The Washington times., 1922-09-13
BIG FARM
REFUGE Of
SENATOR
Talks to Princess Pat of Can
ming and PoIitics-Ap-
proves FIappers.

UHu pOttttCo uuu HVNoo-
=, Keeping and farning-aH these are
spheres lohdre Mrs. Robert Morton
Le Toilette, tuife of the Wisconsin
Senator, finds herself at home.
The many-sided capabilities of this
remarkable Voman are brought
out IN the series By our Princess
Pat. The second article follo1os:
By OUR PRINCESS PAT.
copyrighted. 1922. by Evening Ameri-
lean Publishing Company
CHICAGO, Sept. 13.-There
is a big square farmhouse on the
crest of a rolling hill that stands
with the tip of it's toes in the
shining waters of Lake Mendoza,
near Madison, Wis. 1t is sur
rounded by towering shade trees
and over the big porch a thick
grapevine curls in gnarled
branches that shut out the sum-
mer heat.
It is characteristic of Mrs.
Robert M. La Toilette that it
hasn't any name like crest
Haven" or Trails End" or any
of the things people call their
summer houses. 1t is just home
to her and to the Senator. 1t is
refuge from the bustling capitol
in which he spends eight or ten
months every year.
An active, alert little person was
my hostess on the farm. She Is very
A..o ~ a,a6 nd a
hurried about the house, carrying
out cushions and arranging them in
the big. comfortable swing. l asked
her about the farm, and how they
happened to live here away from
town.
Goodness" she said, smiling with
her live gray eyes and taking my
hat and coat. 1T just seemed the
logical place for us to live. You
know Mr.. La Toilette and 1 were
classmates at the university here
and we were both Phi Beta Kappas
and great friends. When we were
married he kept on reading law and
took 1t up, too. 1t just seemed the
wnatural thing for me to do because
wanted to be informed on all
the things he was interested in, and
/ had plenty of time. Then we dis
kcovered that we had both been born
in log cabins and brought up on the
farm and loved 1t. So we decided
that when Mr.. La Toilette was get
ting on pretty we'll we'd buy a farm.
Finally, when he was twenty
nine. he was sent to Congress-the
youngest member who ever sat there
and then he was elected governor
for three terms. But he didn't serve
his last term out; he resigned to go
to the Senate and the first thing
we did was buy this farm. We've
been here ever since, and l guess
were likely to stay. It's peaceful
here and we have the cows and a
nice dairy, horses and corn. We've
got a nice orchard. too, and I'll bet
that little city girls never go picking
apples now, do they?
For a happy hour we mixed fruit,
farming and politics.
ST was so delighted to find in the
campaign speaking that 1 did that
women were finally interested In
rolitics as a group. There had been
a certain set Of college women who
have been fighting for suffrage for
wears. but the new type Of woman
kwho is casting her vote so intelli-
gently is the home body'-the kind
that suffra gists despaired OF ever
bringing to the polls.
v What delighted me particularly
was the number Of young women
and girls who came to listen.
"Give me the bobbed-hair, bright.
syed. intelligent girl 80 many folks
call flappers and Fl bet on their
Gtness as citizens after a little edu.
cation along the lines of their obliga-
tion to their country"
We were back at the farmhouse
now and eating cookies and milk In
the spotless kitchen. Everything
was in perfect order.
How do you do it?' I asked her.
"How can you be such a wonderful
mother and housekeeper and cam
paigner, too?"
she cririkled her eyes. that are the
loyeliest, most motherly eyes l have
: ever seen, into a smile.
81 think I'm a better wife ana
mother for knowing the things my
husband and boys are interested In,
and a better campaigner because I
know the problems OF other women
who have homes and families to look
after. No woman is going outside
her sphere when she steps into poll
tics. She is only widening 1t and
a more useful member OF