The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-14
BY Allene Sumner
CHAPTER VI

WASHINGTON, March .3.-Alice
Longworth Roosevelt publicly in
dorsed cold cream with her p.cture
and everything, and got away with
it.!
That tells in a nutshell what sort
81 a person she is, forN other people
IN Washington have Endorsed the
same cold cream and are not sure
yet whether they got away with it
e or not.
Charming Mrs. William Borah
from Idaho, for instance.
IT couldn't see any harm in it, :"
she told her friends. eve tried
the cream out since and it really is
very good, and it was the easiest
money / ever made. It seems to
me it's every woman's duty to take
money when she finds it"
For Paulina-$5,000
Story has it that the checks which
Alice Longworth and Mrs. Borah re-
ceived for two minutes work at their
desk when they wrote, 81 find that
Blanks cream permits me to keep
ME to keep my skin fresh as a girls
for the whirl in this busy capital,
read
"Pay the bearer $1,000
Alice Longsworth stemmed the
verbose clatter with a cute story to
the effect that the $4,000 was for
infant Paulina's education, but even
an Alice couldn't stop talk for a
while, even if Washington did final
ly forgive her attack on its I'M
peccable responsibility.
mick Longsworth has plenty of
money for his child's education, "
they said.
Call Her alice
''And the idea of Jimmie Wads-
worth indorsing cigarets on public
billboards! What is the dignity of
our city coming to, anyway"
But, as we remarked, Alice Long
worth can indorse anything to the
scandal Of Washington, get away
with it, and still reign undisputed
leader of everything clever. modern,
smart, intellectual, sprightly, and
arty.
II hadn't been in town a day." a
new Senator's wife told me, before
l learned that if were to be any
body at all I must begin calling
Mrs. Longworth Alice Everybody
does it,
But the most popular and talked
about woman in Washington is the
one who talks the 1east-for publ
cation.
A Publicity Secret
Alice LongWorth has not given
an interview for twenty years and as
a result has gained more headlines
than Gloria Swanson with a press
agent loud speaker.
There is the Alice legend which
has it that she knows more about
politics than any man in Washing
ton and that even the President him
self is not above comforting with her
sagacious self.
She is the delight and terror of
Speaker Nick Longworth's life.
They tell tales of his wife in the
front row of the gallery making
faces at him, or giving limitations
of some of the Congressman and
Senator's which almost convulse the
dignified speaker at the most serious
moments of his life, such as when
a message from the President is be-
ing read.
Tried to Trip Nick
This, legend has it, is Alice's
favorite stunt-capsizing Nick's dig
nifty. She tried it at the big charity
ball of the season. Speaker Nick
was parading down the line with
Mrs. Coolidge on his arm. Alice
opined,s her friends explain, that he
looked too dignif1ed for words,' so
She stretched out silver pump and
tried to trip him. He didn't trip,
but Alice had fun enough in imagin-
ing how crestfallen he would have
been if he had gone down upon the
polished floor, First Lady on his
arm.
They tell tales of Speaker Nick
coming to the august chamber with
strong aroma of perfume upon
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