobile. Mr.. John Markle and MIR.
Pembroke ones jr. were arrivals of
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