Evening star., 1924-11-05

swimming pool no other visitors are
permitted to trespass.
Quite "a stir was created by the an
nouncement from some outsider that
the President and Mrs. Coolidge would
adopt the favorite exercise of Presi-
dent Roosevelts reign in the White
House and take strenuously to horse
back riding. The President has rid
den on two or perhaps three occasions
and Mrs. Coolidge not at all. For
instance, had you been walking back
of the White House grounds and
around the White House in the gray
of July morning near the end of
the month-say, the 31st-you would
have met the President and his SON.
John Coolidge, on dapper-lookinE
mounts, accompanied by Maj. James
F. Coupal, the White House medical
adviser, galloping briskly over the
bride paths which were laid out un-
der the direction of President Roose-
welt. The ride was taken quite early
enough for the President and his son
to return to the White House for an
early breakfast and the Chief Execu-
tive to reach his desk in the White
House offices before O'clock
When Mrs. Coolidge, with buoyant
step, walks down the graveled paths
of the White House lawn of morn
ms " In IeT uedullI VI "nlte collie
Rob Roy, dashing along before her
one almost feels like cheering, there
is so much life. SO much animation
about both. AS a tourist. a hardy
man OF the world, said one day
while watching Mrs. Coolidge and her
dog from the east room windows,
overlooking the lawn. why. you al
most expect her to break into race
with the collie"
INV hut Pnh Pow IouaS
another traveller, watching the beau
tiful animal turn back to meet his
mistress and stand in respectful at
tention before her. And Rob Roy
does love her. too.
Paul Prye, the White House Aire-
dale, is such a mischief-maker, such
a saucy, self-assertive dog that he
accompanies his mistress much less
frequently than does Rob Roy.
Both are prime favorites with the
President, however, who, with Mrs.
Coolidge, agrees that dogs are much
more constant in their affections than
are cats.
Cats Not so Constant.
For a fact, each Of the two cats.
Tige and Blackie. that claimed the
President and Mrs. Coolidge as mas
ter and mistress. took to the alleys
when they got good and ready, and
unless brought back by force refused
to return. Their loss to Mrs. Cool
idge was fully made up in the free
dom Of the birds on the White House
lawn, who apparently prefer canine
to feline attentions when picking
over the smooth grounds or resting
on low-swung branches.
1t was at one of Mrs. Coolidge's in
door garden parties last Spring that
a visitor who CHANGED to promenade
on the portico espied a big wire cage
in the garden of the south front lawn
in which Tige, because he is a tiger
cat, and Blacllie, because he is black,
held sportive sway, and called her
friends to see the wildcats that the
President kept confined in the garden.
Mrs. Coolidge is of a domestic ma
ture. She shows this in her every
move within the White House. She
essays no changes, no innovations as
it's mistress, but just like any good
housewife, she stops here and there
to arrange books and papers, slips
downstairs and out into the colonial
gardens, where she picks flowers to
arrange in vases in the rooms of the
second floor of the White House, re-
arranges chairs and lamps, and other
wise lends a home touch to her
quarters.
There were many erroneous stories
afloat about Mrs. Coolidge scrubbing,
cooking, washing and ironing, max
ing 65-cent shirt waists, and SO on
through a series of domestic gym
nastics that would put a farmers
wife through the PAGES. For a fact,
she can do almost anything in the
way Of housekeeping, just as can any
other New England-bred woman.
Every girl in the big New England
colleges qualities for some "voca-
tion," such as chemistry. journalism.
school teaching, music, painting. do
mestic science or something else to
help along on life's road. Mrs.
Coolidge, as Grace Goodhue, chose
teaching. Mrs. Coolidge was fond of
| books, and her parents cultivated this
| trait in her.
AS Mrs. Miles Poindexter. the wife
of the Ambassador to Peru. once said,
| Mrs. Coolidge was bonny exception
| to the traditional New England
| school "mam." Like other women of
| her acquaintance in New England,
Mrs. Coolidge could do whatever she