The Washington times., 1916-06-18
HUCHESES FIND SCANT
INTEREST IN SOCIETY.
y Republicans Win New White
House Chatelaine viii Be
{ Domestic Matron.
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end mas accentuated q natural ten
Mrs. Hughes IL a quiet. retiring wom-
an, devoted to her family and home.
Fho. has found sufficient occupation
booking after her household and super
vtsing OF close range the education of
her children. She has done scrupulous-
N those things in a social line whicn
is ordained that the wife OF an asso-
S,ate justice Of the supreme Court
4oiced that they were so few. she has
Observed her Mondays at home--Mon-
Gay being recognised In Washington as
4bie resut1raty. throughout the season.
ehe has, given the usual dinners com
llimentery to her husbands immediate
tseociates and their wives. She has
sscessary round Of calls. And there
fhe has rested on her oars.
Mrs. Hughes Has Done
Little Entertaining Here.
.Outside of these routine hospitaIities
a n not recalled that Mrs. Hughes has
been given to superfiuous entertaining.
except In two instances. She did quite
\ little Of II for the ushers and attend
Jessie woodrow Wilson and Francis
Bowes Sayre-the first White House
wedding OF this Administration-her
son Charles nsN Evans m Mhusnes; ,sS,ns siass,
been one OF the ushers. 49,.
.And as recently as last March, when
Mss Ellen FitsHugh Pendleton. dean
Qf Wellesley. spent about two weeks
uhwontedly gay. There was a round Of
teas and luncheons and dinners and
fhings. Past, present, and prospective
wellesley girls made II very much their
tendezvous. and Miss Hughes and Miss
catherine were considerably in evil
Miss Hughes Never
Made Formal Debut.
, Miss Hughes-Helen-is supposed to be
"out." She graduated from Wellesley
two years ago-but she never formally
sdebuted." Winter before last she be-
gan to receive with her mother, at those
weekly Monday at-homes. The first
time she appeared a number Of young
girls were asked. by way Of keeping
her In countenance. But there was no
great fuss about 1t.
.That winter she went to few more
hncheons and dinners than she had
previously attended. She appeared at
the White House with her father and
inother-and she didn't seem to fnd 1t
particularly thrilling. As a matter Of
talk.
She is interested in her church work
her Sunday school class and the Chris
tian Endeavor Society in Calvary Bap-
list Church. She is very much inter
national service school encampment
was on at Chevy Chase recently she
did not go in for the fun Of its toy
soldiering. She volunteered for service
N the. Y. w. C. A; rest tent" and she
entire period OF the encampment. The
girls rather fought shv of that tent
at first. They were afraid Of the goodie-
goody Idea. But Miss Hughes stuck to
her guns, made those who came wei
come, and comfortable. received all with
such simple unaffected friendliness that
before the end OF the encampment the
Y. w. c. A. rest tent was one Of the
most popular places on the grounds.
Works Hard to Aid
Young Working Girls.
The special branch of the essocia-
zion work in which she has Interested
herself Is that which deals with the
younger girls in the department
stores. tho junior CLERKS. the bundle
wrappers, and cash girls, and with
the high school girls tries to give
chem worth while ideals Of woman
hood aad destroy false standards IL.
minds. Miss hughes may be shy In
society but shes the best sort OF
mixer with these girls. and tremend-
ously popular with them. She has put
In hours OF bard work helping Mrs.
Lansing, who Is corresponding secre-
tsry OF the association and worked
heart and soul during the winter In
Che campaign to raiss funds for an
association building to replace tho
rather barn-like quarters which 1t at
present rents
Just now Miss Hughes Is in New
York. She went up to Pcughkeepsie
o couple OF weeks ago to attend a re-
nnion Of her class at Vassar. ana has
stopped IN New York to ne with her
sfster-iu-law, and make the acquaint-
dnce of her newest nephew. who IL
only a few weeks old, while his daddy
n at Ilattsburg learning to be a SOL
der
Charles E. Hughes, Jr.,
Called "Sphinx Junior"
sCharles y. Hughes, jr.. is a lawyer.
following as best he can In his faith
sr's footsteps. He graduated from
Columbia University. and took n law
course ut Harvard, and just about two
Years ago. in June 1914. married Miss
Marjorie Bruce Stuart, daughter of
Henry C. Stuart. of New York They
have two little sons the second
|. fWa shinRton scarcely knows young
Hughes end for the matter of that,
Washington is not alone In not know
ing him He Is as retiring as the rest
\ 81 the family, and Is said to have
learned at college the sobriauet Of
rSphinx, Jr."
Miss Katherine is the typical Sweet
EiRirl graduate" just sixteen, Mt whose
tgraduatton from the National Cathe-
tdral School hcr father made the flag
Iapeech" which the convention leaders
ssrized upon. for want of any other
: expression of any sort from Mr..
hughes, as Keynote" speech Kath-
crime is rather moro given to enthus.
tasms than her big sister. She Is more
interest in her clothes, and frankly
father likes frills
Miss Katherine Artistic
Member of Family.
She might even confess to ordinary
school girl weaknesses for fudge. and
-.-boys-and dancing-in short to be-
ing almost frivolous at times. She Is
regarded as the artistic member OF
the family. She Is to go to Wellesley
IN the fall. whence she will make
frequent trips to the Boston Museum,
and dreams of nothing else. Her
quarters at Leighton, one OF the new
est freshman dormitories have been
picked out. and she Is to have an
other Cathedral School girl as her
room mate, and is trying to persuade
other Washington girls, who are going
TO Wellesley-notably the Barber