Show AL f dov do V P oft a X 7 V X 7 A mrs coolidge says santa claws i the mrs hm aolia ge beside e living christmas tree tre 4 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON AVE you ever wondered h bow the leaders in our land observe christmas whether our president and the other 11 high 9 officials of our government for get for that one day in the year the cores cares of state and like you and me and th the friends we know become just plain foll folks ts filled with the yuletide Yule tlde spirit if you yon have perhaps the following news story which appeared in the press dispatches lust just before last year may answer the question in your mind haq washington angton mra coolidge la in planning an old id fashioned new england christmas dinner with t all a 11 the fixings for her family all the details of tile the dinner have been plan planned ned by the first lady herself although Altho Alth URh nugh she probably will not go into the white house kitchen to do any of the cooking with lur own hands she will personally arrange the dinner instead of leaving it as aa she might an ordinary rd party dinner to the housekeeper the dinner will be a typical new england repast in all ways save one the turkey will be a tamed tame instead of a wild one the president and hta his family will celebrate the b allday liday clotie no guests are expected at the executive mansion even the will not be present as they were last year john coolidge returned from amherst december 20 without guests the white rouse house will boast a christmas tree all its own whether it will be kept exclusively tor for family admiration or placed in the east room where all white house visitors may see ace it has not been decided mrs coolidge will not give any young peoples people bartles for her son con home on his holiday vacation butas but aa usual young john will be the most popular beau in the capital ile he has already been besieged by invitations to parties and the usual crop of pretty debutantes Is iv waiting altIng anxiously to see aee which he will accept mra birs coolidge has done much of the christmas whopping for her especially for her eminent spouse she la in the delight of the shopkeepers she haa ban started her shopping at I 1 or 30 in the morning when the stores opened made no special demand for attention so that often clerics or fellow shoppers did not they were literally rubbing elboro with the mistress of the white house shot she usually stop ato plater later when become thick following lol l ol lowine an annual custom mrs mra coolidge will aid in the distribution ot of the salvation arroya baskets of food on christmas eve president coolidge will pres a button that will light the capitals living community christmas tree ile he and his bla family will listen to carol singers before lighting the tree which has haa lights it Is interesting to note that phrase an old fashioned new england christmas christinas because surprising ua as it rally may sound round there thee was wag a thue wimin christmas celebrations were forbidden in the very section of the country from which Il president resident coolidge came for the puritans who settled new mew england brought with them all their prejudices against the yuletide Yule tlde celebrations such as they had known in merrie Mer rite Fu england gland during the reigns of charles I 1 and IL la in regard to lo their first arst christmas in the new world the journal of john brt brad id ford tins lias this entry and ye re 25 day dec begane to erect ye firlie house for cimone use to receive them and their goods notice that ye 25 day dec la Is not ew even culled called christmas I 1 on tile the following christmas the governor Is sued aued a special orda order thill dial everybody should keep keell nl at work un on the ieuse day and there should be no DO celebration thirty nine years after the lat landing of the ill grinis the cjerul cne rul court of if en 1 led tills this low law alint at whosoever shall be found observe lug ing tiny any doy us its ur or ali lie like elthel either by of of balfor or ahny way shall lie to a title re of ive as the first liesl vell in ichu getts asis held liy by a goer ilor wl alu ith IJ 1 tile ti titi ii lell Klica shat him used d tile kowt for rull reli ghais lua services s and went weld UL stu nu is es i s N R 16 chiedi JU etli ce tat cort sif of soldiers rs to protect him against the wrath of tile citizens yet in new england as elsewhere the jolly spirit of it christmas christinas finally dually prevailed although it was AA sOnly only in ilig tho that t christmas was finally mado made a legal holiday in massachusetts however cr these puritanical prejudices failed to extend to the nat nations inns capital which early curly in our history was established in a region where the old english idea of bf a christmas observance of joy tind and good cheer prevailed so that almost from the beginning the day tins has been appropriately ob served in the home of the lie chief executive in a manner very similar tu to that in other american homes how flow the successive presidents hove have ob served christmas Is 14 told ty by alice rogers hager flager in an article written for the washington star from which tile the following extracts are taken jeffersons ions ot of hla his deeply loved wife before ill hl election and hla his liking tor for extreme simplicity made hla his holiday belsons sent sons quiet ones except t when some of hla his grande grandchildren hildren came on a visit ills two daughters were far fair too ton occupied with their own families to be much in the white house Vt martha artha jefferson Jeff ereon randolph Kan dolph was wain the mother of twelve chil dren and it fell to the lot of the wife of the secretary of state to arrange such parties an aa were given out but dolly madtson madison was to those oc caslor ca s quite ns as mitch its as to later ones an incident of eve 1818 1815 Is 1 told in the letters of mrs mra He benjamin nJamIn W alf of the secretary of the navy in cabinet last eve she artes on d day y wt we pas sedat the dent tonk tonit twe th e hurll ah up u pound found several gentlemen there and a indy from kentucky who ix IR come to make a visit there sh had the parrot brought in tor for the girls and he ran after mary to catch her feet she screamed ani lumped jumped into a chair and caught hold of mrs miu son aon wo we had quite a frolic there returning soon boon after 8 tell tea wits was brought snafter in after wo we went monroe the opalean began his christmus with service bervice at old st johnr John fl and in 1819 there was great dejok rejoicing ing in the restoration of the mart slon sion it becomes now the white house both in name and in fact its ugly war scars scare having betsi been heated healed with paint which la Is annually renewed mrs mr monroe with her great love of punctilio and hei he familiarity with foreign lands briars the formality of the court to the now new year benr reception when ir fr 1820 the house Is again opened to the public the christmas carol of beday hark back in theft hell popularity to the john quincy adams re regime gline when mra adams adama american born and bred but fa familial also with life abroad through her with willa her husbands dl diplomatic years indech ii time of merrymaking bands of 1 went about the still muddy streets aln ing before ill the great houses many of the old english cu castona stona were revived along with the iho carols carola yule ing crackled and blazed on hearths heart hs from the wh t house to the lowliest elbine and the first asse asseth mh of the season graced the week following christ mas maa day now the scene shifts with force and and the frontier cross ras the threshold of the boull portico in the person ot old Ili hickory chury despite e ph MI grief for his misjudged and iely treated wife dead of her Indig nitle just three bt t fr rf his inauguration he burled his pet sonnI and nd carried rn on hla his rough hod way with the forti tude lude of the great feldler po liller th aha it he was wae A among ong his most human chit ri his ht lov of children T WIB was and hm his li tho the and the child en or of frant la kreiler Kr eilor blair his hi frie iid were ailed lit in to help helli till the m h ing nu void the ali mst m st talef aalt ate an baun ol 01 the ue beneral mid and that luve luvealle lu venile olle croul with thell tumultuous of the philae the eylers Tyle rii had h not only arit a twelve yeal hotd ter alive Al lit and a son MO tazewell but ulso also r and metes antei B sod annin the man mail re sounded to 0 o the ring of 0 arc around kris lC pleasure laden tree pre president tyler himself directed one fancy dress chris mas party or bestiny hla tiny granddaughter mary fairlie tyler where daughter alicea alice a born leader dressed as titania presided from a throne specially se set t usi u for or her then there were presidential Christ christmases mases t 1 ti i t wenty twenty years but no children except those lm im ported when mrs pierce entertained her sunday school with a christmas christma 3 t tree reo an a article r from ma star of 0 december 27 1853 gives elves further indication of 0 the tha pierces holiday habits on christina day a very eloquent discourse was delivered at the presbyterian church on four and a ralf half street by the pastor rev mr sunderland Bun derland the congre gatlon gation was very large and among those present WO w observed the president and his lady both ot of whom were looking extremely well the lincoln boys were not too old to put boyish enthusiasm into their holidays probably the ont on christmas story that has gone round the globe globa from the white house Is the one about tada fr irr democracy lie he found one christmas d day ay a small email mob ot of street urchins playing rather f forlornly or outside the executive grounds they looked cold and hungry to the well fed presidents son and from the depths of a generous heart he be asked aska 3 them in to dinner Fo followed lloyed a battle royal with the cook who absolutely so sol refused to have anything to do with tr trash asli master tad or no master tad radl but the tha b boy oy was clever as well as generous and like a budding lawyer appealed his case to the supreme court of the household lincoln smiled and said of course let them come and tad victorious led the gaping youngsters ln in to a feast such as an they had never dreamed existed in 1868 the patterson children andy stover and andy jackson jr had a finel ball given in their honor at christmas time the east room being opened tor for dancing and of 0 the youthful elite of the capital being bidden as guests and then jesse grant a few years later had a party though not such an elaborate ono one but his master of ceremonies was none other than his uncle general shorn ran an no special stories are extant concerning the garfield or the arthur children but cleveland brought a veritable fairyland tote nto he old mansion marrying there three of his children were born during his incumbency and gifts from practically every civilized civili sed nation in the world came pouring in to the tha feet of the little white house princesses from santas b best est diplomatic pouches so 80 many came in tact fact that children who had less hope of wonder in their lives benen benefited ted materially from the overflow thu quiet of the mckinley regime went out in the scurry curry of t the incoming Roosevel ts christmas christma 11 became a gorgeous event along with the SS other gorgeous gorge oua days of each year once more santa was hugely welcomed omed stockings were hung by the chimney with care and a special room set met aside for the presents to which only mrs roosevelt and one maid had access the one fly in the ointment however how ever for A a christmas or two was that the president in keeping with hla his con conservation on policy quita approve the tb tree idea and the boys were keenly disappointed 1 rhena rhe fl ion nv new christ mt maff escame caroa andia an and dih thre re was much s crecy on the patt part of archie and quentin Quent ln when the general prec pre P ants had all been given out their impatience could no longer he be overlooked and the secret came cut ut leading the way to a certain closet archie threw open the door and disclosed his and Quen quentina tins own private tree which they thay had smuggled in and decorated by themselves that tree became an institution and each year thereafter an a long as an the tha family remained in the white while house was held in archies archias Ar chies room some delightful tales are told on big gill taft and hit his christmas adventures when his turn came cama is as head of the file nation on the morning of chi chrlot rint mas eve 1910 mr air taft gave fine turkeys to the tha numbers members of the white house staff and to the tingle men who had no hungry mouths to teed feed other dutiable gifts but the best beat moment of the day came when f had just turned the corner at the stroke ot if ji little band of singers debauched debouched debou ched ebed on the white muse house grounds with trombone and hymn brinks nis in true wait fanchion fan hion and began the march up the he curving walk to tile the north portico A d policeman ran hastily out to turn them back but seeing who they were and what they were arre about to do changed his mind and joined them bitting their voices in the lovely chant of adeste they progressed musically to the boich and there stationed themselves for to a fult full c e in a few moments a window above their ilerda lier ils A us na raised and tile the president attired broady I 1 ly ill ii a blue bat bathrobe limbe leaned out and shouted Al ircy the window stay up long lone because a cold wind vind was blowing hut but th object of the eer enide banned binned behind it through iho mire program and balbi d it agnin at the end lop boig 1 chough to call maksy christmas to you boys boa ind and chunk you iou very much marr chr str 14 in mr the singers neri al 11 auck an a thy th Y up their went away lulu into the he darkness ilir liness the 1 I he wilson Christi names were so many mani 0 1 I anem vai shadowed ur or very r dufel beciri v of the he lung il lintn mitt thlin in but when ashen it ann wn poA ji it aids i ids ae d as house guests cut nto ilie lehun cubit i 1 of turi its to tile llie blaff was vm con lui bul trie war madl buur e othur te stires es elc elci lo 10 t tiie nien of nf mo 11 ant i |