Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1926, Page 44

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1926. ECRETS o theWHIT E HOUSE The one person in the world who knows what has gone on in the private—the Aome—part of the White House during the stirring last 17 years is Elizabeth Jaffray, housekeeper of the Executive Mansion during the administrations of ‘T'aft,Wilson, Harding, and Goolidge. She now tells herstory. Tells of the home [ife of the Tafts, the crisis of Mrs. Taft’s illness; the coming of the Wilsons, the languishing - of the first Mrs. Wilson, and her death; the firstvmtoers.Galt; Mr. Wilson’s boyish courtship; the weddxng, the stirring days of the war; Mr. Wilson’s breakdown, and what actually happened dur- ing those months when a curtain of mystery hid the stricken Execu- tive from the public; the astounding happenings while the Hardings were in power—m some ways the most extraordinary revelations ever made concerning a President; the Coolidges, strangest of all the White House families she knew so intimately. The first instalment of Elizabeth Jaffray’s memoirs appears in the December issue of Cosmopolitan. DU - ——— ELIZABETH JAFFRAY Beginning also in this December issae . . .. “The Bacchante™ A Novel of a Woman with a Devil in her Soul, by ROBERT HICHENS, author of “The Garden of Allah” and “Bella Donna” Edna Ferber .. .J S. Cobb Directly on the heels of the success of her novel, “SHOW BOAT,” Miss « « o Before Mr. Cobb could write this story, he had to wait for two men Ferber has written another of her extraordinarily human short stories— -to die. Now that it may be written, we have a Drama from Police Head- the form of writing that won her first fame. Thencwcmuncalbd - quarters which will probably rdnk as the best of Mr. Cobb’s famous news- “PERFECTLY INDEPENDENI,‘." paper starics. It is called “THE WOODEN DECOY.™ Also in December Cosmopolitan . .. “The Old Countess,’’a new novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick, who wrote “The Little Freach Girl.” Another (1} 5[5 n[mtzona novel by Peter B. Kyne . . . And Short Stories by 4 7':“ Kathleen Norris, Gouverneur Morris, Arthur y/ Somers Roche, Montague Glass, Don Marquis o+ + . Features by Homer Croy, George Ade, O. O. Mclntyre . . . And a dozen more, It is because of outstanding features like these that 1,500,000 people buy Cosmopolitan . . . a 35c maga- zine . . . every month in preference to magazines that they can buy for 25¢, 10c, or even only 5c.