Evening star., 1933-03-05
-By-
Sallic V. H.
Pickett

House a new mistress,
who smilingly assumed
her arduous tasks at
noon yesterday.
Not only is Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt the first Democratic
woman to preside there in years,
but she IS the very first career
woman" ever to hold the social
reins for Uncle Sam.
Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
smilingly accepted her duties after
seeing her husband sworn in and
for four years she will be the
Nations hostess. taking on one Of
the most gigantic tasks that can
fall to the lot of a woman. She
meets it with beaming good ma
ture, but just how she will carry
on, what changes she will make,
what social tactics she will adopt,
what line with woman politicians
in and out of society she will pur-
sue, is as yet unannounced.
Many of the First Ladies have
been guests in the mansion be-
fore assuming their lofty position.
and Mrs. Roosevelt was an init
mate there during the almost eight
years that her uncle, Theodore
Roosevelt. was President. But
visiting is one thing and assum-
ing the reins Of a great menage
which must satisfy millions Of
people is another. Fifty and more
years ago the White House was
referred to as the great lobbying
point for man politicians. and to-
day there must be added woman
politicians as well, to be satisfied
and catered to, both socially and
politically.
Fitted by education and en-
vironment for her position, the
merely social side will be an easy
matter for her, but to face and
satisfy the thousands OF woman
voters who helped put her hus-
band over" is another. Other
Presidents wives have been a lit
tie interested in the progressive
woman movement, especially Mrs.
Hoover, who presided there with
satisfying grace for four years, but
for the most the predecessors
of Mrs. Roosevelt have only been
interested from the humanitarian
and not the political side.
While the vote Of the American
people is not cast to elect the First
Lady of the Land, she becomes the
Nations hostess just the same and
the election Of her husband places
her where she has every one In
q large free country to please, mil
lions of men and women, instead
of her family and also a circle
Of friends and acquaintances.
When Mrs. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt assumed the reins Of
White House domestic and social
government yesterday, the whole
country started to think Of what
was going to happen. This is not
idle curiosity, for only second in
importance to Presidents politi
IS the social one of his wife, a.
make him popular or unpopular
Or perhaps eight years Of service.
Mrs. Roosevelt has written 50 N
30 much and expressed herself 4
others that the general public b
better conception Of what it IS to
IN any former administration in y
ever before.
Mrs. Roosevelt's executive ability
to establish a thoroughgoing girl
furniture factory-on a small *
magazine, write an interminable
stories and at the same time loo
comfort of her husband and her
knows what it is to wrap up bruis
fingers, ease the fearful sorrows o1
and after the nomination Of her
answer to a long distance telepho
rushed through the air to Boston
when a new grandbaby came into
THE very act Of Mrs. Roosevelt u
! plane for, transportation, bet
quicker than other modes of trave
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