New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-06-05
The Jolly, Friendly, Mrs Watson
EY ALLENE SUMNER

BY ALLENE SUMMER
staff Writer for Herald and NEA
Service.
Rushviile, Ind. June III The
Jim Watsons' move into the White
House on March I, 1929, the poll
ticians might just as well know first
and foremost that the president'll
have little time to bother with the
likes of them on April Fools Day.
April Fools Day is a red-letter
day in the Jim Watson family"
Just as it's apt to be in any house,
hold fun OF impish kids.
To be sure. all the Watsons. big
and old. know all the jokes. But
somebody's bound to get caught.
The Watsons like their pancake
joke. They have pancakes and
syrup for breakfast every morning,
so there's nothing in the mound
OF brownly crisped cakes In them
selves to label the day and make
one suspicious.
But somebody's bound to get
cotton cake that morning. That
April Fool cake has gone the
rounds from Dad and Mother
down to Joseph Edwin, aged one.
The Watsons and their April
Fool Joke give a pretty good idea
Of the sort OF family they are;
CLOSE family" family which
prefers its own society to all the
other people in the world; = fam
lily which thinks homo the best
place anywhere.
Naturally. someone Is respons-
ible for this family solidarity. In
the case OF the Jim Watsons."
they say honors are about equally
shared in the home job by Mr..
and Mrs. Watson.
Mention Mrs. Watson down In
Washington and they'll say:
Yes. the handsome Mrs. Wat
SON."
Mention Mrs. Jim Watson here
in Rushville. and they'll say:
Yes, that jolly. friendly Mrs.
Watson"
Mention her around tho home
and they'll call her Nom"
Whenever the senator makes q
speech, those who have heard him
before are sure OF one passage.
They say his secretary takes It
down even before the senator says
it. 1t goes like this
1.-THE home is the supreme thing
to every man. 1 am proud to say
that for - years I have enjoyed
as happy and, II you will pardon
me, as beautiful a home life a
falls to the lot OF any man."
| What's more, his secretary will
tell you. he means It. He says 1t,
not because it's good political
stuff, but because he just has to
say it.
Flora Miller and Jim Watson
went to school together back IN
/ Winchester. Ind. The day after
their marriage they moved to
Rushville, which has been home
ever since.
The Watson counting days IN
Winchester were a mixture OF dirt
roads, horse and buggy rides. box
socials. church suppers, and the
annual road company OF Uncle
Toms Cabin" at the Opera House.
Even to this day. they say. the
Watsons like an ldfashioned
buggy or sleigh ride or hayrack
ride In fragrant hay under = har-
vest moon.
But in Washington no senator's
wife is more poised in sophicticat-
ed social circles than the hand
some Mrs. Watson"
THE Jim Watsons" are always
popular in a bridge game. though
the senator likes his solitaire bet
ter. They say his idea Of 100
per cent evening is to settle down
before the fireplace at his soli-
taire while 1.-The Mrs" sits by
reading or sewing, throwing out
an occasional comment about "the
children"
THE children" are James E. Jr..
! who is 81. married. lives IN CHI
| cago, and has two sons Of his own :
Edwin G., aged 80: Katherine. 20:
Joseph c., IS, and ''Hoosier." the
family bull dog.
Edwin G. says he's never going
to marry. There's no girl like
| mother" which may help describe
Mrs. James Z. Watson, another
possible First Lady"
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