Evening star., 1933-07-09
BY SALLIE v. H. PICKETT.

As Mrs. Roosevelt completed four
months reign as mistress of the White
House and First Lady Of the Lend last
week, she stepped blithely into an auto
mobile, rolled away to the airport and
boarded plane for New York. Almost
never before has a four months been so
replete with entertaining ranging from
dinner parties to the cabinet and for
eign ENJOYS, garden parties, and always
family party on hand, innumerable
conferences, engagements with organ
izations both large and small, and a
hundred other things. Not as in for
mer administrations does Washington
alone claim the Presidents happy lady,
but various sections of the country call
to her. one of the most interesting trips
she has made in full many day being
that to Camp Terra, so called from the
initials of the Temporary Emergency
Relief Administration, located on Lake
Tiorati in the Palisades Interstate Park,
New York.
Quite as interested in this camp at
Government expense for unemployed
women as Mrs. Roosevelt is the lady
Secretary of Labor, Miss Perkins, who
listened attentively to Mrs. Roosevelts S
recital of her recent visit there when
she found only 80 young women en-
fsconsed instead Of the several hundred
expected. Many Of the women in that
section, like those of Washington num-
fered among the unemployed. are
afraid to take comfortable Summer
vacation so far from the center OF
workaday activity lest like the fable
of the grasshopper and the ant, they
find the Jobs all taken when they get
rested and return.
In mid-July Mrs. Roosevelt IS booked
for a talk at Chautauqua and August
HIP, a strenuous trip to Abingdon
Va. in the mountains, for the annual
Mountain Festival Of Music, with John
Powell, pianist and composer, In charge
Mr.. Powell has rounded up all tne
fddlers, accordion players and what not
in the mountains and the folk songs
of past generations will again be hea1o'
Mrs. Roosevelt is honorary chairman
and Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey one oi
the executive vice presidents Tor the
enormous program Of events 10 DC
given. starting with a garden party AT
the Morristown, N j., estate OF Mr. anu
Mrs. Paul Moore and continuing
through series of fetes at Southamp-
ton the Westchester Country Club, Bar
Harbor, Manhasset and the Atiartic
Roach Club. and each held for the
benefit of the Judson Health Center oi
New York. The fetes starteo ias'
month. will continue through Augus'
and will vie in hrin:ancy With tne
Madison Square Garden pageants given
for the same good cause over perloo
of six years.
Miss Perkins is one of the caone'
members who stays close to her once
though she and Mrs. Mary Hartman
Rumsey (Mrs. Charles Cary RumseO
who occupy the charming but modes'
home of the Misses Howry in George
town, have plenty Of time for enter
tanning their friends informally, driving
about and keeping an engagement no"
and then. Mrs Rumsey, one OF the
neirs to the Observation-Disclosures
estate left by her father Edward Henry
hartman, is as sweet and unassumlne
as is the smallest Office holders wife
e. Washington. 1t was she who organ
lied the Junior League in New York
and started it on its way for socia
service work. That was 80 years anc
more ago and since then she ha,
become a national character in philan.
thropy.