Show Democratic Victory Might Make j jOne One e of These Next First Lady Z Nj T i A T K r ar a. a r f t. t S 'S A 4 c n 9 i 5 1 h hi H Mrs James A M Adoo Reed i t t o r 3 5 1 I IX X Mw Al S mith k i a ab b Elizabeth w J NEA AV By ALIENE ALLENE SUMNER Su NEA TA Service Ser ec Writer ASHINGTON Sept 6 We G.-We We can WASHINGTON elect the president but we cant can't elect the presidents president's wife Which is exactly why hy some presidents presidents dents are elected because of their wives Instead of their own I sweet selves cs Which is also why some boys beS I who would make very nice presidents presidents presidents dents dont don't get Iet c ted Introducing therefore some pos pos- possible possible sible First Ladles who Vho may deter may deter deter- determine mine why their husbands may be First Men WATERING TilE THE DONKEYS These are arc all Democratic ladles ladles- at least their husbands carry water to the donkeys it is possible though not probable that a hus hus- husband husband husband band who faithfully waters the donkey could have ha a wife just as faithfully carrying water to the ele ele- elephants First but not least comes Mrs Al Smith mother of or five graduate from bedroom kitchen and bath Into the executive mansion of the state of New York and a lady quite capable of interrupting Als Al's audi audi- audience audience audience ence the king to remind him that forgot his umbrella and rubbers s AI Al the boy bo o tor of the East EastSide EastSide EastSide Side was reciting Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight at a benefit one ope OI e night when the pretty Irish c Katherine Catherine Dolan first saw him Pa and Mar M Dunn could see sea St no 11 spellbinder at a son in They moved their Katherine from the East Side up to the Bronx But love Jove laughs even at the Bronx And so EO they were married Their Ther first home was housekeeping rooms oms and there were wore only five fire rooms when the first two babies had arrived A classic quotation attributed to Mrs Al AI Smith is that entering the thc Albany executive mansion she he said s. Im not used to w such a big but jut Im I'm going to make it a real ical home The White House with Its Ils rooms of state would D Do ne lust stairways Its new root roof roo garden to Mrs l Al Smith Smith Smith-a a great gr at bl bil big house ho se challenging her home making Instincts a a. place to make c. attractive Attractive tive Uve for her husband and children Public Ute life In any way wa clubs dubs politics speeches has always alays tien It en shunned by Mrs Smith She stays home near the phone waiting for Als Al's hourly report on on where he Is what he is doing dol nil and when hell he'll be home SItES SHE'S NO SNOB There is nothing of the snob in ire Mrs Al AI Smith If I she should be become be be- become come First Lady it ht is very cry probable that visiting royalty might find it itself It- It itself self meeting some of or Mrs Als Al's old East Side neighbors for she says sas sass she s le e loves them more than any other tipple people There are five Smith offspring Arthur Emily Walter Catherine and andAI andAl Al AI Junior If I the Smiths are White While House tenants sure it is that they will win re resist re- re resist slat as many social duties as pos pos- possible sible just to have quiet homey eve eve- evenings evenings evenings together in their private sit sit- sitting sitting ting room where Al can recite poetry and the Mrs can applaud and knit William Gibbs McAdoo In the I White House would I mean the re re- I turri n as mistress of a a. former White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House daughter Eleanor Wilson youngest and gayest of or President Wilsons Wilson's three daughters Eleanor Wilson was married In Inthe Inthe Inthe the the- White House in May Ma 1914 to her fathers father's secretary of the treas treas- treasury treasury treasury ury whom she had loved since the days when McAdoo a member of the New Jersey campaign commit commit- committee tee called at the Wilson home There are arc two McAdoo children Ellen Wilson 11 a great pet of her famous ramous grandfather and Mary Faith Falth 6 C. The McAdoo children are the youngest of all possible White House children of 1928 with the exception exception tion of baby Paulina Paulin Longworth SHE DOESN'T WANT IT Mrs McAdoo rumor says mutt mut mu t fight her own Inclinations in order to encourage her husbands husband's interest in the presidency She feels that her own father was killed by the office and is not interested having in-having In h her husband subjected to td the same gruelling process The McAdoo-j McAdoo have a lovely home In the hills outside of Los Angeles where they entertain quietly and In In in- informally formally Mrs McAdoo however hoc has an intelligent in in- intelligent grasp of or politics and ana would swing a II keen l een group of or friends to the White House salon There is 13 a Mrs Jim Reed too though few know It for Jim Reed keeps his wife out of or the limelight The Tho Reed Recd romance began In school In-school school schooldays schooldays days in Cedar Rapids R Ia la But nut Laura Olmstead Mansfield was vas a 0 widow with two small children and nd Reed Recd was a a. successful ful lawyer be be- before before fore they were married Mrs Reed Reid has the reputation of r being belne one of the best beat dressed ed wo wo- women women wo- wo women men In social Washington She is isa Isa isa a great reader a pianist a theatre theatregoer theatregoer goer goon and the one person they say who has not ben b en flattened out by Jim Reed She has been b en characterized as a II woman of high temper t and quick sympathy of or firm decision and tolerance an Ideal companion for forthe forthe forthe the fighting senator of or the Demo Demo- Democratic Democratic cratic party MOTHER l OF TWELVE The mother of or 12 children 10 of them living would become Amer Amer- Americas America's AmerIcas AmerIca's I ica's leas First Lady If 1 A. A A Victor Dona- Dona Donahey Donahey Donahey hey governor of Ohio should be i elected president The cartoonists who pictured the Ohio executive mansion with a child looking out of each window would let themselves go so and thus depict children swarming over the White House Perhaps though father and moth moth- mother er Donahey will decide that the White House is no no place for chil chil- children children children dren just as they decided when all allbut allbut allbut but the oldest children were ere left leftin leftin leftin in the big rambling New r Hadel- Hadel home when the went to the state executive mansion in Columbus The children are arc Margaret Kath Kath- Katherine Katherine Katherine erine 29 the oldest Mrs Park Og- Og Ogden d den n Robert 23 John 21 Hal 19 Richard 18 James ames 17 Dorothy 16 Victor 12 Jr and Marion Marlen 9 9 I Donahey has said again and again My big family made me succeed I Any man can succeed If hs h's family Is large lare enough He must I IliE HE liE LIKES LUtES TO COOK 1 Mrs Donahey is the sort rort of or wife wire who lets her husband mess around I the kitchen The Governors Governor's pet kitchen project Is to the making of sausage in which he excels Many Manya a II mogul calling on the governor I has been ushered into the executive mansion kitchen to find the gov gov- governor governor I clad apron apron clad peppering his sausage No possible next presidential fam fam- family famIly family ily would make such a 0 home of the White House as the Governor Albert C. C Ritchie of Maryland If elected would be a a. bachelor president But there would a first lady nevertheless more more- moreover moreover moreover over a first lady as gracious and poised and generally capable of the job as any possible candidate that candidate that would be Governor Ritchie's mother Mrs Elizabeth Ritchie who has presided for her son at the gu gu- gubernatorial gubernatorial mansion Copyright 1927 NEA Service Inc |