Show Modest 1 es Mrs Eleanor McAdoo She Is Just Plain Folks By AMY ARMSTRONG And some have greatness thrust upon them was the tho modest import I of the answer l Mrs rs McAdoo daughter tP ir t mf ot of President Wils Wilf Wilson Wil- Wil k M f s son n and wife wite of ot i W Secretary of theW the W i H 3 Treasury William G. G McAdoo made U t I to my question as asto h i to whether it was r. r t C t not wonderful to tobe tobe l S 'S be one of ot the z i yi great ladles ladies of the tho J t Jt I land d L aBut 1 But I am not l l 1 Jj that she demurred det de- de t J t 1 when I 11 Ji s talked to her yesterday yes yes- during the short visit of the Washington party in Salt Lake And when I insisted I feel that it is Just Justa a tribute to my father And you are not happy to be the daughter df dt the president Of this pr president very much yes she smiled The longer I live the more lnore I come to realize reaUze that the asserted dignity and th the stand of ot important import import- ant people varies inversely ix as their real greatness Mr and Mrs McAdoo McAdo are Just plain folks the kind of folks you like the sort ot nf friends you want to have drop in to 10 tea And Just look who they are Yet if it it were not that they were were so busy and that the demands of ot their position so great Ill I'll wager they wouldn't refuse you y They do not carry around any excess ex ex- cess baggage of formality nor do they talk to you with any condes condescending air Im McAdoo l said the secretary introducing himself to me when he wanted to tell me that Mrs McAdoo would see me inc in about ten minutes Ill I'll always remember that of him I forgot all the little thrills and trem trem- bUngs I had prepared in anticipation of an interview with so great ireat persons persons' and Just decided to myself Gee hes he's an awfully nice m man Mrs McAdoo is j Just st a woman too But she is more t than ti n that that she she is a wise woman No wonder wander a a. little love bird in the person of ot Assistant Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- of ot the Treasury Byron R n. Newton New New- ton whispered to me that Secretary McAdoo and anti Eleanor Wilson McAdoo McAdo were devoted to each other Mrs Secretary brought to her political husband a great fortune Silence is golden said the philosopher and of ot that gold the Mrs has pl plenty nty SIlence SIlence Si Silence SI- SI lence is her middle name the slang artist would say Not that t she is not ready to talk to you she But she wont won't say eay anything I guess guess they told you that I do not like interviews no Interviews no I dont don't mean that I am happy to talk to you But I mean I do not like Uke to be quoted she told me She may have all sorts Borts of ideas about suffrage and different varieties varieties va va- va- va of ot P politics but she is a diplomat diplomat diplomat diplo diplo- mat and that is the expression of her views on the subject Mrs McAdoo is a. a a tall young woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man full of pep as as a friend ot of mine expressed it And that is a good word with which to characterize character character- ize her vitality for it is of Just that hat get there quality Yesterday she wore a a. broad white hat bat with a great ruff of white fox beneath her chin and a suit of mulberry broadcloth Her slender fingers take your-hand your In a long firm clasp for tor How do do you do and Goodbye the kind of ot ofa ota a hand clasp which has all sorts of character in it By y proxy I would venture to say that Eleanor Wilson married Secre Score Secretary Secretary tary McAdoo for the deep wrinkles I It at t either side of his mouth which in ina ina a woman would be called dimples and which make the tall gentleman's smile so 80 winning and so attractive |