Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-19
FIRST W|FE'S CHUM
HIS SECOND BRIDE
Hugh 3. Reed, Lawyer, Weds
Suffragette Who Had Cared
for His Children.

There was happy elimination of
"a romance of the Southland on Sat
lirday afternoon when Hugh b. Reed,
a prominent lawyer of this city, who
resides at 81 High street, Orange,
and Mrs Reginald 3. Foster, of Bal
timore. for two years executive head
of the Just Government League of
Maryland, were married in the small
chapel of 1.-The Little Church Around
the Corner" in Manhattan.
Mrs. Reed at her new home In Or
ance today said she had no intention
of giving up her interest in aiding the
cause of woman suffrage. Her resi-
dence in New Jersey at time when
the suffrage legislation is about to
reach success at Trenton is hailed
with pleasure by the New Jersey
women who are active for the cause.
II want it understood 1 am enthu-
siastic as ever about woman suf-
frage." said Mrs. Reed. 81 am not
to give up my work, excepting. of
course. in so far as it would interfere
with my household duties. I intend
to keep thoroughly informed about
public questions. and hope to become
active in local suffrage work. I have
Joined the Woman's Political Union
in Newark. l have no intention of
giving up attention to public prob
would be a strange state of affairs,
indeed, if / dropped my interest in
the public matters which broaden one
so, and then find my daughters We're,
in a few wears, going far ahead of
me in such knowledge"
Mrs. Reed did not attend the New
ark suffrage tea yesterday, as she
escorted her three daughters to Sun
day school, She has not been able to
give so much time to suffrage work
for quite a while, as she retired in
September to assist Mr.. Reeds aunt,
Mrs. Mary Harrison, of Midland
place, East Orange, in caring for Mr.
Reeds children. She was an intimate
friend of Mr.. Reeds first wife, -hav-
ing been chums in their childhood.
Through her friendship for their
mother she was attracted to the chill
dren, whom, she says. she always
loved as the children of her friend
Her love for the little girls left moth
erless by the death of her dearest
gill chum caused her to desert suf-
frage work last fall, she said, when
she came to Orange to devote her
time to their care.
Mrs. Reed was a nurse in the Johns
Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, be-
fore her first marriage, and she did
x lViJ NOih dItiOHS Tie pOOT as q VISIT
ing tuberculosis nurse: in fact she
was one of the first nurses in the
United States to give her services to
the tubercular poor, visiting their
homes and instructing them in the
proper methods of caring for them
selves. She worked in the public
schools in the same capacity.
Three tiny girls, all the same size,
played about, Mary Reginald Foster,
called "Reggy," five and half years,
Mrs. Reeds daughter, and Louise and
Anne Reed, five and seven years old,
respectively, daughters of Mr. Reed.
The children, who are nearly the
same size. were especially delighted
with their relationship. and were
happy they all had "a mother and a
daddy now"
The marriage was performed in the
small chapel of the little Church
Around the Corner" Manhattan, by
the pastor, Rev. DIR. George c. Hough-
ton Saturday afternoon. Mrs Charles
r. Phelps, of Baltimore, an aunt of
the bride, attended as matron of honor
and Robert Reynolds, of East Orange,
Mr. Reeds law partner, was best man.
The bride was given in marriage by
her uncle, e. Griswold Thelin, of Bal
timore Mr.. and Mrs. Reed will leave
shortly for honeymoon trip.