Evening star., 1921-03-13
Cabinet Families Larger
Than in Times Gone By
Some Rare Hostesses Who May Serve Delicacies
Which Make Their Sections Famous.
Gossip of Prince of Wales

President Harding's councillors
stand out from previous cabinets In
that each member has been married
| and each has family. varying IN
numbers from the six living children OF
the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr.. wal
lace. to the one son of the POST
master General. Mr.. Hays. Begin
ming with Mr. Hughes. a pleasant
diversity is offered. brilliant young
college woman. Miss Catherine Hugnes'
who will be prominent in the widest So
cial sense, but who may be relied on
to turn attention to some OF the more
serious aspects of life. secoho
daughter. Elizabeth. will attend the
Cathedral School and be active among
the sub-debs.
Miss Aiisa Mellon was presented TO
society last winter and will naturally
be a close associate Of Miss Hughes III
the official amenities. There is son
in the Mellon family. Paul. who is
fourteen. and studying under tutors
for college, but who will come to
Washington for part OF the spring
season. ,.H
and daughter and a circle of grand
children. who will reinforce the three
youngsters who will spend much time
with the Secretary of State-the chill
dren of young Charles Evans, jr., VINO
lives in New York.
The Secretary of War has a charm
ing young daughter. Mrs. Jack Da-
vidge. active in official and social life.
who is the mother of two children.
! The small son of the Hays. Billy
Boy" as he is called by circle of
adoring relatives. is just five. and
oil OH full
though naturally he is entirely indif-
ferent to such opportunities. The two
Hoover boys are a little too old for
! the juveniles and not old enough for
heavily during holiday time.
/ The Secretary of the Interior and
Mrs. Fall have only married chill
dren. none of whom will live here. but
; they have a generous share of grand
! children. who will taste the delights
Of Washington from time to time;
! The three little Denbys. children OF
| the Secretary Of the Navy and his
charming wife. are under ten. and
will be pre-eminent in some tradi-
tional hospitality. and very likely
| will make their debut in the White
egg-rolling. They will have asso-
ciates in the two children OF the Sec
retary of Labor and Mrs. Davis, who
! are James J. Davis, jr.. who is four.
and a lovely little girl Jane Eliza
beth. who has just turned into her
second year. The Wallaces offer eS-
ceptional opportunity for the hos
pitably inclined. as their family
ranks from the college age to the dig
| nifty of matron. in the case of their
eldest daughter, with several sons
| wedged in, who will be most cordially
welcomed by the dancing contingent
New England hostesses in the capital
] have been proverbially good home keep.
/ ers. and though the Vice President and
/ the present in a hotel. nevertheless they
!; acknowledge this to be temporary
/ expedient, to be abandoned when their
1 days are leisurely enough for house
4 hunting Mrs. Coolidge is preceded by
a reputation for excellence in those fine
daughter OF that region can produce.
I 1t will be remembered that the late
Henry r. Rogers thought 80 highly of
/; New England cookery that he endowed
I Mass. where the methods Of the colo
4 nial women are to be perpetuated. The
second lady Of the land prepares baked
beans almost as ritual with result
highly satisfactory to Mr.. Coolidge and
the two boys.
Years ago beans from the Lodge home
during the lifetime Of Mrs. Henry Cabot
Lodge were deemed genuine treat to
the Roosevelt family. and few Saturday
evenings passed without a messenger
entrance to the White House kitchen
with a mysteriously swathed and ample
basket. The White House chef did not
comprehend the ways OF New England.
and he could not produce either the
beans or the brown bread. Tor which
the section is 'illustrious.
To taste the Goldfish cakes which come
from the griddle in the Coolidge home
in Northampton Is memory which the
favored one cherishes. No doubt with
so many sons and daughters of New
England in the most exalted posts New
England cookery will be as much fad
as southern cooking was when the Will
son regime was ushered in.
Such possibilities open for the jaded
diners-out, II the cabinet hostesses take
to presenting the food Of their own spe-
cial part Of the country as it is pre-.
pared, and not the routine the world
over. Of French cookery or more or less
successfur limitations Of it. Not only
can Mrs Coolidge invite the guests to
New England dainties, but Mrs. Weeks
is loyal to traditions and comes from a
mothers and grandmothers are not
lightly cast aside. Mrs. Fall can step
into the niche left vacant by Mrs AL
bert Sidney Burleson and give Mexican
dinners, which are treat, indeed-frt-
joles, tortillas. tamales and the inimita-
BILE savory stew of the Latins. Mrs.
Hoover is a renowned dinner giver and
has collected her recipes from the four
quarters of the globe. Housewives in
the central states-Iowa. Ohio. Indiana
I and Michigan-whence come Mrs. Wal.
ilace, Mrs. Daugherty. Mrs Hays and
Mrs DENLY. are famous for chicken
salad, hot rolls and homecured hams. all
Of which give zest to the opening social
season.
The new senatorial hostesses take
rank with the cabinet women in the
social interest OF Washington. and in
many instances surpass them in the To-
cal sense Senator Oddle Of Nevada Is,
for instance, n direct descendant of men
who have written their names in large