DEMOCRATS: The Pride of Red Wing

The process of wooing the woman voter is a little different, in one respect, from that of winning the support of the recalcitrant and suspicious male—words are sometimes not enough. Having made Georgia Neese Clark Treasurer of the U.S. and having sent diamond-studded Mrs. Perle Mesta off as minister to Luxembourg, the Democrats last week offered U.S. females further evidence of trust and affection. Mrs. Eugenie Anderson of Red Wing, Minn, was named Ambassador to Denmark.

Mrs. Anderson, who was virtually unknown outside her native state, was billed as a Minnesota farm wife, and photographed beside a rural telephone in...

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