Evening star., 1933-04-03

ments without Billy-only to the excep-
tional functions where the participants
are invited solely because Of official
rank. It might be q good thing for
Billy IL these exceptions were more nu-
merous. He Is q busy man, for whom a
quiet evening at home is a relief. We
have been on the go rather steadily a
long time.
For while Billy and lived in an
apartment while our house in Harvard
Terrace, Washington, was being COM
pleted. How we loved this house with
its tiny gafdeni I worked with my
diminutive flower beds until I am sure
could have given lessons in intensive
horticulture to the experts Of France or
Italy. Harvard, terrace was hillside
street of small houses, and remember
how angry one Of our neighbors became
when the megaphone man on a sight
seeing bus shouted:
| Here you see some Of the fine houses
where you can pay dollar down and a
dollar the rest Of your hfe. These peo-
| pie live on bluff"
; We remained in Harvard terrace un-
| til We moved to q somewhat larger
house We still own In Macomb street
Meanwhile Billy had resumed private
law practice, and my venture into mat
| rimony had ended my secretarial work
1 for brother. Whatever service could
give him henceforth was to be aide in
social duties, and more and more on the
! political side as women began to widen
i their activities in that field. He re-
placed me at his Office with man. who
no doubt had many qualities superior
to mine, though I like to remember
the time when brother thought I was
! about the best
recall certain day. He was very
busy, he had been an exacting boss for
| weeks past, and the machinery of poll
Tics and government was humming fast
l worked late, taking dictation, mailing
| letters Gt seemed to mel by the thou
sands. My head ached. I was ON the
point OF crying out that I would not
| work another minute and running out
OF the office, when suddenly he said:
| Dolly, I'd rather have you than any
three secretaries in Washington"
He could run me ragged after that
and I would have collapsed rather than
admit I didn't enjoy my drudgery. j
did enjoy 1t nearly all the time. It
was wrench to give up the daily grind
even for the sake Of my new home.
After the death of Anna, my sister,
/ in-law, whose health had been failing
for long while, I became Brother
Charles Official hostess-every high
executive, judicial, legislative and dip
,1omatic parsonage in Washington should
have one, to take his proper part in the
Capitals life. Brother came to live
with Billy and me and our house be-
came his home; 1t was his more than
ours as far as the public was concerned
THAT Is where Senator Curtis lives, u
We could hear from passers-by.
There was long interval when we
were in mourning and did no enter
tanning. After that kept open house
1 on Thursdays, senatorial at-home day;
went with Charles to the places we were
supposed to 60, arranged his dinner
parties. and followed the routine of en-
tertainments to which q Senator Is bid
den.
I have got the maximum Of enjoy
ment from my life in Washington.
do not dislike things I have to do. II
have anything to do I like it. like
people. like to see them. I like tc
talk Of them. In the old days, as to-
day, I had neither time nor inclina-
ton to cultivate dislikes. The man OF
woman in whom can find nothing to
interest me must be either uncivilized
or very silly.
(Tomorrow: Then and Now)
| copyright. 1888 bv North American News
| paper Alliance. Incl