The Washington times., 1936-07-29
NOW
Mrs. Roosevelt
Boasts Kitchen
ALL HER OWN
By HELEN ESSARY

Roosevelt has her own private
kitchen.
It adjoins her bedroom on the
second floor of the White House
The kitchen is complete in every
detail. 1t is the perfect small
cuisine. Its equipment is the last
word in perfection.
The room is quite small. But il
containS-in m n iature-a gas
stove, a sink and refrigerating
plant. There are shelves fol-
kitchen dishes and for a small
family service.
mere are pots and pans hang
ing against the bright wall. In the
drawers of the cabinet are towels
knives and forks. There is space
for storage of necessary cooking
supplies.
Mrs. Roosevelt likes to cook. But
1t is impossible for member OF
any presidential family to sue
coed in getting past a corps OF
cooks and maids in order to make
Q piece of toast or scramble an egg
-unassisted-in the White House
kitchen.
Here is an enterprise that even
Mrs. Roosevelt hasn't the energy
to undertake.
Last year, when the new White
House kitchen was being installed,
It occurred to Mrs. Roosevelt to
have a kitchen of her own. Then
she could cook when and how she
pleased.
She asked for a replica of the
new master kitchen. And got it.
The average modern woman
likes to get away from the kitchen.
It wouldn't seem possible to her
that any First Lady who may
have a late supper or an i'm
promptu tea delivered at her door
by the mere pressing of button,
could enjoy wrestling with cook
ing pans and dish pans.
Nor would it seem that this
First Lady had much leisure time
for trying out recipes, whipping
up cake. Or even spare minute
to scramble an egg.
However, average rules don't
hold where Mrs. Roosevelt is con-
cerned.
Sea Cloud, the four-masted bark
Of Mrs. Joseph E. Davies. has gone
into drydock. It is now tied up
for inspection near Fort McHenry,
Md. The vessel, one of the finest
private yachts afloat, has been
the scene Of much brilliant enter
tanning. Lately it was anchored
near Newport; spent several weeks
on the Severn River near the Ma
val Academy and took Mr.. Davies
and his wife, who was Mrs. Mar
jory Post Hutton, honeymo oning
in December to Bermuda.
Sea Cloud is a recent name for
the yacht. It was formerly called
The Hussar. It is 367 feet long.
It has a 50-foot beam and carries
54,123 square feet Of canvas.
The Chevy Chase Club is being
done over. The downstairs lounge
Is cut off from the rest of the
clubhouse by thick brown paper
T1artitionS New steel rafterS are
being put in.
The inspiration for the recon
Gtruction is the anxiety of club
members who have been noticing
that the second-floor ceiling shook
when exceptionally large crowds
were dining and dancing upstairs
Thursday and Saturday nights.
Building inspectors, called in to
give a cause for the shaking floors
pronounced the building quite
safe. However, the board of gov
errors, wishing to avoid apprehen'
sion, ordered the changes made.
After the construction work is
under way, the downstairs will be
redecorated.
Discoveries like the two follow
ing make life so hard for an
idealist:
"If your honey bum rolls her
eyes and calls you her 'itSy bitsy
honey bOO,' have her tOnSilS
examined" says a professor of
psychology at Georgetown Uni.
VerSity.
Because it isn't your over.
pOwering attraction that causes
her to lapse into baby talk 1t
is either due to emotional in
stability, malnutritiOn or some
other physical or mental defect"
Maybe she's dieting.
Here is the second bit of July
establishment:
A Chevy Chase woman, a cross
word puzzle fan of several dull
Julys, has wrathfully sworn off.
She was working over a puzzle
in a magazine one day last week
Try as she would she couldn't
think of the synonym for "a
household appliance attached to g
broom handle"
In the next weeks issue of the
magazine she found that the an
6Wer was wife"
Note to gardeners:
The AAA announces that tulips
may be grown anywhere that the
soil is favorable to oats.
Wild oats?
Anyhow. Senator Morris ShAp