New Britain herald., 1930-02-07
HOW IT WAS TOLD THEN

young lady and has been teach
 iNg in the Monterey schools She
 is 2 member of one of the prom
 incnt families of Monterey. her
 father being cashier of the
 Bank of Monterey. She gradu-
 "tcd from Stanford university
 in 1898. The groom is also a
 Stanford graduate and is by
 profession a mining engineer.
 His headquarters are in San
 Francisco. but his business calls
 him abroad nearly all the time,
 he being in the employ Of q
 London firm having interests in
 foreign lands. He has just re-
 turned from Australia where he
 has been for the past two years
 and is called upon 10 depart at
 once for China. The bride has
 many friends in Monterey, all of
 whom unite in wishing the new
 lv welded pair tho best that this
 life affords in the way Of hap
 piness and prosperity"
 Washington. Feb, -- The pres dent and the first lady of the United Niatc9 celebrate their 3lst wedding .nul> crsary on Feb. h..
 Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry .IooNCr have observed many anni- .rrs1rics in remote corners of tho ortd anu under many strange cir umstanccs since lS99. but this will ." tho first time the event has oc- ,urrcd in the White House.
 When 2 husky young engineer Of -1. then called "Bcrt" IIoovcrmar- cd tho tall and charming dauGh- [ .r Of q wealthy banker in Monterey, g'tL. and carried her off to far-aWay D'hna on their honeymoon, he set her up beside him for life as q work Ing coTradc. And they have achicy- ri remarkable success in blending marriage and career.
 Hoover. has trckkcd the African Ncdt, ridden the Australian bush, crossed the Siberian stcppcs, sup pressed riots of Chinese coolics, been wrecked on the China coat. And through it all, Mrs. Hoover has ac- com panied him. making her home wherever his work took him.
 The first time Bert" Hoover ever saw his future wife vas while hG vas working his way tWor@h :;t' "- lord university where she was 8 CO., rd. Hc waited on her :, dpe ,-.a,' - and a short time |. s put away his apron to call on her.
 Lou Hcnry'a sO..r.,s sisters saw their waiter and college laundry agent in the front parlor and walked out ot the room with their noses in Inc air. But she entertained him the whole evening. And the next day she moved out of the sorority house.
 Hoover, the son of an Iowa black smith, was then a poverty stricken student at Stanford, and Lou Henry was the daughter of a wealthy tanker. But she had the true dem ocracy that is the test Of blue blood.
 Young Hoover and Miss Henry found much in common as they bored over the rocks on hikes with inc geology class and studied tn" -1rata that compose the carth's crust. she was tho only girl taking tho geology course and their courtship developed on thc"e expeditions.
 They built their castles in spain, as all lovers do, hut neither imac- iuod they would some day occupy thc White House. There ar" tales that Hcrbcrt's exams had their bad moments and that Lou Henry uttered him quite extensively.
 But at last the engineers diploma was achieved and Hoover took a job in Australia. Then came an offer of 4 good job in China. Engineer Hoov- CT decided to take it if Lou Henry would marry him at once. He cabled he question. Word flashed back that she would.
 As soon as Hoover could set 10 California they were married Tn Monterey and left immediately for China. The ceremony was perform cd by Catholic priest with special dispcnsaton to perform Protcstanl marriages. aS no Protestant minister was immediately available. Mrs Hoover left the Episcopaliap church 10 embrace the faith of her new hus- band, d Quaker.
 One of her first jobs as help mate to her husband was to organize he women of Ticntsin during tn, Boxer rebellion, to ration off fooL supplies, and to feed the men behinC 8 barricade of sugar barrels and rice bags. She is even said to have man ned a machine gun at one time, bu this is probably stretching the truth
 She learned 10 speak Chinese tt help her husband more effectively Ask anyone who has tried to master Chinese and they'll tell you that any wife who will do that is a matchlcs' matc-and a genius.
 Successivoly Hoovcr's work car. rlcd his family to Mexico. Canada Australia, India. Africa and variou: European countries.
 At the outbreak of the World War the HooVcrs Wcrc in London. Whcr' he was directing 50,000 employees il mining enterprises throughout tn, world. He was unanimous choic, for head of the commission for re lief of Belgium and later was ap pointed United States food admins trator hy President Wilson.
 His work in the war as flood re lief director and his subsequent clcc