The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-12
HOOVERS ARE
PLAIN FOLKS
ONCE AGAIN
Ex-PREsIDENT TEN YEARS
YOUNGER" WANTS TO BE
JOYFUL AND FORGET ALL
OF PAST CARES
Rr AsnecIated I,ressl

FALO A1fIO, Sdi.t way 70
Settling down into private life aft
ter more than a decade and half
Of eventful public service, former
President and Mrs. Hoover are
finding their days far from dull.
They're thriving under a rou-
tine less weighed down by respon-
sibilities than those characterizing
their years in the White House and
mi public life preceding.
The former presidents
cheeks have become ruddy;
the wrinkles smoothed out of
his face. He looks 10 years
younger. At present, he IS
declared by intimates to have
Just one plan ia mind: to rest
up, TO regain his health and
to Laugh and enjoy life for
time"
Although he had laid aside the
heavy burdens of national respon-
sibility, there remains keen in
terest in transporting events and
perhaps some of the restlessness of
the world traveller. This last is
reflected in the numerous excur-
sions here and there into the old
mining areas of the west, known
to him in his early days as mine
engineer and consultant.
Mrs. Hoover makes frequent
shopping trips to San Francisco,
although Mr.. Hoover is not so Of
ten seen in the city in which he
formerly maintained an office.
Takes Morning Walks
Some of his days at home have
begun with early morning walks
along roads and paths leading into
the foothills in back of his San
Juan hillside residence. One or
the other of the former White
House dogs is usually his sole COM
panion.
Entertainment at the Hoover
home has been limited to groups
of. intimate friends and has not
been on an elaborate scale. all
though marked by the warm hos
pitality characteristic of the Hoo
yer household.
Breakfast with the Hoovers is
apt to be rather a prodigious af-
fair, with bacon predominating on
the menu and suggesting the fare
of his many year spent in remote
places as a mining engineer and in
mountain wilderness as a fisher
man:
He'll Fish This Summer
The former president has not as
yet made choice as to his future
vocational activities, it is stated.
The summer will be devoted
largely to fishing. Mrs. Hoover
may accompany him on some of
his trips but probably not on the
chief one. It will be into a wild
and almost inaccessible section of
The high Sierras in July and, good
mountaineer that Mrs. Hoover is,
it is understood this trip has been
declared too difficult fer her to
be included.
Mrs. Hoover has picked up her
former connections with the girl
scout organizations of her home
county. Occasionally Mr.. Hoover
attends a Boy Scout activity and
has made informal talks. Mrs.
Hoover has been so busy that not
all of the work of packing and
settling the goods shipping from
Washington is completed.
The former president reads in
veterately and mostly at night.
Technical publications. literary and
political reviews and digests, the
newspapers and governments bull
Ietins and publications are his
chief diet.
None of the children or grand
children is at the San Juan hill
residence at present and the days.
when trip is not in prospect are
devoted largely to visiting with
friends, walks and correspondence.