Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-07
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coined beside the great open f1replaces
and at tea table laid generously with
dainties. California, her adopted State,
always was representatives. as 1t will
be in the White House-by the rarest
fruits and flowers and other products
of that State. Where tall, view-ob-
structing baskets of flowers generally
stand in the center Of a banquet board,
be 1t for dinner, tea or luncheon, on
her table there always is low, grace
fully shaped basket filled with luscious
grapes, oranges, lemons, apples, plums
and, in fact, all that the orchard pro-
duces, and from the kitchen garden
or farm lands golden color squaShes
and other bright hued products. 1t Is
probable that even the splendid Monroe
gold mirror, used on the White House
table for banquets of State, will reflect
Just such a beautiful picture as this
Has Wealth of Beautiful Things.
Mrs. Hoover will have a far greater
wealth of beautiful and interesting
things with which to adorn the pri-
yate part of the White House than has
any woman before her, unless perhaps
Mrs. Taft. In her; travels over the
earth with Mr.. Hoover she has ac--
quired many lovely things, some of
which she has purchased, while others
have been presented to her by some
grateful friend. That Is what has made
the Hoover home interesting to visitors
all through their cabinet days here. In
Mr.. Hoover's study is splendid por-
trait of the King Of Belgium, suitably
inscribed, and another object is richly
carved box of dark wood, serving as
safe place in which to keep the Won
derfully enbellished expression of graf
itude to Mr.. Hoover of the Belgian
people. The wording on the parchment
is in Flemish, and rests on a richly
embroidered pillow within the box-the
needlework being that of Belgian chill
dren-the back Of the pillow or cushion
showing a flour sack with the big let
tiers advertising the Oregon source OF
the product plainly visible whenever the
pillow is reversed. From all around
the world Mr.. and Mrs. Hoover have
brought such treasures, and while there
is no needless brio -brac in their home,
it is gay with reminders Of their PROV
ess in travel. %
"Tut" to Succeed "Rob Roy"
Accompanying them to the White
House win be the great German police
dog Tut, who understands and takes
care of his master just as the late
Rob Roy loved and took care OF Presi-
dent Coolidge. There will be other dogs
there, too, and cats and birds, OF which
there are always number in the HOO
yer home.
Children in the White House have
furnished many pages of interesting
history, and from the time Thomas
Jefferson entertained his grandchildren
there I'D to the present time many little
ones have romped through the White
House, and now the little granddaugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Hoover. Peggy
Ann, an Herbert Sd, their grandson,
are to become the Nations pets. They
are the two children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Clark Hoover, jr.-the former
always called Pete by his father
and are with their parents In Cam
bridge, where at Harvard the young
father is completing course in busi-
ness administration. 1t is for these
babies that Mrs. Hoover Is always knit
ting or embroidering something. Allen
Hoover, the younger of the two sons of
former Secretary and Mrs. Hoover, Is
81, also OF Stanford University, Of
which his parents and his brother grad
uated. Peggy Ann has achieved the
age of 3 years, while her baby brother,
the king of the nursery, is 9 months
old. They are pretty and wholesome.
The courtship Of the young Hoovers,
like that of his parents, started at Stan
ford, from which university they both
graduated.
Others in White House List
Besides the Hoover boys there will be
other interesting figures in oflcial life
here. Mrs. Hoover,s sister, Mrs. Jean
Henry Large, will continue her WASH
ington visits. She has often been with
Mrs. Hoover for short visits and to be
with her daughter. Miss Janet Large.
who has been in girls school in the
Capital Mrs. Large, however, kept
house for her father in his comfortable
home at Palo Alto or in the rambling
white house at Monterey Mrs. Large
has a son who Is preparing to enter
Stanford Mrs. Hooyer's supervision
over Miss Janet Large has been so care
full that whenever she spent the week
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