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She didn't see any sense in that and it was tiresome. It is tiresome to sit on a platform in a hot hall and listen to political hot air. It just bored her. It was tedious. She didn't see any sense in it and she didn't want to go. She had no feeling at all about reform. He was Mayor and that was all right. If he wanted to be Mayor, it was all right with her. But she didn't lift a hand to help him be Mayor and she didn't lift a hand to help him accomplish anything as Mayor.

Of course there was not actually at that time nay clear pattern of what a woman and a wife could and should do in helping out a politician. The English women, ever since anybody can remember, were always at their husbands' sides so to speak. During a campaign they smiled. In their carriage they went from door to door smiling. They received the ladies at a garden party. They did all that kind of thing. The English women had the title of political hostesses which means they gave parties. They invited people to parties purely on political line, done for the purpose of promoting their husbands' candidacy or their husbands' success in Parliament, in the Cabinet, or whatever office he held. That was a familiar pattern in England.

But it never was here. I don't recall much of anybody since Dolly Madison, until Eleanor Roosevelt appeared on the