Evening journal., 1914-07-03
Huerfa's M0ther-in-LdW in
Sympathy With His Plans

she tries TO brood. To be a mother
has been her life training: to be
society woman is a thing she has new
er learned, because her husband is
soldier, and, by the strange rule Of
things in Mexico, a soldier has no so
cial standing whatever. At the bril-
liant social reception which Pres
ident' Huerta has always insisted
shall be given monthly at Chapulte-
pee, Mrs. Huerta is never at ease,
and Mexican society laughs in their
sleeves at her habit Of herding in q
corner with her immediate relatives,
while her husband, disregarding all
the finosse Of a society man, flits
about the rooms from group TO group,
coaxing men to the sideboard or
punchbowl and making stingfng
Jokes Mexican society never took np
Madero, after he became president.
because. society folks said. he was a
poems president
On the contrary, after Huerta took
The presidential power, society folk
who had belonged TO the aristocratic
blaz regime, found il necessary 10
take in Huerta and his family, be-
cause Huerta was putting the poems
where they belonged into the army"
All OF this Is a Joke to Huerta, who
sees the inside OF society's idea. He
knows, well enough. why he and his
family has suddenly been elevated by
me aristocrats of Mexico. There Is
nothing he loves better TO do, in his
role of dictator than to threaten. tact
FULLY, IN banquet speech, to place
the men of Mexico's aristocracy In the
army. The face Of more than one aris-
iocrat has hlanched at Huerta's sug-
gestion of this sort. In the exclusive
Jockey Club. in the capital, where
Huerta was never admitted before he
seized the presidency. he delights to
stand at the bar and. in sinister tones,
grumble out his threats TO seize all
men In Mexico. rich or poor" and
place them in the field. Analysing the
Euerta family, socially, their standing
IS nil and. what's more, neither the
dictator nor his wife care for society
or its gradings.
The eldest child OF the Huertas is
Sonora Francisco Colon, of Monterey,
wife of a civil engineer The Colon
family is now in the capital, having
fed from Monterey just before the
rebels seized it, shes a woman nc
more" is the way Merican society men
/ describe a woman who has no social
training or brilliancy in conversation
and ! have had the Huerta girls So
described to me by Mexican club
man, Under that same rating society
people of the capital place Luz Huerta
who is Is years old and who, in De.
cember was married to an old sweet
heart Of hers, whom her father i'm
mediately made a colonel in tht
Mexican army, though he had befor,
been only an employe in a business
house. Luz. however, under th'
American rating Of girlhood, stool
high in the capital. She is pretty, vi
vacious. always laughing. She like
Americans and once when she was
little girl Of 13, she acknowledged tina
she idolized Arnold Shanklin, TN
American consul-general and woul
marry no one but an American. LeoT
ora Huerta is now 16 years old, bu
like the rest of the marriageable Hu
erta children, she has made hay Will
the sun shOne on her remarkabl
father and has become engaged. wit
the hopes of having a white House
wedding. The lucky young man t
whom she is engaged is named Quiroz
he is only % years old and he was
clerk in a government Office unit
Leonora's favor settled upon him
Leonora told her father about her sc
lection and one morning young Quiro
awoke to find that he had been ap
pointed a general in the Mexica
army. Only recently, when Huert
suspected that the chief Of police q
the capital was plotting against hin
Quiroz was made head of the capita
police, with some 1000 armed police
men under him.
George Huerta, Victoriano's eldeE
son. can be disposed Of in a few word
= in much the same fashion thu
Mexico City's social leaders dispos
of him, They say hes impossible
In the old days folks used to pity Gel
eral Huerta because, as they sal
George never worked and was alway
living off his poor old father" III
taste for cognac and for wild aui
. rides and for chorus girls has d
: sc .nded, it appears, upon Georg
Crude, arrogant, selfish, all the S,
cial attention he gets in the capital
given to him through fear. He, to
had a white House" wedding abol
a year ago. George is about 80 yea
old. He has a brother, Victor, abol
%, who went through white Hous'
wedding on April %, the day aft
Americans landed at Vera Cruz. vi
tor, too, has the cognac-auto hab
and in Mexican slang, "loves polio
polio" meaning fast girls. Incide
tally. polio" also means chicken"
Two other boys of Is and IL, NAL
IN the HuRrta household.