Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-03
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.
UNITED Press correspondent.)

VERA CRUZ, July 3.--One of the
most interesting facts about Victor
iano Huerta is that he has a mother
in-law, and that, contrary to the
usual run of such affairs. she is
thorougRyin sympathy with him. In
a rather plain house at 5s1 Avenida
Chapultepec, Sonora Aguila, who ia
now ninety-eight years old, holds
forth for all her children and hel
childrens husbands and wives
Scarcely day goes by that she does
not chat with at least twenty of heI
children or grandchildren, holding
family court in Mexican fashion, lis
tening to stories Of troubles or joys
and giving such advice as she sees
fit. Not infrequently the great die
her quiet room with q joke and q
laugh. you rascal is his mother
in-law's name for him, and he Is al
ways sure of a welcome. There was
a time, 1t is said, during the old days
at Monterey Mexico, when Huerta
was only sewer building contractor
and money was scarce and Huerta' S
habits none too steady, when Sonora
Aguila held forth no kindly greeting
for her daughters husband. The chill
dren were coming into the Huerta
home rapidly, and such debts were
piling up on the Huerta household
that it is only since he has been
president" that Huerta has been able
to pay them off. But all that Huerta
has done in the last year or SO has
wiped off the score with the bright
minded old lady, and she takes great
halt erl,t ", uoaipcr har dal1Obfprl Mary
the first lady of the land"
As for the daughter herself being
1.-The first lady of the land" is not so
much pleasure. Mrs. Huerta Is
bright spot in the Huerta family.
Though she is forty eight years old,
being sixteen years older than her eld-
est child, she is every inch mother.
The society folks of Mexico say of
her that she does not scintilate in So
ciety because she tries to brood. To
be a mother has been her life training;
to be society woman is thing she
has never learned, because her hus-
band is a soldier, and, by the strange
rule of things in Mexico, a soldier mas
no social standing whatever. AT the
brilliant social reception which Pres
ident'' Huerta has always insisted
ahall be given monthly at Chapulte-
nee Mrs. Huerta Is never at ease and
Meyican society folks laugh in their
sleeves at her habit of herding In a
corner with her immediate relatives,
while her husband, disregard1ng an
the fnesse of a society man, hits
about the rooms from group to group,
coaxing men to the sideboard or
punch bowl and making stinging
Jokes. Mexican society never took up
Madero after he became President,
because society folks said he was a
.'peon's President"
ON the contrary, after Huerta TOOK
the presidential power, society 1oik
who had belonged to the aristocratc
Diaz regime, found Unnecessary to take
in Huerta and his family because
Huerta was putting the poems wners
they belonged-into the army. All
of this is joke to Huerta, VINO sees
the inside of societys idea. he
knows well enough why he and ms
family have suddenly been elevated
by the aristocrats of Mexico. Ihers
Is nothing he loves better to do, IN
his role of dictator. than to threaten,
tactfully, in banquet speech, 10
nlacelthe men of Mexico's aristocracy