Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-08-08

arms of old friends and have merely to take up
the social threads where they dropped them be-
fore at the expiration of their official residence
in the capital.
No senatorial election, it seems, could give a
greater measure of satisfaction to such a large
circle of people in Washington as that which re-
turned to congress the former governor of Colo
RADIO, John Franklin Shafroth, who has held every
Office within the gift of the people of his state.
During his congressional service some years
ago Mr.. and Mrs. Shafroth made a host of warm
personal friends, who will hail their return with
delight. Mrs. Shafroth is described by her friends
as a model mother, and, to bear out this asser-
ton, they point to the three sturdy grown-up
sons, all of whom idolize their parents.
Mrs. Shafroth is a genuine home lover and a
domestic genius, delighting in her home and all
its details, especially in cookery, for she loves-to
try her hand at all sorts Of new recipes and ex-
periments. She is an artist in the culinary line,
but she is also {, woman of varied accomplish
ments and wide interests.
She belongs to a number of clubs in Denver.
sf which the Round Table has perhaps held her
membership the longest, since she has been en-
rolled as an active member for more than nine
teen years. This club meets every Friday morn
ing and it's members actually study. History,
literature, the classics, philosophy and all of the
current topics of the day are embraced in their
research. No drones or inactive members are
encouraged to remain.
Mrs. Shafroth was born and reared in Fayette,
Howard county, Mo-, and, after completing her
high school course became a student or and aft
erWard a graduate of the Howard Payne college
of Fayette, Mo. For several years prior to her
marriage she taught in the high school Of her
home town. Mr.. Shafroth is also a native of
Fayette, Mo-, and their marriage occurred there.
She is eligible to D.. A. R. membership, through
Virginia and Tennessee ancestry.
Like Mrs. Shafroth, Mrs. Ollie James is no
stranger to Washington society, for she has spent
several years at the capital during her husbands
congressional service. Mrs. James was Miss
Ruth Thomas of Marion, KY, the home town Of
Senator James, and was born at Franklin, KY.
She is the daughter of a Methodist minister.
Her earlier education was obtained in private
schools, after which she attended the Kentucky
college, a co-educational institution, now out of
existence.
Her marriage to Senator James occurred about
ten years ago, in December, at her home in Mar
ion, KY. Mrs. James is in every sense of the
word a thorough home lover. She belongs to no
clubs nor societies of any description and de-
votes practically all of her time to domestic life.
Mrs. James is greatly interested in charitable
projects, particularly those which deal with the
sick and afflicted, and she hopes to engage in
philanthropic work among the institutions of the
capital. She is a woman whose life is well round
ed out, for she does many things well and knows
whereof she speaks with regard to a diversity of
namental nature. She has made a study of scien-
tiffc housekeeping, could make her own dresses, If
she chose, and, in fact, has the science of house
keeping reduced to an art.
When asked about club work she exclaimed:
mot a one! Why, / don't even play bridge. I
suppose l am the only woman in Washington who
has not learned to do so, but you really would
not expect a minister's daughter to be expert in
that line, would your"
Mrs. James is also devoted to children and a
close student of various movements in progress,
for their welfare. She is an advocate Of higher