The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-22
Mrs: NJ airy Grey
Brewer of Staten
Island Has Time
for Home and Poll
tics Too
BY ELEANOR BOOTH SIMMONS.


Of sweets to be thrown away in var time.
1t was State Senator Mary Grey Brewer
Of the Twenty-fourh district who was
speaking perhaps not exactly Sena-
tor yet, but after the style in which she
romped away with the nomination in the
primaries 4. seems as if she must go under
tha--wire first on election day. If the
new women voters of Richmond and Rock
land counties do their duty by their sex
they ought to tip the balance, now pretty
even between the parties there, in favor
Of Mrs. Brewer.
Not that she's making a handle Of sex.
She's regular fellow, is the Republican
nominee in the Twenty fourth. and is
making her campaign on straight out Is.
sues that concern people, not just women.
Her male constituents won't be neglected
when she goes to Albany.
But to return TO the ice cream. This is
not so trihing as it may seem, because
II III VI ISC Si-o" hc'
o Senator will vote. Well, it was in the
Women's City Club where she WIS to meet
me at = and | was terrifying myself for
the interview with ice cream and other
things.
Had to Finish the Ice Cream.
She came on the stroke of the hour. and
7 ,u.n ti,inl.
1t grieved me to do it. but it didn't seem
to me that il would be etiquette to keep
an almost Senator waiting while gobbed.
She. however, fixed me with an. eve out
of which the habitual twinkle had momen-
tariIy departed.
.'Remember Hoover" her tone said. Not
till had scraped the dish was permitted
to rise and 90 with her into the lounge
and ask her questions about her candi
dacy.
The first thing | noticed about Mrs
Brewer that made me confident of her
election was her hat. 1t wasn't too expen-
siye looking, there was nothing about 1t
to make the quiet farmers and towns
people of Rockland and Richmond think
her extravagant; but it had an air
There was a perky red rose on it that
stood up with an engaging, confident ex-
preston as if it said, Were in this fight
to win" / feel sorry for John A. Lynch,
the Democratic nominee, if he has to
stand up and debate with that rose. Not
that Mrs Brewer depends on roses. She's
right there with the regular ammunition.
As for the face below the hat and the
personality, it's wholesome. No other
word will describe Mrs. Brewer SO we'll.
Her eyes are dark and shining with kind
illness and wit, her hair is dark and Wig
orous with the look of health, her skin is
clear, her cheeks rosy, she is plump, but
not too plump; in short she has the look
of perfect well being that you'd expect
from a woman who's one Of the crack
farmers of Richmond county.
A Normal, Happy Woman.
A normal, happy woman, with hus-
band and child and a pleasant home and
. garden, and carrying these responsible
ties along with one hand while doing all
kinds of suffrage and welfare work. They
can't call New York's first woman Senator
a sour, disappointed woman who has
taken to politics because she has nothing
else in life.
And they can't say that she's neglect
ing her family, because she is going to
take her little daughter with her to
Albany And as the Legislature sits only
from Monday to Friday, she will have the
week ends at home with her husband.
my little girls 49," she said. "And
she has her plans all made for being with
me in Albany. 1 will put her in school
there, of course. And Fridays we'll 60
back to New Brighton. My husband has
his work to do-he's principal of the an
mex to the Curtis High School and very
busy man-so he can get along five'days
in the week alone.