Evening star., 1933-03-14
WHITE HOUSE LIFE
IS NOW INFORMAL
New First Lady Receives
Newspaper Women for
Second Interview.

Mrs. Roosevelt held her second mon
c1ote" conference with newspaper wom-
en- in the White House yesterday morn
ing when she spent more than an hour
with them The writer's, many of them
from distant cities, were assembled in
a sitting room formerly devoted to the
Monroe collection of furniture, the rare
originals and copies of the furniture Of
that administration having now given
way to more substantial and generally
speaking more comfortable overstuffed
pieces.
A conference with the First Lady of
the Land is a novel feature of this ad-
miniStration, the first conference hav-
ing been held last Monday and that of
yesterday taking place on the second
floor of the mansion instead of in the
official drawing rooms, and they are the
only such meetings on record.
From it one learned that the Easter
egg rolling. a great annual event on
Easter Monday. the custom extending
back into the early administrations, will
be held as usual. The annual party for
veterans of the World War will be held
and the regular official events Of the
White House will be carried out pretty
much as of old. For a fact, except for
the changes of furniture, pictures and
LIle personal sue Oh lie. llleIe WILL Oc
none of the revolutions in things social
as were written about before the elec-
ton.
Life Now Less ArduOuS.
Mrs. Roosevelt finds life in the White
House really less arduous than was her
existence in New York as the govern
orS hostess. Now she makes the en-
gagements and has only to be reminded
of them. Previously they were made
and she had to keep them.
The family breakfast is at $50, and
her menu is orange juice, toast and
coffee. An hour is taken up which in
cludeS much family conversation. At
$50 Mrs. Roosevelt arranges her house
keeping and after her favorite mounts
are brought from New York and stabbed
in the riding club on P street, she will
take canter through the parks and
will have with her always some Of her
close women friends
While the First Lady held her con-
ference, she busily knitted away on a
sweater for her grandson, William
Donner Roosevelt. months old, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt. who
will remain enSconced in the White
House nursery while Mr. Roosevelt, who
Is now in the West, is getting settled.
He went West just after the inaugura-
tion with Ralph Hitchcock, and Mrs.
Roosevelt and Mrs Hitchcock, who are
still at the White House, will leave this
week to join them.
William Donner Roosevelt will fare
quite as well as will the older grand
children of the President, for there will
be playground on the south side of
the mansion where there will tanbark
flooring, and one playground will be in
the shade while another will be in the
sun. There will be swing, too, and
perhaps it may be of the new kind,
doing away with a stout limb, a good
rope and board to sit on. 1t will be
'an architectural' swing.
Twenty-eighth Anniversary Friday.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will
celebrate their tw;nty-eighth wedding
anniversary Friday, and the Presidents
mother will come from New York to be
present. Mr.. and Mrs. Dali, their SON
! in-law and daughter. will also be there,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Parrish, the
latter the double cousin of Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelts mother and in whose
house the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
were married, will come over to the
White House from the Shoreham, where
they have taken suite and will be
present, as will an aunt, Mrs David
Gray of Aiken, S. c., and Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick Delano and Mr.. and Mrs
Warren Delano Robbins.
There are now about % servants in
the White House, reduction of about
10, but this does not mean that there
are 10 jobless persons on account of
the economy move. Most of them were
assigned from various departments
and have gone back to their former
bureaus.
Mrs. Roosevelt goes to New York to-
morrow and her program will be a full
one, but she will take time to attend
the wedding of Miss Anne Ward,
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Wilbur Ward,
to Rumble Gilbert The bride is
former student of Mrs. Roosevelt in
the Todhunter School, specializing in
history and literature.
AS the writer's attending the con-
ference assembled in the homelike Sit
ting room. fire was lighted in the
wide open fireplace and chairs were