Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1913 — MRS. MARSHALL MAXES MANY SOCIAL CALLS [ARTICLE]

MRS. MARSHALL MAXES MANY SOCIAL CALLS

Wife of Vice President Sets New Record Tor Getting About National Capital. Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, wife of the vice president, has broken all precedents and established the mosF remarkable"social"rScbrcTever made by the wife of a vice president or of a cabinet member. Sinee March 4 Mrs. Marshall has made between one thousand five hundred and one thousand six hundred calls and has scratched every name from her card book, with the exception of those of persons living outside of Washington. “It has been a great pleasure to me,” declared Mrs. Marshall, “and t can not sufficiently show my appreciation of the generous way in which the people have shown their interest in us and our position. Instead of being the disagreeable task which had been pictured, all my trips about Washington have been interesting.” The record is more remarkable than would otherwise be the case, because the social exclusiveness which surrounds the wife of a vicepresident. The well * established social eode requires that the wif« v of a vice president shall make a first call on the wife of the president. The entire social world, official and otherwise* must make .the first call on her. Her obligation to return visits is limited to the women of the cabinet and the supreme court and wives of ambassadors, and, of course, those who bav* entertained her or extended invitations to dinners, luncheons or receptions.