St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-04-30
ll WAY SEE IT
~. BY nELL D0DSON RUSSELL.

heard nauseatng little behindhe-scenes political story
recently The tale that during the the wife OF
presidential asprants entertained of the inner
ladies of her husbands party at luncheon The assort
group of enes and just that accepted the wife
hospitality back into closed all
place about how she didn't have servants to wait
how clothes weren't this that etc. etc
They just for their dear boy and his lot in
life.
Every woman married a public Office ambitious
for public Office can't have the personal charm and efassur
ance of an Eleanor Roosevelt many during
my years I've heard the wives public figures
being verbally shredded to pieces because they made the mis-
trappngs and hypOca front that people enormously
call the glamour" of public life
There's nothing "glamOrOus" about dealing with the
public. It's gruellng thankess work. If a woman feels
at waxing the kitchen lmOleum than she does
grazing the speakers table while the old gives out
with CUFF prepared for him by the hacks of
political party I'd say power to her. If she
house apron better than she does little number by
Hattie Carnegie it's all the to her credit (SOme
of the shapes I've IN Carnegie originals should
never have moved out of the house apron class).
When the public of the bright, up-and-comng
young men of the civic or political world "aggng his onss
from the speakers rostrum the public only the surface
result What the public doesn't the patch the seat Of
bis pants aruy concealed by the skfu fingers of the little
What the public doesn't is the Overdue" notice
the monthly bill because the little the
into tuxedo Pops when he spoke the
of Commerce dinner last week What the public doesn't
the place under the of the little wOmans fur
coat the fur coat that's going to have do another because
Pops has to for his membership that towns leading club
If stuffed shirts.
Some of the biggest political names were able to
travel in the proper" company their way up only
because they married to who cut financial
sacrificed worried and shaved in order to keep
the home fires burning while the boys putting
big front to WOO in the votes.
Then what happens. When these males the
grade get their tootses the first the ladder
they forget all about the little who stood faith
fully by when the rough they fall headoverheels
for the handed by fyweight fies
who oozy Isn't he just WONDERFUL"
that they out Of the other side Of the psck What
he in HERR
1t takes than swallow to make a 1t also
takes more than velvet veneer to mak a real woman.
Amen.
Add Things That the Bicarbonate The Lana Tur-
gere time when ordinary gals scufe buy pair
of WOolworth panties
The second item which enough to agitate your
ulcers: 1900 Minneapolis and st. Paul firms having
their employees take the Freedom Pledge" Tues
day. I'll bet 1899 of em have lily white pa, rolls Who's
kidding who. If / may be ungrammatical
or sachmo himself will be here May and g. He'll be a
the Auditorium in st. Paul May and Auditorium
! Minneapolis, May 9. Louis Armstrong that is
Every time think of the last occasion the
band get Mysteries 1t at the Apollo theatre Nep
Yorks Harlem The band playing the production number
The Wind and the Rain in Her Hair Al Viga EvelyI
Reyes were hoofng through the routine with much
boys in the band had white suits veddy sharp
All of sudden Big Sid Caet drummer up in thu
air with quizzca expression his face Then
ams the bass player looked the air with
cal expression adjoining his ksserOO Sid stuck his
palm upwards, looked up in the air again, shrugged.
The rain wasn't just in the musical chum.
1t raining cats dawgs and little fishes outside
somebody had left stage skylight open. Vigal and
dTPSSR for tha nuuhar kooF