Evening star., 1934-10-03

1Or OmClal 1unCClOIlS al Tie
a i White House this season un-
til the Offices are completed
and the White House itself is again
in readiness for such festivities. The
office staff is expected to move to the
new office building early in November
when the state apartments in the
White House will be put back into
their customary arrangements as re-
ception rooms. Mrs. Roosevelt re-
ceived the members of her press con-
ference in the state dining room, the
only room on the first floor available
to her for entertaining or conferences
as access to the second floor is diff
cult. The first official function will
be the dinner to the members of the
cabinet. which will be given in De-
cember. provided the Offices are COM
pleted by the 1st of November, other
wise the official season will not open
until January.
Mrs. Roosevelt has few engagements
in the next few weeks. She will speak
tonight before the National Recrea-
ton Congress. Friday evening she will
attend the "self-help" pageant on the
steps of the Capitol, and Monday eve
ming, October 8. she will address the
District Committee on Housing in the
auditorium of the Chamber of Com
merce.
Over the week end of October l3
and IA Mrs. Roosevelt will again visit
Reedsville, w. Va. where the expert
ment in subsistence homes is being
tried. She will be accompanied By
Mrs. Henry Morgenthau. jr., wife of
the Secretary of the Treasury; Mrs.
Henry Leech of Philadelphia and Miss
Gertrude Ely of Bryn Mawr. Mrs.
Roosevelt spoke at length on the eX-
periments at Reedsville and newer
principles and theories which will be
added to those now in use. She de-
plored the seeming lack OF under
standing of the principle and ideal
which is back of the experiment, to
gain the highest level Of existence
possible on the income, however small.
Among the new ideas to be tried
this Winter at Reedsville will be a
nursery school, and a cottage for the
young girls to learn by theory and
experience home economics. Private
funds have been made available for
use in some of the newer projects at
Reedsville The experiment at Reeds
vile, which includes many types OF
houses, will probably never be repro
duced elsewhere, but other communl-
ties may adopt any Of the styles which
are built there, according to which Is
best adapted to the use of the COM
munity Families who occupy the
Of lea ct
one member in industry, while the
farm which is part of the homestead
is cared for by others in the family.
The First Lady told much Of her
Summer vacation and the trips she
made across the country, her V1Slt TO
the Yosemite National Park, the camp
ing in the Sierra Mountains, and her
visit with the President to Glacier
National Park. She particularly
stressed the more hopeful expressions
of the many faces she saw at each
stop of the train on their way East
and was interested in the attitude OF
most of those she met, each having
an idea for the improvement or help
ing their own community.
When asked where the various mem
that Mrs. James Roosevelt, sr., is at
Hyde Park, Mrs. Anna Dali and her
two children are at the White
House, Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt
and little Sarah Delano Roosevelt are
occupying the home of DR.. and Mrs.
Cushing, parents of Mrs. James Roose-
welt, in Brookline. Mass, and in No
vember will move to New York for
the Winter; Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott
Roosevelt and their small daughter
Ruth are at Leesburg, Va, and the
two youngest sons, Mr.. Franklin Della
no Roosevelt, ir., and Mr.. John Roose-
welt, are at Harvard.
The United States Minister to Den
mark, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, joined
Mrs. Roosevelt toward the close of the
conference, coming from the State
Department, where she made her re-
ports to the Secretary and other OFF,
cials and also her conference with
the Secretary of Commerce, Mr..
Roper. Mrs. Minister" told much of
her visit to Greenland, saying she is
the first diplomat to have made such
a visit. She showed the water-color
painting of Greenland painted by
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toppen, Greenland, which she brought
to Mrs. Roosevelt. The Minister
also displayed a robe of birds
skins" which she brought to the First
Lady. The robe is made of the breasts
of auks and taterats and resembles
fur at a distance and down when
touched.
Mrs. Owen also told of the christen-
ing Of a tiny Eskimo girl, born in one
Of the hospitals which she visited and
which was named Ruth, for her. The
ceremony took place in the local
church, which is Lutheran, the cere-
mony read in Eskimo. Mrs. Owen car
ried the baby to the church and back
to its home following an Eskimo GUS
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