Show IT HAPPENED IN WASHINGTON MRS WALLACE F F. F BENNETT These are arc the dog days in the Senate Toward the end of or each session the majority leader always always al al- al wa ways s 's announces From now on the Senate will be in session Saturdays holidays and evenings evenings eve eve- until our work is com com- Wear Weary senators drive themselves them selves almost beyond endurance endurance endurance endur endur- ance in a frantic effort eUort to get through all unfinished busi bust ness If we want to lo see our husbands these days we wives go down to the Capitol and have dinner with them in the famil family dining room and then go to lo the family gallery gaUer and watch the proceedings on the floor noor of the Senate For For For-a- 3 a number Humber of years the wives especially those with I young oung children have been quietly carrying on a campaign campaign campaign cam cam- to get their husbands t lo to take lake a summer summer vacation like ever everyone one else and then come comeback comeback comeback back to work in the fall It lt imposes a real hardship on children to lo shift them around from Crom one school to lo another This year the wives got up a petition which was signed by so many women that hearings on a proposed bill were actually actual actual- ly held This was merely the opening wedge We are not dis dis- dis We remember how howlong howlong howlong long women fought for Cor Women's Women's Wom Worn ens en's Suffrage before beCore it was I granted I I It is difficult to change tradition tradition tra tra- and I venture to lo say there is no place in the whole world more bound by tradition than th the United States Senate Senale One prominent Washing t ton o n hostess remarked recently that tha she learned many mane years a ago apo o never to lo invite a senator to lo dinner dinner din din- ner in the summertime Her Hei Waterloo took look place one evening evening eve eve- ning when six senators had accepted ac ac- ac copied her invitation to lo dinner One by one as the dinner hour approached each called to lo sa say he could not get away from the Senate Senale Finally at a late lale hour six un unescorted escorted females sa sat down to dinner with their host and hostess What Whal is the saying that in tIle the thelast last d days ys seven women omen shall hang on the coattails of one man |