Show Keep Wife Says Old Diplomat Furore Furore Created by Mrs Poindexters Poindexter's Letter Re- Re Recalls Re Recalls calls alls Instances Where Wives Have Been 1 More Brilliant Than Discreet lly lIy ttE LD SpecIal orre Correspondent to Ilie Stand SI x n ard ard Der COP right 1923 1 23 b by The fhe Standard Standard- Standard Examiner WASHINGTON V Feb 3 ii All Ah roy my lear Jear young youns friend the tile only really sue sue- statesmen and diplomats are i who their wives I in almost total eclipse rho rhe Th speaker sper-ker was sas an old oland and canny diplomatist and of or cou course cours the tho Pt affair was tho sub sub- subject ot of hit his shall we ute sa say his sage remark Washington has been recounting this tuck the stories storie of at wives es tho ho hohu hu hato o 0 been mole mOl e brilliant than tInn dis- dis CI and ano in tho reaction which has has hasset set st t in some tome of at wives Ive who have bave husbands been buss bus their 1 ha c stopped looked and listened Senator Poindexter Is going into the diplomatic serVice his post to b be bc that of ambassador to Peru Perti The appoint appoint- appointment appointment ment was decided upon b by President ITal Hauling din before he lie ever eter e cr heard of at atI I Mis 1 ii II writings and tho Jent has lias too keen a tense sense sens ot of humor to allon a little thins tIling like a letter printed in jn tho the homo home town paper to Interfere v-ith v a II mans man's career carler At the th sarie san time lime it is not 0 overlooked that In lr diplomatic po post t Is probably glIng gl Ins Ing up P the ambition he lie early carly in n 1920 of reaching the th White House his defeat for tor c election I to the tile senate last fall rail was a wholly une une blo blou to lii hIs political ambitions In the is 10 1 non non- all all- It if Mrs If tel sill III take t ut her to lN u the pithy little portable t typewriter pc that told lold the good folk tolk of Spokane and arid later of at o all nil the just what she thought of oC the blockheads in the senate and of oC who tuho ho Used gO re- re resources resources sources In thell theli social career LL nOT HOT Tue capital still sUII the stir by Mr Nelson 0 aya Sis Si's I Look book while her hr husband huband west was charge d at Mexico Mc City I dur-I dur- dur during in dur-in Inor ing a n very tory cry time in our rela- rela s rela relations M q-ith that counti She too hind hada hinda lId lIda a frank peppery sale tle that was not b by certain high Mexican officials They ThY like their thUr pepper In n hot tamales famales and such tuch but that scat seat scattered scattered bv by Mr Mrs rs got cot un under nfl un- under der den their tender skins shins There Ther if Is also the case of at Mrs Bel Bellamy D Bel- Bel Bellamy I lamy Storer Her H r husband a was nas ambas- ambas ador to Austria during the Roosevelt llon Mrs Storer enJo enjo ed edI I for tor a II time lImo the faor tl or of the Impulsive I president anti and the public remembers letters that t j the friendly Dear Maria Marla did I some ho he addressed sed to 10 her She him and ber herI tiling which ViliCh displeased I husband as ao a result re was nas eaSt cast into Inlo lIle tin II diplomatic i u TIO s I During the administration or of I dent lent J Jefferson our relations wit tt I Ith Great B B were ere seriously enan by the wife of Ambassador Mer- Mer MeriS Mer iS n 1 who ho represented the British Mer-I Mer gov- gov eminent In W Washington He Ho appeared amiable mall mail but his witS wife to bo ho nn an acquired a reputation for tor bet hei quick Of o I temper when hen a n foolish OC I etiquette chanced to offend hei het At a It dinner thinner Riven git gh en bv by tho the president I who ts lio did not In III tho the rules ol or preci-ilent preci bring being enforced in this countr country ho lie Mrs rs Mali Mali- Malison son oon in to lo dinner instead ot of Mrs Her Mer- Merr rj r Belle ln that her rights as ranking hir among amon nil all the oj es esI present hal had been trod Irod upon she he In- In I 1 her Iter husband after that to i fuse firo all White I louse loue in Invitations It was as anid uld that still sUlI under her lien 1 tl the Inc Cue tIle tho ambassador presented pr attitude a of or the tI United States to ton and arel Ih the III government got gO in a 0 false I ensued Atthe At AL Atthe ALthe light an and 1 complications the time PI Pie Jefferson is 10 ie- I C- C to have hate ha saId taid If If his Jus wife persevere eres sir she must eather ft pat her soup at nt hom home and we te shah en- en endea dea deavor a or nr to draw him into society a as ci K It Ithe die she he dl did not exist 51 It is 19 i unfortunate that the rood understanding of ot 1101 I Uon tion should liani bang upon tipon the caprice otan ot of an aD individual thio ho had nothing to do doJ ith them HIM doI I The historic case caso of ot Peggy nho ho Influenced the hit accession to the presidency of or Maitin Un Van Yan Buren is I now floe I The rhe beautiful Peggy was S the wife of ot Eaton Baton the tile sec secretory of at t r in Jackson cabinet TI Tl e ladles o the tho cabinet I 1 snubbed her because ot of i 1 ROm sonic alleged incident of he- he 11 ie past Pl t tI I I President Jackson championed her raus cause and the Dutch minister OS home because of ot his wife's Ifs If's activities lUes in this worn ins war star Martin Van VanBuren VanBuren I Buren a Ii bachelor in the Jackson I ab cab cabinet inet met also championed Peggy eggy This pleas pleased d President Jackson so much that ho made mal him him his political heIr lat later r nicking makine him I lii So today in Washington they heIrI are I quoting the old taw can a canI I A A brilliant wire compromises hoe her I husband a st stupid wife Ifo compromises only herself I |