Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-13 | Page 13 | Confessions of Washington Wives

1 oN t S Intimate Stories ories of I I T I I C I r ci 1 c the womans omans bide Side of Of Official I 5 LIfe In in tIle the CapItal E 1 rO Congressmen Congressmen's 5 Wives Are Lowest in Washington's Social Scale According to a Certain Little Blue BlueBook B Book cik By ALLENE CHAPTER III The congressman's wife who goes to Washington all alI at the thrilling ous lire life she believes Is about to he be hers soon learns that she Is just literally and nd fig fig- figuratively classed as the lowest of the low and that life lite Is just one eternal struggle It if she becomes an any anymore i imore more than Q the most obscure ob- ob housewife In Washington Rare flare Indeed Is the lady Indy who is 13 to move In offIcial circles of Wash Wash- Ington whO does doe not COme to tow with f a certain little blue boole tucked tuck tuck- ed under her hr arm Th The book Is caned called Social 1 W Wash Wash- ington IT IS THE LAW Even the state d re 1 It It 0 Most nn any congreSsman's wife knows some official woman who Isor is isor or was tn in Washington and when they write her what to bring they send senda a copy of at the little book It Is supposed to contain an all the social laws law in codified form And In the little b bok ok Jt t bluntly says S Wives Ives of congressmen n call caU first upon the wives wins of tho vice dent ambassadors foreign minis minis- tens ju justices 5 tices cabinet ministers senators and of representatives who have been longer In office or Whose states tates antedate their own SO DIFFERENT JUt the reverse ot of ordinary calling canIn can call In ing rules you see flack In the tle home town the newcomer feverIshly feverishly fever fever- launders the curtains and nn feeds the fern plant llant food getting everything slicked ed up In hopes hope that t the 1 bankers banker's and ministers minister's and doctors doctor's will call calI But down Washington way the I newcomer puts op 01 her hj and tucker starts In at the White House anti never stops calling cE until hEr list of perhaps nearly 1000 names la is and her tOO worth ot of ep- ep graved ved calling cards art are gone Calling however In Washington does not necessarily mean that yoU really settle down clown with tie the callee cailee nd gossip f S n Is mostly j a matter ot of leaving carde And Anc cards can be o left only on certain days and at certain hours S AT THE WHITE HOUSE Calls may be made at the White Whitt Elouse any RnY da day however A liveried livened footman brings a 0 card tray to the door Qt of tl the the- the cards are ara IC cle p t thereon ereon nail and the car car drives on 01 Calling Is not so simplE at les lesser er doors however Cards m may y le be left foJ foi cabinet women only on on for senators senators' wives only on Thursdays Thursday for for- tlc diplomatic WrY 8 fin Friday IncIte ladies of oC the ju judiciary judi- judi I- I ciary cIar oil Monday londaY and congress mens men's wives s op n fu Tuesdays daY Cards Card ma may be left only frOm 4 to G Th The 1 newcomer c can n buy a little city map especially made for call call- Jog Ing purposes and grouping official REGARDED AS PESTS Nobody goes gots calling on street streetcars cars arB or buses Besides It would be bebel beber ber bel ot of that year numbered practicallY Q DitL they come troll from across the sea They AThey diet did The remaining number t from rom the United Unite Stat States S impossible even to make a dent inthe in inthe the hundreds ot of where calls must be male made So the girls club together for taxis alter afternoon they map out the route call caIl a a. cab and go gallivanting It If they can get t 5 ce they call themselves lucky Which may be one answer tp to why congressmen find it hare hard to lI live c on a year And how were we're treated one confided to me Ve e know perfectly well weIl that they reg re- re g rd us as pests and hate our calls calis i as much as we hate bate to make them We V know perfectly well the jol joke e. e about moving out into the great spaces to get awa away from the congressman's wife wite Ive lost forty eight pounds but Ive I've got seventy five naples op my list another one told me and Im I'm losing my thumbnail from having my thumb caught In the door b by butlers with the card tray who are afraid that I will come in iii They wonder why we dress so tacky tack said another tucking her I frayed glove fingers Into the palm of at tier leI hand Well I spent t for fOI taxis and for cards ards all because be- be cause of these pEsky calls last year TOO MANY BATHTUBS But there are congressmen n ansi arul congressmen and money talks taUs It Itis Itis is last a congre recently moved from the presidential suite ot of the city'S mo most t fashionable fashion fashion- able hotel a suite said to rent for fOI more than 2000 a month That was was Ogden now an assistant secretary ot of the treasury The suite tin hai fourteen and eleven bathtubs even e one off the This hotel sent forth the talc that the president was about to move in in pending White r rEnovations rhen the White House denied the i story Wisecrackers ers about the city ity had it that a man from a Vermont farm used sed to the tite S night ba bath th in the washtub by the tle l kit h n fire objected to the constant reminder that morning noon and evening baths were tal taken en for granted Tomorrow Ill I'll tell you ou about the cheap little flats fIats a month In which quite a few official Wash Ington families live Jive Copyright 1917 NEA Service Inc