Evening star., 1924-07-27
Cook Book Was Basis
of Romance in Life
of Senator Wheeler
/. Met Girl Now His Wife
While Selling Volume to
Illinois Farm Wives and
Relic Is Still Treasured.

+ Senator La Follette'S running mate
] OIL the Progressive ticket is among the
I. newcomers in the official set and yet
& he is an acknow lodged power in many
was Washington. however, became
quite familiar with the successor of
+ Henry Lee Myers in the Senate dur
iEg the lengthy and rather involved
proceedings connected with the in
restigation of the Department, of
Justice. Mrs. Wheeler in the mean
time had taken her place unobtrusively
and was carrying on" in the most
practical sense, finding pleasant
home for the family three sons and
two daughters, beside the SCION. and
her own father. Mr.. Fl. l.. White of
Champlain. ILL.,, who makes his home
with her. She had Joined the Congress
Sional Club and the Senate Woman's
lMncheon club and was active in
everything demanded by a righteous
Interpretation of her duties. But since
the Junior Senator from Montana has
accepted the second place on the Pro-
EressiVe ticket interest in him and
HIS family has quickened
Senator Wheeler is among the exec
lent lawyers who have been called TO
make the legal DEGREES of his Nation
and he has always been a student with
u partiality for good books His home
IN Jocelyn street, Cleveland Park has
roomy book apartment. and the tables
OF the living room are covered with
magazines, reviews and weighty pub
iicationS on the problems of the hour
But there is one book which occupies
halloWed niche in the Wheeler house,
hold and is kept intact from common
use by securing its replica which is
on the shelves with other well thumbed
volumes Thereby hangs the most i'm
portant tale in the life of Burton
Kendall Wheeler and which he places
lar above the fact that he was elected
10 the United States Senate and has
now been selected to be the running
mate of Robert Marion La Toilette on
me Progressive or third party ticket.
The beginning Of this story harks
oack to the college days of Burton
Wheeler, about 1900. in Ann Arbor.
the ne University OF Michigan. From
the moment of his entering the
freshman class. he had to make his
own way This he. did by washing
ulSneS. d"inE Janitor work and ali
sor'S OF odds and ends But try as
ne would he could not make enough
money To promise any sort of ease
IN MS sophomore years so in that
vacation when he was less than IS
ne began to sell books. making tn.
rounds of the prosperous farms in
middle Illinois. One hot dav. tired
ana dusty he arrived at the farm of
VT; hit". now his fathcr-in-Iaw.
ana truth to tell he met with a rather
day,.i., dsUS.E r'EI ption: Rut the young
TO want III" very book he was selling
the fine old cook book to be- found
on many Of the kitchen shelves in the
Western States-Dr Prices book of
well tried household recipes So Miss
Lula persuaded her mother TO huy
the volume and she persuaded her
rather to ask the tired young col
leGe student to supper and the result
was year after Year young Wheeler
visited that farmhouse. even when
ne no longer had books to sell II
was evident that he and Miss Lula
mite understood each other for to
supplement his annual vSit-he could
not afford one oftener-there were
many letters, and five years after he
mad been admitted to the bar in
Butte, Mont, he went back to that
identical farm To claim his bride
Naturally Miss Lula White kept
that book of household recipes with
tender care and though she used
them all and with great success the
volume was covered with tissue paper
and tucked away against any harm.
1t is the most cherished of the writ
ten words in the Wheeler family
today.
Senator and Mrs. Wheeler have
been married since 1907 and there
are five children. of whom the eldest
lS John III. Wheeler. IA, and about to
enter the Western High School Miss
Elizabeth Louise Wheeler is H. and
then comes Edward, who is 9; Frances
and Richard, who is not yet g. Mrs
Wheeler is of Il decided domestic turn
and she deems her first duty to keep
her growing family we'll and happy
She is esteemed as fine cook. prob
ably the result of the excellent book
her husband sold her at their first
meeting and which she values so
highly. But that was far back in
the opening 1900 and she has kept
abreast of the novel ways of cooking
and of conducting home in vogue
since then. Senator and Mrs. Wheeler
had a charming place in Butte, but
the school year keeps them chained
to Washington 10 months of the year
They have only during the past few
days been able to leave Washington.
for John was attending summer
school and Elizabeth had some
scholastic affairs to keep her. They
are to spend d month on the SeaShore
just above Boston and then late in
August will take a trip to their west
ern home. Senator Wheeler and his
family are prominent members of the
Methodist Church in Butte, but have
not affiliated with any particular con-
gregation in Washington. Both are
among the younger members of the
senatorial circle. the Senator being in
his early 4os and his wife three years