Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-18
GOVERNOR ELECTS
DAUGHTER ROMPTNG,
UNASSUMING GIRL
Plays Tag With Pupils Re-
gardless of Fact She Is
Soon to Be First Lady Of
State.

Passersby in the vicinity Of 18th street
and Grard avenue the other afternoon
might have noticed medium-sIzed girl,
dressed in democratic shirtwaist and skirt
and romping with freedom equally as
democratic on the lawn OF the Friends
Meeting House. located there. She was
playing tag with a little girl, and her
light tlaxen hair was tossed and tumbled
all around her face. But the gleeful
shouts OF both Of them Indicated that
they didn't MIND the least bit any dis
arrangement Of toilette which might re-
suit, just so long as they had a good
time.
II the passerby had looked a second
time, he might have been struck, perhaps,
by a certain resemblance of the girls
face to one that he had often seen be-
fore, but II isn't at all probable that he
would have guessed her to be the person
she really was
They would never have imagined, for
instance, that Miss Mabel Brumbaugh,
who, by her fathers accession to the
gubernatoral chair tomorrow, will be-
come the First Lady in all Pennsyl-
vania and the envy of every other
woman in the Keystone State. and the
carefree, self-unconsclous girl playing tag
on the meeting house lawn we're one and
the same person.
RESEMBLES FAMOUS FATHER.
But they were, and once you know that
she Is Miss Brumbaugh you begin inn
mediately to see how very much like her
distinguished papa she is. after all The
same broad, determined jaw that makes
the opponents OF the Governor-elect real
lie the futllity of any plans they may
have to swerve Doctor BrumbauEh from
the path he has prescribed for himself Is
reproduced in the daughter The same
deep-set eyes. which can be as solemn and
as serious as church and as merry as
a marriage bell, too, depending on the
occasion, are also hers.
And the likeness does not stop there,
for both have the same prediction as
far as professions are concerned. Miss
Mabel is also teacher. born one, IL her
actions on the lawn with her little pupil
are any indication.
Every morning at 9 o'clock she comes
in from her home in Germantown to
take charge of her class at the Friends
School and every afternoon at 2 o'clock
sees her there playing with some kid
die, reluctant to leave, and it's a safe
bet that when she takes up her residence
in Harrisburg, as II is presumed she will.
n sad little class of youngsters will be
left behind.
Modest as the proverblal violet, Miss
Brumbaugh simply will not be inter
viewed
TO KEEP OUT OF PAPERS.
I'm going to try a little experiment"
she said smilingly. and the sweetness of
her voice did not entirely obscure a set
determination. I'm going to see IL 1
can't keep out of the papers"
She closed her lips with the same fixed
grimness 30 often noticed in the pictures
OF the man who tomorrow will be Gov
ernor, as though not another word would
be permitted to escape her, but when she
was told that the action made her look
more than ever the counterpart of her
father she couldn't resist a happy smile.
There's nothing on this earth,' she
said enthusiastically, that makes me
more proud than to be told that 1 look
like father. It's an honor worth cher
ishlng."