Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1924, Page 42

MRS. LA FOLLETTE TO TAKE PART IN HUSBAND’S CAMPAIGN Wife Has Been Real Helpmate During Sen- ator’s Career. Met in University W here Both Matriculated in Sqme Autumn. The wives of the presidential can- didates of the major parties will have to look to their laurels with the wife of Senator Robert La Follette on the list of “running mates,” for Mrs. La Follette is as much a force to be reckoned with as is the senator in the thiangular presidential campaign about to be actively waged. ‘With the possible exception of Mrs. William Jennings Bfyan, there is hardly an instance in public life where a woman has. been so entirely and efficiently the partner of her husband. If Mrs. La Follette does does not take the platform in her husband’s behalf during the cam- Ppaign it will be the first time in some years that she has failed to do so. Like n Romance. The story of the La Follettes' joint carcer reads like a romance. Thirt five vears ago they met at the. Uni- versity of Wisconsin, where they matriculated the same autumn. Both ame from a farm—Bell Case from raboo and Robert La Follette from Trimre W They had the sa ground and interests, thoug the matter of worldly goods Mi; was better off. Robert La father died when he was a bal ing three children, a run-dow the log cabin in which they lived and barely enough money to build a new hous; At the age of 14, La Follette assum- ed the general managership of the farm and fam He entered the University of Wisconsin at 19, hav- ing rented the farm and moved the family to Madison, where they kept a college boarding house. He work- ed his way through by teaching the district school and running the uni- versity maxgazine, in which he later bought a half interest. Won as Orator. Writing and public speaking were matural gifts. He was & member of the debating club at college, took part in the local and general debates and also in the interstate contest He says he doesn’t remember the time when he didn't speak if he had the chance. od literature was his delight and ecreation. He was a great student Shakespeare, and while at the uni- sity _wrote 'an_oration on lago (from “Othello”.) He won the oratorical contest against six other colleges, there was so much enthusiasm “lago” was published as a nphlet and offered at a local book his first and the h with rean La Follette Play wrights rs got in to offered Shake to play Biographers say pllette would have become a tra- gedian but for his short stature; that it was only a matter of inches that stood between him and fame on the stage. However, his life ambition was to become a lawyer. The only time he ever cut recitations was when there were big law trials on at Madi- son. Then he could always be found on the front seat in the courtroom. Pull Toward Stage. There may have been a strong pull toward the footlights. but there was a_ stron, factor which influenced his decision to become a lawyer. He was in love with Belle e and he could not afford to take any chances. They became engaged while at col- lege, but were not married for two years after their graduation. What first attracted Miss Case to La Fol- lette was not sense of power nor his scholarly attainments. Those who mistake the Wisconsin senator’s tensity for grimness will be surprised to hear that what won him his bril- liant wife was his keen sense of hu- mor. Through all the years there never has been a time when she hasn’t been able. through his eyes, to see the funny side of life. A man who can ke his wife laugh for thirty-three ye ha deed missed his calling. = Though instead of a tragedian he ought to have been a comedian? Read Law Together. He is a natural mimic with a gift for dialect. He reads aloud as well as he talks, his interpretation of | characters making them come to life, From fairy tales to Shakespeare and the best of masters he has read to his children since they were babies and given them a literary background that has played an important part in_their liv The first he and Mr Always pri head of the house candidate for the cuting attorney, month, As La_ Follette had never gone through law school at the university, but had “crammed” outside, and passed the > bar examination un- der pressure, it was necessary for him to have more elementary law. So Mrs. La Follette read law and to him. became s that after th, ed and her first baby safely she re-entered the university igen and took the law course. lected to Congress. she was graduated. Mr. La s elected to Congre. upstart of This prevented Mr: La Follette from entering activ practice, though she assisted her hus- band and his law firm in the prepara- tion of briefs and acted as index clerk and research worker. Back in 1885, when the La Follettes came to Congress, there were neither secretaries nor clerk hire allowed the | members. Mrs. La Follette did most | | This brought prominence. atrical prod him. He w parts—once ‘Hamlet. in- year they were married La Follette read law ing on to some goal, the decided to be a position of prose- which paid $66 a Just as Follette w of her husbands’ clerical work. As there were two babies then, this must have taken remarkable management, | particularly when Mrs. La Follette | entered into the social life of the | Capital, which, at that time, was| more b iant than it is now. | It was during the Cleveland admin- | istration, when there was a beautiful bride in the White House. All offi-| claldom kept open house, and there | was much more calling than there is ' today. People really paid visits and | did not drop their bits of pasteboard at the front door and drive off. Resumed Writing. H Mrs. La Follette greatly enjoyed her social duties and life at the Cap- | ital and, after her husband’s third | term in the House, he went down to | defeat in the Democratic landslide, she felt that the end of the world had come when she had to give it all up and return to Maple Bluff farm at_Madisor However. Mr. La Follette cheerfully resumed his law practice, and Mrs. La Follette took up her pen. She wrote for the magazines of her rich experience at Washington, and also for the newspapers a daily article— “Thought for thg_Day,” which re- flected her every-day philosophy as well as contained manv a helpful household hint. Now her writing is confined to her husband's magazine— La Follette's—in which she conducts & special page. Am Ardeat Suftragette. ‘When her husband was elected gov- ernor in 1901 Mrs. La Follette made the governor's mansion famous for hospitality and hominess, and when he resigned to become Senator she began to take an active part in his public life. She was an ardent suf- frage worker and writer, and spent one season on the Chautauqua plat- form speaking for suffrage. ‘When the senator was a presiden- tial candidate in 1912 she went with him to California, where the fran- chise had just been granted women, and mot only did some independent speaking, but also spoke on the same platform with her husband. After MRS. ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE. ratification of the suffrage amend- ment she campaigned two successive campaigns in Wisconsin, and has ac- companied ‘the senator on all of his campaigns. When Gov. Blaine was.a candidate Mrs. Blaine and Mrs. La Follette campaigned for him to- &ether. They sometimes spoke four and five times a day—on lawns, porches and in public halls, both to men and women, though their main purpose was to reach the women in the rural districts. Have Rented Home. During all her public activities Mrs. La Follette has kept her femi- nine charm. To meet her is to meet gracious a woman—wife and mother, whose home and family are the dear- est things in life. Her personal ap- pearance is most pleasing and at- tractive. There is still more gold than silver in her hair, and while she wears glasses they do not hide the blue of her eyes or the eternal youth that lurks there. Her clothes are not “smart” as the term is accepted, but always in per- fect taste and pecullarly suitable to her type. The La Follette, home, which for years was on Sixteenth street, is now in a large rented house at Wyoming and Connecticut avenues. It ’is just | a block from the Million Dollar | Bridge and has a beautifully kept lawn with a fine maple tree under which the senator spends his hours of ease during his present confine- ment_to the Capitol. Fond of Persian Rugw. Inside, the house is the usual home of the public official. who must divide his lares and penates between two homes—the one he has left at his vot- ing address and the other he must es- s his temporary abiding place at Washington. Besides the eeveral fine pieces of colonial furniture, the only in- dication of plutocracy to which the So- alists might object is in the very valu- ble Persian rugs which cover the pol- simplicity and practicability. There are no_soft-shaded lamps and deep-tufted sofas. Even the books one might ex- pect to find in this intellectual home are missing from the living rooms. The senator’s fine library is mostly at Maple BIuff farms, where he spends as much time as his official duties will permit and gets as much joy out of farming as | he does out of politics. In the hing- ton home the senator has a rather austere work shop on the second floor, and Mrs. La Follette also has her pri vate “corner.” Home Found Honpitable. The La Follettes have never “gone i for eociety much, but their home has been an active center of hospitality, and interesting groups are always found there. Their four children have grown up in the official set and been on vel friendly terms with Washington. Robe jr.. is the only unmarried member of the family who is at home. He has be- ome identified with his father's politi- cal interests, and is his secretary and ‘manager.” In the coming campaign he | will perhaps teach several “new tricks"” to the old-time politicians. Philip La Follette is the lawyer of the family. He was married last ear. to_ Miss Isabelle Bacon of Salt Lake City and i rrying on his father's law practice at Madison and | living at Maple Bluff Fola La Follette, the eldest child, whom Washington' has known trom a baby, is another chip of the tam- ily block. After a brilliant scho- lastic career at the alma mater of her parents she returned to Wash- ington and. instead of enjoying a belleship, as she might have, entered with her mother into suffrage work. She had a natural-born gift for speaking and often spoke in publiic. She also had marked dramatic talent and adopted the Stage as her pro- | fession. For two years she played | ingenue parts with Ada Rehan, on her last tour, and was also with Deidrickstein. Fond of Horse Riding. Just as she was beginning to get a hold pn public attention she met and mafried George Middieton, play- wright. The Middietons now live in New York. where they are affiliated with the world of letters and lt- erary side of the stage. Mary La Follette, the found her self-expression Instead of going to college, she studied art. She recently married Ralph Sucher, who is the head of a newspaper syndicate at Washington, and lives within a short distance of her parents. All of the family are outdoor en- thusiasts—swim, play tennis and hike. Mrs. La Follette hikes and rides horseback, sitting her saddle like a veteran. The Senator is like- wise a wonderful horseman, but with ,their multitudinous_duties at ‘Washington most of the keeping fit physically has to be done at Maple Bluft farms. With a presidential cam- paign coming on, Maple BIuff is at pres- ent a fond memory—and Lope. _ e JUSTICE OF FREE STATE TALKS IN IRISH TONGUE First Official Utterance by Judge in That Language in Many Centuries. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, July 26—At the recent cere- mony of the inauguration of the new Free State judiciary one of the most striking features was the speegh in | the Irish language delivered by Chief Justice Kennedy, said to be the first official utterance by a judge in that tongue since the time of the Brehon laws, many centuries ago. n'x:r the new judicial regime legal P ure is to be greatly simplified, and the old, cumbrous forms of in- dictment are to be abolished. A sig- nificant change is the disappearance of the name of the king. In the past, oftenses were described in the in- dictment as “against the peace of our sovereign lord the king, his crown and dignity,” and jurors were sworn to “true deliverance between our soverign lord the king and the prisoner | at’the bar." These forms are now abolished. Prosecutions were laid as | “The Kinz v. So and So0.” They an‘ now to be laid in the name of the attorney general The new Free State court of ap- peal is an ultimate tribunal Ap- peals to the House of Lords have been abolished and appeals to the Privy Council can only be had by petition to the King for permjssion likely to be granted only in. very exceptional cases. “The courts will,” | sald the chief justice, “stand between ' the people and any and every en-! croachment upon their constitutional | rights and liberties by whomsoever attempted.” 3 | youngest, | in art. | quantity, THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., Day’s Haul of Herring S0 Great Fishermen Find No Market. WARNEMUDE, Germany, July 26.— Colossal schools of herring are in evidence in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Holstein and Mecklenburg. In the Bay of Fischland, east of Warnemude, several fishermen the other day hauled in 20,000 pounds of herring in a single night's catch. Not knowing what to do with such a big they simply loaded their catch in wagons and drove around to JULY 27 New Orleans Presents Many Légends To Account for White Indian Origin By the Associated Pres NEW ORLEANS, July 26.—The re- cent discovery of so-called “white Indlans” on the Isthmus of Panama by the Marsh expedition has unleash- ed its legend in New Orleans, versed in the romantic lore of Central and South America. An expedition of Scotsmen, some included four ministers of the Church of Scotland, who went along to es- tablish a' presbyterial organization, and it is told that because of their ascetic tendencies some of the sturdy Scotch families rebelled against them, and were banished from the settle- ment. - Later, it 18 sald, others of the set- tlers were driven away by the Span- iards, and it fs thought likely many of them fled into the jungles and re- 1924— PART 2 have a different story. Many yvears ago, they say, so long ago that no one can recall the date, a band of white men came to Darlen and set about to rob the red men of their wealth. 1In their exploitations, how- ever, the paleface visitors incurred the displeasure of an evil spirit, and soon they died.” Their spirits, so the 8tory goes, being aecursed, were driven into’ the fever-laden jungles, Where they stayed forevermore. That is the legend of the San Blas tribe. According to their oldest chief- tians, no San Blas could intermarry with' another race. That law stiil holds, and so strictly is it observed that even now a white man visiting tribe ran away with paleface men whom they married, only to be slain | later or their babies to be killed a few days after birth. It is thought improbable by these unoffis historians that the white Indlan is of Spanish origin, for the men of Spain were never referred to y the Indians as white men, but as ‘Jinetas.” after the Spanish “horse- men.” This failure of the Indians to refer to the Spaniard as white men | while that term was applied to other strangers of the jungles is consided- ed solid ground for the theory of those that believe the new-found tribe descended from the Scotch. FREE FOR CHILDREN. 1 bl Following a custom of many 3 standing, school children of Mon gomery, Prince Georges and Howan counties, Md., and Washington, D). ¢ will be admitted free to the Rockvil |fair on the opening day, Tuesda August 19 The exhibits will far surpass any « | previous years, it is predicted. cial street car service will be run t the fair grounds August 19, 20, 21 an 22, the four fair days Spe the neighboring towns and villages, offering the fish for a song. 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