The Washington times., 1922-05-28
SOCIETY KEENLY INTERESTED i'm PLANS
FOR MISS HUGHES WEDDING: MRS.
McDONALD'S ENGAGEMENT A SURPRISE
Marrying and diving i'm Marriage Now Chief
Topic of Conversation.

= In the recent horse show. On
one occasion she took third, the
general carrying off a blue rib
bon and a fine silver cup-which
he promptly presented to the lit.
tie lady.
TH e announcement Of Mrs.
James McDonald's engage
ment to the Marquis of Huntly
precipitated the proverbial nine
days sensation, since the news
came as a complete surprise. 1t
was given out in London by the
Marquis and confirmed by Mrs.
Mcdonald here.
The story of the romance be-
tween the Premier Marquis of
Scotland and this handsome
American woman Is a pretty one,
for they met first when Mrs Nc
Donald was living in London
some years ago and renewed their
acquaintance when the Marquis
OF Huntley was in Washington
recently to visit General Bethel.
After that things moved rapidly.
Mrs. Mcdonald has closed her
house in Massachusetts, avenue
and Is at the Willard on the eve
of sailing for Europe. where her
son, Arthur Bradley Campbell, is
TO meet her. He is now in Chile,
serving as private secretary to
our American Ambassador. DR..
William Miller Collier.
He has been serving as private
secretary to DR.. William Miller
Collier, our Ambassador to Chile.
But the Golfers are coming home
on leave-Mrs. Golfers mother is
ul-which gives Mr.. Campbell a
holiday. Consequently it has
been arranged for his mother to
meet him in Paris instead OF
going out to Chile to visit him
as she had originally intended.
1t has always seemed rather
anomalous to me that Mrs. Nc.
Donald should be Mr.. Campbell's
mother, for she looks more like a
not very much older sister. She
is naturally fair. with ash blonde
hair which must have been flaxen
in her girlhood and a disdain for
the aids OF makeup which Is dis
tinctly rare in this generation.
She dresses in beautiful taste
and her jewels are the envy OF
her associates.
As a matter of fact. Mrs. Mo
Donald isn't so very much older
than her son, for she was but
seventeen when he was born.
She was married out OF the
school room and some years after
/the death OF her first husband,
the late Arthur Campbell, became
the bride of James Mcdonald,
who was the representative Of the
Standard Oil Company in Eng
land. They made their home in
London for many years. but It
was in Washington that Mr..
Mcdonald died. They were here
on their way to California when
the heart trouble to which he had
long been subject took a fatal
turn.
A FTER her husbands death
Mrs. Mcdonald decided to
make Washington her home and
purchased the house at 1884
Massachusetts, avenue in which
she has since lived. II isn't a
pretentious house, although It
looks out on fashionable Sheridan
circle, but it's a very gem Of a
place. II is furnished through
out in French fashion with lovely
old things collected by the
chatelaine in her travels and II
boasts a collection Of remarkably
fine pictures-portraits most Of
them. with Gainsborough and
others of the old masters repre-
sented-and is in fact one Of the
most delightful houses in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Mcdonald entertains a
good deal, but not too much nor
too showily. She contributes gen.
erously but conservatively to de.
serving causes and she has been
identified with many philan-
thropio activities. She has always
been q great favorite with the
diplomats, numbering many Of
them among her admirers; and
during the eight years she has
been living in Washington she
has made a host of friends who
deeply regret to see her go.
| Happily. however. she expects