The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-22
HON. MISS ALICE,' A REAL MOTHERLY
 CONGRESS WOMAN
Too Busy to Even Marry and Meets Men on Fifty
 Fifty Basis.

Miss Alice" as Miss Robertson, the new CongressWOman from Oklahoma, IS already known in Washington, took the newspaper women at the capital into her confidence few days ago and con- fessed why 1t was she had never married. It was at their weekly luncheon, when Miss Alice was the guest of honor. Eve been too busy to marry,' she de- Cared, and I've worked with men on tifty-hfty basis. Except when took an examination and was discounted for my petticOats, they forgot 1 was a woman.
 "There was a certain hotel in Oklaho- ma, she went on, ''Whcre men only were accommodated. But whenever l went to that hotel there was always a place for me. When the manager was asked one day why it was that he took no women guests and yet put me up he replied: Oh, Miss Alice; she's no more trouble than any other man !'
 And yet no more mOtherly, or even grandmOtherly, type of woman could be found than Miss Alice Robertson. Six ty-seven years Old her straight gray hair brushed back from her forehead and over her ears her face scanned with lines of care and hard work, her blue eyes Crnkling with a smile or brimming with tears, the new CongresswOman looks pre- cisely like thousands of other women her age who go on our errands of mercy or keep the home fires burning while the younger generation jazz about.
 Her whole life has been one of serv- ice for the weak and the unfortunate beginning on an Indian reservation and winding Up in a cafeteria, where those who could pay for food were charged tn couldn't No wonder she had no time for romance. But even if she is an "old maid" hundreds of children and soldier boys, who have benefited from her bounty of love, call her "mOther' and "grandmOther" Out in Oklahoma a little girl stood gazing one day at the famous Red Cross picture "The Great est Mother of All" Turning to her mother, she protested But that's a mistake, mother, Miss Alice is the great est mother of all"
 A frivolous male person asked the re- porter after the press club luncheon whether Miss Alice was the type of woman who would cry in Congress. Yes" 1 answered, If she feels like it, and have all her colleagues weeping, too, for that is what she did to us todayW
 Such pathos and hunor! First the story about the three mairned dough- boys-pieCe together from the wreck in France and sent home to die-One with a broken neck, another with both legs gone and shell shocked and the third blind and tubercular. Miss Alice admin istered the last rites to all three, and in the absence of the mother of one of them took his dying message to his Sweetheart my ma"
 And while we searched 1nadly for handkerchiefs came a laugh that washed away the tears as Miss Alice told an amusing incident in her campaign It was of rolling the carriage containing the two babies of one of her democratic friends outside the polls on election day while the friend went in and voted against her
 "I haven't any weakness" admitted Miss Alice. unless it's reading detective stories, and that,' she added, apologeti- cally, lis probably becaure the paper is rough, the print large and 1 know they aren't true, so I hope you won't hold it against me. And don't know much about national politics. But I'm not too q to learn. Up at the hotel where live, on Capitol Hill 1 sit in the lobby and do lot of listening"