New Britain herald., 1929-10-05
MRS. HOOVER WILL
 ENTERTAIN ISHBEL
First Lady Of Land and MaCDon-
 aids Daughter Meet

Washington, Oct. P) - The hostess of the White House and the hostess of No. 10 Downing street, l-onion, today grasped their first opportunity 10 spend a weekend together
 Mrs. Herbert Hoover, continuing in her role of hostess, had the White House in it's most homelike and neighborly mood. Miss Ishhel Macdonald. daughter and official hostess of the British prime min- ister, welcomed the role of guest.
 The historic mansion presented quite different aspect from that which greeted Miss Macdonald on her first brief official call upon her arrival in Washington yesterday with her father.
 Formality in First Visit
 Then she passed into the stately rooms with all the glitter of inter- national formality and the dazzling glare of powerful lights that go with news cameras.
 That was theatrical White House, set with shrubs and palms and garnished with gold braid and sword trappings.
 Today it was the homeler, more domestic executive mansion that Mrs Hoover likes. The green room furniture, off to the upholsterers for months, happily had come home Friday and was newly in place. The east room had just been wax cd. the chandeliers polished. Palms and more palms. and many roses, had gone in through the White House doors to augment the Cali fornia-like charm of the permanent palm room recently installed by the west window of the great upper hall
 Asks Girl Scouts Tn
 To this picture, Mrs. Hoover, in her noighborliness, had arranged 10 add dash of the spirit of Amer ican girlhood She had asked in" her friends, the Girl Scouts, from "tho little house around the cor ncr"
 These Girl Scouts and Mrs. Hoover are on such "over-thc- back-fcncc" terms that they exchange recipes and garden seeds and shruhhery. For she was their president before she was lhe presidents wife. And hor husband. Herbert Hoover, turned the first shcvelful of dirt for the buildings of the Girl Scouts little House." quaintest of national headquarters.
 Mrs. Calvin Collage ''neighbored with" the Little House, going there 10 luncheons and asking the girls 10 supervise GEE rollings. But to- day was tho first time that all the Girl Scouts had been asked 10 come at once to take possession of the hedge hidden White House grounds.
 The invitation was from to D. m. all playtime except for the inter- val of grouping around Miss Mac Donald for neighhorly visiting on her arrival at 2:3O.
 To View Games
 Ample opportunity was allowed despite a time pressing schedule, for the Scotch girl to view from the White House rear portiCo to enjoy their play. Circle games and group singing, and refreshments around rustic tables were arranged as diver tissnents In a play day spectacle Ccntering about a mad-Cap game of follow the leader"
 That game is the favorite of the girls who wear the graygreen uni form. Girl Scout leaders have been Well-trained in eXtcmporizing, on the run, difficult athletic feats for their followers to perform in a merry chase around fountains, un- der magnolia trees into the rose garden, across the portico, over the lowe: hedges, and about the home of Rebecca, the rGccoon.
 Such was the vivid picture Of young America that Mrs Hoover chose to present to her youthful ruerts from across the sea,