The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-28

Ladyship with many qualifications for the job. There is something in the boise of her head, the big, brown, intel ligent eyes and the slight dilation of the nostrils that suggest the, thorough bred. You know the sort of thing {! alert, eager, enthusiastic, with head held high, she looks out on the world a world full of interesting things.
 Do you remember March 4, 1921? The eyes of the nation turned toward the White House. President Wilson, ''in residence" on the last day of his administration, was to receive his suc- cessor, the late President Harding, Mrs. Harding and the Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge.
 The gates at the entrance stood hos pitably open for the first time in three years. At the door Head Usher Hoov. CT, imposing dignitary, who has served at least five presidents, awaited the visitors. Recent events had given the situation a dramatic tenseness. The country felt it; the principals felt it even the major-domo felt it.
 There was nothing but an exchange of courtesieS between the incoming and outgoing presidents.
 People saw the new President pass surprisingly grave. Mrs. Harding, coat. ed in caracul, was stamped with the approval of Mrs. Ned Mclean !; sartor. ially, at least. Then came the Cool. idges. The President, even then, wore his poker face. He wasn't born New Englander for nothing.
 | L.z and she collects friends as a bark does Mrs. Marshall had set the pace in popularity for first lady in waiting, but Mrs. Coolidge didn't seem to get out of breath in keeping up to it.
 That official reception at the White House on the memorable March 4 wa, Mrs. CoOlidge's second visit. But, oh what difference!
 Life is funny thing" she said to me that evening. "You know, the first time I came to the White House ] brought my class of deaf and dumb pu- pills. Their affliction was a terrible handicap and it took much longer te show them around. The delay annoyed the head usher, and he grew impa. tient. Finally, in exasperation, he in vited us to leave. I realized, of course that we had taken more than our share of time, and didn't blame him. But behold! It was the very same man who opened the door to us today-and bade us welcome!"
 What training school for a Presi dents wife-among deaf mutes! It cer tainly has taught her patience-a pa. tience that gets tested to the utmost.
 I guess the President himself often longs for the peace and silence of a deaf and dumb school, after long presidential day. And Mrs. Coolidge too, after the welter of words in Wash. ington, must dream of that silent sane. tuary!
 When The Coolidges Came To Wash.
 ington
 l Apartments aren't homes, but arriv. ing in Washington in the spring of 1921, the Coolidges took over the Mar. shall apartment at the New Willard known since the Marshall occupancy as ''The Little White House." And so. ciety began to gravitate in that direc. tion. You see, they made no secret of the fact that all they had was the sal. ary that goes with the job.
 rs. Coolidge managed to make that apartment very like a home. Yes, she's quite domesticated. Funny how virtu ess s-and-sRkaaalins- dam estfcfty appears in the eyes of male editors and press agents During the campaign, don't you remember how we had Mrs. Cool. idge's blueberry pie and mincemeat and doughnut recipes, until wondered if the poor girl was ever out of bunga. low apron.
 In holiday time, the two boys came home from school, but the apartment didn't cramp their style, or take the edge off their youthful enthusiasm. At that age, life centers on things to eat and watching the wheels go round Dances are a bore, and girls-well, when you can watch planes at Boiling field and the wireless at the navy yarG and can swim at Henderson's Castle, or listen in at the Mclean radio at "Friendship," I ask you, what does 6 young chap want with girls?" l was paying, some calls in the hote. one afternoon, and a mutty, buttery smell came seeping from beneath thu Coolidge door,
 Whats that?" asked the woman with me, sniffing the savory odor.
 "Popcorn," I said. Mercersburs draws the line at popcorn, which is very short-sighted. So when the Coolidge boys come home from school out comes the electric grill and chafing dish, and there is popcorn feast added to thu vice presidential calendar
 The Coolidge Boys
 The Coolidges '.are truly democratic The fact that father was governor o1 Massachusetts didn't prevent one bo, from serving a paper route. Another hired out to weed potatoes. They need ed experience, so why should fathers