Show i The Wives of Our Candidates M Mrs s. s Wilson Cares Little for Society Outside Own Family Is Bound Up in Her Husband a True Helpmeet to the President By Idah McGlone Gibson I The The- second of two stories telling telling telling tell tell- ing of the personality of two women one of whom will be the f lady first iret- iret lady of the land after the election Mrs Woodrow Wilson was the subject of an article Jn in The Telegram yesterday Editor Mrs Charles Evans Hughes makes me think of ot the women Mary Mao Wilkins Freeman used to write about She has the face tace and figure of a New England woman and although when I saw her recently at a a. reception at the Republican lican club New York City she was gowned in black taffeta and lace over white satin and wore ware black patent leather pumps trimmed 1 with white and a velvet modified tam tarn o she still had the primness and austerIty austerity austerity auster auster- ity that we associate with a New a-New New Hew England England England Eng Eng- land spinster Mrs Hughes like Mrs Wilson has a distinctive smile It wrinkles up her face around her hazel eyes until they almost sink out of ot sight It discloses teeth that are undeniably her own own own-It It transforms her primness into the graciousness gra- gra with which you have seen your maiden aunt welcome the he minIster min min- ister when he came to dinner She has Spartan courage however as well as great amiability for I 1 saw her shake the hand of every everyone one of those women while she bent to hear the name of each one as she passed your our hand ever ache I 1 asked as the last ones passed and she turned with a a. tired little littie sigh Instantly the ever ready smile spread over her face No I 1 guess I am not the least bit rheumatic rheumatic- I 1 have never suffered the least ache or pain and I 1 have shaken hands with people in an afternoon after after- noo noon S Senseless custom was my com com- ment Mrs Hughes is a diplomat She said nothing Mrs Hughes cares little for so society society so- so ciet but she is of a social nature nature said Mrs John Hays Hammond who stood stood just beside e me behind the wife of the Republican candidate for tor pres pres- ident She Sho is one of or the most precise housekeepers I 1 have have- ever known Everything about her home rolls on well oiled oUd wheels and yet they never have that sound that says house instead in instead instead in- in stead of or home Her husband has always been her first consideration was Mrs Hammond's Hammonds Hammonds Hammond's Hammood's Ham Ham- monds mond's answer to my question as to Mrs Hughes' Hughes interests That seems to be characteristic of or every woman whose husband Is a successful successful suc sue I public man I said After him her h home me and her children children children chil chil- dren take most of her time remarked Mrs Hammond as though I had not spoken I have lived Jived beside her in Washington a a. number of years and I 1 believe I may say I khow Mrs Hughes Intimately and I find that she never I bores you about tho the small things of life Ufe or irritates you with a small way of looking looking- at af big things She is s Interested and greatly concerned concerned con con- with every philanthropy which I will help to make the Ute lives of crippled d dor or poverty stricken children happier and she is one of the board of ot the Home for Old Gentlewomen in Wash Wash- ington inston You see see see- said Mrs l Hammond en enthusiasticallY enthusiastically enthusiastically en- en Mrs Hughes' Hughes in interest rest is all for the helpless s. s She Is so 80 ef efficient efficient efficient ef- ef herself she feels that unless you are very young or very veri old or unless unless unless un un- un- un less you have lost your health you can take care of yourself if you are allowed al allowed allowed al- al lowed to do so Just then then 1 I heard Mrs Hughes say Bay Bayto sayto to an inquiring woman Once in a awhile awhile awhile while a man will fairly crush my hand until my fingers fairly ache and 1 T re resent resent reo re- sent his thoughtlessness and I 1 can tell you my Husband resents it too It is isa isa isa a a case calie of misplaced cordiality that should be discouraged dont don't you think 7 The hazel eyes disappeared In Li the world of little w wrinkles and Mrs Hughes smiled for tor the time and as I realized that she ha had come directly from the train and a a. lon long Western trip to this reception I 1 knew knee that her smiles must entail some of eft fort so I left her that she might no not elf have an any needless hard work in tha direction for me |