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I knew that newspaper habits in Washington on society writing were quite different form that in a metropolitan city like New York where parties aren't written up. It's not news. There's too much other news. Washington makes a great deal of it. They go into everybody's dress, what everybody says. I had seen that that would be inevitable. So I wanted to live very quietly. I wanted to live in such a way that it would appear to my constituents, whom I regarded as the working people of the United States, that I was not luxuring myself and pleasuring myself, but that I was really attending to their business. It was their business. It was their life and death business.

That was why I thought of the convent. I soon realized that it would also make me ridiculous in the eyes of the world

I had heard also of the Woman's University Club. I thought, “At least I can go there. That isn't a plush hotel. Nobody can write up about how you are living in the magnificent gold-plated bathroom fixtured rooms of the Willard Hotel.” It was a decrepit hotel, rapidly sinking, but it did have gold-plated doorknobs. It would have been written up soon.

So I saw somebody at the woman's University Club. Somebody I knew was a member. I went to live there. Although the Woman's University Club is quite attractive downstairs,