When news came in the morning that after all Wilson was re-elected , Susan tacked to catch another breeze of optimism . `` Well , better a fool you know than a fool you do not know , as the old proverb has it , '' she remarked cheerfully . `` Not that I hold Woodrow to be a fool by any means , though by times you would not think he has the sense he was born with . But he is a good letter writer at least , and we do not know if the Hughes man is even that . All things being considered I commend the Yankees . They have shown good sense and I do not mind admitting it . Cousin Sophia wanted them to elect Roosevelt , and is much disgruntled because they would not give him a chance . I had a hankering for him myself , but we must believe that Providence over-rules these matters and be satisfied -- though what the Almighty means in this affair of Rumania I can not fathom -- saying it with all reverence . '' Susan fathomed it -- or thought she did -- when the Asquith ministry went down and Lloyd George became Premier . `` Mrs. Dr. dear , Lloyd George is at the helm at last . I have been praying for this for many a day . Now we shall soon see a blessed change . It took the Rumanian disaster to bring it about , no less , and that is the meaning of it , though I could not see it before . There will be no more shilly-shallying . I consider that the war is as good as won , and that I shall tie to , whether Bucharest falls or not . '' Bucharest did fall -- and Germany proposed peace negotiations . Whereat Susan scornfully turned a deaf ear and absolutely refused to listen to such proposals . When President Wilson sent his famous December peace note Susan waxed violently sarcastic . `` Woodrow Wilson is going to make peace , I understand . First Henry Ford had a try at it and now comes Wilson .
But peace is not made with ink , Woodrow , and that you may tie XXXXX , '' said Susan , apostrophizing the unlucky President out of the kitchen window nearest the United States .
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