The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-09
MRS. CUMNiNS A REAL HELP
MATE TO THE SENATOR FROM
IOWA.
THE WOMAN IS ON THE JOB
An Ideal Husband and an Aid in
Shaping Her husbands e3Ii. cal
Career--Their Romance is I-i.. an
Old-Fashioned Love Story.

Washington, June S.-While ne
households Of rich "residenters' N
Washington are already being dis
uan:led in preparation for the long
summer and embassies and lega
tons are for the most part bare and
Ultenan'ed now, the plucky wome1
q the senatorial contingent ale
calmly proceeding TO make plans to
remain until the session has closed
Many OF them take the keenest in.
terest in the battles their husbands
are waging on the floor Of the sen
ate and after the long days work
is done and the senators seek their
homes they get a wifely pat on the
shoulder as from comrades who
knowing the game of politics inside
and out, are able 10 help along. not
only with wifely sympathy, but by
feminine wisdom, sharpened by a
knowledge of political conditions and
an experience gaine1 on many a
hard-fought field.
In some instances the senators
wives actually take part in the strug-
gle to the extent of digging up de
sired papers and worrying along
with musty books to unearth fresh
data to spring upon the msuspectinc
foes Of the opposing camp.
Among those who frequently lie
vote themselves to watching the
battle from the viewpoint of a well
/ Informed observer whose intimate
/ knowledge Of the personnel of ma
! tiOnal politics stands her in good
stead, is Mrs. Cummns, the wife of
the well known "insurgent" senator
from Iowa. Mrs. Cummins is a nota-
bic housewife, and in the good old
fashioned way she looks after her
/ household and sees TO it that rest
and quiet await the senator when
/ he returns to his own home. which
is a bright, cozy book filled retreat
T cared for by a corps of well-trained
servants Mrs. Cummns also tactfuI
ly relieves her husband Of much of
the strain of meeting people, in
which art of the politicians wife she
Is an adept. This gives him many
an opportunity to snatch a few min
utes rest without offending caller.
Mrs. Cummins has been the help
mate of the political leader through
out his entire career Almost the
first person he met when in his
early boyhood days he set out from
his home in the Pennsylvania noun
tains to START in life was the young
girl he later made his wife.
As a cub member of survey
ing corps which blazel the way for
railroad passing through the little
town Of Eaton Rapids, Mich. his
path crossed that Of Miss Ida Gal
lery daughter of one of the dj-
rectors Of the road. Like an old.fash-
ioned love story. the lifelong ro-
nance Of the senator and his wife
began with boy. pcnuiless but
plucky whose ability wei, the day.
not only i'm the love game. but even
against the objections of a iealouslv
devoted father
Long before the railway on which
young Cummins was working had
been finished an engagement existed
between the girl iu her early teens
and the young man, who was even
then studying law with a determi-
nation TO get on in life. For thirty
years the Cummnses have made the
Iowa capital their home. Rising ran
idly in his profession. Senator Cum
Minis reached the height Of his legal
ambition, only to put it aside TO
enter politics
When Mr.. Cummins was elected
governor OF Iowa he and Mrs. Cum
Minis retained their own home. be-
cause Iowa has no governors man
sion. Their house stands in acres
ot ioreS'clad grounds. which they
'uilt after his rise to wealth and
prominence. Mrs. Cummins has album
-antly given evidence of her ability
10 do things on her own part as the
president OF the Des Moines Wcm-
N club. one Of the pioneer WON
IN organizations of the country
This particular club has been a dom.
nant factor in the Identification