Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-17 | Page 7 | Confessions of Washington Wives

Intimate Stories of i Womans Woman's Side of Official Life in the J Alice Longworth the the- Mother She Wheels ls Paulina's Buggy to the Amazement of Washington Washing Washing- ton SoCiety By ALLENE SUMER CHAPTER VIr Washington ho hd are ate I anybody at all dont don't wheel their own baby buggies They hire th the trimmest st m mOSt st patrIcian pa- pa maids that ca cah 1 be found and send them forth on MassachuSetts a th the niost aristOcratic Was Washington et after atter Instructing them to let fo pass passerby gaze upon the august child In the carriage But Alice e Lon Woith Wheels her herOW OW l child Sunday at r Sunday she goe goes forth Wheelin carrIage mingles villi the agh aghast st nursemaids and b ams like a Cheshire Chesh- Chesh ire cat If a passerby stops to look at and gush about the darling ittle thih MAID DOESN'T LIKE IT And on week ends wh when n Alice A ice ti ROosevelt Longworth is too busy atthe at the senate and house bouse to do her own wheeling she Instructs nursemaid to keep keel from the sUperIor or of the theOther theother other t rs of Infant official Washington arid to be nice to folks who stop to sp ak t tO Paulina The nursemaid rumor has it like her orders It makes her hel lose 1050 caste with her colleagues but with a grim face fac she obeys and lets tile We rabble gaze its its' fill upon upun the Roosevelt bab baby Pauline Is 2 years old olet now Old eno enough gh to be In danger or of being spoiled her hel mother thinks ruling that Paulina may not pose fOr fr photographers pho- pho as freely as as in In her younger days s 's THE PICTURES MUST STOP old end enough ugh t to begIn to wonder r why all the s sa says s 's Is really no reason to gIve her the theIs theis Is really no reason togie e hel hei the pictures must stop Paulina story has It wakes her father the speaker ot of the house long ete da daylight light and long ere eCo h hIs ho hois Is read ready She eats cats a appetite Is no small one then sh she goes forth in her She's an outdoor bab baby spending most of her waking hours in the open UPSET THE I OLD The coming of upset an anen en entire tire household She i t a anew anew new housS hous with a and aIry room for a nursery and a complete corn com shakeup of servants the old ones ones' resented any change hange In the tho habits to which they had becOme be- be cOme coma accustomed all because or of an Infants Infant's arriVal Is spared any hint of formal formal for for- mal education so far lar Her little cousIns the children of Ted Roosevelt Roose- Roose velt are language sharks In studying study study- Ing rench Italian Hallan and German Paulina Is said to listen to them In awe and wonder She managed to ask her mother not long ago if she he had to do that t tOo o. o Her mother who vho said suf- suf from a study of languages and was quite outstripped by brother Ted answered God forbId WANTS PAULINA TOBE uTO TO BE HERSELF She makes no plans for fot PaulI Paulina a. a either as regards or ca- ca reel reet explainIng that all she w the ch n-d n tobe tor her daughter is tobe to be he herser seU of has been taught t the sual kid stunts of bow bo patty cake wowing and meowing Her favorite stunt when she he feels she Is not getting the thc attention to which she is entitled is to start h her r repertoIre of barking bartIng the whig mooing quacking and crowing until the desired result H is attained f Im hipped n Paulina is Moth Moth- Mother Iother er Alices Alice's s 's pet wisecrack and so hipped Is she that when any specimen spec spec- linen imen of the visiting zoo as her collection or of are fondly fondi called wants to see the child she Is h hauled forth to be s eh and ad- ad Baby Paulina has a hula hula-hula grass skIrt shake a wIcked sh i 1 s sli ahard tim tim understanding and mama i iwho who love to have her do such tUt ny fly things but if they want it it she will The president is coming to din din- her ner Tomorrow Ill I'll tell what that m means ans in the capital how city they borrow table cloths silver and everything copyright p 1927 NEA Ser ice Inc