New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-06-04
Mrs: Norris Puts Home Life
Ahead of the Social Whrl

ner every evening. Sometimes he
sleeps. Sometimes he lust rests
while Mrs. Norris reads to him.
We've just finished Dickens and
Thackeray for the 'steenth time"
smiled Mrs. Norris. telling of those
evening reading rests. I'VE both love
the old high school classics.
But Becky Sharp and Little Nell
do not comprise the total book In
terests of the Norrises. We talked
of Mother India" and with all
the modern talk about the truth
and lack of truth in this book. /
have heard from no one, profess
sional critic or layman, such =
keen analysis of the book as this
almost obscure senatorial lady
gave.
Mrs. Norris laughs that she's
going back to school some day and
finish her college education. She
was principal of the McCook, Me-
braska, school when she married
Senator Norris, then district
Judge.
Il love teaching" she says, "and
[ doubt if even marriage could have
taken me from it if that marriage
hadn't meant little children to be
cared for
For Senator Norris was widows
er with three little girls, the young
est about ., when he married Miss
Ella Leonard, tie school principal.
Mrs. Norris is a bit sensitive on
any stepnothcr publicity, almost
rcscntful OF any remembrance thae
the children are not her own.
They are my own-my very own
children" she declares. And N
not speaking only theoretically for
l had two little boys OF my own
whom | lost. and l know that 1
/ nc.er loved them a. bit more than
the three little girls. | hate admit
| ting that they aren't my own. But
| it's the truth and there's nothing SO
/ important as truth
| The first and second Mrs. Nor
ris were schoolgirl friends. Miss
Le onard, the second and present
Mrs. Norris, taught the three little
Norris girls in Sunday school and
loved them long before she ever
dreamed of becoming their mother.
Her devotion to the little girls"
now all grown and married and WIN
children of their own, is even moro
intense than that OF most real
mothers" which she insists she Is.
Children's welfare and education.
their reading, their amusements.
se>m to her the most important ln-
terost of any woman's life.
Senator Norris shares her inter-
est and devotion to the Children.
She told Of the time when the SEN
ator left the children in Nebraska
while he was in Washington. and OF
bis distress when, returning home
one time. one OF inc nltle eirlS
didn't know him.
That almost broke his heart"
Mrs, Norris says, land he said that
if it cost every penny he made we
have a home in Washington right
away.
An Attractive Woman
Mrs. Norris is one of the hand
soonest senatorial women IN
Washington, with her soft, pink
and white skin, white hair, brown
ewes, and splendid carriage. She
dresses extremely we'll and is 80
good q conversationalist and COM
panion that people do wish tho
Norrses would so out more.
But books and home and quiet
evenings together and time for the
senate gallery and the art gall
leries are Mrs. Norris choice.
She's he sort that makes and takes
her choice.
| One can imagine no woman IN
Official Washington better fitted
with .posc and intelligence ana
fricndliness for the First Lady"
lob than Mrs. George Norris OF
Nebraska.