 Being of Irish heritage, Mrs. Childs often put the pen to the paper, creating variations to traditional songs, and creating poems that were appropriate to the occasion.On the day that Governor Harriman's visiting entourage were seated for lunch in the Hotel's dining room, it turned out that Margaret was the "waitress" assigned to their table.She handed the folded "ditty", penned in her very precise hand, to the Governor; and after reading it, he handed her a Ten Dollar Bill (quite a sum in the early 1950s), and asked if he could use it in his campaign.