Evening star., 1923-12-02

FORMED by few youn gsters in that
horse-lovihg section who are chips
off the old block, has scored an, un-
qualified success, and, after a busy
summer and several pony shows in
the autumn, is entering a winter
which Is to be devoted to organiza-'
tion and to raising funds for their
spring activities. All the young folks
In Warrenton and the Middleburs
district are members, and Miss Peggy
Keith, whose plucky little Peg has
Won so many prizes, was recently.
elected president. Miss Mildred Gaines
ls secretary and Miss Jean Leach.
owner of Peter Pan, I'd, a blue rib
boner of this year and last, acts as
treasurer The Junior Hunt has re-
CeiVed the most enthusiastic support,
Tor TO these horse-loving people of
Warrenton 1t is quite essential that
The rising generations should not
only love the equine but should also
be good Judges and proficient both
In the care and training of them.
Since several generations before the
war for Independence this part Of Vir-
glnia has been given over to horse
culture. and in some instances pony
shows have been held on the estates
of their owners every year for nearly
I
clientele is all back at it's books at
present. and only a weekly meeting
on Saturdays is possible. but their
plans for next summer are ambitious
enough to make the elder hunt clubs
look to their laurelS.
Almost every week the liners bring
over celebrated British hunters who
are bound for the Rockies to shoot
the big game possible there in the
inter. But seemingly there is
~ in
pany of famous followers of hounds
from Philadelphia has just sailed for
England and will remain until after
Christmas. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert +.
Straw bridge of Meadow Lodge, Bryn
Mawr, who spent last winter in the
hunting country of North England,
have already sailed, taking a COM
pany of young people, who wish to
add such an experience to their hunt
ing annals. Mrs. Clarence Hay, who
is one of the skillful hunters of the
north shore of Massachusetts, has
gone to England for six weeks and
will ride with the hounds in Bucks.
Airs. Hay. like Mr. and Mrs. Straw
bridge, always ships over her own
mounts and riding FORGERY, for she
feels entirely unfamiliar with those
used in England. Mrs. Theodore p.
Grosvenor of Brookline has also sailed
in Surrey and Kent, when such
pleasures have been abandoned in
her own part of the country because
of the severe. weather which prevails
after November 1. Mrs. Algernon
Burnaby, who is the daughter of the
late Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page. is
prominent in all the hunting to
hounds organizations in Surrey.
where she has her country seat, and
with Mr. Burnaby is a frequent en-
tertainer of the many Americans who
visit this part of the world for the
exhilirating pleasure of following
genuine hounds in pursuit of a real
fox. Except in real hunting country,
the average fox hunt hereabout is a
paper trail.
With the official season opening
brilliantly in time to include the leg
islaffve branches in it's first activities
calling days assume unWonted I'M
portance and the hostess who, after
years, clingS to the same day and OBJ
serves the same procedure gets a
niche in the local hall of fame. Mrs.
stephen 3. Elkins is one of these,
though during her varied career, she
has observed three distinct days
Tuesday, when she was affiliated with
the lower House of Congress; WedneS-
day when her husband was member
of Benjamin Harrison's cabinet as
Secretary of War, and Thursdays for
q stretch which makes up two gener-
ations, when she presided over the
home of her father, Senator Henry
Gassaway Davis, and later her huS-
bands, the late Stephen B. Elkins.
So quite naturally, Mrs. Elktns keeps
Thursdays. and string of old
friends finds her at bountifully pro-
vided tea table in charming room
where a big log fire burns merrily
Just now. No longer member of the
senatorial set in her own capacity,
Mrs. ElkinS now acts as Chatelaine
for her bachelor son. Senator Davis
Elkins, who was elected to fill the
same seat held by his father. Mrs.
Eugene Hale is another whose tea
table is always spread on Thursdays
for her friends and those of her son,
who is also a bachelor and not very
enthusiastic over social amenities.
Mrs. Dewey occasionally spreads her
festive board and welcomes friends,
but her health is fragile and too many
even of the least formal entertainments
of this kind are apt to prove too trying.
But Washington. being a capital,
where the population shifts, cannot
boast historic institutions like Miss
Amy Schermerhorn's Mondays-at-
home in the venerable mansion of her
family far off the fashionable streets
in New Yorf, in the lower sos and
much nearer to Madison avenue than
bygone day maintains the same state
I'm her imposing home which was
kept in the days when President
Washington would stroll over from
his quarters close by ana throw OF
the cares of state in it's mellow old
dining room. Aaron Burr. was a fire.
uuent visitor for a time, as was also
Thomas Jefferson, and the chairs
they used and the cups from which
they slipped the perfumed Hyson are
still offered the casual caller of to-
day. Miss Schermerhorn receives
practically the entire social coterie
OF the big city. The mayor and the
corporation also make at least one
call a year and few celebrities spend
any time in the metropolis without
finding the way to her Monday after
noon teas. Where she gets the snowy