Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-30

souri, drawl and gives one an impression
OF extreme common sense, with no frtlls
my husband is a professor in the Mis-
SQUIRT state teachers college" she told
me; hes splendid.
He believes just as do about things
and he helps me to do things. Reed got
so bad in our state that he didn't repre-
sent the folks any longer, and when
Was asked to tell the credentials com
mittee about him I agreed to do so"
Didn't the big moguls embarrass
you," l asked her. She smiled benignly.
[ cauest her heeting thought.
Did they really seem like boys to
| your" I asked.
Well, 1 felt sort Of maternal with
( them, she answered.
/ Then she gave me a little touch of the
homely common sense with which she
won over the credentials committee IN
the wee hours.
SHOULD RE LIKE
FAMILY COUNCIL.
You know" she said, when men and
women get together in politics it ought
to be just like pa and ma talking over
family affairs"
State Chairman Goltra, who was re-
sponsible for introducing Mrs. Martin to
the credentials committee, and also to
sudden fame. said:
Il knew Mrs. Martin would win them.
We heard her talk at the state convention
about Reed. She licked him there and
we knew she could HEX him here. too
Mrs. Martin has a son In Chicago uni
versity and a daughter in the Cape
Girardeau High school
From the time you get up in the morn
F.,s.
women folks are around mixing up
things and surprising you. Just take
an incident in the life OF A. Mitchell Pal
mer, Tor instance.
Palmer likes to mix up with the men
delegates; they're the ones he expects 20
get his votes from, but the women insist
upon having him to luncheon and he has
to go.
This time 1t was breakfast in the rose
room at the Palace.
OF course. not all the women at the
convention went.
But the breakfast went of nicely.
Palmer was simply immersed sunk
surrounded by feminine beauty and in
tellect. And then came the JOLT After
breakfast he went upstairs to Carter
Glass, room TO get his overcoat.
The room was locked.
Palmer found the chambermaid In the
hallway.
O"Please unlock this DOOR" he said
Il want TO get my overcoat"
! I'm sorry, but IT'S against the rules, =
she answered.
But must go In there am the
attorney general OF the United states"
said Palmer.
BEST ROSE ROOM SMILE
HASN'T SLIGHTEST EFFECT.
I'm very sorry. sir. but can't open
Mr.. Glass room without sn order from
the Office or from Mr.. Glass. It would
he all nv Job is worth"
'Pshaw," said Palmer, with his best
rose room smile, "TH take the respousi-
huity. Let me have the key"
Il can't do It, sir" said the chamber
maid
Palmer went away and sent a military
uisn Up to the room.
Let me-have that key" the lieutenant
said 10 the cbamberrsid-
II can't without an order from the
Office said tho maid.
But the attorney general must haTs
his coat" said the lieutenant
IF youJl telephone down to the Of
flee and get permission III let you tn
said the chambermaid
Just az this point a superior officer.
MEubtF OF IdAultk SUITE came along
the hallway to see what the delay was
about.
The lieutenant saluted the officer and
said. This maid, sir, refuses to give me
the key"
"Not without an order from the office,
sir" said the maid, as militarily as
could be.
1T happened that the superior officer
was white man. He patted me on the
shoulder" said the maid, afterward, ''and
said to me. That's right. You'd make a
good soldier And so they went down
stairs and got an order from the offlce."
I have told this story at some length
to illustrate the fact that we men folk
here can't Judge women by their looks
or their actions.
Palmer didn't stand 4 chance with this
chambermaid from the very first.
She Is n gray haired little English
woman from southampton. She has
son who Is an officer in the British army
in Egypt, and because the war cut of her
patrimony she took place In the Palace
hotel. Her name is Mabel Cheeseman and,
after Ave years OF war in England, she
knows that orders are orders.
By 1924 a man won't dare go into pol
itics
From delegates to chambermaids these
democratic women are all dangerous sur
prises.