Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-01-28
Winnie's Wife
BY MOllie Pallter.DO,Ur,es
(WNU Feature-Through special arrangement
with Golfers Weekly

DeduIuul, dIlluSlllS anu lOI luIlSHt,
the wife of England's prime minis
ter is public figure whose looks
and conduct have helped to fix her
and her husband in England's warm
| heart.
Even the London cockneys like to
say: There's good old Winnie!
| Don't is missus look a treat!" as
the Churchills drive past on their
way to some function.
Mrs. Churchill is tall and holds
herself with an old-fashioned straight
back. Her hair used to be ash
blonde; now it's gray and its curled
18th century air. She looks and is
athletic. She has always played a
first-rate game of tennis. She is a
good skier, and plays serious game
of croquet.
Her quickness on the mental trig-
ger leads the more timid of her ac-
quaintances to say respectfully that
she thinks like man. She adds to
this, however, typically feminine
irreverence for heavyweight per-
sonages and institutes, that a man
would approach, so to speak, with
his hat in his hand. At a private
party she is not unlikely to demolish
some serious discussion with twin
kle, which probably calls forth from
the cigar end of the table a deep,
appreciative, interior chuckle.
Winston's Cheer Leader.
When the prime minister makes
one Of his own famous speeches in
the house, she is always in the
ladies gallery to listen to the rolling
Churchillian phrases which, acting
as critical preview audience, she
has probably heard over in private
before. Before he starts, she gives
him an encouraging little wave.
For IS years, they have been
devoted companions. She has al
ways been family woman. Pos
sibly there's something in the idea
that an affectionate daughter makes
an affectiOnate mother. Elderly
gentlemen now recall how in the
dear old gaslit days of Edwardian
London, they used to see the youth
full Clementine Hozier companioning
her mother about town as insep-
aiap,y as wary Chulchll nlpah.
the ATS. The Edwardian phrase for
beautiful women was "stunners";
today Mrs. Churchill is still a stun
ner in handsome, full-length way.
She buys her clothes like a smart
Frenchwoman, selecting perhaps
one good black or navy outfit a sea-
son anu tnen living IN II. Inns is
llne wartime example 10 tnelsn-
women III seiiefal' WHO uoh leel SO
pau aoou' hiaklis tile year-oelore-
las. winter coat 10 Wner they hotice
.hat tlle prime munster "lle mas
oeeh ptiotosi apiieo asalh III tha'
Same oress she ilao ages ago.
First Lady'S BabuShka.
Similarly, she has probably peen
largely responsible for women going
around with their heads tied up in
scarves or net snoods. This eco
nomical form of headgear looks fine
on Mrs. Churchill though, unhappily,
not so good on most of her imita-
tors, who give the impression of hav-
ing absentmindedly clapped their
string shopping bags on their back
hair.
She is a good linguist and speaks
a beautiful French, unlike her hus-
band, whose occasional breath-tak-
Ing bursts into the Gallo tongue are
nevertheless SAID py enthusiastic
frehchmen 10 SOUND endearlns and
attractiVe;
mrs: Churchiil does an honest,
hara Jul Vi "oih as 'ne iaus Oh NO.
~ Do"n'ns Street; ~ tne various
publ. pouies :, WIZ" .n Desee IN, ier ~
Wis.,. nan I;s au , . T ha' nn "! mou.u
hand and glass of water At ber
elbow.
Her principal wartime activities
however. are her Aid to Russia
fund, of which she is chairman, and
the YWCA Wartime fund, of which