Show Executive Secretary On Enforced Vacation Miss Mess Marguerite Le Hand Yearns fo for r Work While President Is A Away Aray ray SOMERVILLE Mass Mars April 2 Miss CAP private secretary to nt Roosevelt is on R a vacation but she admits shed she'd rather be nt at work despite the mountain of ot man mail that keeps her herbus bus busy nt at the White House for tor long hours hour mall mail requesting everything from jobs to Mrs Roosevelt's ll's old clothes Miss said she preferred b busy at the executive offices offices' because because be cause at the moment I b believe there is no place in the world as Interesting as the White Howe Houser So much is happening happening hap hap- pening and so 50 much Ls Is being done However she says she he had to take a vacation anyway lethe dent has gone on R a fishing trip on the yacht acht with Vincent Astor and the president ruled there should be no lady fishermen along Women Banned on Trip TripI I I should have ha enjoyed going along aloni Miss L Hand said Mr Astor Mior was witting that there r sho should ld be women wo- wo men aboard but when the p president fishes he n e v e r allows allow women aboard So Miss who has been wIth Mr Roosevelt since his campaign forthe for tor the vice ce presidency in 1920 came to the home of her sister Mr Mrs Anne M. M Rochon chon for tor a brief brId holiday ot the president Miss saga Si The president nt Is th the most human person I have ever met He is natural naturel lY kindly and has a fine sense ot of hu hu- mar mor The panl ot of the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House she says constitute one merry wholesome family where grandeur o ot office has not been allowed to overshadow over over- shadow hadow the kindly personal human relations Mull Mrs Mr RO Roosevelt Mrs Mr Roosevelt Rooe thinks of at every every- one lne If she happens to go out shopping shop shop- pIng and nd sees secs a dress dreAS that is becoming I to any of us she sends it along The I prettIest dress drw I oWn o Mrs Roosevelt elt picked d up for me somewhere Cooperation she says is the spirit pervading the White where Howe no one from the president and the first lady d down is too important to think of It others MIS who knows some national fIgures who call at the White WhiteHouse Howe House m merely by the sound ot of their uy says request U for mort money lot for employment for tor hos hospitalization and tru Infantile p and paralysis for Mrs bId clothes Are r I among the letters handled d daily ny b by pO 50 stenographers in ds day and night shifts Each letter is read routed to th the proper official and cordially an sw she saysA says A to ta The stenographers become t tamed m d to handwriting quickly and lett letters rs from th the president s a mother or hl hit d in Paris for r int mc ate ateno no never r opened but passed tight right along Letters hL w Ich appear to to concern the p president uld nt dir direct y ahe s y s d cAnnot be bb h handled b by Secretaries Howe Early or McIntyre come to me I read them and bring in bout about 50 daily to the president nt lit In the afternoon w we have what we call the childrens children's s 's ho hour r. r That is Jhel the time he sign Ill tn mail and all of at l us go o into his office ch chat t with him i while h he workS Swims With Ite President Usually I have crackers and milk st l my d desk k i for r lu luncheon di c t b but t E some some- l S wh when Mrs Ro lt hat guests g ku I join th them to I go t to t teas wh when n I 1 can arrange rr it r find sometimes s I swIm with th nt it at 6 Th j job b ol of private c i tary to the president she h Is a seven day s v day n-day assignment and nd sometimes om extends ends until 11 o'clock at al night She added how however hower er Ohp h nver l S en to be working hard when ones ont's working with the oo 1 because Uc they work so much harder than The president nt she S says is a little 11 because of at the strain ot of the paSt tw two weeks in fn which h he w was absorbed ab- ab b. b by the tho problems of the motor Industry Otherwise he is remarkably healthy and s seems ms t to be more morl buo buoy ant t and and gets g t around easier Ui r alt all th thurn the urn |