Evening star., 1925-03-04
Mrs. Dawes Will Be Congenial
addition to First Lady's Circle
Like Mrs. Coolidge, Vice Presidents Wife
Is Congregationalist--Has DeUoted
Life to Child Welfare.

There are two congenial women in
the administration in the persons Of
Mrs Coolidge and Mrs. Dawes. They
will work well and amiably together
in the executive family and in social
harness. Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs.
Dawes agree in religion. both be-
longing to the Congregational Church,
and they have many other similar
tastes.
Their being in Washington now is
almost like a home coming to the
Vice President and Mrs Dawes, who
have twice before made the Capital
their home, once when in the Roose-
welt administration he was con-
troller of currency and again as di-
rector of the budget under President
Harding.
AS the Vice President Mr. Dawes
will preside over the Senate, and yes
terday Mrs. Dawes was given her
first peep behind the scenes Of the
social structure of which she is the
head and which she must hereafter
sponsor and direct. This was when
she became the guest at the luncheon
given weekly by The Ladies of the
Senate" the presidency of which Is
synonymous with her position as the
wife of the Vice President
Aid Mt Social Functions.
Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Dawes must
frequently stand in line together at
the White House, especially while
the prescribed state entertainments
are in progress. 1t is not iikely that
the Vice President and Mrs. Dawes
will long make their home in a hotel,
but they will rather establish a home
suited to their rank and wealth and
there they will sometimes entertain
the President and Mrs. Coolidge.
Mrs. Dawes comes to the Capital
with an established reputation for
achieving stupendous results in ev-
erything under her direction. When
Washington knew her first she was
quite a young matron. Fortune was
just beginning to smile then, and
the controller of the currency was
employing all his spare cash in his
business enterprises, and the modest
home in washington. that tall brick
house adjoining the Hotel Hamilton,
on the K street side, was maintained
entirely on his salary. That home
was one of the most popular OF that
era.
Must Have Good Digestion.
It has frequently been asserted by
facetious writer's that the principal
qualifications required by the second
gentleman and his lady are, first, a
cast-iron digestion to survive all
the banquets at which they must
assist and the requisite income to
return in kind these multitudino Gus
amenities.
The Vice President and Mrs Dawes
have a well defined schedule Of din
ners they must accept and quite as
| lengthy list of those which they
| must give. Thus. after figuring at
! the cabinet dinner at the White
House, they entertain at different
| times all the presidential councillors
| the Speaker of the House, the Chief
Justice and the dean Of the diplomatic
corps and others of the foreign con-
| tingent.
Mrs. Dawes must hold general pub
| lie receptions on Wednesdays as
demands and she must also take over
| the reception of distinguished
strangers, who, for some urgent
| cause, cannot be invited to the
White House. And, of course, she is
much at the mercy of the senatorial
| coterie.
Will Meet Duties Easily.
A study Of the personal side oi
| the Vice President and Mrs. Dawes
| will show that all this routine vii
be faithfully followed aud ia ease
| They are as accustomed tS dig things
as the Secretary of Commerce and
| Mrs. Hoover. When this emine nj
/ couple lost their only son. Rufus
| Fearing Dawes, in the Summer OF
! 1912, 1t marked turning point in
| both their lives. Always imbue6
| with sense Of obligation to the less
! fortunate, both turned to solve the
problem in different ways.
The Vice President began a series
| of hotels aimed to help the down
and out" and give them a chance to
come back in whatever way they
| were most fitted. The several hotels
| maintained for destitute men in Chi
| cago and Detroit and in other cities
have borne q golden harvest in help
| ing these derelicts to help themselves
Mrs. Dawes took over the problem
| OF dependent and ailing children, but
she is SO retiring and averse to any
kind of publicity regarding her pri-
vate charities that no sort of sta
| tistics may be obtained. However
her light Is far too brilliant to shine
under a bushel, and her success in