Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22
BY ELEANOR VI. FREELAND

teacher, lives in the house adjoining
the Hardings. and from this vantage
point she writes intimatel! of what
goes on in the house next door,.
I JUST can't see why so many peo-
pie want to hike off and spend
lot of money at one of those
fashionable summer resorts when
they could come to Marion and see
the Hardings.
OF course. we have strangers II
Marion all of the time. but | do hate
to think of the people who are miss
ing it.
Well, I'm glad that live right next
door so that ] don't fail TO see any
of the great doings.
Now the other day Mr.. and Mrs
Longworth-you know who mean
Alice Roosevelt and her husband
motored up from Cincinnati to tax,
dinner with the Hardings.
The next morning when | was out
sweeping the walk could glance
over and see them quite panty chat
ting away with our famous neigh
bors on their front porch.
By and by Mr.. Harding noticed
some people who had driven up in
d car with d big Pennsylvania pennant
on it.
They were standing around with
little kodaks trying to get some pic
lures
Just to show you how thoughtful
Mr.. Harding is. he left the Long
worths on the front porch and went
out and posed quite gracefully by the
big Mckinley f1agpole in his yard.
Gee, won't those people feel proud
when they go back home and show
those pictures?
Then they all rushed in and shook
hands with the senator, who stooc
smiling and bowling just like Presi-
dent Mckinley must have done beside
that very same fagpole.
A LOT Of other people who had
been watching came in and shook
hands. too, and everybody seemed
quite happy.
And l took sly glance at the Lon
worths and they seemed to be en-
joying it, too.
When our new laundryman dropped
in the other morning he told me an
interesting story that shows why Mr.
w. q. Harding is going to be our
next President.
vi Aoui sS. ne Is SlTOHS lot harding.
being true Marionite. but it seems
that his cousin came to visit him last
week from one of those PARKWAY
western states where women vote
She was Y w. w, or something
wild like that. and only went with the
laundryman to hear Harding speak
just so she could laugh or look scorn-
full.
But what do you suppose happened?
Yes. you've guessed it-she was
crazy about that speech and went
right up in the big procession to
shake hands with the senator
Then she hurried over to the Hard
whole pocketful of buttons and as
many Harding pictures as she could
carry and now she is on her way to
make the west solid for Harding.
TN glad that the Hardings have
= such good natured cook as Inez.
for even if Mrs. Harding is a won
derful manager it must be pretty hard
on the cook to have those unexpected
visitors all the time.
Now the other morning a real nice
who had probably heard about Mrs.
Harding's waffies. dropped in for
breakfast.
A little later in the day Mr.. Willis,
who gave that wonderful speech up at
Chicago, walked in. OF course, the
Hardings are always glad to see him.
and the same day Senator Weeks
| from Massachusetts, took dinner with
| them.
They must have a big emergency
| shelf in the pantry to keep things
going. That very dav great big
craze of the finest blueberries you
| ever saw came from New England in
| time for some much needed pies, and
a box of real old Virginia sugar-cured
hams helped to make those unex-
pected callers promise to come back
| real soon.
| 1 guess that is why a poor man isn't
afraid to run for President these days.
He knows that there are kind repub-
licans all over the United States
ready to do their bit to keep the
| emergency shelf filled.
T DO wish you could have seen the
editors delegation that called on
the future President last week.
They didn't have any bands, and
thew didn't walk down the middle OF
the avenue, and they didn't carry any
big banners-but they just marched
along on the sidewalk. two and two
las far as you could see and seemed
real quiet and dignified.
guess it must make you solemn to
The an editor and to have to read all
the stories that people send you just
so they can see their name in the
paper.
They knew what an awful thing il
would mean to our government II
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