The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-06-22

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one another better than they had.
Il saw that you gentlemen were alb
staining, said Mr.. Hughes, because
of supposed scruples on my part. The
fact is, don't often care for drink of
spirits, but when l want one or feel
that it will help me l don't hesitate to
have it,
In chat with Mr.. Hughes IN the
days before he went to the Supreme
Bench comment was made concerning
some of the books that adorned the
shelves of MIR. Hughes library and
there was reference to the dictum
that man may be known by the books
he reads. There was some mighty solid
reading on those shelves, | remember
Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philos-
ophy, The Descent of Man." Glib
bon's Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire" Waller Savage Lander S
Imaginary Conversations. the works
of Thomas Carlyle, of Kent, Darwin,
Huxley, Haeckel. and Locke "On the
Human Understanding.
Mr.. Hughes eye swept the array.
He was familiar, not doubt of it, with
all those. But he smiled as he blew
the smoke from his cIgar-he common
ly smokes four or hive dark perfecIos in
the course of day-and then he
made this to me, delightful admission:
Don't you think we are ali more or
less incorrigible hYpocrites about the
things we like to read, or the things we
think we like to read, or that we ought
to like to read? Now, as for myself,
and speaking with perfect candor, |
must confess, especially when | feel
mentally tired, that there is no reading
that appeals to me quite SO strongly as
a good old blood and thunder swash-
buckling romance or an old-fashioned
detective story with a well sustained
mystery running through it. | have
never outgrown my affection for Dumas
the elder nor for Gabordiau. But, after
all, do not care very much who wrote
the yarn that diverts me, or whether it
was written by stylist or not, just so
long as it has rafting good story be-
tween its covers. There is nothing
ike that kind OF a thriller for a wearIed
brain and tired Dack.
Since Mr.. Hughes became MIR. Justice
Hughes have often wondered whether
he finds surcease yet from the enormous
hair sphttings OF the law in the divert
ing pages of Sir Conan Doyle or E.
Phillips Oppenheim.
He described his views on religion as
these:
They are not "ha, my church friends
would recognize as orthodox. | have
rather free views, but recognize that
we have in the churches the greatest
conservative force IN our affairs and. if
Tor no ether reason than that, 1eel
that they should be supported. There
is a lot of cant about some Of them. but
they have d great power for good,
whether one agrees OF not with the
teaching Of their minister
He approves of the modern woman,
although, so far as is known, he has
never definitely expressed himself in
favor Of woman suffrage.
Il will not say that ike the modern
woman better than the old woman,
whom some very wise persons still in
sist on comparing to the formers dis
advantage, was the way he put it
some years ago. 4 see no reason why
a woman should not practice law or
medicine or be elected to Congress or
build bridges if she wants to. You no
tice that | emphasize the if
My private opinion is that she does
not want to do them, although very
good feminine authority insists that she
does.
Justice Hughes has few recreations.
He likes to play golf, though he swings
a mediocre club. He is especially fond
of mountain climbing and has made
many visits to Switzerland. He likes
fishing, and men who have helped him
spend his brief vacations testify that
he is mighty good fellow out of doors.
with nothing of the cold, austere Hughes
about him. He reads as much as time
permits and confesses that he is par
tlcularly fond of romantic fiction and of
detective stories.
All eyes turned to the plain brick
house at the corner of Sixteenth and V
streets, Washington, where the family
of Justice Hughes, with the exception
of Charles E. Hughes Jr., and his wife
and child, were assembled to hear the
bulletins from the Convention at
Chicago.
This house was built by Mr.. Hughes
in 1912, more than a year after he ac-
copied the seat on the Supreme Court
bench, which he resigned to become a
candidate for President. 1t is a plain
dignified. comfortable house, typical Of
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