Evening star., 1939-02-26

girl, when it took several months,
and her lessons aboard ship and the
wonders of the great waters as she
sailed day after day seeing no land.
President Never Wnaried
OF Sea Yarns.
He says in his preface for Ashley's
Whale Ships of New Bedford:
with a budding historical sense,
rummaged in the attic =" He
read Admiral Mahan's Influence of
Sea Power Upon History" until he
knew it almost by heart. Then came
John Paul Jones, Perry, Decatur
end Farragut in turn He talked
with the old salts and never vearied
OF their sea yarns. He knew every
part of the old sailing vessels; there
was romance for him in every spar
and the wind whistling through the
rigging is still music in his ears.
That inborn love of the sea that
came from the Presidents seafaring
forebears quickens in the spring
when he thinks of the old salts up
around Gloucester and off Labrador
getting the craft ready for the spring
haul, so in spite of the Congress he
must away, taking with him loads
of mail and state papers-one Won
ders if they are dated AT Sea,
Aboard the Good Ship Houston?
1t was during Mr.. Roosevelt's
years at Harvard that he began to
assemble collection of books and
pamphlets on naval history: this
collection has now grown to several
thousand volumes-one of the
choicest private libraries on the
subject. Models of ships are all
about the White House and down
in the chamber of horrors on the
south ground floor Mrs. Roosevelt
has arranged a frieze of Navy prints
around the wall This room pre-
sents somewhat the appearance of |
an attic. as it contains most of the
gifts sent to the President from
time to time by admirers Things
of neither beauty nor worth but
appealed to the person who sent
them and kept by the President in
the same good faith.
Mrs. Roosevelt Will Invade
Senator Harrison's Bailiwick.
Mrs. Roosevelt has planned to 20
down in Senator Pat Harrison's
bailiwick for spring outing. You
had better watch your P's and Q's,
Mr.. Harrison, for the lady of the
mansion has winning way with
her and loves to make herself at
home among the people wherever
she goes. She has been invited to
be the guest of the 9th annual pill
grimage of the Natchez Garden
Club and enjoy sightseeing in the
lovely old mansions there which
are so full of historic interest, Gill
bert Stuart, West and Peale por-
traits of the old aristocracy. She
will be welcomed as daughter of
the South, as she is one-half South
ern blood. Blue, too.
Her brother, Mr.. Hall Roosevelt.
in collaboration with Mr.. Samuel
Duff Mccoy, has written an account
OF the Roosevelts and their kin as
travellers from 1915 to 1898. This
odyssey of an American family will
be ready March % and will tell all
about one of Americas first families
who came over in the steerage-the
President calls them his emigrant
ancestors. Like many other Ameri-
can families, they have travelled |
from steerage to peerage-as some
one has remarked-Klaes Marten-
sen Roosevelt, the first of the name
in this country, through the vari- |
GUS branches of his family has fur
nished two Presidents to the United
States and five Assistant Secretaries
OF Navy besides merchants, bank
ers and large land holders.
Mrs. Wilson's
Forthcoming Book.
Oh, that mine enemy had writ
ten book, seems to have been the
consensus of Union, especially dur
ing the past week, as Mrs. Edith
Boiling Wilson's intimate articles
in the Saturday Evening Post, were
discussed. There was speculation
as to whether she acted as presi-