Show IRIT BRITAIN'S FIRST LADY Typical Small To TOV Town n Moth Best Describes Mrs Attl lf By SAYERS NEA EA Staff Correspondent LONDON Britain's first lady Jady Violet Helen Attlee AttIce is 18 a a. small town mother and house house- wife Mrs Attlee her husband and four children have lived Inan Inan In Inan an old fashioned red brick villa illa a at Stanmore for the tho past pat 13 years Cars Stanmore is a quiet Middlesex Mid Mid- village not far from Lendon Lon Len don Shopping lIst Hat in hand she watts waits in queues at the stores chatting with other women of ot the community about the everyday everyday everyday every every- day problems of raising a fam fam- ily ny She carries carnes her groceries home In a little wheeled basket basket basket bas bas- ket or sometimes she rides to the stores on op her bicycle She SIlO has only recently started to use se sethe the small Hillman Minx automobile auto auto- mobile which had be ben been n laid up in th tho family garage since the beginning of ot the war When I L visited her daughter Felicity who Is 20 and stu studying study study- y- y lug ing nursing answered tho the door There Is 15 no maid only a house house- keeper Mrs Attlee came down dawn fr from m the upstairs drawing draving room where she jhc had been working on the thc figures of her local savings committee of ot which she is the organizer She ha has collected about since the tho beginning beginning begin begin- ning of the war Efficient Dutiful She's a slim sUm haired gray young young looking lo woman in fri the middle forties She has a pretty smile mile but neither a colorful nor nora a warm personality She's ef efficient ef- ef busIne businesslike dutiful businesslike Blike dutIful and can be quite brusque in manner Although she has worked consistently In the village few people know her intimately Mrs Attlee is 15 commandant of ot the Red Cross CroM Once a week she Bho drives a a n. Y M MC C A refreshment van from which she serves tea to hundreds mostly airmen During the blitzes she hc took charge of ot billeting arrangements arrangement for evacuees and worked in a arest arest arest rest center But all her outside outside outside out out- side interests are arc executed in a purely formal almost uncommunIcative uncommunicative aloof aloot manner In addition to ta her many war- war related duties she has run her 11 room homo home single She acquired the tho services of a housekeeper only recently An odd Jobs man als also comes once weekly for gardening Enjoys EnJo's Family Mrs Attlee is 15 wrapped up in her home and husband Her face lit up when she spoke to mo me moot of ot her family The eldest daughter daugh daugh- ter Janet 22 Is a section officer officer In the W N A A F. F Felicity 20 helps her busy mother in many w ways ys Martin 18 18 recently quit school to Join the merchant navy where hes he's a a man juan Alison 15 is at school Martin ca cabled lcd from Nova tin Ma recent recently y to tell h her r for first time Wh where r he hid posted Sh She is la proud of the tile i sho she ho has been to her He uHe became a an Ji M L p p. p in Ia first year of ot our rn years ago she he told tn uc nursing has always b been en main Interest outside her husband and p politics She doesn't t know will move Into 10 io Street where shell she'll have hive ot of servants ants Include I lers footmen and at i leut u secretary le Sho She alao also will iii hare country mansion at Ch She Sh 11 simple woman Sie simple life lite sn It is 13 KIT more l tant to her at the t add up the and u uthe the village people ha have 2 f far the u w r national p g Freer to o Move fo Recently she he acted j I as tb e cur t to her hu husband band him to Buckingham p see ee the king The sent I at attention when the ami arai m Jl drove through the imP Impost trance She accompany i husband to many meetings y that the children are gr S gr up she he is 13 to mo move Nevertheless s she h has Ii w time for relaxation Her Her h band rarely Jy leaves the fore 1045 o'clock at night c con on week ends has it b beta n sible occasionallY occasionally to rei relax Mr Attlee Cl m to to friends and colleagues guu In j potter snoUt the g garden garde la b peaked ced farmers farmer's cap an tad and p fours tours puffing his hia pipe u Mf s bends to pull weeds eeds Since the war there hive ht fewer flowerbeds and nd vegetables in the garden tho the early part of the ws war mr was president of the Joal 1 an ment meat association though he n er rated highly his a gardner in the thc dig for vi f campaign He soon turned turret p part rt of his 1119 garden to the ch elation tion It is an attractive den with fruit and vege fC I and a small lawn I by lavender bushes bushea and tie fie bed beds |