Show Note Nofe to fo Mrs Dewey Scribe Finds White HouseIn House In Pie Apple-Pie Condition I By Frederick C. C Othman V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON The tales tale's going around the capitol now that Tom Deweys Dewey's so sure of being elected next Tuesday that his wife dropped in at the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House the other day to see whether she liked Bess Truman's Truman's Tru Tru- ni mans man's ns n's taste in jn window drapes I really believe she had but in matters of importance like Ilke this this' Il Ilp p pays ys to make sure all X 1 can report th that t no majordomo majordomo major- major d domo mo around 1600 Pennsylvania avenue has seen Mrs Dewey vey yet t. t But It she undoubtedly is in interested interested interested in- in in condition of the old oldhouse oldhouse house which the poll takers indicate in indicate indicate in- in will be her home for the next four years She will be delighted to learn that Mrs Truman is a lous lou housekeeper Some of the Venetian blinds arc a little dusty on the window side and the crystal chandeliers in the cast east room could stand a little soap but Mrs T. T undoubtedly will take care of these small items as soon a she gets home from her extended train riding Up to Congress The termites in the attic she cant can't do much about The upstairs upstairs upstairs upstairs' up up- stairs stairs' floors creak which may account for the ghosts some- some reported in the Lincoln bedroom and the whole floor according to the White House architect needs to be rebuilt wilh with stouter joists This is up to congress If the appropriation appropriation ap ap- pr comes through Mrs Dewey may find herself with plaster l sl r falling in the soup while the carpenters strengthen the ancient n ent girders Neither can Mrs Truman be blamed for the paint peeling off the front porch not the shiny new back porch pillars When the British burned down the house a number of years ago the heat and the soot did something something something some some- thing i toi to th the st stonework nework The exper experts experts ex ex- per R claim that t paint never has stuck properly to it since My tour of the White House with the the rest of the tourists Indicates in indicates indicates In- In otherwise that the current cur cur- rent lady of the mansion has the place in apple apple pie pic order No fingerprints on the mahogany any piano with the golden eagles for legs Mrs Truman keeps a velvet rope around it Rugs s Rolled Back It must be an C a awful l nuisance to have hundreds pf strangers daily traipsing through her house without even ven knocking but at least she doesn't let em track mud on the carpets She I keeps the rugs rolled back from 10 until noon and doesn't unfurl unCurl em until the last tourist has left leCt This gives the blue red and green rooms and the state dining dining dining din din- ing room a somewhat appearance but I noticed a couple of Mrs Truman's fellow housewives on the tour nodding approval Mrs Dewey incidentally incidentally inci inci- dentally might consider re redoing redoing re re- doing that dining room It is lined with walnut darkened by bythe bythe bythe the years and if ever there was wasa a gloomy place to eat the matu matu- oatmeal this is it Mrs Truman meantime has solved one of her housekeeping problems by posting polite little signs urging her u uninvited n n. n n v v. v i t e d guests to keep their dirty paws off the upholstery upholster This makes the main floor of the White hite WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House even more like the museum museum museum mu mu- seum it seems to have become Bottle From Ickes And talking talking- about museums there are a couple of rooms on the lower level filled with ith assorted assorted assorted as as- sorted curios many of them being ship models and other memorabilia of the late Franklin D. D Roosevelt These include one antique whisky bottle presented to him the brass plate says by the Hon Harold Curmudgeon Ickes Vh What t Mrs Dewe Dewey if installed in the first house of the land will be inclined to do with these artistic items makes for interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting speculation If I were she I believed Id I'd just leave em m. m She wont won't be going down there much anyhow No privacy That's where the parade of sight seers assembles on a kind of perpetual basis Copyright 1948 1918 United Features Syndicate |