Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-05
MISS, MACDONALD
SEES 'NE|GHBORS'
Mrs. Hoover Puts White
House in Most HomeIike
Dress.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The hostess Of the White House and
the hostess Of No. 10 Downing Street
today grasped their first opportunity to
spend week end together.
Mrs. Herbert Hoover had the White
House In its most homelike and neigh
borly mood. Miss IShbel Macdonald,
daughter and official hostess Of the
British prime minister, welcomed the
role Of guest.
The historic mansion presented .
quite different aspect from that which
brief official call upon her arrival IN
Washington yesterday with her father.
Then she passed into the stately
rooms with all the glitter Of interna-
tional formality and the dazzling glare
Of powerful lights that go with news
cameras.
That was theatrical White House,
set with shrubs and palms and gar
nished with gold braid and sword trap
pings.
More Domestic Air.
Today it was the homelier, more do
mestic Executive Mansion that Mrs.
Hoover likes. The green room furni-
ture, OFF to the upholsterers for months
happily had come home Friday and was
newly In place. The east room had
1Shed.
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
palmroom recently installed by the
west window Of the great upper hall.
To this picture, Mrs. Hoover, In her
neighborlineSs, had arranged to add q
dash Of the spirit Of American girlhood.
Che had Aackad tpu hAys frfanAR tina
Girl Scouts, from 1.-THE Little House
Around the Corner"
On Intimate Terms.
These Girl Scouts and Mrs. Hoover
are on such "over-the-back-fence"
terms that they exchange recipes and
garden seeds and shrubbery. For she
Presidents wife. And her husband.
Herbert Hoover, turned the first shovel
full Of dirt for the building Of the Girl
Scouts Little House." quaintest Of ma
tional headquarters.
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge "neighbored'
with the Little House, going there to
luncheons, and asking the girls to 81.
pervise egg rollings; But today was the
first time that all the Girl Scouts had
been asked to come at once to take
possession Of the hedge-hidden White
House grounds.
The Invitation was from 2 till 6 pm,
all playtime, except for the interval of
grouping around Miss Macdonald for
neighborly visiting on her arrival at
2:30.
Time to See Games.
Ample opportunity was allowed de-
spite pressing schedule for the Scotch
girl to view their play from the White
House rear portico. Circle games and
group singing and refreshments around
rustic tables were arranged as divertisse-
ments in a play day spectacle center
ing about mad-cap game Of Follow
the Leader"
That game Is the favorite Of the
girls who wear the gray-green uniform.
Girl Scout leaders have been well
trained In extemporizing, on the run,
difficult athletic feats for their follow
ers to perform in a merry chase around
fountains, under magnolia trees, into
the rose garden, across the portico, over
the lower hedges and about the home
OF Rebecca, the raccoon.
Such was the vivid picture Of young
America that Mrs. Hoover chose to
present to her youthful guest from
across the sea.