The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-16
A President as Cook
White Hou

White House.. June II, 1905.
Dear Kermit: Mother and i have
lust come home from a lovely trip to
pine Knot" It is really a perfectly
delightful little place; the incest little
place of the kind you can imagine.
Mother is a great deal more pleased
with it than any child with any toy
[ ever saw. She went down the day
before, Thursday, and / followed on
Friday morning. Good Mr. Joe VIII
mer met me at the station and we
rode on horseback to Round Top,
where we met mother and Mr.. Willie
Wilmer We all had tea there and
hen drove to .sPlain Dealing" where
both Round Top, and plain Deal
lng," and as for the two Mr.. Winners,
they are the most generous. thought
Iul, self effacing friends that any one
could wish to see. After dinner we
went over to pine Knot" put every
hing to order and went to bed. Next
lay we spent all by ourselves at Pine
Knot" In the morning 1 fried bacon
and eggs, while mother boiled the
kettle for tea and laid the table.
Breakfast was most successful, and
then mother washed the dishes and
did most of the work, while I did odd
jobs Then we walked about the place,
which IS fifteen acres III all, saw the
lovely spring, admired the pine trees
and the oak trees, and then mother
lay in the hammock while I cut away
some trees to give up u better view
from the piazza. The piazza is the
real feature of the house. It is broad
and runs along the whole length and
the roof is high near the wall, for 1t
is a continuation of the roof of the
mouse. 1t was lovely to sit there in
the rocking chairs and hear all the
olrds by day time and at night the
Whipporwills and owls and little forest
folk
Inside the house is just a bare wall
with one big room below, which is
nice now, and will be still nicer when
The ehimneys are up and there
is fireplace in each end. A rough
hight OF stairs leads above, where
mere are two rooms, separated by a
passage-Way. We did everything for
ourselves, but all the food we had
was sent over to us by the dear Will.
"ners, together with milk. We cook
Z" II ourselves, so there was no one
o'odho the house to bother us at all.
As we found that cleaning dishes took
up an awful time we only took two
meals a day, which was all we want
GU. Tn Saturday evening ] fried two
e'ickens for dinner, while mother
oo4led the tea, and we had cherries
anu Wild Strawberries, as well as bis
cuts and cornbread. To my pleas
are mother greatly enjoyed the fried
eAlckea and admitted that what yon
children had said OF the way I fried
ei4eAen was all true. In the evening
We sat out a long time on the piazza
anu lhen read indoors and then went
% ped. Sunday morning we did not
ser up until 8. Then 1 fried mother
Sonie beefsteak and some eggs in two
t'!Ihg- pans, and she liked them both
very much. We went to church at
Use dear little church where the Will
44isis rather and mother had been
. married, dined soon after two at
ram Dealing" and then We're driven
yer 10 the station to go back to
=, - ,,ashingtop. rode the big stallion
eh'ei--and enjoyed it thoroughly. AL
''seiaer we had very nice holiday.
was lucky to be able TO get it, for
sslFinS the past fortnight. and indeed
,oi considerable time before, 1 have
I'm carrying on negotiations with
ootA Russia and Japan, together with
sue negotiations with Germany,
'Eanee and England, to try to get the