Evening star., 1934-09-30
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

With the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt back in residence at the
White House, Washington is taking
on that official atmosphere which
always travels with President. Its
the head of the table-So to speak
officially, wherever he is. The lone
some look around the mansion for
several weeks is disappearing. OF
course the big front door where Col.
MacIntyre and Mr.. Early receive COM
pany in large numbers maintained its
animated appearance nearly all Sum-
mer, but the family part of the old
house-the south, or river front, had
q detected look.
There is always more or less of an
air of repose and peace about that
side. Its not so cold and formal as
the stately front door to the north.
The flower beds have been freshened
up, the lawn cut, the garden seats
arranged in cozy fashion, and all
was in readiness when the President
arrived. He looks about and notices
things, too, which always pleases.
It has long been an unWritten law
that the cabinet must return to town
when the Chief Executive is here
unless important official business de-
tains them elsewhere. This year the
official family did a good deal of trip
ping about, to far away Alaska and
the isles of the sea. Secretary of
Interior IckeS, however, came back
little ahead of time and gave out
some terse interviews; he knows how
to handle the boys-he was once one
of them. Courtesy is the thing on
both sides and that is what he usually
gets and gives.
For some days-indeed almost all
Summer-Mr. Cordell Hull, head man
of the State Department, has been
receiving foreign and diplomatic
visitors and discussing trade rela-
tions, tariff and some matters of
State, off the record. He sometimes
has bit of detached air and looks
like he would love to suddenly vanish
but he is doubtless just thinking
of the good old days when he could
talk things over man to man. No
apres vous Alphonse, just honest to
goodness discussion of an important
piece of business.
The Secretary of War and Mrs
Dern travelled far and wide and were
the only members of the cabinet tc
take dip into smart society at New
port. Mrs. Dearn enjoyed a little
gaiety while the Secretary talked over
the textile strike with the President
aboard Mr. Vincent AStor's palatial
yacht, All of the officials went West
at one time or another during the
Summer-there was much doing out
there. Mr.. Morgenthau went, too, did
not remain long on the ranch, but
came back and spent his week ends
on his farm up in New York State
The cows on his farm had to bt
milked and the chickens fed while
Secretary Wallace radioed and told
people how to get food for COWS and
chickens this Winter.
Notwithstanding the Summers
drought, the two great market houses
OF Washington are groaning with food
OF every description. A recent foreign
visitor who was interested in all sorts
and condition of men-it was either
Sir Raymond Unwin, the distinguished
British architect, or the woman hous.
ing expert who accompanied him, Wis
tied several of the markets and mar
veled at the variety of the products
displayed, both domestic and foreign
The market in the old Convention
Hall, where Patti and other great
singers sang their swan song at the
end of their brilliant operatic careers
came in for the most attention. II
has been some years since the Capital
has had host particularly noted fol
his ep1curean feasts. A girls school,
now occupies the house on Massachu.
setts avenue, where Senator Coleman
du Pont gave his famous dinners, pre.
pared-or rather aSsembled-by hi.
famous chef that even Brillat-Savarir
might have thought worthy of the
Gordon bleu.
It's depressing right smartly, but
housewives should read M de Sava-
rims Physiology Of Taste" its de-
nghtully sparkling, as well as edify-
ing, since it treats of the manners
also the menus of the eighteenth and
early part of the nineteenth CEN
turies. That the public is very much
Al VIC SuLolIIC ID SIlOWI Dl
the columns devoted to the prepara
tion of food in the daily papers, and
when all other methods of raising
funds for some favorite charity fail
cook books filled with recipes of dis
tinguished men and women are run
off the press and always meet with
good sales.
Not long ago MISS Stella AIKEN,
Assistant Attorney General for the
prosecution of Federal claims in the
Department Of Justice, was asked il
she were not an Assistant Attorney
General, what would she rather be:
AS quick as flash the answer came
back, An Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral."
1t is the custom to describe wom-
en- judges and lawyers as Portias,
with all the attributes of beauty and
astuteneSS of Shakespeare'S popular
woman lawyer: that Miss AIKEN pos
sesses many of the qualities and ac-
complishments which made Portia
outstanding, is granted as soon as
one sees and hears her; but she has
something more which iS a fu,eptio+b n