The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1934-11-22
The New Governors LADY,

| That just made it more interesting,
though. l always got out all right in
the end and was ready for the next
one."
Driving an automobile constitutes
Mrs. Nice's sole venture in the role of
pioneersing. Few women were on the
roads in the days when she obtained
her license and since then she has
driven her husband regularly to and
from his office every day when they
were not off on campaign trip.
From the beginning, except for a
brief interval when they switched to a
small car, Mrs. Nice has driven. a
high-powered machine, and her idea of
relaxation from the strain of driving
is simply more driving. Mr.. Nice,
she says, doesn't even know where
the horn is" and she's just as glad
that he doesn't, too
Through her father, the late James
W. Amos, whose mother was mem
Der of the Waters family, which set
tied in Somerset county during the
middle years Of the seventeenth CEN
fury, Mrs. Nice's traditions go back to
the land, but she herself is a city
woman, born and bred. AS little Edna
Amos she played jacks during the
early nineties with the children Of the
neighborhood on the front steps of
her home, and when she grew older
she went to high school, supplement-
ing her studies by lessons on the piano
and becoming a proficient musician.
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She was only 10 when she became
engaged to Mr.. Nice in 1901. Four
years later she and the struggling
young lawyer were married at the
Fayette Street Methodist Episcopal
church and went to housekeeping on
the accepted shoestring. AS bride
she learned to cook and to do innumer-
able household tasks which never
grew irksome because she liked them
so much. Years have relieved her of
the necessity of doing them, but the
future Governor declares that she still
makes better rolls than any cook
eXtant.
Pretty clothes are one of her weak
nesses. She likes to select them in
soft, clinging materials and rich, deep
colors, but a modest wardrobe of suit
able and becoming garments is all
that she asks in this respect. Dark
blue, which deepens the blue of her
eyes, she wears a great deal, and one
of her favorite evening gowns is chif-
fon in clear, Burgundy read, but she
usually wears black after nightfall.
When she wants to celebrate Mrs.
Nice goes to the movies. Both she
and Mr.. Nice are ardent enthusiasts
in this form of diversion and every
free evening finds them down town
viewing a picture.
Concerts and the opera they rarely,
if ever, patronize, though this is a
matter of real regret to Mrs. Nice,
who retains her interest in music in
spite of the fact that she ceased long
ago to play the piano. The increasing
demands of household and family life
left no time to practice when she was
young married woman, and when
she had more leisure other things
presented themselves to fill up her
days.
Light and airy persifage has no
part in Mrs. Nice's makeup, but she
is gay enough for all that. Words,
like people, she takes at their face
value and she has an infectious laugh
with which to put a shy visitor at
ease or to revive a conversation which
shows signs of death by languishing.
When she goes to Annapolis next
January to live, she will cross the
threshold of the Executive Mansion
for the first time, but the prospect
does not in the least dismay her.
'There always has to be a first time
for everything, you know" she OBJ
serves, "and I am an optimist.
have good reason to be, don't you
Think"