Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1933, Page 17

WHITE HOUSE LIFE IS NOW INFORMAL New First Lady Receives Newspaper Women for Second Interview. ‘Mrs. Roosevelt held her second “non- quote” conference with newspaper wom- en in the White House yesterday morn- ing when she spent more than an hour with them. The writers, many of them from distant cities, were assembled in a sitting room formerly devoted to the Monroe collection of furniture, the rare originals and copies of the furniture of that administration having now given way to more substantial and generally speaking more comfortable overstuffed pieces. A conference with the PFirst Lady of the Land is a novel feature of this ad- ministration, the first conference hav- ing been held last Monday and that of yesterday taking place on the second floor of the mansion instead of in the official drawing rooms, and they are the only such meetings on record. From it one learned that the Easter | egg rolling, a great annual event on Easter Monday, the custom extending back into the early administrations, will be held as usual. The annual party for veterans of the World War will be held and the regular official events of the ‘White House will be carried out pretty much as of old. For a fact, except for the changes of furniture, pictures and the personal side of life, there will be none of the revolutions in things social as were written about before the elec- tion. Life Now Less Arduous. Mrs. Roosevelt finds life in the White House really less arduous than was her existence in New York as the govern- or's hostess. Now she makes the en- gagements and has only to be reminded of them. Previously they were made and she had to keep them. The family breakfast is at 8:20, and her menu is orange juice, toast and coffee. An hour is taken up which in- cludes much family conversation. At 9:30 Mrs. Roosevelt arranges her house- keeping and after her favorite mounts | are brought from New York and stabled in the riding club on P street, she will take a canter through the parks ang will have with her always some of her close women friends. While the First Lady held her con- ference, she busily knitted away on a sweater ifor her grandson, William Donner Roosevelt, 4 months old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt. who will remain ensconced in the White House nursery while Mr. Roosevelt, who is now in the West, is getting settled. He went West just aiter the inaugura- tion with Ralph Hitchcock, and Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Hitchcock, who are still at the White House, will leave this week to join them. William Donner Roosevelt will fare| quite as well as will the older grand- children of the President, for there will be a playground on the south side of the mansion where there will a tanbark flooring, and one playground will be in the shade while another will be in the sun. There will be a swing, too, and perhaps it may be of the new kind, doing away with a stout limb, a good rope and a board to sit on. It will be | “an architectural” swing. Twenty-eighth Anniversary Friday. | The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will | celebrate their tw:nty-eighth wedding | anniversary Friday, and the President’s mother will come from New York to be | present. Mr. and Mrs. Dall, their son- in-law and daughter. will also be there, | and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parrish, the | latter the double cousin of Mrs. Franklin | D. Roosevelt’s mother, and in whose‘ house the President and Mrs. Roosevelt | were married, will come over to the | ‘White House from the Shoreham, where they have taken a suite and will be present, as will an aunt, Mrs. David Gray iken, S. C., and Mr. and M) Frcdenck Delano and Mr. and Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins. There are now about 23 servants in | the White House, a reduction of nbout; 10, but this does not mean that there | are 10 jobless persons on account of the economy move. Most of them were assigned from various departments and have gone back to their former bureaus. Mrs. Roosevelt goes to New York to- morrow and her program will be a full one, but she will take time to attend the wedding of Miss Anne Ward, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ward, to Rundle Gilbert. The bride is a former student of Mrs. Roosevelt in the Todhunter School, specializing in history and literature. As ‘the writers attending the con- ference assembled in the homelike sit- ting room, a fire was lighted in the wide, open fireplace and chairs were THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, | CONGRESSIONAL HOSTESS | S O C I ET Y MRS. IMHOFF, Wife of Representative Laurence E. Imhoff of St. Clairsville, Ohio, who enter- tained an interesting house party over the inauguration in her apartment at | Alban Towers. —Harris-Ewing Photo. pulled around to suiv the individual | of Sunday night, shows his love of the taste of the women. Scarcely had they arrived when Mrs. Roosevelt came in and, passing around the room, greeted each with a hearty handshake. She wore a dark blue one-piece dress with a little show of white at the neckline, and her only jewelry were several handsome rings. She likes “little fin- ger” each hand. Questions were fired ct her o leys, and her answers were patiently given. Paramount was the iniorma- tion gleaned after the conference as to the routine housekeeping in the private part of the mansion and the various changes made. That the President's love of ships and the sea is inherited is plainly shown in the unfinished stage of the family sitting room. Ship pictures hang on one side of the room, and when the hanging is | finished they will form the wall deco- ration save the grandfather's portrait. The President’s sitting room, from which he broadcast his famous speech COMING!!! Friday, March 17, 8:15 P.M. By Special Request of Her Students and Friends!! Mar. 17, 18, 19 at 8:15 P.M. At 8 P.M,, George Gaul’s Trio Willard Hotel 10th Floo». Ballroom ® WOMEN'S SHOP OF THE RALEIGH HABERDASHER @ THE NEW S KNOX “5 PRING 1933 th Avenue” Sensation of the New Season! 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RALEIGH HABERDASHER b 1310 F Street rings and often wears one on | | it has ever before been, that is, so far | as_general living is concerned. sea also, nd besides the deep, com- fortable chairs and couches there are three famous seascapes carried out in oil by well known artists, and hanging | in this room, like that in the former | Monroe room and now to be called the | ship room, is incomplete. One gleaned that life is far more | informal at the White House now than ‘The cabinet ladies will not receive formally for the present, will hold no them, but they may drop into tea— tea is always served informally at the | and Mrs. Roosevelt | “official” meetings with | White House in the afternoons for | the family. Otherwise the official program, in so0 | far as official dinners and receptions are concerned, will be kept on the map as of old. The middle of March!...it's (Continued From Second Page.) ries of radio talks on “Women in Poli- tics.” ‘The committee in charge consists of Mrs. Luke Wilson, Mrs. William Adams Slade, Mrs. Fred E. Wright, Miss Eliza- beth Eastman, Miss Saida Hartman, Mrs. ANH. Bakshian, Mrs. Allen Cozier, Miss Caroline Huston Thompson and Mrs. E. E Danly, cl in, Miss Sarah Metcalf has arrived in Washington from Manila and is at 1708 Connecticut avenue for 10 days before sailing for Europe to spend sev- eral months traveling. Miss Metcalf has lived in the Philippines for many years and has developed the artistic ability of the natve women, particularly in the pina work, and has n active in the work among the mountain boys in the provinces. ‘There will be a 7 o'clock dinner, fol- lowed by cards, at the Congressional | Club Tuesday evening. Two teas hsvel recently been given in honor of the new congressional hostesses, but this will mark the initial appearance at the club home of the new members of the Seventy-third Congress. Mrs. Charles P. Neill, governor of the District Chapter of the Interna- tional Federation of Catholic Alum- nae, announces a literary afternoon next Sunday at St. Cecelia's Academy, 3:30 o'clock, when Dr. Speer Straham | of the Eng]lsh department of Catholic | University will be guest speaker. Msgr. Edward A, Pace, honorary president of | the federation, will make several | awards. Mrs. James E. Colliflower, | D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1933. Fecee the! s and mempers 1| DR. STRAHAN TO ADDRESS Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Denmu were week end guests at the Dodge, e route from Orlando, Fia., where th West Baldwin, Me. Mr. Lewis N. Frank will entertain 10 guests at dinner this evening at Ward- man Park Hotel. and Mrs. A, Fre rned to their home in Boston after i spending a_short time here at Ward- man Park Hotel. TOTS TODDLE OFF fore Children Are Found. ‘Three-year-old Neil Sweeney and Donald Merchant, 4, went for a walk 'from their homes in the 1700 block of Bay street southeast yesterday, and caused much anxiety for five hours until found by a policeman at PFirst and B | streets southeast. Neil is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cor- nelius Sweeney, 1724 Bay street south- east, while Donald, who usually is called “Lonnie,” is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Silas A. Merchant, 1716 Bay street southeast. s Woman Editor Will Speak. 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