The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
.SOCIETY

III
The White House will be the centel
Of social activity OF the capital toda,
when Secretary Charles Nagel. of tn,
Department OF Commerce and Labor
will act as host. representing Presiden
Taft at q reception in honor of the In
/ ternational Association for Testing Ma
/ terials at o'clock In the afternoon.
4 President Taft is unable to greet tn,
guests in person. being out OF the city
and the rather unusual procedure of hav
ing a member of his official family d.
the honors in the Presidents absence
will be followed out.
Secretary Nagel arrived In Washington
yesterday morning. having spent the las
few days with his family at Marion
| Mass.
The Minister from Costa Rica ant
Madame Calvo. who have spent most Of
the summer at Glen Cove, Long Island
expect to return to Washington the last
OF the week and reopen the legation, or
Eighteenth street.
Mrs. Richard Mohun and daughter
1 Miss Laura Mohun, have leased ar
apartment at the westmoreland for the
winter and will move into their new
home today. They have just returned
from a months vacation at Atlantic
City.
Many washingtonians are still enjoy.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Phillips are at the
Penhurst with their little daughter.
Miss Jeanie O'Rieily. Miss May Brown
and Miss Ethel Bagley are also spend.
ing their vacations at that hotel They
will return to Washington next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Campbell are, as
usual, spending September in Atlantic
City before returning to their home in G
street.
Mrs. Morven Thompson will remain in
Atlantic City during the time her hus-
band is cruising on board Representative
William Reyburn's yacht, the Gretchen
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. John P. Story ex-
pect to return TO Washington about the
last OF the month. They have spent the
last few months at their country place
near Annapolis Md.
The Chinese Minister and Mime. Chang
mctored down to this city from PhiladeI-
phia. They found the trip most en-
joyable.
Col and Mrs. Alexander Rodgers ex-
pect to return TO their home in Washing
ton the last of October. They spent the
summer in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Mark Brooke, wife of the Assist
ant Engineer Commissioner of the Dis
trict. is at Buena Vista, va, with her
daughter. They will remain at the
mountain resort until the end of this
month, and then will join Capt. Brooke
here. Mrs. Brooke spent a large part OF
the summer at Atlantic City.
Mr. and Mrs Thomas Nelson Page
have had as their guests at York Har-
Dor. Me-. Maj and Mrs. Algernon Bur-
naby and their young son. They sailed
last week on the Franconia for their
home in Melton Mowbray. England
Mrs. William H. Boardman has left
New York, where she went to be with
her daughters, and returned TO CIeve-
land. Miss Mabel Boardman sailed for
London on the Minnehaha. She expects
to be abroad for a year.
The Count and Countess Moltke at
tended a Sunday musical soiree given
in Munich during the last Of August by
Baron CASTOR Mehring.
Mrs. Augustine Derby and her little
daughter. Olga Mason Derby. are to
pass the month of October In Washing
ton, visiting Mrs. Derby's mother. Mrs.
Converse, widow of Rear Admiral Con-
verse Miss Maud Converse. sister OF
Mrs. Derby. is about arriving in Europe
for prolonged visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christian Hemmick ex-
pect to leave Bar Harbor September 13
to visit Mr.. Hemmicks relatives at their
cottage in Port Hope, on Lake Ontario.
Canada. Ban-yBryn. Mrs. Hemmick's
cottage at Bar Harbor. has been the
scene this season of many quiet enter
tainments. Her Friday luncheons and
dinners of ten have been a particularly
pleasant feature OF her entertainments.
Lieut.. Paul Reineck, now stationed in
Washington. will be the best man at the
wedding of Miss Ruth Secor and Lieut..
Robert W. Clark. which will take place
in Ossining n. Y, on Wednesday even
ing, September Is. Miss Secor is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Elbert o.
Secor. She has chosen her sister, Miss
Gertrude Secor. to be maid of honor. and
her two bridesmaids will be her cousin,
MISS Nan SeCOr. ana MISS Eleanor -.
Clark, sister of the bridegroom. The
ushers will be brother officers of Lieut..
Clark.
Mrs Levi z. Letter closed her country
place at Beverly Farms, Mass. on Sep
tember and went to New York. She
plans to spend the winter in Europe.
Mrs. Caperton wife of Capt. William
B. Caperton, U. S. N. and their daugh
ter. Miss Marguerite Caperton. gave an
tea yesterday afternoon after
the skating party at the Newport Naval
Station. Capt. and Mrs. Caper-
ton will entertain at a luncheon to-mor-
row.
The Commandant of the Navy Yard and
Miss Emily Beatty, his daughter, have
returned to the city from a camping trip
to Maine. and have rejoined Mrs. Beatty,
at the Navy Yard. Mrs. Beatty has Just
returned from a motoring trip through
Virginia with a party Of friends.
Capt and Mrs. Irwin Hunt have ar
rived in San Francisco from the Philip
pines, and will come to this city Decem-
Der l. when Capt. Hunt will assume the
duties of his new commission as assist
ant to the Chief of the Bureau of In
sular Affairs.
Mrs. James F. Oyster has arrived in
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