Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-30

If Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes is 10
return to Washington in the pleasant
role of wife of the Secretary of State,
as is so generally predicted, she Will
fit into the position with the certain
knowledge of all it's requirements. AS
wife, of5san associate justice of the
Supreme Court. Mrs. Hughes showed
that broader Interpretation of the
traditional duties is possible, with
out ignoring precedents. Possessing
marked personality, she could preside
over boudoir cabinet most accept
ably. If Judge and Mrs. Hughes do
return there will be a sense of lonell-
ness in the loss of their young daugh-
ter Helen, who took the course at
Vassar so brilliantly, and whose fu-
ture seemed to warrant all that
friends and relatives hoped. Miss
Hughes made her debut here. and her
untimely taking away three years ago
was widely lamented. There is, how
ever another young daughter who
would be for the incoming admins
tration all that well poised and ac-
complished daughters of cabinet ON
Gals should be for social success. The
Hughes family. like the Hardings, be-
long to the Baptist Church. and at
tended the Calvary Baptist during
their residence in Washington. Mrs.
band were friends and chuns during
their. early years. and their marriage
might be described as a neighbour
hood romance. She was Miss Anton
nette Carter. and after taking the
usual academic course in New York,
she attended Wells College. where
one of her classmates and friends was
the handsome young woman who
afterward became Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land. All the Hughes family are
musical, and they were among the
flrst to install one of those splendid
pile organs in their New York home.
AS wife of the Governor of New York.
Mrs. Hughes record was for intel
1ectual rather than purely social eff
fort, and this all was apparent during
her years as a chatelaine in the Su-
preme Court circle.
Has Many Friends Here.
Senior francesca Leon de la Barras
who has received such signal honor
from the Geneva tribunal of the leap,te
OF nations in being named chief arbi-
ter OF those knotty Balkan problems,
was ambassador here from 1908 on
the retirement of Senior Enrique
Creel until the Mexican government
began changing it's ENJOYS to Wash
ington with such rapidity that two
or three in single year was no UNI
common record. The senior made
scores of friends during his residence
here, as did his charming wife, who
was q sister of the first Sonora de la
Bara, who had such glorious voice
and was So accomplished in all mu-
steal matters. Washington also had
an opportunity of realizing the differ
ence between the Latin races and the
Anglo Saxon. in that though the senior
had remarked, both he and his bride
wore the required heavy mourning
the full three years after the death
OF the first sonora. Senior Francesca
de la Barra is profound student of
International law and had studied in
prescribed course in Salamanca.
Spain. which all diplomats of the
southern republics consider essential
After. serving for brief period as
provisional president prior to the Ia
mentable experiment of Carranza, the
senior with his family was exiled and
sought refuge in Paris. He was soon
called to the chair of international
Jurisprudence by the Sorbonne. a post
which he declined to re1inquish and
return to Mexico. Having suffered
the total loss of his private fortune
ana all manner of inconyeniences, he,
ike so many other Of the i1lustrious
exiies Of Carranza, are awaiting full
tranquility at home before giving up.
their present means of livelihood, and
this honor under the Versailles treaty.
though lucrative and exacting. will
rot interfere with his pedagogic pur-
suits. Senior and Sonora de la Barra
have delightful home beyond the
Arc o fthe Star and are prominent fig
ures in the social world.
Fetea in Philadelphia.
Ono of hescourt ladies of Rome
Princess sd'AfAgon Pignatelli. has
been among tas much-feted guests in
Phfiadeiphia. Ont has to her regret
been compellSd to. saii for home
without renewing old ties in WASH
1ngton. The princess is the daughter
Of MIR. and Mrs. Jason Waters, who.
though originally of the Quaker CITY.
forsook it for the a1l-year charm OF
Atlantic City. Their handsome home
In Ventnor has long been a raIlyinp
point for friends and reIatiyes' of
whom the latter include the large
Waters family of Georgetown. and
about Charlottesville, Va. The pig
natellis come from a feudaI line Of
Naples and have some of the Bour
bon blood of Aragon in their veins.
That supreme pontiff who figures as
Pope Innocent XII was of the house
and their quaint shield, three small
pitchers. decorates many of the Vati-
can apartments. as well as many
palaces about Naples. Prince and
Princess PignateIli own one of the
handsomest villas near Sorrento
though they pass all their leisure
near Biarritz. Here the sister of the
princess. Baroness de Marc, is So
cial leader.