Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11

providing free breakfasts for
underfed school children of
Mexico City through the
Child Welfare Association Of
which she is the head.
The program provides as
many as 10000 meals a day,
she disclosed through an in
terpreter. In each case, she
added, the child receives a
medical examination to de-
termine the extent of MANU-
triton and attempts are made
to help the youngsters in
other ways.
From her morning tour, the
visitor went to the 1925 F
Street Club for a luncheon
given in her honor by Mrs.
Christian Herter, wife of the
Secretary of State. Later she
and members of her party de-
cided to go shopping.
Because of her love Of art,
a tour of the National Gal
lery was added to her sched-
ule for this afternoon. She
has visited the gallery on
previous stays in Washington.
In 1851, Mrs. Lopez MateoS
said, she spent a month in
the Capital when her hus-
band was a delegate to an
international economic and
financial conference.
U Previous Visits
81 was lucky enough to be
here when the cherry trees
were in bloom, and l was
charmed with your city" she
enthused. Since then she
has been here four or five
times on her way TO New
York or to Chicago. where
one of her sisters formerly
lived.
The visiting First Lady's
face glowed when she was
asked about the White House
dinner Friday at which she
and her husband were honor
guests.
THE house is perfectly
beautiful" she said. land it
was an enchanted evening I
shall never forget"
She exclaimed over the
charm of both her host and
hostess, declaring she was
"astonished by the beauty of
Mrs. Eisenhower" whom she
had not met before and
whose photographs, she in
dicated, fail to do her justice.
Asked about President Ell
senhower's Spanish, she said
he speaks a few words-as
much as speak English"
At one point, she said, the
President called her atten-
ton to what a wonderful
time" his brother CDR. Mil
ton Eisenhower was having
with her 17-year-old daugh-
ter Eva. The two were din
ner partners, and the Presi-
dent noted that they haven't
stopped talking all evening"
she recalled.
Miss Lopez Mateos, who
acted as interpreter on the
drive from National Airport
to the Presidents Guest
House following her parents
arrival Friday, accompanied
her mother yesterday, though
an official interpreter, Mrs.
Pamela Bird, also made the
rounds.
Daughters Job
Graduated in July from
the Garside School in Mexico
where she qualified as a
translator and parliamentary
secretary, Eva said she now
has a job at the school in
the accounting department.
And she doesn't find it dull
working with figures, she re-
ported, especially when you
get the wrong ones in your
sums and have to do it all
over again"
At Children's Hospital, the
arrival Of Mrs. Lopez Mateos
was awaited with eager in
terest by a young patient
from her own country. IA
year-old Constantine Rod
riguez, who is being treated
for a diabetic condition.
The boy, who has been at
tending school in Bristol,
Va, insisted on wearing his
school uniform for the big mo-
ment, one of the nurses dis
closed.
After chatting a few mo-
ments, Mrs. Lopez Mateos
patted him on the shoulder
and told him she was sure
he would soon be well.
Mrs. Edward Russell, presi-
dent of the Board of Lady
Visitors at Children's, pre-
sented the visiting First Lady
with a washable, stuffed toy
from a collection on sale at
the snack bar her group
operates to raise funds for
the hospital. Mrs. Lopez
Mateos promised that she
would take it back home tt
give a poor child in a hos.
pital in Mexico.
AS she left she told Mis-
Edith Torkington, hospita
administrator, that she find
she learns much from sucl
visits and is delighted to havl