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Show WIFE OF LEADING SOCIALIST The Hon. Victor Berger of Milwaukee Milwau-kee is the first Socialist in congress and his wife deserves attention as an educator and reformer. Since her arrival ar-rival in Washington, when Mr. Berger took his seat in April, she has been busy studying social conditions at the capital as If she were a member of the house committee for the District. She visits the schools and learns their needs, and many a Washington pupil will have her to thank for some needed need-ed improvement. In appearance, Mrs. Berger is a typical German-American woman, of the type one imagines in a comfortable home, busy superintending superintend-ing the children and presiding over a breakfast table. Yet there is another side to her character. She is an earnest earn-est reformer, who has taken such an active part in political work in Milwaukee Mil-waukee that she has been elected a member of the board of education, and has helped to put into execution such ideas as penny luncheons, teach-sanitation teach-sanitation in the schools, and giving girls lessons in dress-making and millinery. Most of the children of the public schools have to drop their studies at fourteen or sixteen, in order to learn a trade; and Mrs. Berger believes be-lieves that it should be made possible for them to complete later in life the education which early work prevented. Before her marriage, she taught in the Milwaukee schools, and is, therefore, perfectly conversant with the matters mat-ters in which improvement is needed. Family Magazine. |