The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Miss Hughes Completes Her
Wedding Arrangements
Social Notes.. "a
WASHINGTON. D. c.. May 27.

R WASHINGTON. D. c.. May 27.
fNUITE the sensation of the week
IL J las been the announcement of
Mrs. James McDonalds en-
gagement to Marquis Huntly. former
lord rector Of Aberdeen University
and Premier Marquis of Scotland.
Mrs. Mcdonald has been a good deal
Of figure and something of a mys-
terry socially in Washington for the
last five years. She is a handsome
woman whom people are won't to call
"typically English only to discover
that she is not Englisk, but middle
Western. She Is natural blonde,
blue eyed and with the ash blonde
hair that must have been fiaxen when
size was a girl. One of her strong
points is that she does not try to make
herself look like fiapper. but is quite
content to be matronly and dignified.
She wears. good looking clothes and
| wonderful jewels and is the build and
coloring to which evening dress is
particularly. becoming. On the whole,
size has the virtue, without being an
old fogy, of not OVERRIDING it.
She came to Washington half a
dozen years ago. The first time re-
member hearing of her was shortly
after the second Wilson inaugural,
when the world was at war in Europe
and tie United States was obviously
about to take hand. She was a
widow, evidently twice widowed, since
she had a son, Mr.. Arthur Bradley
Campbell. She happened to sit, during
the second Wilson inaugural, near
some newspaper women, and got into
conversation with them. expressing
quite frankly her desire to break in"
and rather naively inviting suggestion.
Naturally they have watched her ca
reer with interest, and admired the
tact of the breaking.
Eventually she took-I am under the
impression she bought-a house up at
1884 Massachusetts avenue, the one that
the Wilerts-Sir Arthur and Lady Will
lert-occupied for the last several years
of their residence in Washington, and
. where before that the Edward Lowrys
Che Of the Washington Close Ups" you
know had lived. 1t was in an emf
nently desirable part of town, practically
on Sheridan Circle, but a comparatively
modest house-one of a row. The White
Busbeys-Mr. Busbey being a veteran
newspaperman who has for the last
twenty Years been known to fame as
secretary and guardian angel to Uncle
Joe Cannon-had the one next to 1t and
exactly like it for several years. There
was nothing splurgy or sensational
about ii.
Took Part i'm Charity Events.
Mrs. Mcdonald entertained a good
deal, but not too much and not too
showily. She always took part in the
big charity events. I remember her as
being one of the late Mrs. Fessenden
Meserve's ablest and most active lieu
tenants in the Russian relief work dur
ing the early years of the war. when
brilliant, beautiful Russian dances were
the order of the day-or night. She had
I wonderful kakoshnik, and how well
she did look In it She has contributed
generously but conservatively to almost
*.
Naturally people soon began asking
Who is She. this Mrs. Mcdonald whom
We find suddenly in our midst and ap-
parently quite one of us?' Nobody
seemed to know the answer. She was
the widow of James Mcdonald. manager
for the Standard Oil In England Every
body got as far as that. And evidently
she had been a widow when she mar
ried Standard Oil. since her son was
rf
that? Well. Ii seems to be generally
believed that she came out of the West.
II Chicago can be counted as West She
seemed entirely wrapped up in her SON
In showing his fortunes and getting him
In with the right people. He was an
American, though English appearing in
manner and speech. presumably having
been brought up there and attended
English schools.
When the United States entered the
war the boy got commission. went
into an o. r. c.. you know. and wore
the uniform as well as most. though he
didn't get over. He was stationed for
long time down in Georgia, and Mrs.
Mcdonald went down there and took a
house to be near him. Lately he has
broken into. the diplomatic service-I
forget whether he took tho usual exam
NATION and entered as a very junior at
tache, regularly in the service. IL seems
TO me. however. that he went down To
Chile with DR.. William Miller Collier as
his personal secretary.
My understanding was that Mrs Me-
Donald was TO sail soon to Join her Sol,
down there for the summer. But so far
she has been in Washington. / saw her
about week ago on the corner of
Seventh and streets--the hea 4 of the
rather cheap shopping district listen
ing anxiously to man who see ned &c
be directing her how to get somewhere.
1t occurred to me that she was rathes
off her beat, and ] wondered how she
ever came to stray so far from her
limousine. Then realized that II wa.
only little more than. n block from thu,
Shubert Garrick. where they were TO
hearsin; Mrs. G. C. Calhoun's lw,lc play
"a Ncrriageabie Mother" with Mrs
calhoun In the leading role, and she and
Mrs. Calhoun played around a good
deal together, which probably accounted
for her being there. She was one OF
those who went into the Nationa,
Woman's Foundation which Mrs Cal
|, houn organized something over yea
ago, with the purpose OF buying up tho
big Dean tract and establishing n great
clearing house for all sorts of prorres.
sive uplift activities of women A beau-
tiful vision. which rather went on the
rocks when they tried to work out the
details.
There was an eruption of sone sort.
j doubt If any one really knows exactly