The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-28
Miss Taft can Cook |.

When Miss Helen Taft Bryn Manor College for women, 1912. located the inauguration of her father as President of the United States the collegt girl came into her own indeed into the highest social position In America. For the next four years at least. the college girl will be featured in White House life.
 The college girl of today Is distinc- tive And certainly Miss Helen Taft Is just a little different from any other Presidents daughter who has gathered young friends around her In the Capi- tars first mansion.
 The college girl is bookish. yet not a book worm or bule stocking. The college girl Is grammatical in speech. but she has the jolliest cnummiest jar gon of slang that ever rolled from un- der pink tongue. The college girl I Is tremendous reader. keeping right in touch with all the moveniept of the day. yet she never neglected out door sports. The college girl Is social creature. but she uses society and does not allow society to use her. And above all things she dresses simply and does not marcel her hair.
 All these things Is Miss Helen Taft -and more and there Is no doubt that she means to establish college customs and entertain at the White House.
 Just IS Is the new daughter of the White House. and she will spend com- paratively little time in Washington. for she Is now in her sophomore year at Bryan Mawr. and will have only such holidays asfall to the lot of other students. Incidentally. Bryn Mawr Is not the sort of college where girl can shlrk work or skip classes or lec- lures, so Miss Helen Taft's trips to Washington will be infreQuent and brief.
 This daughter of the new President Is E feet 8 inches in height, with her mothers slenderness of figure and her fathers dimpled chin. She has clear. rather deep blue eyes and trick of looking right through you with them. Blue is also'-tfer favorite color-dark blue for street wear dainty pale col ~ brings for house and evening froeks. and just touch of blue somewhere if her gown he white.
 If Mss Taft has her own way. the tennis courts will not depart from tha White House grounds with the passing of the Roosevelt regime for she Is an ardent tennis player. She also swims and rides horseback. and keeps up good pace when walking with brothers or father.
 Her father has superintended her reading and mental training to large extent. and his influence will ba seen when It Is noted that Scott IS ner favorite novelist, and the American poets rank with her ahead of all for eign versihers. Thanks to her careful early education she won 300 scholar ship at Bryn Mawr. when she was graduated from Miss Baldwin's School for girls in Washington.
 She inherits her fathers keen sense of humor and his philosophic disposi- ton, which Is extremely fortunate in . young woman who ae the Presidents daughter must face many trying sitn- ations, and pers&ps some unnecessary and unjust criticisms. From her mo- ther she inherits extremely good taste fin dress. and the fastidious will neveE be offended by seeing her appear in garlsh color combinations, wearing jewelry. and ornately dressing her hair. as many girls of the day do.
 Dispite the fact that the Tafts have always been well to do, Miss Helen was taught by her mother to cook and to sew, Her domestic accomplishments are not limited to making fudge and Welsh rabbit in a college study. but she could step into her mothers shoes in an emergency and run the Taft mem age without hitch.
 Internationally Washington's youn- ger set will gain much by the acquisi- ton of Miss Taft.