Evening star., 1940-07-19
BY MARGARET HART,
Star Society Editor.

CHICAGO, July 19.-In all the
high tension and excitement of last
nights session of the Democratic
National Convention, there was at
least one apparently calm and COL
lected spectator present-Mrs. Henry
A. Wallace, wife of the Secretary of
Agriculture. Attractively turned
out in a becoming heaven-blue crepe
tailored dress. with a matching hat
draped with snow white dotted
veil, Mrs. Wallace gave every evi-
dence that she can take boos as we'll
as applause. Not once during the
nominating or balloting, when the
Chicago Stadium echoed with dis
approval OF the Presidents choice
for his running mate. did she lose
her quiet dignity, or show dis
approval or hurt.
Mrs. Wallace few from Des Moines
last night to be with her husband
In his hour of triumph. Her only
expressed regret on the platform last
night was that there was no room
on the plane for their daughter
Jean. Miss Wallace, who made her
debut in the Capital last winter,
was at the airport to wish her
mother happy landing.
Silent on Selection.
Mrs. Wallace refused to comment
on the Presidents selection of her
husband for Vice President and she
cleverly kept her conversation along
lighter vein.
The youthful looking wife of Sec
retary Wallace, if the Roosevelt
Wallace ticket wins in November,
will succeed Mrs. John Nance Garner
as president of the Senate Ladies
Luncheon Club, an organization
founded during the World War and
which has become so important in
the lives of senatorial women.
While Mrs. Wallace has graced her
role as cabinet hostess with charm
and graciousness, she has, as much
as possible, stayed out of the official
social limelight She is one of the
truly popular women in Official life,
however, and has in addition won
for herself a host of friends in all
circles of Capital society. Mrs. WAL
lace likes best to give the greatest
amount of her time to her family
and those whom she calls "her
closest friends"
Shes a Good Cook.
AS she sees it, one of wife's most
important tasks is to keep her home
"as free of care as possible"-a
haven of rest for a busy man.
OF average height and just in
clined to be plumpish, lilo Browne
Wallace carries herself well. She
has brown eyes and wears her brown
wavy unbobbed hair in bun at the
nape of her neck.
She is a good cook and likes to try
out new recipes. 1t amuses her that
her husband, who is so keenly in
terested in how foodstuffs grow
isn't the slightest bit intrigued by
their preparation for the table.
She relates that one time he had
to get meal ION his own" Il came
home and found he had cooked a
meal of milk, cheese and crackers,
oAiC ACAdUVu.
AS Mrs. Wallace tells it, the Sec
retary sounds like an Al husband
He doesn't mind going home from
a long, hard day at the Office tc
find he has to dress and go out te
party. He eats anything that i.
set before him. And he lets hi!
wife pick out his ties.
Secretary Wallace met her when
she was student at Drake Univer.
sity at Des Moines and he was q
reporter on his fathers farm jour.
nal. They were married in 1914 anc
lived IN Des Moines until Mr.. Wal
lace was appointed to his cabinet
post in 1888. In addition to Jean
Secretary and Mrs. Wallace have
two sons, Henry Browne Wallace
Is. who is married and farms out
side Of Des Moines, and Rober,
Browne Wallace, %, a graduate oi
Iowa State College at Ames this
year.
Ovation for Mrs. Roosevelt.
Mrs. Wallace was seated next tt
Mrs. Roosevelt last night. The Presi-
dents wife received a sincere oya.
ton when she stepped to the speak.
ers' table to address the convention
She was wearing the famous blue