Show I AN AN EDITORIAL BY I It I FLORENCE D DAVIES OVIS T 0 Tw Back home and alone Florence Tiling Kling Harding Is yet et pot not alone A thousand tender speak to her a thousand hands are arc held out outto outto outto to her to help her along the lonely darkened way They are the voices and the hands of happy memories the abiding consciousness of o dunes dunes well done dene of love that never faltered That consciousness In Itself must be a benediction that sill III banish forever the bitterest cruelty of oC grief Whatever honor has come cometo cometo cometo to me this da day I owe to Florence around her lonely heart she may wrap those words and rest In them What a memory to rest upon HoW Holy S sweeter Is loneliness than a living presence tinged with lIh discord and regret But who ho wouldn't walk walle beside ones onos husband hold up his handS In every e c cry ery way play his hla game earne sup sup- support port tup-port up- up port his policies work and plan and pray for his Ideals and ambitions If that husband were president of the United States Who Indeed Its It's easy ealy enough nough to be the the duch duch- duchess duchess ess helping smiling Broiling working In Inthe Inthe the Whito House where whore hoi hOllers honors ors arc aro showered down like rose p to In InJune June Almost any woman would play her husband s a game It Ie it led up the great steps to an executive mansion But that Is la not net Mrs Hording Harding 9 tory story She bhe was as The The Duchess back In the old days when her salon was waa held bold In to a newspaper of- of office of office fice fIe and when playing her hUb hus- husband hu huband's bands band's band game came didn't mean shaking hands with the tho ambassadors from trem the tho courts of Europe but bossing a crew of ef newsboys who carried led her husbands husband's paper on their afternoon routes Then as now she was as every cry Inch the duchess his duchess never em- em embittered em embittered l by early struggles never spoiled spelled by the aftermath ot of honor and fame Only a few men In every gener gener- generation generation generation may become the tho nations nation's pres pres- president president ident but countless thousands m v wring mastery from defeat and happiness from drab dra-b happiness 8 from Crom drab existence and countless thousands of women can help to make it possible If It they catch a glimpse of Florence nard Hard nard Inge Ute life For that example Amera American an wo- wo women women wo women men who hato hase reverenced her as the tho presidents president's wife must be eter etel- eter- eter eternally eternally nally grateful It must always hearten and stimulate them That ThatIs ThatIs Is what she sho haa has done for tor the tho rest of us ia RI For Fer herself she sho baa haa the un- un uns unspeakable un unspeakable s kable blessing of a perfect at- at after atter af after ter glow Warren Hardings Harding's flame has flickered out But the after after- afterglow afterglow Blow after glow burns on in Mrs Hardings Harding's heart in eternal beauty |