The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-21

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 Mrs, Medin Mccormick Ever hear about my bargains in bulk?' Mrs. Medill Mccormick crossed legs and hugged one knee as she spoke. She was in her riding suit. dark and we'll tailored, with soft shirt. and her hair dressed low to fit her hat.
 She leaned forward. her face alight with interest, her dark eyes smiling humorousiy. sef
 Breaking into the farming com munity isn't easy, not even if you are a millionaire. They seem to hate you for that, distrust you. But it is busi- ness and the farmer will eventually listen to arguments based on dollars. He's no different from any other busi- ness man.
 II had bred lot of young bulls and was trying to persuade the far mers that it was just as cheap to feed a pure bred as a grade bull and much more profitable. The farmer is aw- fully conservative, He wouldn't buy. He suspected some trick he hated the idea of being taught anything by 8 city woman. So put up big notice on my farm gate: BARGAINS IN BULLS.
 "It was no good. The farmer wouldn't buy, not even at $25. So stopped an old man one day, and asked him why he wouldn't come in on my bull bargain.
 "The old man said he had farmed all his life the way he was doing it now, and that vas good enough for him. He didn't want any new-fangled notions. .
 Il offered to give him a bull for nothing, at last.
 "If you send it over, I'll turn it out on the road" he said, and drove on.
 'That was few years ago. But l stuck to it and now you should see them conming over to buy my young bulls." =. What Led To The Cows i I happened to be listening-in on this conversation one day, when Ruth Mccormick was telling a stranger about her adventure in the dairy business, and it struck me as typical. That's the. kind of woman she is. Thorough! {!
 She was a millionaire, of course, be- fore she married the Mccormick mill lions, but it was ten years before any babies came. Then one, little Katrine, became very i'll, and Mrs. Mccormick discovered that most of the milk being sold in Chicago wasn't fit for delicate children.
 That started her thinking, thinking seriously. She had the money, the en- ergy, and the ability to try her experi- ment. Now she runs a model dairy farm at Rock River and does it on a business basis. She has allocated a certain sum for the purpose and it has to cover the experiment. When the bull puts his head through the window for the tenth time, the win dows stays broken, if funds are low. The farm has to carry the farming expenses. But the babies of Chicago are getting better milk-pure, clean milk, and Ruth Mccormick is one of | the active grains at the root of the movement. ]. She preached in church one Sunday lat Rock River. No, her text wasn't Bargains in Bulls" But the preacher had been suddenly taken ill and he asked her if she would speak to the congregation for him.
 She did. Her text didn't come out of the. bible but she got her points home, '.and it was a rattling good ser mon. Of course, facing an audience wasn't new. to her. She has been a political cahfpaigner for many years and she can size up the psychology of an audience quicker than most speakers.
 Learned Politics Early
 Few women in official life have the versatility or dynamic personality of Mrs. Mccormick. She is clever politician, ardent suffragist, social I leader;. expert horsewoman, effective ] writer, and successful farmer. She is 4 simple and direct in her methods, and . very businesslike.s
 l As a daughter of Mark Hanna she \ learned. the political game early. She played a prominent part in the fas- cinating life at the Little White House. which had been famous for nearly a century as the foregathering piace for wit, :. beauty, fashion and statesmanship.
 Not even during its prominence as political stronghold throughout the Civil war did this celebrated old Fay Tor mansion on Jackson Place attain the distinction that came to it through Mark: HanIia's famous country sausage and pancake breakfasts.
 | It is said that the hospitality and sausage often masked political bat teries of the powerful Republican leader, to whom politics was the breath of life.
 -. However, these repasts became an in- stitution that were the joy of hotel-fed epieures and the ambition of the un- initiated into Washington society.
 Ruth was her fathers idol and she ac- cepted his friends as her own. She was particularly devoted to the Rooseyelts.
 While Mrs. Mccormick runs the farm as private enterprise of her own, and not as the wife of farmer, she takes time off to keep a finger on the political pulse. She always goes with her husband on his travels and even learned stenography to assist him. Oh, she's thorough in her methods, can tell you.
 But she finds time to play. She loves her horse, and the whole family rides every day, every one of them. That is part of life's program.
 Simplicity For Her Children The Mccormick children are being brought up simply, even if it is a butler who hands them the rice pud- ding. The mechanical maryels and extravagant toys which ooften are the accompaniment of wealth don't figure on the Mccormick Christmas tree.
 You should see the simple, useful toys they get. The small son, ex- hibiting one of his gifts, a money book | in which vou stick coins and paste