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...Paulina, daughter of Speaker Nicholas Longworth of the House of Representatives, granddaughter of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, celebrated her fifth birthday by going to the House gallery for the first time. Noting her appearance, the representatives rose, faced her, applauded. Excited by the tumult, she giggled, clapped back at them, had to be told to drop her hands...
...baby referred to is Paulina Longworth, born February 14, 1925. C. Under the name of Ruth Elder, famed aviatrix, the following was syndicated last week in U. S. newspapers-part of a description of a White House luncheon: "The event was jolly. I noticed President Coolidge ate very little and I won one of his rare smiles when I said: 'Why, Mr. President, you eat just like a canary...
Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House of Representatives, last week had another distaff knot embroidered into the cloth of his family's fame. He is husband of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, father of Paulina Longworth, brother of Countess Jacques de Chambrun (wife of a French general). Last week, in Paris, the French Academy awarded the Bordin prize to the Countess for her studies of Shakespeare...
...husband play the violin. He does it beautifully. Then I like to sit in the gallery and listen to debates in Congress, particularly in the Senate. Some say that I could be elected Senator from Ohio, if I said the word. However, I am too busy now caring for Paulina to think of stump speaking...
Other famed Washington women who might inscribe illuminating monographs in Paulina Longworth's memory book are: Mrs. James W. Wadsworth Jr., who fought against woman suffrage; Mrs. Harry S. New, amateur cinema exhibitor; Mrs. William E. Borah, mouselike in comparison with her tigercat husband; Mrs. John P. Hill, stylish wife of a swanky husband; Mrs. William Howard Taft, music critic and enthusiast; Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur, able cook; Mrs. Frederick H. Gillett, wife of a Senator and one-time widow of a Congressman, hence, interested in politics; Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis, who writes poetry; Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg, able...