Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-10
SPRY MRS. HUGHES
COMES UP SMILING ON
POLITICAL ORDEAL
Shows Little Trace of WEAKNESS
After 20,000-Mile Tour of
Country as Husbands
Aid
PROVES STERN MASTER
Rv M,I.IsS

by vi LlON
a very spry woman came 20 Phnadel-
phia last night. so spry that unless YOU
hadn't been reading about u In the papers
for the last few weeks you would never
believe that she Is on the final lap OF
journey that would have sapped the vitality
OF the most dyed-in- -the-wool campaigner.
Mrs Charles Evans Hughes--optimists
are already calling her the next ''hrst lady"
Of the land--dd not show the slightest
trace Of the fatigue that might have been
expected Of her after her eo.0oO-miie tour
OF the country She has bucked the democ-
racy OF the solid and not always courteous
South. as was demonstrated by Nash
willie audience who forgot themselves and
cheered Democratic doctrines while her
husband was expounding Republican ones.
She has kept pace with her husbands
trail over tho aikal plains OF the South
west and the mountain passes OF the Rock
les She has donned miners suit in order
10 descend by his side into the bowels OF
the earth. She has met thousands OF peo-
pie all along the lines has shaken enough
hands to call us her own has been awak-
ened morn after morn before the sun was
up by importunate enthusiasts who could
not walt until a respectable hour In order TO
NJ
And through II ALL she has come up
smiling.
ut Is not because I am tired that I
refuse interviews" she told me. gracious
even In her refusal. ut is merely be-
cause I cannot bear. and never will be able
to. to see myself quoted in print"
There Is certain springness about
Antoinette Hughes-an air OF inexhaustible
youth that some fortunate persons have
which bellies the fact that she Is old enough
to be a grandmother. and Is one. in fact
As she walked down the trainshed last
night her arm linked companionably
through that OF the Mayors wife, there
was the athletic buoyancy In her tread OF
a college girls. The easy poise and hne
upright carriage made you think instantly
| " one who has lived out "A great deal, and
| this is right. She Is an enthusiastic pedes-
| trian and an expert mountain climber.
Her generous mouth has crinkly, humor-
| Gus little lines at the corners and she
| smiles at you in a way that says, Il have
never heard anything so interesting as that
which you are now telling me" Brown
eyes which focus on you intensely as you
| address her enhance the impression. Her
| hair. very dark brown, in which time has
left few traces, is drawn back with a
| severity which few women could stand, but
/ somehow the patrcian quality of her fea.
lures is intensified by this uncompromising
coiffure.
Next TO the regal attire of Mrs. Stotes-
| bury, VINO wore long pearl gray CLOAK and
| n black picture hat with graceful paradise
feathers encircling its crown. Mrs. Hughes
| seemed almost puritanically gowned.
Her dark velvet toque, with its touch OF
| fur and tiny flower. was merely a smart
| travelling hat that any one OF us might
have worn without being conspicuous. The
| dark-blue taffeta suit, with a bit OF dull
gold embroidery at the belt, set of the
slenderness of her figure TO good advantage
| and the high, boned collar OF her net blouse
was entirely in keeping with her costume
| Somehow / cannot picture this very digni.
fed. reticent woman In a low-necked blouse
Mrs. Hughes is noted for her .devo.
ton to her children and her freside. Her
4 campaign tour well as her suffrage
inclinations, prove conclusively that she