The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-02-11
RUNNING THE WHITE
HOUSE A BIG JOB
HOUSEHOLD LOOKED AFTER BY
4OUSEKEEPER.
Some of the Many Things That
Make it Wonderful Place
to Live
Washington Post.

Washington Post.
Mrs. Warren G. Harding must get
ready to- run the most widely known
residence in the United States, as the
thirty-ffth mistress of the White
House.
To the average An crlcan housewife
it would seem very easy to make
real home with such helps from Uncle
Sam as $4,000 salary, 40-room
house, rent free, a 10-acre park, au-
tomobiles and many other requisites.
Yet such is the fierce light that
beats upon the public life. such the
demands of her position, that only a
woman genius can make and has
made the White House home. For
the last few administrations the home
Roosevelts, from the president to the
baby, Quentin, loved the White House
and it was home to them in every
! sense of the word. The Tafts, too,
had family of young people and the
5homespirit was kept intact for them
The present administration like
wise has fostered the home spirit and
beyond doubt both the president and
Mrs. Wilson will miss the atmosphere
Of home that the genius of the wom-
anhas built up in the White House,
even in the midst of war distractions
and illness.
Housekeeper in Charge
In late years, a housekeeper, Mrs.
Jatfray {who has been at the White
House since Mrs.Taft was there) is
indirect charge of all the house-keep-
ing details, although the white house
!: dies supervise and check and direct
the machinery Of the household, as
every good housewife should do. Mrs.
.Jasfray does all the marketing for the
household and controls all the ordlna-
~ domestic expenditures, paying for
everything and submitting her ac-
counts for final audit to the pres,-
dents wife.
Three white house cooks, chief
cook and two assistants, rule over the
kitchens, which are modern in type
and fitted up with every reasonable
variety of labor and time saving de-
vice. In the pantry is an electric dunio
waiter aid an electric plate warmer.
This instrument on OCCASION has heat
ed as many as FIVE thousand plates at
official functions. The silver is all
cleaned by electric machinery.
No caterers get up state dinners II
the V.hite house. Everything is pre-
nared bv the white house cooks. Tins
even extends to the ices, and that IS
pro5ably one reason why the white
house tables of refreshments at for
NAL. functions are always popular.
Unlike most nations, there is no en-
tertainmert fund as such for the Am
erican presidert. He pays out OF his
own pocket for the food he furnishes
to his own guests.
ss,9 A Complete Laundry
Just off the kitchens is the laundry,
a large modern type, fitted with
washing machines, and other devices.
So nauch clean linen is demanded that
every day is washday at the white
house and the clothes are hung out
in the air in the back yard just back
of the kitchens. Three women are
kept at work constantly in the laun-
dry. All of the family laundry is done
there.
The new, mistress of the white
house Will find well equipped silver
chest and china closet. Many Of the
presidents wives have added to the
collection and some of it has become
historic. There is a great variety and
the sperintendent Of buildings and
grounds will replace anything that IS
broken without any further anxiety
on the part of the lady of the house
No plated ware is used in the white
house except in the kitchens. All
spoons, forks and dishes are OF pure
silver, as we'll as the knives, every
piece marked with the American ca
gle and the words, "The Presidents
House"
Lavish With Flowers
One of the most attractive rooms
in the lower part of the white house
is the. flower room, where all the flow
ers for the white house are prepared
fresh from. the white house conserva-
tories. Uncle Sam is very lavish with
his flowers, Wonderful blossoms are
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