The Nome nugget., 1924-11-22

of the 1920 elections had been written into pot ical history neghbors in Marion nodded their head. and related how the young editors wife had prom ised her intimaes her wedding day that some day I will make him President"
 For time after she came into the White House Mrs. Harding continued her close association with the details of her husbands work She visited the executive offices. met every employe, and made more than suggestion for facilitating the pub
 lie business. But her health and her growing so- cial duties son caled a halt, and her disconnu of these visits the first signal that she had been compelled to the scope of her activities. The White House social program how ever. was continued without abatement up to the time of her collapse and serious illness in the sum- mer of 1922.
 The Armament conference, which brought to Washington in 1921 many distinguished and women. imposed upon the mistress of the White House task particularly trying Mrs. Harding saw the advantage to be gained in the direction of good understanding by properly entertaining the visitors the Presidents table. To those who inquired about her health she replied that if she were given strength to do her part during the ference she would be satisfied that her occupancy of the White House had not been in vain.
 It was not long after the conference ended that she began fail appreciaby and by ate summer she lapsed into condition from which some of her physicians believed she could never recover. That she was able to do they conceded due in large measure to her unalterable determination and confidence For weeks she confined to a wheel chair, and then when she began get about and her friends again she was taken to Flor ida for long rest
 After this illness, her thoughtfulness for others who were i'll, appeared to increase, and from her vacation houseboat in Florida she ordered that thousands of Easter flowers be distributed from the White House conservatories the Washington hospitals. Both before and after she entered the White House the wounded war veterans had been her particular care. and than her his rehabilitation. possibly his life itself, and tainly his interest in life She made study of their treatment and was instrumental in founding the Veterans Bureau and the establishment of better system of hospital treatment
 The wounded men at Walter Reed Hospital, the outskirts of Washington paid many sur prise visits by their friend laden with fruits and flowers Weekly. huge bouquets were sent also to other nearby hospitals During the summer of 1922. when because of poor health she was unable to carry out the usual program of garden parties on the White House grounds she insisted gv- ing at which the honored guests the wounded soldiers from all the hospitals near Wash. ington. More than two thousand of the crippled blind and deaf fled past her and each received word of greeting and encouragement. Repeatedly she left her place to guide blind boy rough piece of ground bring plates treatments to those unable to leave their chairs.
 Mrs Harding was born at Marion, Ohio, in 1S6o of sturdy stock of pioneers her father. Amos Kling, being of the towns first settlers, She