The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-03

for help-MrS. Roosevelt is an eX-
pert at keeping accounts straight.
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IN addition, the family will take
Il along three colored servants,
two cooks and Mrs. R~oosevelt'S
long trained personal maio. Mr..
Roosevelt'S valet is going also, and
two walters, a housemaid, and
the family's chauffeur. All go on
the government payroll.
So the domestic staff will num-
Der %, about a dozen fewer than
the Hoovers used. The new PreSi-
dents wife, like everyone else III
his administration, is cutting down
expenses rs per cent.
The little silver bell which she
uses at the table and is taking
with her is a miniature lady who
mods as she rings associated
with the First Lady's earliest
memories.
Mrs. Roosevelt'S own small tea
set probably will go into one of
her private rooms.
He is packing some silver tro-
phies the cup his Albany
cabinet gave him, the tray which
a Harvard honor society presented
as a wedding gift, and, of course,
many marine prints. A gross OF
these went with them to Albany.
They spread Franklin Roose-
velt's fame to the fraternity OF
collectors. For years he has treas
ured the ever-increaSing numbers
of them, some fine, some little
more than a problem Of hanging
space.
Family silver, too, will go to
Washington, and many family
photographs. Mrs. Roosevelt al
ways fills her own room with pic
lures.
About the horses Mrs. Roosevelt
has said: Anybody who can ride
at all can ride Dot, but only an
expert can ride Patches, because
he's such an uncertain animal"
He belongs to young John Roose-
welt, and will be ridden by the
younger boys when they are at
home, and by guests.
At least two dogs, police and
Scottie, are moving with them.
And Mrs. RooSevelt'S new blue
roadster, purchased by herself
from her earnings, especially for
~scurrying about in Washington.
At the disposal of the last White
House family were eight automo-
biles and two baggage trucks, be-
sides Mrs. Hoover's own car.
TINE new family will have to
l. find a stable for it's animals,
for Herbert Hoover sent the
equipages to a nearby garage in
an economy gesture. He abol-
ished the White House stables
traditional since Washington rode
out in cream colored coach with
six steeds and footmen in orange
trimmed white livery-when he
banished the Presidential yacht,
M%ayfower.
Converting the Monroe sitting
room into a family living room,
Mrs. Roosevelt may find room for
some of her Val Kill furniture.
She doesn't want the antiques
there, because, as she has said,
"the family might be a little de-
structive."
Most of the new furniture will
be upholstered for comfort, but a
wooden early American table may
be fitted in somewhere.
Under her still tentative plan,
the Lincoln study will be a bed
room once more. Herbert Hoover
recovered some of the old furni-
ture and spent many evenings
there with a detective story.
The one-time Cabinet Room,
where Civil war generals met, was
changed years ago to a sleeping
chamber, known for a long pre-
Hoover period as the Blue Guest
Room.
Mr.. Roosevelt's suite will include
a room now used as Mrs. Hoover's
dressing room, and probably a
study, now Mrs. Hoover's oval sit
ting room. Mrs. Roosevelt is ex-
pected to use what is now the
Presidents bedroom.
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A T least two sunny southwest
N rooms on the third floor of
the White House will do double
duty for the RooseveltS-the
nursery rooms in which Mrs. Herb
ert Hoover placed her grandchil-