Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1928-04-13
THE HOOVER
HOUSEHOLD
Republican National Committee
woman From Virginia Gives Inter-
esting Account OF Her Call On
Mrs. Herbert Hoover.
By Mrs. w. w. CALDWELL

By Mrs. w. w. CALDWELL
would you like to meet Mrs.
Herbert HOover? came as a pecu-
Iiarly apropOs question just after
had asked a Washington friend if
she knew Mrs. Hoover or could tell
nae something of her personality
and home life.
That Mr.. Hoover was the choice
of a number of the members of the
Republican National Committee to
head the next Republican ticket be-
came more evident after their visit
to the White House and Mr.. Cool
idge's firm reiteration of his pur-
pose not to be a candidate and mis-
admOnitiOn that it was the duty OF
the national committee to be cast
. ing about among the several avail
able candidates for the one most
likely to bring victory to the party
banner in 1928.
Quite naturally, the women men,
bers wanted to know something
about Mrs. HoOver-tO meet her II
possible. One who is much in
washington and knows Mrs. Hoover
asked permission to introduce some
of the women of the committee. A
gracious invitation to have tea at
the Hoover home was the result.
It is one of Washington's older
and more spacious homes, located
on S Street, with a bit of wooded
wild land as it's INSTRUMENTATION
the Hoovers have declined to sell
and refused to landscape. I'VE don't
like to look out on brick walls,
said Mrs. Hoover, land we like 1t
wild: so all we've done is to make
rambling wall or two and put In
few seats. We live on the back
porch from April to November and
frequently take our meals under the
trees. It is a wonderful place for
the grandbabies and the dog.
At that we pricked up our ears.
For Mrs. Hoover, despite crown OF
iron-gray hair which she wears cor
onet-wise, seems young as she Is
certainly a very handsome woman
ooh, yes, two, a girl and a boy |
They are lovely children ana our
delight" It was evident that the
gracious but by no means garrulous
Mrs. Hoover had found congehlai
tonic. eyes, that is photograph Oh
our daughter-in-law and their OLD
est THANK YOU. She is a beautiful
woman and an ideal daughler-in-
law If Mr.. Hoover and had Sc
Iected her ourselves we could not De
as we'll suited. The baby is just SIX
,,,ontbs old. He is Herbert Hoover
the third" .1..sn ro-
heated one of the guests. Ihat Is
fine"
"But we call him Peter" laughed
Mrs Hoover. Mr.. Hoover has al
WAYS been called Bert by his init
mates and he nicknamed our son
pete when he was little fellow.
think Herbert liked his fathers call
ing him that and takes pleasure IN
calling his own son Peter.
"YOu mustn't let them nickname
him when he bears a name so dis
tinguished," suggested one OF tne
guests. @''s- - -
II seemed a new thought TO Mrs.
Hoover. She brushed it aside by in
djcating the third framed picture IN ,
the group as that of their younger ]
con. a student at Leland Stanford
AGED twenty-one, adding that she {
and Mr.. Hoover felt they were Tor (
tunate in their children. A clear g
eyed frank-faced, good-looking youth Z
smiled from the frame and we t
agreed with her. a
Nv that time we felt we knew Mrs. L
Hoover and that she was Just ike
ali the rest of us-woman and mo S
Their first of all. Like any OF the G
rest of us might have telt-alCer
having been trapped into the natur-
Al exposition of motherly pride and F
satisfaction-Mrs Hoover was be- O
ginning to be a trif1e self-consclous
and turned to hospitable Offices TO fl
ascape. pressing hot tea, and the not N
cheese crisps, cakes and bon Dons V
her butler was passing, upon her
guests. R
II had been partially to escape N
he embarrassment of her callers, M
Urging upon her that she help us IL
list on Mr.. Hoover announcing MIN IL
elf a candidate for the Presidency ell
hat she had plunged into the sub m
ect of their park-like backyard in
md then into a talk of her chlloreh Ell
nd grandchildren. di
To avert the latter subject she 81
PRESENTLY asked if we would care 10 tn
ee Mr.. Hoover's study and the
nioue gift of Belgium, delegating ed
n one of her assisting friends the al
howing of it. Nj
Mr.. Hoover's study is the homiest
oom in the spacious, simply fur hi
ished Washington home OF Inc Ii,
Ioovers. 1t is oddly shaped, some Ri
that like a stump capital I, with w,
re-nlace in the middle Of the long OF
ection and a door leading into the er
eception room in the short arm, an us
men fire. comfy chairs. A used nc
1unge. tables and books suggest nc
rized spot for retreat and rest.
An ton of a cabinet or bookshelves
, the Belgian tribute-a richly car
cd box of dark wood, inside en-
archment in the Belgian language,
he warm gratitude of the Belgian su
eople is emphasized. 1t rests on a nc
iIken pillow deliberately embrolder-
d by Belgian children, the back OF at
he pillow an Oregon flour sack, the "b
STEERING still there. One of those or
acks of -four American families did in
rithout in order to help Mr.. Hoover yo
ave the children of Belgium from aT
tarvation. Mr.. Hoover in the name w
{ the people of America-acting tn
nth and for them. III
Il is the sort of thing Mr.. Hoover Il
oes instinctively. The sort of thing pc
= 49, 5oya mot onoo Or accidental til
Y, but time and again, because ne 10
as a genius for cooperation, Tor ed
administration, for getting done