New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1919, Page 8

XES PINK TEAS WITH POLITICS 9. by Public Ledzer Co WILL H. HAYS those of which the McCormick farm iirman Republican Na- boasts. tional Committee Duri the summer the family luxuriates there. The children love it, and learned to ride almost at the same time that they learned to walk. But even the best of riders sometimes come a cropper. And in the height of the campaign last fall Mr. McCormick’s advisers did not know whether to smile or swear when failed to show up at an important political meeting, and later explained that his little girl had had a fall from ber horse, and of course, he could not bother about politics until he had taken her to the hospital, and assur- ed himself that she was not seriously damaged The farm, while the McCormieks are on it, during the summer, which begins early with them and ends late, is the “social center” in every sense of the word of the surrounding country. Mrs. McCormick attends the sewing circles and the women’s clubs in that section. She helped the young people last summer organize garden clubs. She turned over a good{part of the farm to the land army for in : 3 tensive cultivation and the training S. RAYMOND ROBINS bl S of women farm hands, and thirty-five 3 g A potent influence SErah A o : i women learned modern scientific dairy MRS. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH | Lol i enes o na o nalBalfatr o ! i L c g methods under Mrs. McCormick's per- The daughter of Theodore Roosevelt is actively in ! e ¢ / = ¢ : = sonal direction. “As a girl,” she says, the movement 3 5 (Above) MRS, MEDILL McCORMICK 413 3 S g “I spent much of my time on my Designated by Chairman Hays as leader of thic : : % grandfather’s farm in Ohio, and now women full participation in party Republican Women's Executive Committee 3 o 2 I am able to put to good use the affairs” says Mrs. McCormick, “and v : : ; iy knowledge I acquired at that time. now that the loag hoped for oppor- luminating experience, count for any. 3 o e i 1 have always liked the country and tunity has come, we women are eager thing, certainly Ruth Hanna McCor B & BN 4 - my interest in agricultural problems to justify the confidence shown. I epublican center th will serve as nary setting forth of the purpose and inick ought to know how to play the i : i is one of the big things of my life.” t to emphasize that we do not pro- .a clearing house for the Republican ans of her committc After the Dbolitical game pose to @ . Her Special Training rately plan ac nal com- fea ganize the women sepa- women of the count An important formal-informal talk the rows of little Moreover, is a splendid refuta ture will be a bureau of informa- It chairs broke their formation tion of the bromide that a woman e Also as a girl she spent much time mittee is to o ate with the Re on, to which women may refer party and gathered into littlc groups for dis- cannot take an intelligent erest- 2 o with her father, learning the political publican airma 1 each questions. She wants also to make it cussion and gossip and tea and de- cven a voting interest—in public zame from a very shrewd teacher. State, and to 1 in perfecting hs a sort of a club for Republican women licious little sandwiches affairs without necessarily neglecting MEs. JOHN HAYS HAMMOND And she grew up in official society in organiz » women, 0 of the congressional delegations, plac- It was an interesting afternoon, and her household and her children. Every Another prominent leader Washington, taking her place quite as that in meeting reconstruction ing the headquarters rooms at thelr perhaps the most significant feature ©N€ Who knows her at all knows that a matter of course among the belles problems and formulating its policies, 1 as a meeting place With s the rallying of the clans of the old- 1er tWo children are the biggest fact In circle above of the capital, meeting notables and the party will have the benefit of the friends. But her cardinal principle is time Republican families. As they ar- ©n earth to her, and the biggest fac- MARGARET HILL McCARTER nobodies with the courtesy that her women’s advice and counsel as well that there shall be no division in the rived the women werc asked to regis- tor in her life. With both Mr. and The writer, who has been selected to help at national position required. In fact, she has as the men's.” ranks of Republican men and WOmen. ter in the “guest book.” The first Mrs. McCormick the children are a headquartel had a wonderful training for the job Her Important Role ‘A\"‘l’\\;‘\w:[“tml \w]mnn':, organization i3 yame inseribed thercon is “Alice Long: Passion The moment he hits the that Mr. Hays has asked her to under- e e \n'nvf‘jn:nh‘»}““;‘.:t "”“H““‘\*:‘“‘»:‘f“:*; worth, Cincinnati.” Others are Mrs. ;-‘,“,m ':w'r in the evening, Mr. Me. sisted strenuously that she enough or radical enough to be call take, and not merely Washington, but Beblicanl Ereeii i o co o e SR -vm_‘ “H'”I‘m e les R. Davis. Minnesota; M 'i\m"‘ S maleie S becline i foriithe having no functions, because she ed an inonoclast. But he has always the whole country will watch with WALE (to his month Mol Mecon e Se e Sl SERAG 2o S Mlles B Roinatxter ot BWesbington :Y‘\le’:( i n]m there is one high old distinctly disapproved of functions done his own thinking. Mrs. Me interest the functioning of the Repub- bl o e . pArtin e an b i fael WUE She State; A, T L. Frelinghuysen ne With the youngsters. And neither when the nation was at war. Even Cormick is his femininc DrototyPe. lican Women's National Executive ¢ and ve art ir Mrs. James 13. Reynolds, Mrs. John Dolitics nor parties, neither sociology ~when she and her husband gave a Not even her husband does her think- Committee under her leadership. It nd help formulate ing the party destinics. She regards : ’ In February she expects oo ity Gestinics. Sho XeRards Hiays Hammond, Mis Wiliam Havd, nor soclely, in both of which, being dinner for Lord and Lady Readins, ing. Nov does he want lo- She 15 looks as if she was goins to effect a 3 o conterence. of Republican wemen mrom© of leading Republican jrs. prederick Gillett, Mys. Truxton @ WOmAR of catholic tastes, Mrs. VEIY soon after their arrival, it must not at all a “preltyprelty” type. She yryly alluring combination of pink e i 5 o i i ¥» Beale, Mr Robert Chew, Mrs. Fred McCormick takes an intelligent inter not for a moment be regarded as a is dark-skinned, dark-eyed, with heav¥ . ..< ang politics. acionfofiche coun iy, e ilase she proposes to hold here in Rujiten. Mrs. Irving Lenroot, Mrs, Ju- est, is allowed to interfere with the function. They simply had the Read- dark hair, stralght and slender, not 5 aboii; @ week and atwhich the lseuss ‘ as epochal in the party’s of- i Kapn and Miss Marion Olive hours set aside for the kiddies. Whiie ings—people whom they had met in very robust, but tremenduosly ener- MO siioe o Ceo Bepub e petlyn Time will be given for the .iha. o widely representative lot of the kiddies, should occasion arise, london, and really liked a whole lot— getic, rather of the George Eliot type, The Honest Doughboy be set the women. They will to thoroughly thresh out the Republican women. by no means all interfere with any engagement t in to dinner. Which gave rise to the rteresting,” but of no set style of A R M A s of them from suffrage States, not even mother may have, auestion how one was to entertain an beauty. CEE T S TR exalted functionary without making a Of course, she and Mr. McGormick 2 y, 118 5 ft on of the entertainment, or have wealth—a good deal of it—but Wwestern France you will see a huge urged expre: themselves, to ns oblems affecting the t thing 1at e going to need f 1, it being the first time and ways and means for doing men have met together to con- S SAb e e e the shores of a seaport town in : > in suffrage, hut women who in thei e s i ;:m‘rr:“:ym offadvancing i S Ie U e e » IR G Wb G o SN .\4\“lling~(w‘u not a function?” they are youns and sincere and gen- sign over the cashier's window. It e i t with nore smoothly oiled machinery than —Answer hen it's at the McCor- uine, and their wealth does not sCream y.uqs: “Send Your Money Home. We ‘ormick holds, that She Opens Headquarters And where Mr. Hays have it rather complicated home of the micks or stare at the passerby. It in found a wom suited to or- Young Senator-elect from Illinois. Yet Now the war is ove there may with natural grace and is quite over- vanize the women and lead them into it is one of the few important offi. be “functions” at the h down on looked in the realization that their the Republican fold than Mrs, McCor- cial residences where no housekeeper Jackson Place, where they are living purpose in life is the real thing, and dow in just that one hut alone, the Are Here to Serve.” relp pick s. McCormick opened her head Through that tiny little caged win tform, to Aauartersabout the middle of December o with “tea and talk.” There was nothing 5 1 will € Hothing s ik Ruth Hanna, the is on duty, On the contrary, Mrs. this season, about oppos . old their ideals ave honest and fine. boys send home about $20,000 a daughter of onc of the most astute MeCormick has always insisted on Cameron house, which was the Wash month. Some months it runs much politicians that even Ohio ever pro- running the hoyse herself. And it is ington home of Ruth Hanna's girl higher. It costs the boys nothing— duced, the man who was generally re- certainly an indication of rather un. hood; though her present home was Mrs. McCormick is an accomplished not even their time. They turn the ¢ what had beci 1 5 garded as having made McKinley 3 tive ability that, although one of wWhich she knew every nook horsewoman, probably the best in the money in at the window and get a of far-see v 1 all e coun- of what had becn the drawingroom 5. oo S e up several hours daily to and corner, and where she danced official crowd in Washington. All her receipt for it. The money is sent the y rogram for ©of one of the most fashionable and her life she has had I and loved same day by a New York draft direct in fact, as a ¢ she was <o to the wife or mother. Under sep- ed to them her father usea arate cover goes a letter to her telling play a mock terror lest when she how it was sent, who sent it and when be asked ¢ the candidates, dry or official about the program. In for w nd candidates they @ Dleasant, herugged room, with the Manages a Farm will ultimat ced to campaign. 1shine aming in n the ferns And so she X the co-operation and growing things in the bay window 2 = father' t she svas, ac 1er K @ Republican women's head. away many a happy evening of S einliand i -uction in hospitable residences of Washington a : L =nblice f I3 : i t S ) ivlo of husdreq Sording Yo those knew the old quarters, she retains personal direc- girlhood, having been at that time the e : ] 3 3 Senator, very close Lo lum, and though tion of her home, and of every small- residence of Mrs. Richard Townsend H most of the women gzathered to meet Mrs. McCor- mick and b ends—Mrs. Arthur Ry erson, ju i from six months' scarcely more tha schoolgirl his est detail that affects her two chil- Mrs. Peter Gerry’s mother, and as Medill, notable as the scene of brilliant enter- 8FeW up and came to choosing a it was mailed career she would insist on being a Of course, the service of this win- has been family \nnie,” aged “two, goin' Massachusetts avenue mansion is Jockey. Which is perhaps why, when dow is much more far-reaching than s now. There will not, hewever, be the she began to look around for a littie that. The men behind it cash all post S G T R it st winter the McCormicks had a delightful Sunday night suppers. Mrs. ¢iversion “from the serious affairs of checks for the boys in the uniforms leCormick decided fo give tiose up life” she chose for her plaything of the United States, both army and women yr many of the te in f his political dren, Katrina, aged six, and zenerally known to intimates of the taining as Mrs. Townsend’s present confidan women \ been or with the American § ench Wounded, and Mrs. Incefhet smariiag I iy sciated with one of the on parti t to how Fund thes are Raymor ns. They didn't, either not party have the Of the talk partisan politi Mrs., most o o 1t Je difficulties of ticians, ¢ vited young up ful home out on New Hamp- k i ers \‘y‘” o littard wne head for I Avenue, wher vhile they did when, in defercnce to the request of Rock River Farm, the estate on the navy. They cash them without ask- political careev 1 seems to be taining that she considered the authorities that men be dispensed Rock River which these two energetic ing for identification They cash all & Converted 1o .y Of the name—certainly no for- with as household servants, she or- Young people now call home. Her money orders from home without ganized her household with only wor- chief interest in the way of relaxa- question. And they cash all personal tion is the management of those 1500 checks if the boys happen to have a acres, where she is developing a won. bank account in France. And it is derful dairy, not as a commercial interesting to note that they have McCormick has been conspien. Droposition, but for the sake of the never had a check of any kind, sert even its rather bitter but most enjoyable, where one was ously identified with the class of young sick babies of Chicago, thousands of or description come back to them. $ college men who have entered into the Whom have been nursed back to health They have lent money to men who “open 1 I ent is fond 2 the Republican party can con m that it star thrown t breach a they believe i f industries needed aking a fo they i to be Republicar now likely to be affrage by he € o it, “at the cost of conside party e more con r it ceremony and with self puts i 1 ) Hays E b ht or justice. Mrs. time and money and en 1€ ful hosts in town. n a leader in every night suppers which everybody was home. as h x—they achievc him 1 entertaining ¢ ight- en servants, all of whom, incidenta'y e D > putation as about the mos vining e : Th ad Sunday she brought with her from her INi:ois vinc will join AI ! was full of the things she has b ) active Tz n Trance National ¥ 1 Woman's Suif > Associa- quite zy about, informal perhaps, Mr. as : vt ot mere ecting Itepublican D were TOW ¢ red-cush- tion has waged ; ok > t National Woman’s sure to meet the most interesting 5 S SEER T i e . G, e people that ever came to Washington, political life of the country zealously, on the pure certified milk i Sl el )e: 1 b S i iR in the atmosphere be. It heredity and environment, com: mot as lions particularly. but simply and concerned themselves intimately there. There is no finer herd of pure- whatever, but it has always been paid should be 2 most as human beings with the public welfare. He is not old bred Holstelns in the country than back without exception. but in choosing them and i gilt chairs, as for any parlor fight against narly political they will stand Republican women yond Mrs. McCormick’s little prelimi- bined with what “We are asking