Show 4 44 4 I AN EDITORIAL BY I II I FLORENCE DAVIES p 5 MRS HARDING Pt S PIA A S THE THEGA-MT THEGA It was on ott President Hal dIngs dIng's recent trip through the west on nis nisay nl ay ay y to Alaska that he encountered one ne of o those hot das daa da s which so often teems seems to be reser re er ed ed for tourists picnics parades and the like when Old Sol would could hare served us just as us well had tc t I been beena a little less leas enthusiastic After Arter a particularly strenuous bout with the sun the presIdent admitted d that ho had had enough and begged to be excused from one number of ef his ils program I Not so 10 with Mrs Harding how hew however however ever With the aid of ot o a s sun J bat At she had taken the same drive and come out tho the victor So sending the president back to his hotti to put leo water on his wrists ts and ee seek the cOD of an electric fan Ius Harding graciously entered tho of- of official official of official car and made her bow to the thi ailing taiting public al at tho the next stop on the day days das tour That t was waa just one more mor e example ample of the tact fad that Mrs Mr Harding il ilay nays aye ay plais pias the tho game came As wife of o the president of ot the United States Mrs Mr Harding doubt doubt- doubtless doubtless lets doubt less has hILs her critics It if net tier her enemies though they are tow few It would bo be too much to ex- ex expect ex expect poet that anyone in III public life especially In political lifa lit t be wholly without them But whatever any of ot them rear be mayb able ablo to say Bay ay of Mrs Harding not noton one of or them can say lay that she ah does does- doe n n a t play the tho th tame game Not the game of politics polities 10 so much as tho game ot of standing back ot or Warren G Harding Oh Oh but you say ay what wO woman n l wouldn't put her husbands husband's Inter Inter- Interests inter inter-c ests t first If it that husband were president of the United States True enough in this Instance the game came must have In- In Interesting Interesting In rewards But I Mrs harding has burn bon play play- Ing playing play the th game came for years long lone before her husband was waa the president of the United States long lone before lie he hewa was wa even a senator Jl Back in the little town of Marion Marlon OhIo she h was very much on he e jOb when helping Warren just meant going coine down to a funn funny tunny little newspaper office and nd hoverIng around the cashiers cashier's cage or the tho bookkeepers bookkeeper's desk And front from that time till this Mrs Mr Harding has h been on the tha job whether the job ob meant being one on of af tho the best dressed 1 women In the or for tOr hours at endless reception or making one more appearance on a aday's aday's aday days day's program when her husband was W too near sun stroke to make the tho grade trade Working outside the thi home seems never r to have offered a problem In Inthe Inthe the Harding family It was as sas evi evl dently evidently never a Question of ol husband or career carer which shall hali It be It was both That must mutt be a very satisfactory way for a the lem problem of o her career Standing back baek backof backof of a man In every possible way and andon on every possible occasion to te mako his career come coma corn true Is Js somethIng of a IL career in It Itself lise It and mutt must ot of- of fez ter otter offer more moro durable than all the th victories halt which a 0 woman earns earn for lf f it must mu give a kind of unit unity of and oneness of ot Interest fled aed syn pathy syn-pathy syn which the separate tar star plan doesn't permit A little old fashioned nil all this this but surely aurely rather tor torI tori |