Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-21
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MRS. TENER LIKES
THE SIMPLE LIFE
Glad to Retire From Executive
Mansion to Her Philadelphia
Apartment
Special TO The Telegraph

Philadelphia, Jan. 81. MY four
years at Harrisburg were merely an
incident in my life-a very pleasant
| incident, 1t is true-but now that they
are over I am looking forward to liv-
ing in Philadelphia for the first time
with a great deal of zest and antici-
patton"
The very attractive woman who was
the first lady of Pennsylvania, and who
to-day is simply Mrs. John X. Tener,
smiled a radiant smile, which showed
the ease with which she had taken
the step from wife of the Governor
and mistress of one of the most spa
cious mansions in the land to plain
citizen, with a compact little seven
room apartment as her domain, and
1t wouldn't have taken very keen
observer to note that If she was a SUI
premely happy woman this time four
years ago. when her husband acceded
to the gubernatorial responsibilities,
she was no less so this morning.
Surrounded by a conglomerate col
lection of trunks, packages, boxes,
electric wires, baggagemen and cleo
tricians, to say nothing of new maid,
Mrs. Tener, in her apartment at the
Maidstone. seemed just in the element
she liked best and fixing things UP ac-
cording to her own good taste.
I'm an exceedingly domestic per-
son." she said earnestly, and the apron
which covered her dark blue tailored
frock and her sleeves rolled high
added conviction to the statement,
though for four years my domeSticity
has been almost stultified. because
when one has nine servants to keep in
motion and a big mansion to oversee,
in addition to the thousand and one
social duties fhaf a (NnNarnnr'q x-ifa ic
called upon to perform, there is little
time to indulge ones fondness for the
household tasks dear to every woman s
/ heart.
"Of course. there's no use denying
! that I'm going to miss Harrisburg al
first. We made a great many friends
| up there, and, contrary to our three
years in Washington, where many peo-
pie seemed not quite sincere and more
or less working for their own ends
those whom we came to know best al
the Pennsylvania capital were real dis
interested friends and not persons who
simply wanted to know us because we
were Governor and Mrs. Tener
There are only a few disagreeable
things that a Governors wife has to
contend with. and the office-seeking
person and he who wants her to use
her influence with her husband to get
some bill through are among the most
obnoxious, but the many, many de-
lightful features of the position en-
tirely overshadow such unpleasant
ones.
II expect we will have good times
here this winter. I'm tremendously
fond of dancing" she patted the piano
player at her side. land even though
the apartment is small, think / will
be able to manage to clear the place
out for many a little informal dance.
Naturally, We have a great many
friends here, and, taken all in all, am
sure that I am not going to pine over
the Executive Mansion. AS I said be-
fore. Harrisburg was merely a pleas
ant incident. I shall remember 1t
kindly. Yesterday Mr.. Tener left Har-
risburg for Chicago to be present at
the big baseball suit. Next week he
will come here. and by that time I
shall have this little apartment all
fixed up. We are going to be very
happy here. I am sure"