Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09

comes to acting as tOaStmlStreSS
her at the league dinner, which wa
the outstanding social event of the
meeting.
Mrs. Taft Has Four Presidential
observation-disclosures Five.
Mrs. Taft had been in one Crane
rush from the moment she arrived ir
Washington, but Notwithstanding thert
were a dozen people waiting to see
her. she said she thought she deserved
little breathing spell, 30 she COM
fortably seated herself in chair or
the roof garden of the Washington
Hotel, which was the headquarters foa
the league. Looking across the Treas.
ury lawn, the cleaning architecture,
beauty of the White House unfoldec
before her, the old mansion looking
like an Oriental pearl in a Respondent
emerald setting.
A fountain was playing In the sum
light down on the south lawn; just
visible were beds Of multi -colored
tulips and other gay flowers parad-
ing themselves, and a lawn mower
made a droning, hunlming sound that
toned in with the restfulness of the
picture The tennis courts, where she
and Bob Taft, the Presidents son
had played many hardly fought
game-for even then they were in
clined to make pretty thorough job
of whatever they were interested in
looked fit and inviting, and Mrs. Taft
said, You know, 1 taught all Of my
three boys to play tennis and golf and
now my youngest and fourth son is
my pal in the games" When 1t was
suggested that she had gone the
Gracchi two better, she said she
could have a foursome right in the
family. 1t was remarked that as the
Taft men through four generations
had taken to public life like duck to
water, there would certainly be a
presidential possibility in that four
some, to say nothing Of her husband
being persuaded to shy his hat in the
ring in 1910 as a starter. Ohio the
State of Presidents!
Sorbonne Gave Her Taste
For International Affairs.
A good deal of water has flowed
under the bridge since those gay
debutante days in Washington. The
week ends when Martha Bowers came
down from Rosemary Hall, the fash
ionable and exclusive girls school up
in Connecticut, which was near Yale,
where her future husband, Robert
Taft, was attending college. Then
there was the Sorbonne, in Paris,
where she specialized in history and
literature and where she says she got
her first taste for International az
FAIRS, meeting, as she did, students
from all parts Of the world. And, by
the way, Mrs. Taft Is chairman Of the
Foreign Policy Committee Of the Ohio
State League for international Coop
Grafton.
Mrs. TAFT Is
Farm Woman.
She appears 80 much the embodi-
ment of youth and verve that it is
difficult to realize that Mrs. Taft's
son, William Howard, Sd, will be
graduated from Yale this June, and
that her second son, Robert, is in
his sophomore year at the same col
lege Then there is Lloyd Bowers,
who goes to the Taft School for Boys
In Connecticut. Horace Dwight, the
youngest of the quartet, lives on the
Taft farm, which is about miles
out from Cincinnati, and goes to the
public schools. It's a real honest
to-goodness farm, with animals and
Ill those gadgets and crop worries
which give the Secretary of Agri-
culture 50 much trouble. With all her
duties in both State and
city, civic and charitable associations,
Mrs. Taft seems to be able to manage
her household-which Is not small
and know lot about what is happen
ting on the farm. She and her hus-
band made up their minds early in
their married life that the country
atmosphere was the best for children.
Art, Music, Crops and
Politics and What Have We.
Unless one has that kind of a mind
1t is hard to realize the versatility of
the clubWoman OF the twentieth CEN
tury. Now Mrs. Taft is fair exam
pie: She is intensely interested in art
and music-one of her delights is the
Cincinnati music festivals-and is
connoisser of etchings and engravings
OF which she has an unusually fine
collection Many Of her etchings and
were inherited from her
father: during her life abroad she fire.
quented the great picture galleries of
Europe. Besides her interest In music
and the fine arts and her love for
country life, she is first vice president
of the Hamilton County Republican
Womens Club and was the first wom-
an to serve as an officer of the Hamil-
ton County Community Chest. AS
trustee Of the Children's Hospital in
Cincinnati and director Of the Girl