The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-17

Wnlcn was at 20, she had returned
from abroad and taught in a New
York settlement house. So she re-
Sumed her social service work. But
as Tor teaching, she chose the girls
private school where she now is assis-
tant principal and part owner.
Inc town house, on East 65th street
IN Manhattan, stands side by side
with one owned by Mrs. James Roose-
welt, mother of the president-elect.
Both homes are brownstone fronts.
and narrow like most others of their
era. Franklin Roosevelt's is only a
generous room in width, but is long
from front to back, and six stories
high. The kitchen is in the basement.
central hallway and dining room on
the first floor; library and drawing
room on the second floor; bedrooms
on the third and fourth, including the
nursery where two generations have
played, and servants rooms above
that. The furniture Is old and COM
Portable, and here are some of the
rareSt OF the famous Roosevelt collec-
ton OF naval prints and ship models.
A HERO-WORSHIPER
John Paul Jones, who never ack-
nowledged defeat, is Franklin Roose-
veltS personal hero. So John Paul
Jones looks down from nearly every
wall. Most Of the portraits are color
prints, but there is one masterpiece
OF which everyone is especially proud.
1t IS a canvas that was bid in at an
auction by Louis McHenry Howe,
Roosevelt's private secretary, for s120.
When they got it home it was discoy-
cred to have been done by Jean Mi
chael Moreau.
The whole stirring history of the
y. 8. navy Is told in scores of other
pictures which literally cover the
walls. The Roosevelt sons never have
tired OF listening to their fathers en-
tnusiastic tales of the battle scenes
and ships and leaders who are shown
there. Especially do they like the story
OF Captain James Mugford, whose
portrait bears out Roosevelt,S conten-
ton that he was the ugliest man in
all American history. Yet it was
Mugford, OF the schooner Franklin.
who In 1776 played a valiant part in
capturing the British armed trans
port Hope and its cargo of ammuni-
ton so direly needed by the Colonies.
Nearly all Of these pictures have
Deen collected by Roosevelt himself.
NOT even q trip abroad is complete
until he has visited galleries and print
shops to see their marine pictures and
10 puy q few. One such excursion
resolved itself from a visit to Paris
when his mother was i'll with pneu-
monia there. He and Elliott hurriedly
took ship on receipt Of the news. but
found Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt
nearly recovered when they arrived.
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A LINGUAL ADVANTAGE
so about all we did," Elliott re-
calls, was rush from one shop to an
other. In one Of them I admired the
bronze figures Of mare and prancinp
colt. but discovered I didn't have
! enough money to buy them. Father
didn't say word. But on NV next
birthday. long after we had returned
TO New York and had forgotten the
incident, father ceremoniously pre-
sented me with that bronze.
i learned then that the day after
had admired the statuary he had
lett the hotel early, TAXED to the sl,op
and bought it. He brought it back ia
his trunk and kept it hidden away
for months until my birthday rolled
around"
Another story Of that European trip
concerns dinner and luncheon or
two which were attended by Roosevelt
ana his son. and Ambassador Edge.
The ambassador, it is reported. did
not speak or understand French ct
that time. So the Democratic Roose-
vets. who do speak French, engaged
with their Partisan hosts In very
frank discussions Of Mr.. Hoover and
Republican policies.