The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01

and especially information such as he
has displayed in the debate on the
tariff
One bit of gossip in Washington was
that Mrs. Gore deserved some of the
| credit which had been accorded the
senator TO certain extent, yes, but
not in the way which some suppose.
The talk brought out Mrs. Gore quite
prominently. She. like her husband
was found to be a strong personality
| Unaccustotned to the whirl of Wash
| ington life, she quickly adapted herself
| to official customs and has grown
| daily in the estimation of the set that,
has been through many political and
social campaigns. That she is clever
| is shown in what she said when 1t
had been intimated that she was cred
| tied with the senator's success. Il do
not admire the disposition" she said,
ito give me credit for Mr.. Cores sue
cess in public life. resent the impu-
| tation of his being a wife made man.
| On the contrary, / must give him
credit for cultivating in me the quail
| ties which the wife of public man
must possess to- be of genuine useful
ness to him I'm his career. 1t is the
other way around in every sense
! Mrs. Gore has been interested in poll
| tics all her life There is not day in
| Washington when she does not find
something in her studies of political
| questions to read or talk to her sight
| less husband. Books and papers on
| political economy, the tariff. trade and
kindred topics are to her liking. and she
| is so interested in the success of her
husband that she prefers being his as
sistant to any place she is capable of
| filing in the life of social require
msnts Her work for her husband has
become a labor of love. and she de-
cIines to see anything heroic in it or
anything out of the ordinary.
a pleasant picture of the life of this
couple is given by herself. although
| she did not know that she was MAKING
| a picture when she talked. She said
For more than twenty-five years Mr..
Gore has relied on his memory. and II
/ serves him as well as the, eyes of either
men, He rarely asks to have the same
thing read to him twice unless for tLe
pleasure of hearing it again " IT FITS
into his mental stock it is fmnfesEi1'elz
ticketed and put away AMI he never
forgets not only the substance. bHi
the very wording. We prp BIRTH very
fond Of poetry and of BYRON and
Shakespeare in particular. md re:'G
some of their poems over and over
We are fond of 'Childe Hdr'ld.' and
while ! do not think tlEft Byron al
ways wrote of the best things. whit
things he wrote of are pnt in most
human and satisfying WAY. We like
Scott and Burns also and read them
frequently. In his early life Mr.. Gore
learned many of the poems of Long
fellow, and he often QUOTES long pas
sages"
Mrs. Gore before her marriage was
Miss Nina Kay of Texas. Her father
Thomas Kay, was from South Caro-
lima; her mother was Miss Marcells
Mclaughlin of Mississippi. She re
ceived most of her education at home
from her mother and brother. She ant
Mr.. Gore were married nine years ago
She had known him five years. O
/ | two children born, girl. six years old
survives. She is punctilious in he
social obligations. member of thu
| Congressional club and attends thu
Christian church with her husband
Both are members of that denomfna
ton. DOROTHY GARDNER.