New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-10

wherever they might be. have Ill
been real. American hemes-com-
Portable. coy. individualistlc and
fashioned without tho aid Of tn
terror decorators. since every wom-
an has in her heart the ambition
to be her own interior decorator.
First Hose Rides Dream
Primarily . home-loving woman,
Mrs. Hoover. like most OF her Amer
lean sisters. planned her first home
with all the enthusiasm and love
and care and devotion Of the youns
bride. 1t was a CHEEKY place,
cheerful place out in California,
| with tennis courts, and a garden.
! aud all. the shrubs and flowers Cali
fornia boasts. 1t was truly brides
dream. There was everything for
comfort and convenience and then.
OF a sudden. 1t was disbanded and
, broken up: for Herbert Hoover was
/ called to far off places.
| Now the average woman. put in
position Of this sort, would prob
ably have packed everything and
stored them for the return. That
/ being the case. the new home would
have been more or less make
shift affair. When the Hoovers,
however, set loot on the soil Of
China and Mrs. Hoover went to keep
house in Tientsin. she carried along
with her her instincts and love for
home making. She was not con-
tent to have merely a place that
| might have been furnished by some
one else: she wanted to furnish Il
herself. with her own things and
according to her own ideas. After
Tientsin, she went to Pekin. There
too, she kept house. China desert
ed, the Hoovers were off for Austria
liza to a place where few know ex-
lists. Kalgoorie. and there sh kept
house. Always in her travels. Mrs.
Hoover kept the home fires burn
ing. After Australia. she went to
Mandalay. the place about which
kipling sang. and she kept house
there. She went to Paris and then
to London. always keeping house
Perhaps house" is not the word:
| uUIuc WVulu Dc pSllcI.
Has Lived Planetary ExiStance
This woman who. on March 4th,
comes to keep house In a celebrated
mansion at 1900 Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. N. W.. Washington. D. c.. has
had a home all over the world. ii
might be said, and the beautiful
part Of 1t all Is that every home OF
the Hoovers. no matter where 1t was
placed, has been an American
home. Always. OF course. there was
that home In California to which
the Hoovers could 60 back when
ever they found freedom from work
on foreign shores. Wherever thew
were. however. they had another
home. Mrs. Hoover Is the sort OF
woman whose very nature breaths
the atmosphere Of home. 1t has
been said that in whatever countr,
the Hoovers were. there they found
friends among the American colony
and many a homesic' American err
gineer from the states found SUI
cease from sorrow before their fire.
place.
Now that the Hoovers have beer
designated by the American peopl
to reside for four years in the
White House. there remains or
their hands the home which the;
occupied for some years on s street
1t is an unpretentious mansion d.
signed In the Colonial manner. tina
abuts the building linz and has n,
grand gardens or landscape effec
in front OF it, coming as it does al
most to the very streets. In tn
back. however. things are different
|, There green grass grows. and state
ly old trees reach up above the roo
top. The house is neither large no.
small in the sense that 1t Is pre-
tentious establishment with manN
servants. nor yet the modest litt's
six room house typical OF the aver
age Washington family. It is a
stately three-story brick buildine
and stands not very far from where
the late Woodrow Wilson made hi!
home.