The Washington times., 1934-12-22
HOLIDAY BRINGS
BUCK DEER To
PRESIDENT

The members OF the Roosevelt
family are gathering at the White
House for a crowded holiday ses-
sion. Both the executive mansion
and the adjoining offices are
trimmed with wreaths and greens,
presents are coming in by every
mail, some of them being so large
that they have to be delivered in
special trucks, and every closet in
the second floor of the White
House proper is jammed full with
family presents.
The high point in the White
House Christmas celebration will
occur on Christmas morning in
the Presidents bedroom, where
everybody in the party will open
stockings filled with gifts. The
hanging of the stockings takes
place, of course, on Christmas
Eve and everybody from the
youngest grandchild to the Presi-
dents mother, Mrs. Sarah Delano
Roosevelt, will place a stocking
over the fireplace.
Six Thousand Gifts
"A detail of clerks has been put
to work receiving the mail, boxes
and other gifts which today
amounted to more than 5000 and
the number is expected to in
crease daily until New Year Day.
So far the gifts include boxes
Of grapefruit, crates of oranges
and grapes, ducks, pheasantS,
quail, bags of nuts, homemade
jams and jellies, fish, nine
turkeys, a vast forest of canes,
many dolls, wood carvings, home
made quilts, handkerchiefS, ship
models, many old prints and a
buck deer, the gift of Henry
Bridges, secretary of the Wood
mont Rod and Gun Club Of
Maryland.
Representative Henry E. Stubbs,
Of California, sent the Presidents
family a cake, weight $50 pounds.
The President and his family
will attend st. Thomas Episcopal
Church at II o'clock on Christ
mas Day. After the church serv.
ice and before lunch the larger
family presents will be opened.
AS previously announced, the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt have
arranged to receive all White
House employees at two different
receptions on Christmas Eve. At
noon the executive office staff will
be received, and at $3.50 the entire
household staff.
Will Go on Radio
At 5 o'clock Christmas Eve the
President will broadcast Christmas
greetings to the nation over a ma
tional hookup at the time he
lights the community tree by
pressing a button when he attends
the ceremonies in Lafayette Park.
Late Monday night, the real
Roosevelt family party will be
held.
The President will read e4-
cerptS from "A Christmas Carol"
q custom of long standing in the
family, just before bed time on
Christmas Eve.
Works on Message
While the President is official.
~ out of his office until after
Christmas, he told the newspaper
men at the conference that he
intended to take over to the study
OF the White House mansion half
q dozen reports and the three
quarters finished first draft of his
coming message to Congress.
Among the papers to be read
by him this weekend is the set
of resolutions adopted by business
and industrial leaders at White
Sulphur Springs, w. Va, outlin-
ing their proposals for a recovery
program.
The White House Christmas din.
ner will be strictly a family af-
fair, with no outside guests. On
December % there will be a party
for the children, with many small
guests. and presents for everyone.
On December 20, there will be
. a dance for the younger genera.
tion, particularly for Franklin,
jr., and John Roosevelt, and a
dinner for the same group on
December 81.
James Roosevelt will celebrate
his twenty-ninth birthday ami.
Versary on Sunday night.
All But Elliott
Under the big chandelier in the
main lobby of the White House
there will be hung a large bunch
Of mistletoe and the rest of the
mansion proper is decorated with
many spruce trees and other
Christmas green. There is a
wreath in every window of the
second floor.
The White House family group
includes the Presidents mother,
Mrs. Sarah D. Roosevelt; Mr.. and
Mrs. James Roosevelt and their
daughter, Sarah; Franklin Roose-
velt, jr., John Roosevelt, Mrs.
Dali, and her children, SISTER
and 'Buzzie," Elliott Roosevelt,
his wife and child are in Texas.