Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-14
HOME COMES FIRST
WITH WIFE OF NEXT
DIRECTOR OF SAFETY
Mrs. William II. Wilson Also
Believes in Keeping in Touch
With Events Through
the Newspapers
Is A CHARMING HOSTESS

This j. the second of II series Of in
trrticv- with the wives of the men
selected hy NIuyor-clcCt Smith to COM
pose his Cabinet.
When Mrs William II. Wilson, the
charming, petite wife Of the ncNt Direct
Or of Public Safety, wants to know the
position her husband is taking in mat
iors pertaining to the city's business or
politics, she reads the newspapers.
This She confessed yesterday after
noon, as she chatted away-a bccomngly
gowued little figure in black, soft, cling
ing sauin-from the depths &C a great
armchair in the reception room at her
home 95Ol South Goth street,
Police may bc kept out of politics and
the cid" suucclod down tight in the
citya rondcrloin district during tho next
administration Cund she ventures to voice
the belief that these conditions will pre-
vaiD, but 30 far as getting this or like
information from the "man behind the
gun" she says there isn't the least pos
sblc chance.
You see, Mr. Wilson is a man who
keeps his own counsel. She emphasized
this with u quiet little smile and nod
that distinctly told OF her complete in
dorscmcnt oil MS atJlluuc
"PHILADELPHIA FIRST"
Il discovered long time ago that he
'halkcd' when | questioned him on busl-
ness and political affairs, so these mat
ters are never mentioned between us.
There is only one exception to TINS rule
1t Is when | have read stories IN the
newspapers that vtaly conflict, he Will
sometimes put me straight ON the issue
if I mention it to him.
''If there is any slogan he has adopted
for his work during the next four years,
she replied to a question put to her, II
is for the good of Philadelphia first, last
and ;,lways' That tho good of Philadel-
phia will hc his first thought In all that
hu suggests or carries out, | ann as con-
lldrnt Of us ! am that / am sitting here.
II think the manner in which he fought
foI. the cold storage law at Harris
burg and for local option, would prove
Ia the peoplc Of Philadelphia the type of
man who win he their next Director Ot
Public Safety
Mrs Wilson is a wlusome woman OF
enthusiasm AID pride: enthusiasm III all
of the many things that 80 TO make up
her everyday life, from a canter through
the brisk morning air on the back or her
favorite mare or "A plunge in the clear
pool OF a swimming academy, or Whlrl
through the latest onc-step or toN-trot'
TO the perusal of one of Dickens best or
mayhap a magazine, and the manage
ment OF her home.
LIGHT SHINES IL HER EYES.
And the pride, which she unconsciously
conTesses in "A hundred and one different
ways from the light that shines and
dances in her blue eyes to a peculiar in
Election of her tones, Is born of the knowl-
edge that the ability which she has al
WAYS secretly known was possessed by
her husband has been materially recos-
nized by men of affairs and rewarded by
the post of honor SO lately accorded him,
Placing the management of the home at
the end OF the list of Mrs. wilson's daily
occupations is quite reversing the real
order of things, however, For II there
Is one thing above another she admits as
a hobby il is her home,
Il must say she smilingly offered,
while a great grandfather's clock gently
tick-tocked in harmony with the senti-
ment. that my home comes tirst:'
Not the narrow "A wOman's place is IN
the home" point point of view, mind you;
far from #, for she is heartily in accord
with the spirit of the suffrage movement.
II wouldn't care TO vote myself she
added, "if women are enfranchised. but