GUARDING A PRESIDENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 May 1925, Page 14

GUARDING A PRESIDENT.

BRAVE MEXICAN GIRL. Although in Mexico women are not treated with great consideration, a young Mexican woman has attained « of the brightest posts in the Republic. _ The woman’s name is Cholita. Gonzalez, she is still under 30, and she has been connected with pillule life ever since she was adopted ‘by President Madero, who overthrew-Porfirio Diaz in 1911, after the- splendid tyrant had given the Republic half a century of capable government. Senorita Gonzalez assisted Madero in every phase of his work, and when he was assassinated in 1913 she offered her services to General Plutarpo Elias Calles, who has become Prseident, but was then only a roving soldier. The brave girl followed Calles for years through his campaigns, sharing the danger of the battlefield with a stout heart and undiminished hope. Now she is the new President’s private secretary, aiul no one can penetrate to his inner room in the National Palace of Mexico City without the permission of Cholita, as the most important woman in Mexico is universally called.