Evening star., 1937-10-23

all about socially just because their
father happens to be Senator" says
Mrs. Lonergan.
An interesting habit OF the family
is that OF using two names for each
Of the girls. 1t is never just Ruth"
but Ruth Ellen" and it's Lucy
Waters" Mary Lee" and Ann Yates"
never the single name.
I UCY WATERS is the politician OF
the family. if an interest in po-
litical, national and international
affairs is any indication. She is a
good, straight little thinker when it
comes TO questions of the day, and her
| analytical mind can provide an ad-
mirable summary of causes and effects
on international questions. She is
unusually interested in politics and
knows her current events in a way
that might we'll put many an adult to
shame. Lucy Waters likes to write
and read and is good student out at
Visitation Convent, like her elder
sister
The two younger girls attend John
Quincy Adams School. Ann Yates,
who is in the seventh grade, is the
with pep" fond of all kinds of
sports, particularly skating and swim
ming, Ann Yates takes life in her
vigorous and happy stride. There is
bit of mischief in her brown eyes,
too.
And the last little Lonergan, Mary
Lee, represents the practical, common
sense member of the family. Besieged
suddenly with a desire to excel in her
studies, Mary Lee o'erleaps herself
in her efforts to advance the ends OF
education. They we're studying about
Greece the other day." relates Mrs.
Lonergan, and Mary Lee was trotting
off to school with everything in the
house she could get hold of that
might illustrate something in connec-
ton with Greece. She even wanted
to take down these pictures from the
walls, frames and all. and bear them
triumphantly off. just what this
sudden and absorbing preoccupation
with education portends, l don't know,
but it looks as if Mary Lee were
determined to make a record for her
self at school this year"
II was Mary Lee who returned from
a visit to the White House-where ner
father had taken them to call upon
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
with a very important announcement
for her mother. The four children
had been shown about the White
House. taken to the swimming pool in
the Executive Mansion, and otherwise
made to enjoy their visit heartily.
But at tea time Mary Lee was not
permitted to partake of the soothing
beverage of her elders. Much i'm
messed she returned to report, The
President said I couldn't have any tea
or coffee until l was tin"
Tin" explains Mrs Ionergan,
"must be Mary Lees Irish blood as
serting itself She always says TIN
instead of ten l later told Mrs.
Roosevelt that if had not misunder-
stood the Presidents remark, l had
something to take up with him. For
not even being tin entities Mary Lee
to her tea and coffee"
THE four daughters of Connecticuts
senior Senator are very fond of
Washington. They have made en-
thusiastic trips to the Capitol, the
Senate Office Building and other GEN.
ters of officialdom. escorted by their
proud father. But right now they are
much more concerned with the all
absorbing activities of school than they
are with the significance of their
fathers position. 1t is doubtful If
any one of them thinks it worth re-
cording that Senator Lonerean was
sent by the first district for four
terms as a Representative before he
went to the Senate Or that he carried
| Connecticut as Senator in the first
Roosevelt election. although Roosevelt
himself did not. Nor that he defeated
Hiram Bingham to come to the Senate
at the last election.
II have the time of my life when
they're all home together" Senator
Lonergan beams. And there's MOTH
| ing Id rather do than have them
| all I'D here on the Hill with me, in
| PRODUCING them to everybody. You're
looking at q proud father. admit II.