The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
Real Modern Grandmother
 Ls City's First Lady

Whatever may be Mayer Atwater's municipal troubles during the next two years, one thing is practically cer- ta1n-they will be always brought home to the sympathetic shoulders of Mrs- Atwater, This statement is made without the writes ever having met MT. Atwater, but she has met Mrs ~. water and Mrs. Atv.ater is the kind or a wife to whom any man would bring home his troubles.
 For she is first of all a wife and a mother, this first lady of our city, pre- ferring to shine. as she emphaslzes, through the reflected glory or her husband, two daughters and two nttle grandsons than through any great personal achievement,
 Designattr, her as grandmother of the home loving type must not con jure up the accepted view Of ntt1e white haired elderdly lady for Mrs. Atwater is @ very young, very act1ye and very modern grandmother. Tn fact, it's quite surprising to iearn that she is a grandmother al all put she explains 1t by telling how she ana Mir, Atwater were married when they were both very young and how their daughter, Henrietta. now Mrs Joel A. Goldthwait of Providence, nkeWise married when she was barely 20.
 Fayors Equal Suffrage.
 While always have favored equal suffrage, never was active m iae tile movement before we were given the vote" said Mrs. Atwater when inter viewed yesterday. However tnlnA that the coming of the women into politics is a wonderful thing. tEiilf iit that not only are they proving that they can vote and that they will vote and that they will vote but also Indt they can think. That was proVeo ..a, ,,S, ny Mr. Atwater's election when so ilS"hS women voted for him. .,,
 We were talking in the Atwater home on Colorado avenue IL IS not a luxurious place but ,1e It Is y1i+h a hole; big easv chairs and couches into Wh.cL Whi one can sink and talk for hours VIII Wltn the first lady of the city. ayfllpoiio ig i,, her life is the conspicuous plaCe which the large grand piano nous us in the drawing room. For 1SLLs. water is a lover of music aa4 nirc7ea
 She Is on the board of the OraLoIao OL.n. society and has sung in lts cnoP in for years. Likewise she mas Ed,!i,,ar. sum{ el. ouartets and has been suDScri"ef . ef sitboueh not an active member oI the "wednesday Afternoon Musloal club. or.a ,,oeTo- lHs of inc Rroolllawn Country club and there she is the enthusiastic cap tain of a bowling team which meets neees twice week. She is a great yLE o1oS'e es an all around good exercise put ioI @ inc fun 1t brings as we'll She aI7 eL7o loves to swim and drive a car ,2ins 2ils and her second daught13t +rins To A
 +oagther this summer in their car.
 Of Puritan Ancestry. ,
 While by no means making a [eIlsn tlsr. of it, she is reasonaoIg ma .2 VI ibeo be for she is a direct descendant of John aIlu Priscilla Alden and Of Elder 6leTb letb ster. In the Alden lineage. E!IZane'. +ba fourth daughter of AnericaS most charming lovers, married a & body and the line came direct 10 Mns, MS, Atwater's grandmother who still pure the name. ,,, 1o T1ro,, .,d she left her little home town Naples. N Y.. in the beautltul LilIo t western New York lake country, Co came to Bridgeport as the bride oI
 She has always wanted to travel a .~,.eat deal and it is the ambition or her life to go to New AeaIst ars,.i, tr'' t,,s;- .ss .as bave always prevented their talk ing any long trips. However, sI1e i9 quite determined to go to New He:1 land some day, and certain sne Mat ga+ tbere. For she believes that what ene sets ones heart and mind upon' one will get. -.,.o.,o
 ..1 .1so belieye" she adds. that ona can make ones life what they want it to be. I think that we hoia inc power of our own happiness l1 oI,r hands This is so often proNeA bV people who have wrecked ther lives and also by those Who G,e nave made their happiness after they nave come through great sorrow. \,
 Pecause she is a mother, Mrs AL wafer believes in the influence of mothers and of motherhood
 She thinks there is nothing so won derful for a child as a good mother o1d notbine. so wonderful for a wo- man as to have child. A woman she declares, is different woman: with an entirely different xiewpolne le once she has had the eHpeI1eLce oh baipp a mother.
 She believes, too in wifehood-
 When MT. and Mrs. Atwater started bo11sekeepir$ as bride and groom wears ago, MT. Atwater's sole posses sion in the line of an heirloom, was a large picture of the head of don ISev. by Rosa Bonheur, the gift of an elderly aunt. The picture still has a prominent place in the Atwater dtn- ine room Since the donkey is the symbol of the Democratic party, their friends profess to see much signifi- canoe in the coincidence.
 Tt is a very wonderful thing" she says, flor man and woman 10 rye water and I have been together, and to still have so much in common, to like to do the same things, and above all to be such good friends-not mere Iy man and wife, but really good friends, there is a difference, you know"
 A Happy Home Life.
 One can readily guess that it is the happy home life of their parents that has had such an influence on MT. and Mrs, Atwater's two children-that Mrs, Goldthwait and her two small sons are also so happy and that Miss Louise Atwater is planning to become Mrs. Craig Douglas Munson early 1r January.
 Mrs. Atwater has read a great dea and is keenly interested in anything or place new or different. If you can tel her about it, she draws you out witt uuestion after question.
 She is greatly interested in all re-