The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-02
Newer Cabinet
Hostesses Form
A Varied Group
Problem Of Precedence
Not Expected to Worry
Roosevelts, Is Said
By RUBY A. BLACK
limited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK. March 2. (UP).
Cabinet hostesses in the inconl-
ing administration will be a var
led group.
They are in brief, as follows:
Mrs. CordelI Hull, Nirginlan,
VIE of the incoming secretary OF
state. younger than her husband:
mistress of a fortune, sure OF
her husbands rightness IN every
thing, a pleasant, hospitable hos
tess, who will have the some
times tickliSh job Of beng the
leading hostess of the diplomatic
set.
Mrs. William H. Toodin, wife
Of the secretary of the treasury
aD. A. R., q Colonial Dame, who
likes to hear her music compoS-
ing husband play the guitar. .
Mrs James A. Farley, wife OF
the postmaster general, a prize
FIGHT fan. swell spot" but
chiefly interested in her children.
Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, pa
trician Yirginian who. does her
own marketing, wife Of the Sec
rotary of the navy.
Mrs. Harold l.. Ickes. once a
Republican representative IN the
Illinois legislature, wife OF the
secretary of the interior.
Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife
OF the secretary of agriculture,
an amateur gardener, who would
like to play golf, except that
Henry can't see any sense in
golf.'
Mrs. Daniel C. Roper, wife OF
the secretary of commerce, who
once pulled political-social
coup by giving a party for can
didate William Gibbs McAdoo
during the 1924 convention, TAX
ing many national committee
women away from an Al Smith
rally. "
: Then there is Ms Frances
Perkins. herself secretary OF Ia
l.or. the first woman 10 serve IN
the cabinet, mother of an Is
year-old daughter, wife OF Paul
c. Wilson, industrial engineer
and researcher. interested main
IN in her job. which has long
been the welfare and the inter
ests of men and women who
work-and of children who work
when they ought to be in school
and old people who have to work
when they ought to be retired,
in her opinion.
Probably the first social ques-
ton of the Roosevelt administra-
tion will be whether a cabinet
member, if a woman, out ranks
a wife Of a cabinet member
For, unless the cabinet member
herself ranks ahead of cabinet
wives. Miss Perkins Will be at
the bottom of the cabinet list,
since her department 5 the new
est of the 10.
Still more troubling may bt
the question of the rank of a
cabinet husband. There never
has been a cabinet gentleman
before, so there is no precedent
Win Mr.. Wilson rank as woult
the wife of the secretary of Ia
Dor? If so, how will the seating
be arranged to give him th'
proper place among the men
with a woman on each side?
There has been only one "con
gressional gentleman, the hns
band of Representative Mary I
Norton of New Jersey. who rare
" comes to Washington, but WHIT
has been accorded the same ia
ble-rank as his wife. All othe1
women members of congress have
been widows or splnsters. 4
new congressional husband vii
enter with the Roosevelt admin
istration, the new husband o.
Mrs. Katherine O'Loughlin Nc
Carthy of Kansas. He is a mem
Der Of the state legislature, so h
has an official rank of his own.
The problem of precedence
probably will not bother eithe,
Miss Perkins or the Roosevelts
however, much it may concerl
other hosts and hostesseS il
Washington.
At the top, of course, is Mrs
John Nance Garner. wife Of tn
vice president, who will go OF
being her husbands secretary
will continue to live in the sam
hotel apartment, may keep o
washing out her own stockings
but who will accept more invita-
tons TO dinner than she has pre-
viouSly accepted.