Weekly journal-miner., 1920-11-17
MRS. HARDING IS THE
 INSPIRATION OF HUSBAND

MARION. Ohio, Nov. 5.-Cher- chez la femme To understand War ren c. Harding one must The wo- man in this particular case is Mrs. Warren c. Harding and for Warren C. Harding she is directly respOn- sible.
 Thursday night Mrs. Harding stood on the famous front porch be- side her husband and waged her handkerchief to thousands of cheer ing people of the town, county anG state, come to acclaim the president elect and the woman who is to be the first lady of the land after March of next year. It avs easy to i'm agine that there was a peculiar sense of satisfaction in her heart at that hour of triumph.
 For Mrs. Harding has fought a long, hard fight in this little town cf Marion. She is the daughter of one of the early prominent citizens in this place. When she fell in love with Harding he was a poor editor O. a paper that had more chance or blowing up than it had of growing up. Her father, Amos khng, didn't care so much for young Harding and forbade the match
 Married Poor Editor.
 The opposition had the usGal ef feet, and the girl married the pner young editor It was tough sleddin6 for both for long time. For l4 years the woman who is to be the first lady of the land worked in the circulation department of her hus- bands paper.
 She organized the newsboys, and today many of the prominent young men of Marion are boasting tha; they once worked as ''newsies" un- der the woman who is reign in the white house.
 Always, say the old timers around here who have known the Hardings intimately, she was firmly convinced that her husband would rise to great heights. Through the long hard years ill this little town when the going was hard and her position none too easy. she clung to the vision of what her husband was ultimately to be.
 Now the vision is a reality. The mirage she behcld for so long is solid land. Her husband in whom she has always had so great fait. is the president-elect of the Unite- States, and she is to reign in thc white house Always they have work ed together for a common end anG that partnership will continue. Any one who tries to figure the Harding Of the next four years without counting in the influence of Mrs. Harding will get a wrong result. They have been. and will continue t. be, full partners.
 Slender and Bird-Like
 Mrs. Harding is slender, bird-like, vivacious and possessed of a remark able store of energy. She is like fast torpedo boat. flashing about the battleship-like bulk of her ponder Ous, slow-moving husband.
 If ever there was a woman wiio knows common people and common things and the every day life of the average people, that woman is Mrs. Harding. She mingles with people as easily as water mingles with wa CT. She believes in the practice uf democracy has been the practice of her life. She ruly means O continue the practice Of that habit in the white house and the atmosphere there dur ing her tenancy will be that of an average comfortable American home.
 She also means to continue her full partnership with her distin- guishcd husband She could not avoid it, for he would not permit with suffrage a fact in the UniteG States, the first lady of the land, whose husband has been elected by suffrage, will wield an influence sec Ond to that of no woman who has ever occupied her position.