The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-11-25
SAINT PETER LADY
HEAD LIKES LABOR
Mrs. A. X. GauIt Tells
Paper All About Self
NOT WORRIED AT ALL
Has Raised Family, And Under.
stands How TO Run The
City Affairs
JAMES GRAY IN THE ST. PAUL
PIONEER PRESS ~

L
If you are lady thinking of be.
! coming a mayor, and IL you are q
little worried for fear that to one
who has had no experience in PUG
lie life. the job may be q little tax
ing ut first, you may forget all such
misgivings.
II you have managed . family all
Of your life and raised three boys,
running city simply will be no trick
At least that is what Her Honor,
the Mayor OF st. Peter thinks. And
she ought to know because she has
We waylaid Mrs. Gault cher initials
are A. X. II it means anything to youl
! on her way to luncheon given ct
The Saint Paul Saturday by the Ram
sey County League Of Women Voters,
and found out ali about It. We found
her a woman of medium height.
wearing an unosstrusive black hat
and salt and pepper overcast. She
/ Is energetic and business like of
manner.
Mayors sister Is,Lawysr
There was time when Mrs. Gault
was, as Barrie puts It, "a mere moth.
er and nothing more" There were
several boys whose destines had to
be directed-two OF her own and
nephew whom the mayor raised
pears is a marked family Character
istic) studied law. One doesn't DO
much outside the home in a period
like that; Mrs. Gault explains. II
you organize and direct the affairs
of a club or two you are doing quite
Us well as can be expected Of you.
/ But there came later period. as
there does to some women, when
sons grew up-one starting practio-
ing medicine and others went away
to schocl-and her time was once once
thought 1t would be an excellent idea
to become mayor. She happened to
be living In st. Peter And the may
or Of st. Peter. she tecame.
81 wouldn't attempt to lay down
the law on the subject for any other
woman" she sums up her career,
"but I know that for myself I >could
never have entered into politics while
l still had a family OF small children.
And IL one Is called upon to make q
choice between children and politics,
ways be sacrificed. But that does
not mean that woman Is relieved
of the necessity of understanding our
institutions and our political life
Even the home woman must be well
enough informed to be an Intelligent
voter, as think"
Merely Matter Of Arrangement.
Her brisk, efficient smile added
conviction to the deliverance.
How do you manage to be o mayor
and q house keeper at. q the same
time" she was asked. -
ut is merely matter OF arranging
ones time of getting up early and
other such unimpressive things.
am at my office only short time
each day. But am always available
at my home. or course / am much
interrupted. I manage to get through
with my double duties by shifting
But then every wife has to do that to
accommodate a family. So that It Ia
no new trick have learned"
She tells you that with the air Of
admitting you to one OF the secrets OF
what every woman knows.
"1t 10 an interesting job, of course
But you must's ask whether / intend
to continue in politics. j am living
in 1t from day to day without consid
ering the future at all. may not be
re- elected" she laughs. How can l
tell?"
Undoubtedly have more duties
than any man would have In the Of
nee. tUr 30 many women Ieel kT0e
to come to me with their troubles.
This Ia one OF the features that
particularly enjoy.
1.-THE schools? Well. of course we
have all Of the usual associations of
parents and teachers and things Of
that sort. I work with them. Yes,
perhaps I do take more interest In
their activities than man In my DO
sttion would. A woman does"
She Likes Her Job
Mrs. Gault likes being the mayor
Of st. Peter. One can tell 1t from
her manner and she admits as much.
And she confesses further that she
feels that her career may be the ana
swer to the question Propounded by
the searching modern novel Of the
type Of Rose Macaulay's Dangerous
Ages" the question of what to do
about the fate Of the woman whose
family had grown up and left her
without interests or activity
We left Mrs. Gault with the feeling
that perhaps the tear sodden mother
In Rupert Hughes, 1.-THE Old Nest"
need not have wasted so many buc-
kets Of glycerine II Il had only ac-
ourred to her to go out and get elect
ed mayor OF her town.
Dill H. Tee, D:JI.