Evening star., 1937-12-30

ELEM AND ROSS L1PSCOMB,
daughter and son of Mr..
William H. Lipscomb. enter
L a tanned so young friends Tues
day 1t their home, Raspberry Plain,
near Leesburg, Va. The guests, in
cluding classmates of Helen at
Potomac School and many from St.
<Albans School, which Ross attends,
and friends in the neighborhood. ar
rived from 1890 in the morning until
4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Loudoun Hunt met on the front
lawn of Raspberry Plain that morn
ing at II in compliment to the many
persons gathered there. It was
colorfll, thrilling and interesting
sight as the hounds moved of to
draw the fields of the farm and dis
appeared over the hill toward Balls
Bluff with Judge j. r. H. Alexander,
NJ. F. H.. leading the field. 1t was a
good scenting day and they soon
started a fox and had run.
Mr.. Lipscomb had planned day OF
pleasure and interest for his children'S
guests. Station wagons and cars
carried them over the large farm to
see the hunters, farm horses, cattle,
pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks and
everything of interest. Then, over
to see the thoroughbred colts which
will be yearlings January l and will
De sold at the Saratoga yearling sales
next August. Next, they looked oyer
this years colts and fillies. the brood
mares and stations. The many
thoroughbreds seemed to please the
children most and they fingered long,
asking questions and receiving much
information from their host. Wan
dering through the Well-kept stables,
the scent of the hay. straw, oats. bran
and corn stored in bins for the horses
prompted Elsie Hill Levitt, who is
devoted to horses and rides a great
deal, to take deep breath and re-
mark, Il don't see why they don't
"make a new perfume and call it air
de letable', for could there be more
delicious smell than this mixture of
horse, hay and grain?"
After looking over the farm-some of
the cars get stuck in the mud, which
was all part of the fun-they went
up to the large and lovely log cabin
on the Lipscomb place, which was
built last year as a playhouse. The
huge f1replaces at each end of the
room we're piled high with burning
logs of wood. long table stretched
the entire length of the room was set
for 40, and smaller tables were placed
in corners of the room. Greens and
bright red apples were used in decora-
ton. A delicious hot meal was served,
which quieted the voices of the guests
for little while as they set to work
on it. Ice cream and all kinds of
cake-they could have as many help
ings as they wanted-made them
quite speeches.. Directly after lunch
con the tables were cleared and moved
out as if by magic and movies were
shown for nearly two hours. After
this the guests who had to drive back
to Washington had to depart but the
others played around on the lawn.
Altogether it was an exciting, won-
derful and we'll arranged day that
had been planned for the guests at
hospitable Raspberry Plain.
Among the guests were the Misses
Maize Baird, Gertrude Gray, Mimi
Griffin, Dorothy Guider. Lyn Wilkins.
Nancy Shearer. Elsie Hill Levitt, Jane
P!ckens, Cornelia Pickens, May Bailey,
Jean Kirkpatrick, George Bett and
Hester and Anne Luke; the Messrs
Guy Leadbetter Eddy Miller, Philip
Nash Dick Nash Rucky T0neS Pil1
Chandler. Jim Perry, Herman Red
field. Norman Marsh. Richard Marsh.
Joe Cox, Lewis McCrakan, Scott Nc
Crakan. George Ward, Hunter Serrat,
Billy Ernst, Billy Miller, David Rust,
Peter Hueidkoper, Nicky Phillips,
Johnny Parker, Teddy Mcdowell,
Billy Ross, Billy Poland. David Fulton,
Charles Berton. John Delmater, Dun
can Ford, Scott Burney. George Bell
and Charles Buchan. Others present
were Judge and Mrs. Alexander, Miss
Elsie Hill, Mrs. Howard Jamison, Mrs.
Hester Anne Luke, Mrs. Leon Frye,
Miss Louise Gade, Mr.. Sterling Harri-
son. Mr.. William Jamison, Mr.. Mac
kenzie Tabb and Mr. Hugh Kerr.
Tomorrow's Meets. Maryland.
Green Spring Valley Hounds-John
K. Shaw, jr.; Frank A. Bonsal, jr., joint
masters; Bosleys Church, 2 pm.
Elkridge- Hartford Hunt-Harvey La
dew, M. F. H.; Hope Hill, II am.
Howard County Hunt Augustus
Riggs, M. F. H.; Dayton, II am.