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P First Lady By ALLENE SUMNER Telegram and N NEA EA Service Writer W The WASHINGTON breakfast ot of Herbert Hoover always alwa's a d In- In ot of fresh strawberries ries with powdered pondered sugar and Mrs Hoover This does not mean that the eec eec- of oC commerce has haa cannibalistic tic tendencies t It merely means that his hili day starts all wrong wron without both strawberries and The Madame Mad Mad- ame as he calls Mrs Ira Herbert Hooter Hoo In the bosom or of the cheery home hom What's more Mrs rs Hoover just as 88 unabashedly declares that her days day's all wrong too It ft she doe doesn't have han for breakfast This despite the tact fact that Hoover breakfasts are famous In official Washington for theIr heartiness There are always the sir a t when humanly Possible pOSe Pos sible big plates ot of waffles or hot hot- cakes with syrup sausage or bacon and eggs buttered toast and coffee The Hoover breakfasts have ha been almost M as famOus during th the past administration as the pancake and syrup and sausage ones In the big White house on Penns Pennsylvania avenue ave ave- nue for the Hoovers are always at home to their frIends at breakfast time TUT IS HONORED GUEST The Hoover Hoo breakfasts can not be dismissed without mention ot of Tut t the e big police dog who quite humiliates the mistress of the Hoover er breakfast table by poking his aristocratic nose over the tables table's e edge every rev few minutes for nibbles nib nib- bles of toast and sausage and straw straw- berries I know that feedIng dogs at table Isn't done In the best families Mrs Irs Hoover laughS but DaddY will f feed d Tut and and- to tell the truth I dont don't mind It so much m myself self The Hoovers are like that at jovial home cheery cheer informal folksy If th theres there's es time before she drives with Daddy down to the department of commerce building Mrs Irs Hoover Hoo will show him her latest latest lat lat- est baby or bootees or-bootees knitted for tor ba bay y Peggy Ann 2 whom her grandmother pronounces the very Image ot of her grandfather Hoover P Peggy Ann and her senior brother Herbert the third 3 3 are the children chil- chil dren ot of Herbert Hoover Jr who lives in fn Cambridge There are those who will tell you that Mrs Ira Hoover er Js is highbrow They are awed b by her college degree degree de- de gree from Stanford her authorship of a rt recondite work on mining her affiliation with this organization and that But the picture of Mrs Hoover the hIghbrow has b been en much more pain painted led than that ot of Mrs Hoover tho sweet faced woman woman wo- wo man In the who knits whenever she sIts down for a moment and who has a dozen knitting bags scat over o the lovely red brick house on S street Who Is a as proud of her Italian outwork cutwork luncheon set with the capitol and Lincoln memorial me me- morial design as ot of h her r authorship and who likes nothIng better than to get Into a a. rough and ready jersey suit ot of a a. Sunday and gO out with the tho secretary and any available n for a picnic with old coffee cof- cof fee ree pot and skillet There are no frills at these Hoover Hoo picnics picnics-no Iced drinks In thermos bottles no salads nor frozen Ices toted along In fn a a. modern picnic Ice basket It is rumored that Mrs Hoover despises marshmallows at ata ata a picnic Therell There'll be the old coffee pot and skillet and bacon and eggs and wel- wel ners nera and potatoes and corn to roast In the ashes hes They say that Lou LouHenry H Henry nry Hoover is prouder of the chicken she once roasted in fn clay mud at a a. pIcnic than of her LIbrary of Congress authors author's card The Hoover table is famous for tor plenty of good wholesome food but no spun sugar doo doodads dads MARYS MARY'S MENUS Mary who knows the gastronomic gastronomic gastro- gastro likes Uke-s and dIslikes of all official ot- ot Washington on wears the tho de- de l Laa eh b j a S d r i i n Ar Fri V i 7 t S 7 s. s t tt t f f Here are two pictures of Mrs Herbert Hoover her name is Lou Henry Hoover and she thinks every wife's first job is her home mantle ot of Mark Hannas Hanna's Maggie Only Marys Mary's specialty Is not only hash but cucumber cream sauce buttered asparagus potatoes potatoes pota- pota toes a dozen wa ways s They say that Mary makes her menus according to the guest list tr trying to give each guest at le least st st. one favorite dish The entire Hoover menage Is like that Servants usually reflect employers em- em and the courtesy and consideration consideration con con- of every servant In the Hoover Hoo home Is a a. shining tribute to the standards of that home i A smiling black boy throws the white door wide open the minute a acar acar car stops at the door the visitor Is ushered Into the livIng room before an any inquiries are made As I 1 sat In the green room waitIng waiting wait wait- Ing for Mrs Hoover a a. smiling colored colored col- col ored servant senant wIth a a. blue and white checked gingham apron tied under his chin hummed happily as he laid the mahogany table with an all ecru lace luncheon set The smell of asparagus as- as soup wafted from the kitchen Dont Don't that smell good though miss the smiling boy asked inviting in- in In-I In me to come coma and Inspect his table Do you like this bouquet or that one best he asked trying yellow yel yel- low ow and pink snapdragons A HOMEY PALACE Tile The Hoover Hoo home is that rare combination a homey palace palace-a. livable Uv- Uv able rich mans man's house The green greenroom room with looped back green taffeta curtains pink freesias In a blue bowl white paneled walls was a haven for tor hundreds books of them first editions In time seasoned morocco Poetry fiction history history- everything Hammered brasses In the form of samovars bowls and plaques are aree e everywhere telling the story ot of the Hoovers Hoovers' me life In China Mrs Hoover by the way doesn't CF like the legend which had bad her shooting over the barricade with Herbert during the Boxer rebellion re- re bellion so 60 luridly melodramatic sha says As a matter ot of fact I Iwas Iwas was two blocks behind the barrIcade and merely tried to see seo that the themen themen men at the barricade were well fed She Sho did though tap the sugar and ten tea casks caks that made the barricade barri- barri cade in fn order to serVe hot tea to the amateur soldiers One knows that she forgot the gracious hostess hostess host host- ess role of coyly asking lemon or cream and gave them all cre cream cream- m- m for tor dairy products are so healthful health health- ful cul Samovars and coffee urns are as numeroUs as pIcture of Herbert second and Herberts Herbert's children and Allan For the Hoovers are always ready to drink a a. cup of tea with anyone anone who drops In in fn the after arter- noon NO HOME WITHOUT GARDEN The secretary's study opens onto the porch from which the most b beautiful garden ever seen carries Its prIm little shelled walks down the ravine Purple and pInk and white h hyacinths yellow forsythia macs lilacs gaudy tulips and frothy Lushes bushes of white were everywhere There is no ho home wIthout a garden gar gar- den according to Mrs Hoover who believes that homes happy ones ones- are the most things in 11 inthe the world worl It Is the rl right ht of every child to have a happy home Is one of her few rew creeds which Mrs Hoover will crystallize in fn words words- Every wife's first job Is her home home she says sas further fur fur- ther Intimating that no home can contain two fully developed individuals Indi- Indi and that when necessary the wife should submerge herself to make a background for her husband Mrs Hoover Is medium height haired gray with that strIking combination combination com com- ot of blue eyes and jet black eyebrows Her skin Is pink and white P Fr r clothes are aro modish but simple She seems seem to prefer line Une tp to fuss and frills She Sho never goes to toa toa a beauty parlor putting her own water wave In her pretty hair and not even letting her maid fuss with her much She's not fat at atall all but she looks at her slim young I secretaries ruefully and says I Iwas Iwas was just like ike you once once She takes a nap every afternoon and makes Herbert go to bed early GIRL ON THE HORSE Plenty of sleep can make one fit for anything she says She Is like her name Lou which she Insists Is just Lou and not short for Cor Louise or Lucy or anythIng She Is like Uke that crisp and to the point and breezy and peppy and delight delight- ful Trey T called her the girl on the I horse out at Leland Stanford when she went to school there She Is just that and Its It's not a high horse Its It's a horse carrYing a gr gracious clous alert modern woman right Into the thick of life She likes to be there But she likes best to come home again Tomorrow Smith |