The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-20
CHRISTMAS TREE
WAS PET NAME
FOR HIM
COLONEL CARMODY WAS ANGLED
FOR BY WIFE or SENATOR
THOMAS PLATT.
SHOWS SUCARED NOTES
From the Now Motherin.L aw--Fed
eral Attorney Accompanies let.
ters With Comments About
Meeting the Writer

New York, Sept 19.--It Is such {
far cry from being addressed by Mrs
Thomas c. Platt as MY Dear Chrisa
mas Tree to being denied by her an
audience with his wife, who is Mrs
Platts daughter, that Francis J Car
mody is nCnplused He is convinced
that his wife, from whom he has been
separated since May, would return to
him We're the hostile influence of Sen.
ator Piatt's wife withdrawn
Mr.. Carmody. who is United States
assistant district attorney, declares
that he secured his appointment
through his own merits an dthat It
was because of his prom Sc of bril-
liant future that Mrs. Platt augled
patiently and skilfully for him while
he was paying Indifferent attention to
her daughter
Good Cook as Bait.
Two letters, written by Mrs. Platt
from the senator's country seat, Tioga
Lodge, Highland Mills. are offered by
Mr.. Carmody as examples of her atti.
tude toward him before his marriage.
Mrs. Plat wrote
Dear Christmas Tree Louise is
writing you to visit us. and
second the notion | hope YOU
can come soon as just now | have
good cook and that makes such
a dieffrence in ones views of life,
and | do want Highland Mills TO
make a good impression on you.
Cordially
LILLIAN T. PLATT.
Mr.. Carmody says that Dear Christ.
mas Tree" is term OF endearmen;
applied 10 him by Mrs Platt because
of his brilliant appearance in his uni.
form as colonel on the military staff
OF the governor of Minnesota. The
gold braid gllstening medals, and gen
eral finery suggested to Mrs. Platt q
Christmas tree, with Colonel Carmody
as the richest present on the boughs.
Come Up and Hold Her Foot"
Another letter dated August 5, 1906. |
trcm Tioga Lodge reads:
Dear Francis Can you come I'd
this week? Please telegraph me
your answer. for if you are com.
ing | shall expect you TO remain
over Sunday. and want to invite
Morrises (Robert c. and Col
onel Brainard (chief Of commits
sary department of the East at
the same time. This is written in
such a hurry that I am not say
ing all | could. Louise has fallen
down stairs three times in four
days and yesterday she finished !
up by sDraining her ankle good
and hard. Now she is in bed. and I
Ma Platt is starting out this cold :
Sunday morning TO look for a pair
OF crutches. Had you not better Y
come mp and hold her hand or i
foot soon? Lovingly.
LILLIAN.
Motherin-Law's Identity Surprises.
Il could not credit the information G
hich ! received after my marriage"
oionel Carmody said today that I
id married a daughter of Mrs. Lii.
an Janeway. a woman widely known n
Washington They told me that d
rs. Janeway was the clerk in the /.
library who wore dia- I'M
onds and lived at the Willard. | also a
armed after my wedding that my "a
tde had been employed in the library n;
Ith her mother But it would not
I'VE mattered had she been a soul m
ry maid | loved her then and al
We her now r
She was introduced to me as Miss NJ
'uise Snow. II was at the wedding an
General Jack Pershing TO Miss War nj
n, daughter of Senator Warren of ca
ycming. Miss Snow and her mother as
yited me 10 call on them at the VIII ap
d and ! did a week later. A short
ne afterward Mrs. Janeway told me co
@ had official invitations to the is
my and Navy club dance. but could N
go because she and her daughter bo
4 no escort | invited them to go
tb me. and thus they were intro.
ccd to the best society in Washing
Endorsed BY Roosevelt l.
After Mrs. Janeway's marriage 10 ..
nator Plat she invited me frequent =.
to Tioga Lodge and subsequently -
became engaged to her daughter -,
ter our marriage and after I had -
leway Of Washington I never re- ~,
red TO the subject to her. ! thought
Il to let bygOnes be bygones."
,Clonel Carmody came 10 New York
m Minnesota equipped with letters
m United States senators, congress-
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