Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01

Mrs Thomas r. Marshall. wife of the
Vice President, is probably the most tact
ful politician in the land.
.She never gets mad l do. She can
listen to a bore for two hours. l can't,
her husband has been known to say.
Mrs. Marshs,n is inclined TO be anti
suffrage in her sympathies. Yet with
true womany inconsistency, she is a
shining argument in favor of votes for
women" As vote getter she could
make any mere man look like a defeated
candidate for the rest of his natural life
There's something about her-it may be
her democratic spirit, fine courtesy or
perhaps the genuine interest she feels in
the human race at large-that appeals to
the popular imagination and makes her
one of the best loved, most talked of.
most read about women i'll public life
On the days that she receives her parlors
are thronged. Women who have never
seen her can tell you how she dresses:
that she lives at a hotel because she
couldn't rent house in Washington that
didn't have a dark basement Kitchen:
that she has personally returned Leu
calls since she came to the capital, and
that she and her husband have not been
separated twenty-four hours within the
seventeen years of their married life.
They know these things about Mrs. Mar
shall because they are interested in every
detail concerning her.
1T seems to me that any woman would
rather feel herself an inspirational factor
in her husbands career" says the wife of
the Vice President. than TO have ca
reer all her own. Have | been politically
ambitious for my husband, you ask.
can answer that there has never been a
limit TO the ambitions i have had for
him.
II do not believe any man can rise to
his greatest height If his wife has greater
ambition for herself than for her hus-
band. And so for any woman's having
more sense than her husband. why,
regard that as positive calamity. 1T. is
source OF continual Self-cOngratulat1on
10 me that the man / married is cleverer
than /. How can the woman who is the
man of the house be. in the highest
sense, successful and happy wife? l
cannot help thinking that some of the
well known women of the day are more
masterfui than the men they mrried, or
they would not have sought their self
expression outside the boundaries of their
homes. Don't let this convey the i'm
preston that | believe women's interests
ought not to extend beyond the home.
None of us thinks such a thing these
days. I am merely oId-fashioned enough
TO believe that feminine interests should
center in the home, though their circum-
ference be as big as the world
Mrs. Marshall was the only one of the
wives of the candidates that went cam
paigning prior to the last presidential
election. And she went because her hus-
band went and because In all the seven
teen years of their married life she has
never swerved from the performance of
such motherly, oid-fashioned duties as
seeing that the Vice President wears his
overcoat or doesn't get his feet wet
When her husband was making the gu
bernatoriai campaign in Indiana Mrs
Marshall accompanied him. One-night
stands, with changes at In the morning.
cross-country trips by blackboard and
hurried meals at railway stations held no
terrors for her. She had the time of her
life and incidentally gathered In votes by
the hundred.
Some women in official life are martyrs
to the system of etiquette which demands
the paying each season of hundreds of