The Washington times., 1907-05-26

IOiio"eu ms term as Commissioner OF
Pensions.
Miss Wellman and Miss Rita Well
man, daughters Of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Nellman, who sailed for Europe re-
Gently, were met in Liverpool by their
father, who was on the eve of his de-
parture for Spitzbergen Oh his journey
toward the North Pole 1t was sud
denly decided that the Misses Wellman
should go to Spitzbergen to see their
father off from that point. instead of
going ar once to Paris, where they were
to establish themselves for the summer,
for Miss Rita to enter upon her art
studies. In the meantime they are
spending some time in London They
Will sail for Spitzbergen July q from
Kiel. on the steamer Thalia, which will
take a large party OF Americans and
Europeans.
Mr.. wellman has already started for
Tromsoe, where his party win rendez-
vous, and on June / will proceed to
Spitzbergen, where his daughters will
arrive Just in time to wave him a fare
well when he starts northward.
Miss Wellman is making her second
trip abroad. and is chaperoning her
younger and gifted sister. Miss Rita
wellInan has a special talent for design
ing as well as for coloring, and is espe-
cially successful in decorative work.
They viii remain abroad for year.
Mrs. Wellman and her other unmar-
ried daughters Will give up their house
on Columbia road and start tomorrow
for Canton, their old home, where they
VIII spend the summer with Mrs. Well
mans relatives. They will return TO
Washington next season.
MIR and Mrs. Leroy Chamberlin. the
latter formerly Miss Rose Wellman, are
now established in Philadelphia, where
Mr.. Chamberlin has been transferred
from Chicago. They will have apart
ments at Overlook for the summer
one Of Philadelphia's prettiest suburbs.
Mrs. Arthur Wallace Dunn entertained
at a tea yesterday afternoon for the
alunnae of the Georgetown Convent
The former minister from Panama,
who was the first minister to this coun-
try from there. and Nine. Obaldia and
their boys will leave Washington tOmor-
row for New York, whence they Will
sail a few days later for their home
in Panama.
comb VIII leave June 8 for California,
where the professor will give a series
of scientific lectures at the summer
school of the University Of California,
Berkeley Later they will visit the Vel
iowstone and other places OF. interest in
the West. spending the hot months in
leisure tour.
DR.. Anita Newcomb MCGEE will spend
the summer at Woods Hall, where she
has cottage.
Mrs. Thomas Cox left on Saturday to
visit her daughter, Mrs. Stuart Jack
son, at Montclair. n. J.
Mrs Larrrie Benet, of Paris, who
spent a portion of last winter with her
mother, Mrs. Thomas Cox, in Washing
ton. has entirely recovered from the ill
ness which succeeded her return. and
Is once more n center of social attrac-
ton in the American colony in the
French capital Among the recipients
of the inequalities extended by Mr.
Benet and his wife were recently num-
bered Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Moore
who are touring Europe, awaiting the
completion Of their new home on Massa-
chusetts avenue, between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth streets. This palatial
residence. planned upon a scale Of un-
usual elegance and commodiousness, is
promised 20 be ready for occupancy by
the autumn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis II. Levy and their
daughter, Miss Julia Levy, Of Westmin-
ster street, held a reception at their
home Monday evening, when the house
was turned into bower of spring flow
ers. Mrs. NJ. Levy and Mrs. Leo Scheon-
thai assisted in receiving, while the
young women presiding in the dining
room were Mrs. a. Adler Miss Amelia
! WoIIberg. Miss Birdie Alexander, and
Mss Leona Hechinger.
Max Goodman was the host this week
of the West End Bridge Whist when he