Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-07-11

the ladies Of the senate at odds =.
question OF to whom belongs precoSal Ae
In line and as to "who shall oaV
whom first" "a" On
There never was any noI,+,
Washington society. that is, in ~ II
terchanges OF those polite aman,+ias
which make for sociability and "a
ordinary pleasant run of the straor, 80
social intercourse. Into troubles oro "
questions OF precedence and rnk.
should call first partisan matters nav, Nv
entered. Republican women and tLa
Democratic women in one circle vo.a
shoulder to shoulder in their datarn,
nation not to let the women of anotbo.
circle lord, or rather lady, If o,oa
them. Now, however, things era
settled and the only ripples on rbo
otherwise placid surface of the socoI
waters are such as are caused Inv +bo
determination of a few women of no.
in official life to write letters to +bo
papers and to say some things which
their sisters do not like.
In the years past things were dih
ferent, and it may be in the vears :,
come things will be different again
for history shows there never was q
peace which finally was not broken
by the recurrence Of war.
Precedence Row Not Long AGO.
1t was not long ago that trouble he.
tween the women of the official circla
In Washington attained a national i'm.
portance. Newspapers of the country
were full of the precedence rows
while the local papers carried the sto.
ries of the heartburnings and the fric.
tons on their first pages under head.
lines properly called at the time
screaming"
There was falling out between thu
cabinet ladies" and the "house H..
dies" Some of the greater news agens
cies, generally discriminating. dis.
seminated the information through
every state that Mrs. Treasury, Mrs
Interior, Mrs. Agriculture and the rest
did not call upon Mrs First District.
Mrs. Second District and Mrs. Third
District, as it was of course entirely
right that the "Mesdames Districts
should call first.
Chairs in the cabinet are the seatS
Of the mighty, but the nightly are
lowly to those who sit presiding at the
cabinet home firesides. The ladies Of
the house of representatives wanted
to know who created the cabinet, and
then they answered for themselves
Congress" They asked if the cres
ated were greater than the creator,
which meant, of course, should the
wives of the created hold themselves
greater than the wives of the creatOr2
They had a fine time Of it in Wash.
ington with the odds in favor of the
house wife as against the cabinet
wife, because, so to speak, she out
numbered her sisters something like
fifty to one.
The ladies of the house won out
and the ladies Of the cabinet finally
agreed that, Notwithstanding the fact
that the number of the house ladies
made calling a great task, they would
go to it with smiles Oh their faces
and with real affection in their hearts,
Personalities Caused Trouble.
RuctiOns of this same general ma
ture continued through the years in
Washington one after the other, and
it is only recently that the troubled
waters have become pondlike. The
ladies really have had many a sad
time Of it in the official-social circles
of Washington because personalities,
always to be avoided in well-regulated
official circles, have crept from time
to time in the teacup discussions, and
one frequently heard such things as
When she lived in Bethuneville she
was not so high and mighty" and Il
always knew if her husband got a
place she would throw her head back
and do lot of forgetting"
Men of the cabinet, men of the
house, men of the judiciary and men
OF the senate knew all about these
rows, and menlike, they refused at
first to have any part in them; but
sooner or later-for where there is
woman there always is a way--they
had to take part in them.
Women whose husbands merely
were representatives of the people,
were in the habit Of saying that about
half of the women whose husbands
were representative only on appoint
i've power were once upon time them
selves the wives Of representatives,
and that therefore they should not for
get the rock from whence they were
hewed nor the pit from which they
were digged.