Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-21
0lD-FASHIONED WIFE
 IN 0LD-FASHIONED
 H0ME--MRS. PAL MFR
Wife of Fighting Quaker Be.
 lieves in Votes for

The moment a man becomes presidential possibility the frs thing every woman in the countr, wants to know is whether he is mar ried and what his wife is like.
 An old fashioned wife in an olt fashioned home surrounded by old fashioned furniture-that is thumf
 nail picture of Roberta Dixon Palmer, who may become the first lady of the land.
 Old-fashioned she is, in that in g world of women seeking personal glory and furthering individual am bition, she believes that the great est and most fascinating career is to be wife and mother, and new fash toned she is in that she also be- lieves in votes for women and a woman's right to make her own place in the world.
 This combination might seem paradoxical were it not for the fact that Mrs. Palmer, like the attorney general of the United States, A. Mitchell Palmer, himself, comes of old Quaker stock, and the Quakers, generations ago, maintained the freedom and equality of women, the while their wives tended the hearth fires with quite as much devotion and skill as other women.
 Her Quaker Birthright.
 It is because of this Quaker birthright that Mrs. Baker be a suf- fragist, stand for all that is progress sive in woman's affairs, and still find that being the wife of A. Mitch- ell Palmer and the mother of charm ing, 10-year-old Mary Dixon Palmer, the most thrilling adventure in the world
 There need be nothing contradict ory, in Mir. Palmer's opinion, between old ideas and new necessities. She is neither perplexed nor perturbed by the multiplicity of movements"
 II cannot understand the point of view of the woman who thinks it suffices to minister to the material side of her husbands necds," she said. "To me fit is quite as essen- tial to understand my husbands views and ideas, his work and his career, as it is to have his home well ordered and his meals properly cook ed and served.
 Thought can neither be measur- ed nor bound, and womans mind can be just as progressive while she housekeeper as it could if she in sisted on her right to bob her hair and refused to cook except on a chaf- ing dish.
 stThe ideal woman, as I vision her. must be always the woman with brain and hand active in good work"
 Mrs. Palmer declares these things in the most matter-of- fact way, with quaint charm and comforting poise,
 Surely" comes the thought as one hears her quiet truths, "here is a. serenity and strength of spirit in which other women may discover something of the secret of her hus- bands success"
 Since they were married Mrs. Palmcl's husband has gone from court stenographer to successful lawyer, congressional leader, cabinet officer, and finally to candidacy for the presidency which is serious ly recognized throughout the nation.
 Their marriage might be called a Swarthmore romance. It was at that Quaker co-educational nstitu- ton that they discovered each oth- CT. Mitchell Palmer was a senior when Roberta Dixon was a sopho- more.
 In those days, when young Palmer wes glad to have a job as court stenographer, while he read law at night, not even Roberta Dixon's fondest dreams included his being at torney general, let alone a presi- dential possibility.
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 And the Palmers are of that re- they came from plain, everyday be- ginnings. Mrs. Palmer has long been prominent in affairs at the national capital, but she does not forget the days when her husband was establishing his law practice and she was mothering her first babies, two little boys who died in childhood. leaving little Mary Dix on Palmer to heal the sorrow brought by their passing
 MT. and Mrs. Palmer still use in their home the "thee" and "thou" of their youth, but despite her Quaker derivation and training, Mrs. Palmer like most women, has one ex- travagance. It isn't hats. nor Japa- nese prints, nor anything that may be merely for money. It is flow CTS, flowers that bloom in every room of her home-and her garden. i, "Flowers in pots and vases, lovely as they are," says Mrs. Palmer, "are only substitutes. My real joy is garden, great big lovely garden"
 An Old-Fashioned Garden. There are S4 varieties of old fashioned flowers in the old-fashion- ed Quaker garden at Stroudsburg, Pa. It is just such garden, this that { the grown-up Quaker girl loves and tends, as was loved and tended in ( the long ago by gray-clad, bonneted $ Quaker maids who did not worry $ about life's problems, because all f were solved for them by a beauti- t full and sufficing philosophy. C There are hollyhocks, and verbenas, and pansies and four-o clocks and live-forever and dahlias and forget mc-nots and moss-roses, and but if you're ever in Stroudsport in sum mer. go and see that garden. Mrs. Palmer will be glad to show you.