Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-22 | Page 24 | Woman Mayor Finds Banquets Are Worst Job

Woman Mayor Finds Banquets A AAre Are Worst Job Strain Is V Very ery Wearing She Declares Never Home Before Midnight LIVERPOOL England Jan 51 21 l AP AP Attending Attending dinners and banquets ban ban- night after night is the tho worst part of being a a. lord mayor says Miss Margaret Beavan the first woman to hold this position In Liverpool The strain Is very wearing she avers overs as It Is usually after before beCore she reaches home After Alter dinner speaking I J find particularly difficult because there I am told the test lies in being humorous Miss lIss Beavan Dea said after being in office more th than n two months adding I am not a a. humorist humorist hu hu- hu- hu and I have not been able to tomake tomake tomalee make malee myself funny tunny and I 1 never will vill The Job of oC lord mayor to my mind is to make ever every section of ot tho community feel that they share in the communal life Council meetings were also a tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre- tre strain Miss Beavan said My I correspondence is very heavy and I tim am told that tho the number number num num- ber of begging letters have rr greatly Increased since I took office I Iwonder Iwonder Iwonder wonder if that is Js because I happen to be a woman There are many letters from over all the tho world and some contain the most extraordinary nary requests One woman asked me to lend her up to 2000 pounds to start a a. business adventure Another Another An An- tn- tn other a asked ked me to net act as ns godmother godmother godmother god god- I mother to her child and allow the child to be called after alter me The difficulty in answering I found was ns that the tho child had not yet ct been born Many men have re requested re- re quested me to find Ind them wives I es Miss Beavan Is 18 up at 7 in the morning writes her spee speeches be between between be- be V t tween en 8 and 9 and at nt 10 is at her leak desk In the town hall ball I