Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-19

Roosevelt. and Archibald Bull
loch Roosevelt are the only
two alive Of the i've children
Of President Roosevelt and
his second wife. the former
Edith Kermit Carow. who
made the White House ring
with their laughter and their
pranks. Theodore. jr., Just
IA years old when he went to
live at the White House. was
not too old to join the other
children in the precarious
game Of spinning down the
state stairway on the White
Houses huge serving trays.
He grew up to win distinc-
ton in the political field and
the service Of his country in
the armed forces. He died as
a general overseas in the Sec
ond World War. Kermit,
who was IL years old in his
first White House year,
served in the military forces
and died In the period Of the
Second World War. Quentin.
who was a 4-year-old boy
when his father became
President, became the leader
Of the famous White House
gang Of small boys. He was
killed in his plane at the age
Of 20 in the First World War.
The Roosevelt lads beat a
path between the White
House and Schmidt's Animal
and Bird Shop, carrying
snakes and turtles and other
animals - sometimes fright
ening little girls. or even their
teachers at Force Public
School. Ethel. q little girl
with long braids, joined in
all the fun. A brilliant chap
ter in White House history
was written when there was
q gay debut party for Ethel
when she was IT, during the
last year Of her fathers adj
ministration.
The Tafts
Charlie, the White House
boy Of the william Howard
Taft administration, now the
distinguished lawyer states
man and sociologist Charles
Phelps Taft, was familiar
with all the possibilities Of
fun in the White House for
he had been a member Of
Quentin Roosevelt's White
House gang. Studious Robert
Taft entered into all the fes-
tivities and pleasures of the
young people Of Washington
when he was home from COL
lege on vacations.
Helen Taft, now Mrs.
Frederick Manning and dean
of Bryn Mawr College, who
was Is years old when her
father was inaugurated Pres
ident, postponed her college
studies after the first year
in order to aid her mother
in her duties as chatelaine Of
the White House. Helen Taft
wore a lovely Helen pink
chiffon dress at the debut
party given for her by her
parents. She took time out
to further the campaign
against sweatshop labor car
ried on by the Consumers
League.
President Taft set q cur
few for young peoples parties
at the White House. How
ever one evening, when the
hour of midnight was APP
preaching, Robert and Helen
pulled a chair up to the tall
clock in the state corridor
and turned it back an hour.
Robert Taft became a Sen
ator and known as "Mr. Re-
publican" He is the only
Senator to whom a memorial
has been erected on the Cap
itol grounds. The memorial
was dedicated just this past
week.
The Wilson Girls
Eleanor Randolph Wilson,
now MIR. William Gibbs Nc
Adoo, IS the only one Of
the three daughters of Pres
ident Wilson and the first
Mrs. Wilson alive today. She
was the 14th White House
bride when she married the
Secretary Of the Treasury.
William Gibbs McAdoo, in
the blue room Of the White
House May 7th, 1914. The
bride wore a gown Of heavy
ivory satin trimmed with
rare old lace. She was at
tended by her sisters, Miss
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
and Mrs. Francis BoweS
Sayre, the former Jessie
Woodrow Wilson (who had