Evening star., 1925-03-22

~ of Office holding, Now you've
Il n got 1t, whatter you going to
do with it?' I do love them
quaint old-time sayings, and I thought
now true this one is the other evening
"hen George, that's my husband. says
20 me he was going out
Being a perfectly normal woman.
or course 1 wanted to know where,
IN case of fire, jealousy or getting
bail for him.
wen, Geo. says he was going out
win that Joe Bush of the Hawthorne
club. In fact, the Hawthorne Club
was where the two OF them was
Steaaed Tor, since 1t was conner hold
Cheir annual election of officers
Geo. 1t seems had a thought that
they would make him Secretary to
the club, and the idea apparently
tlckled him a lot, since most men
seem to enjoy holding Office as much
as We ladies enjoy a young baby.
ana since he was determined to go,
why didn't make no attempt to try
and stop him. l merely says that's a
crazy idea, what on earth do you
want 10 so out with that Joe Bush
Tor anyway, but every person to their
own choice, SO ankle along, dear, and
don't make no detours.
But when he had gone and I had
nQt both Junior and the supper
dishes to bed. 1 done something I
cont often get to do. ! read Geo's
evening paper, and the very first
! mention | seen was concerning Mr
Kellogg, our new Secretary OF State
down to Wash. d. g. and before ]
had read the piece half through
commenced to wonder why anybody
should want TO be q Secretary of
any kind.
t,aI
Iore at our Ladies' Thursday Club
when Miss Dherstep, our sec, would
shake wicked eye-glass chain as
she read those minutes which al
ways seem more like hours. I
can't imagine anything which would
make person more unpopular then
reading them dreary minutes and ]
couldn't think where The Pres, Cab
1net, etc, wouldn't be any more be-
holden to Mr.. Kellogg for this thank
1883 task then in the case Of US
ladies right here at home.
But probably Mr.. Kellogg makes
his stuff more interesting and is bet
Ter at getting out the post cards tell
Ing when is the next club meeting, and
where.
I know out here 1 generally meet
some lady on the street and she says
oh my dear. do you know there's a
L
And she says the secretary phoned
me, my dear, I'm surprised you didn't
get any notice!
Nd when this thought come to
me I suddenly realized where II
George was to get selected secretary
of the Hawthorne Club, why very
much more than likely he would ex-
pect me to write and address all the
notices he had to send out. He would
NeXpect I should do it in my odd mo-
ments. Hot Bozo! I decided right
then that those moments would be
odd, all right, not to say rare and
hard to find!
bet Mr. Secretary Kellogg
wouldn't ask his wife to do nothing
like that. What with the great no.
of things that man has to look after,
suppose a few postcard notices
more or less don't mean nothing to
him.
Take for a sample, now, his for
eign policies. 1 understand from the
papers where he is obliged to have a
lot of them. l know Geo. caryies
quite lot of domestic ones for
map Of his income. He's got straight
life, endowment, fire, theft, accident
and collision. Also public liability.
And from the fuss the poor boy has
trying to keep them renewed and
paid up md transferred and what
not, 1 can easily imagine the terrible
time Mr.. Kellogg must have, being
obliged TO take out all those, and
maybe more, in foreign countries.
Then there is the Sec. of States
European trips. I don't mean jour
neys; I mean how he has to watch
his step and Europe's-especially the
latter. He's got to keep writing let
Cers over there, but he's got also to
be sure he don't say nothing in 'em.
While as for disarmament confer
ences, well in none of the pictures I
have so far seen of this present Sec.