Evening star., 1925-01-25
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanders
In New Social Role
Following March 4
Representative and His Wife
to Become Intimately AS
sociated With President $
Household. .....-

Representative Everett Sanders, who
will comp etc four terms as member
of the House on March 4, and who VIII
then step into the place vacated by
former Representative ]. BaScom Slemp,
is necessarily very well known to the
official world, where he and Mrs. Sanders
have a wide acquaintance. But IN the
new role both viii stand out conspicu-
ousiy, and VIII hereafter Torm part OF
that small and intimate group constant
ly associated with the private and state
amenities at the White House. Every
one recalls the charming little family
group Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt had
about her, Mrs. George Cortelyou and
later Mrs William Loeb Mrs. R'Ney'
wife of the White House physician, ana,
OF course, Miss Isabel HaGner, now Mrs.
Norman James. Mrs. Tumuity was
seen very inirequeuuy at the White
House during the eight years her nus
band served President wilson, but she
was not in the most robust tn, ana
she Rad young family. Mir and Mrs.
George T Christian, jr., were always
sharers in the duties Of the aides in ti.e
White House during the Harding
regime Mr. Slemp Is a bachelor. anu
contrary to predictions he leaves MS
lofty post with his heart apparently un-
SCARED
Mrs Everett Sanders. who will
necessarily become a familiar figure
in brief period after March 4, Is
young enough to enjoy her excep
tional opportunities and has that
broad genial personality, whtch ls
typical of the Middle West. she ana
her husband are both natives of Vigo
County. Ind, and both are what is
generally known as country born
that is, both are OF farming parent
age and their early scholastic train
ing was obtained in the excellent
graded schools of rural Indiana. Mrs.
Sanders was before her marriage MISS
Ella Neal and II was at the State
normal school that she first became
interested in young Everett Sanders,
the son of neighbor, and with whose
younger sisters and brothers she had
long been on friendly terms. Mrs
Sanders parents were Mr.. and Mrs.
Mahlong Neal, the former resident
of Ohio, who had settled In the rich
farm lands of Vigo County in his
early years. His widow, who was
Miss Nancy Jane Shepperd, still sur
wives and lives at the old farm home.
After graduating in the same class
at the State normal. Mr.. Sanders and
the then Miss Ella Neal. taught there
for about three years, when they mar
ried. and Mr.. Sanders having deter
mined on legal and possibly a career
in politics, entered the University OF
Indiana at Bloomington. So valuable
an aid did his young wife prove in
this university training that he took
his degree In three years when the
almost universal time required is four,
Mrs. Sanders smilingly explained
that everybody in Indiana goes In
either for literary or political honors,
and her husband having declared in
nf tnz Ch "a
English language and letters. But as
she cherished ambition to figure
among the distinguished Hooslers,
whose fame as authors has become
International she was compelled to
forego her own preference during the
years when her husband began to
practice law. They had removed from
the country home to Terre Haute,
which remains their official place of
residence. During this period Mrs.
Sanders, with the practical turn which
the wives of nearly all successful
Americans have, took culinary and
housekeeping lessons, and by her aid
in the intellectual sense and by her
watchful care in the home, the young
lawyer soon got on and began to real
iEe his ambition. But she frequently
writes for her home papers, and that
ghe possesses an unusual degree OF
executive as well as literary ability
was shown by her election as one of
the vice presidents of the Congress
sional Club when sh, had been a
member barely four years.
Representative and Mrs. Sanders
are ardent in their devotion and ad-
miration for all that Is OF Hoosier
origin, and they can talk most en-
tertainingly on many themes Of which
Washingtonians hear little. Thus
Mrs Sanders keeps apace of the In
diana school of literature, and though
the exacting duties which fall to her
lot prevent her reading with close at
tention all of this always generous
output of books, she is thoroughly
familiar with all that Is being pub
Hshed. The beautiful country home
of George Barr McCutcheon is in her
neighborhood, and being of literary
trend and belonging to such clubs she
n~ourns the late Gene Stratton Por-
ter not only as a departed versatile
writer, but also as friend. The
Chtldren'S Home for Invalids and In
curables, which Indianapolis estab-
lished in memory of the children's
poet James Whitcomb Riley, claimed
her attention because a little girl
from Terra Haute was the first pa
tient received into this unique insti-
tuition, the walls of which are covered
with the poets fancies, in verse and
in drawings. Little Orphan Annie"
and hundreds of other people who live
in RileyS poems.