Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1935, Page 12

A—12 %% Wife of President, Now 51, Begins Most Arduous Y ears Political and Humani- tarian Work Increas- ing in Influence. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. There is a general idea that when Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt passes the fifty-first milestone tomorrow she will | feel the most arduous and exciting years of her career are yet to come. Beset by none of the intricate de- tails of raising a large family of small | children, she may throw out her chest, take a deep breath and prepare for the most useful and exciting years of her life; that is, in so far as the outer world is concerned, especially in the political field. Mother of five grown children, the three who are married adding five | grandchildrens to the family, Mrs. | Roosevelt has not a care line in her face or a white hair in her dark | brown locks. To be sure, there are those little wrinkles about the eyes begot of much laughter, but her com- plexion is ruddy and healthy. She | does not look her 51 years. She is a leader of women to whom | men listen. That she is a revolu- tionist in both social and political life | cannot be doubted. Through her in- fluence, the firstywoman ever to hold & place in the F’resxdents cabinet is firmly seated, and she has helped women win places in the House of Representatives. Interest In Humanity. But it is to the humanitarian side of life that she ever turns, devoting | almost every waking hour to some problem for the betterment of those who live in the shadows of poverty and misdirection. She started the Val-Kill Furniture Factory in a house on the Roosevelt estate with a view to giving help to many, while raising the standard, or rather reverting to the standard, of fugniture making of earlier days. Many of the choice pieces made in the factory now grace the White “House vn the upper floor used by the President’s family. When Mrs. Roosevelt landed in ‘Washington early this week she worg & traveling suit of homespun in soft ‘brown colors, the material a product of the loom recently set up at the ‘Val-Kill factory. All Roosevelts have a political turn of mind so it did not seem strange to her friends that she should be made a member of the Advisory Com- mittee in charge of women's activities in New York State in the Democratic national campaign in 1928. She loves | to be among progressive women and enjoys being vice president of the New York Women's City Club. She belongs to several clubs, among | them the Newspaper Women's Club of | j!o the club rooms of the Newspaper | first Gridiron Club dinner, and there | prevails at the state entertainments MRS. ROOSEVELT. ‘Washington. She, with wives of cabi- | net members, climbs the long, wind- ing, breath-taking stairway leading up Women’s Club, and time and time | again the woman writers have been her guests at the White House. There is always a party just for woman writers on the night of the are other all-women parties, marked by hilarious fun. No Formalities Transgressed. While Mrs. Roosevelt's parties for the writers are entirely lacking in formality, quite the opposite spirit where diplomats and high officials are guests. Never is a single rule of the time-worn formality transgressed. Of course, one feels the warmth of the hospitality, but the traditional cere= mony is maintained in all its state- liness. All of Washington has adopted Mrs. Roosevelt's mode of entertaining. There is simpler dress, women going | | to embassy and legation teas and into the homes of officials in very simple street dress instead of in the elaborate afternoon attire of the past and now, | no one minds wearing an evening | dress for two seasons. Refreshments | served in the White House are “tasty,” | as the old mammies of the South | would say. but, aside from the state | dinners—which are much simpler than in former administrations—the viands | are pretty much like those served in any middle-class home. Mrs. Roosevelt frequently may be | seen out on a Maryland highway.ex- amining the wares of the Women's Farm and Garden Market, where farm | wives sell their own products. Home- made cakes for MI’S Roosevelt's after- .Cab Driver, Gazing at Picture Of Estranged Wife, Is Suicide, surrounding himself happier days, | 50-year-old cab ‘ Sentimentally with reminders of BSamuel W. Armor, driver, ended his life late yesterday | ‘ .2 in the apartment of his estranged wife, Mrs. Vera E. Armor, 731 Eighth street | poutheast. When Mrs. Armor returned hnme from her office at the Bureau of En- graving and Printing she found her third-floor rooms had been broken into. Gas flowed from an unscrewed fixture and the body of her husband’| lay sprawled on the bed room floor. On a table nearby Armor had care- | fully arranged seferal pictures of his wife and himself, while on the wall he tacked their marriage certificate. “For better or worse,” Armor wrote | on the document, “good-by.” He | signed it “Sambo,” a pet name his | wife liked before their separation sev- gral months ago. ‘The pictures, marriage license, in- gurance papers and the title to an automobile were taken from a trunk | Armor forcibly opened in his wife’s epartment. The automobile title also was left in view with this inscrip- | tion: “My wife ought to have this; | she paid for it.” Armor jimmied the door of the epartment with a screwdriver and un- capped the gas pipe with a wrench he took to his wife's home. He ap- parently spent his last conscious mo- | ments gazing at the pictures, police #aid, from a sofa. 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Ave. UNDER MANAGEMENT Van Dyke Systom THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. noon teas are bought from the farm women, and jellies, jams, pickles and for the White House table are obtained from the same source. With the completion of the new White House Kitchen equipment, this cus- tom may be curtailed, but Mrs. Roose- velt still will visit the farm women. (Copyright, 1935, by the North American ‘Newspaper Alliance.) —— MAGICIAN IN HOSPITAL CHARLESTON, W. Va., October 10 (#).—Hospital attaches said today the condition of Howard Thurston, the magician,. is satisfactory. Thurston suffered a stroke of paralysis Sunday night after a per- formance in a Charleston theater. BILL A buckwheat blower will give you automatic heat and cut your coal bill one-third annu- ally, With this installation YOU BURN BUCKWHEAT COAL AT ONLY 8.2 TON Compare this price with the larger sizes of anthracite coal. Figure the savings you can ac- complish with a blower. Thou- sands of installations in Wash- ington. 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