The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-22
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Filler Calm
and Modest
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON


While Charles Lindbergh was fly
ing over the Atlantic, and afterward
was being acclaimed a hero by the
people of the world and honored
by great men and crowned heads
of Europe. his mother went on with
her work as teacher OF chemistry
in a Detroit high school.
Outwardly, and so far as her pu-
pills and the rest of the world could
see, she was calm and undisturbed.
What was going on in her mind
and heart none of us can know,
Of course.
For the one thing that belongs
to each of us exclusively-the one
thing that is each individuals own
secret possession, no matter how
complicated or intimate his ties
is his thought. That is nobody
else's business and the world can
not intrude into that private do
main where each of us is king.
All we know is that Mrs. Lind
bergh. widow Of Viking Congress
man and mother of Q. Viking air
man, conducted herself, under all
the circumstances, as a modest,
educated. cultured woman with a
sense Of social values properly
might be expected to conduct her
self.
After young Lindbergh's venture
was all over except the shouting,
Mrs. Lindbergh went from her mod
est home in Detroit to the Execu-
tive Mansion at Washington, the
honored guest Of the President of
the United States and his estim-
able wife.
When this charming school
teacher from Detroit entered the
home of the President she met, for
the first time, and became the
guest of another real woman and
former school teacher-the modest,
gracious and charming wife Of the
President of the United States.
We purposely refrain from using
the silly, snobbish, undemocratic
and American title of The
First Lady of the Land"
We prefer to think Of the wife
of the President of the United
States as Mrs. Coolidge, who by
her womanly tact, grace. human
ness and charm has won the honest
affection of the people Of the entire
country.
What happened when these two
school teachers got together in the
privacy of the White House was no
part of the public pomp and cere-
mony incident to the official well
come to the nations hero.
A curious public, no matter how
respectful and how deeply inter
ested couldn't peep through the
windows of the presidential home
and see what was going on.
But there were two school
teachers, two splendid American
women, two mothers-Grace Cool
idge and .Evangeline Lindbergh-all
alone by themselves, entirely free
to be themselves and to get
acquainted and talk together, just
as if one were not the wife of the
President and the other the mother
Of the worlds most popular hero.
Nobody will ever know what they
said to each other. There were no
reporters, no photographers, no
diplomats, no secret service oper-
atives present-nobody to prevent
them from being natural and act
ing just like two congenial school
teachers and mothers.
What happened, what they said
when they were free to say what
they wanted TO Say-well, it was no
body's business but theirs.
We imagine, however, that both
Grace Coolidge and Evangeline
Lindbergh - being the splendid
women they have proven themselves
to be-thoroughly enjoyed them
selves as two very human women
and two real mothers know how to
enjoy themselves when they get to-
gether with nobody else around.