Stimulated by Mr. Rupert Hughes' assertion that George Washington was a tosspot and rollicking gambler
(TIME, Jan. 25, POLITICAL NOTES) people have been scrutinizing old records for facts about other great Americans. Last week Mrs. Harry Atwell Colman, Washington woman, focused her lorgnets on Dolly Madison, wife of the fourth President.
"If Dolly Madison were alive today," said Mrs. Colman, "she would have been classed as a flapper. . . . She was frivolous, used rouge, dipped snuff, and . . . played cards for high stakes. . . . Quite another sort...
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