The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1909-01-30
A WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION



Life
The second Whit, House ircrl
ton Of the season took place Thn,,,
day night f lat we, writes ON
correspondent when ,bc Supreme
Cnutt |usticca were The honOtcd
guests. lhetr receptions are All
80 much allk" that were peran
introduced into tie East Room
DUNG one of them he would have
"" way of iuhslne in whose honor
II wa' given except Us observing
the guests who were given prccC.
dence. There is always y strug
gle. though. for Tho invitations to
the receptions IN honor of tho D,p-
|oma's and Of the judiciary. for,
~ these are the first .wO III the
season, they are most largely At
tended and one aces n, them H..
greatest array Of Il s'ingnisled
men and gorgcously Mrayrd wo
men
However strained the P,e4i
dents relations with Congress
may affect .,"litics, they do not
seem to affect ~ any way hia ~"
cial relations with j. 8 member.
and there are only few Of those
With whom he has come into ii
rect conflict. or whom he haa ~
signed to the Ananias Club, tia,
absent themselves from his rccc.'-
tons aud they're never missed IN
the great throng that crowds th.
the White House on these orea
tions The l,st Of guests invited
Thursday would ill seven ordinary
newspaper colams Of iine PRINT
and Tic line "f carriages that had
assembled before the doors were
opened at n,ne o'clock extended
for more than three city blocks
The additions which have been
made to the White House since
President KoOscvelt has presided
there have greatly improved the
facility with which invited guests
can enter its doors, but il is an
experience got soon to be forgot
ton wien one, for the first time,
with a$>posslble fancy that the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt will
he waiting just inside the door to
receive HIM, finds himself in the
great pushing crowd that ~ NOV
ing inch by inch through the co,ri
dor and up the stairs to the main
floor Of the executive mansion.
The stars are the particularly try
ing stage Of the Journey, for It il
often from thirty minutes to an
hour that one must take to make
that flight Of about twenty steps
From side to side, and end TO end.
It is packed with people no close
that one can move neither forward
nor back ward until the receiving
party gives the signal for the
Blue Room doors to be opened
and the line begins to move
through the rooms known ~ the
Red Room and the banquet hall to
he receiving party. ~
At the door Of the Blue Room
he approaching guest is asked
lis name and this is mentioned to
he President by his aid, Colonel
Brom well. The President general.
y repeats the name, Craps the
'isitor by the hand and with a
left movement passes him on
Town the line, or rather through
he passage way made by the re-
eiving party on one side and the
honored guests who are
on the other side OF a vel.
ret rope. This progress is made
sually in undlgniiied haste by
he person new to the performance.
le has a vague recollection when
is over of the fash Of the Presi
ents teeth, the set smile Of Mrs
ROOSEVELT and a number of ladies'
very decollete gowns. The
ext day he will read in the paper
hat "all of the Cabinet ladies
ere predent in the receiving
me-" but in his embarrassment
nd haste he has not sem them.