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The Seaforth News, 1961-01-26, Page 6Nrv-r"rST , • Gracious Hostess Leaves White House Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower has mixed feelings about leaving the White 1-Iouse. ' At a luncheon party for wo- men of the press some months ago, she admittedthe occasion Was in the nature of a farewell —and her eyes , glistened with tears. Not that she regrets relin- quishing the title and duties of First Lady. It's not that, but it marks the end" of a historic episode, and her emotion is one of sentiment rather than sadness, She has been spending more and more time at the Eisenhower home in Gettysburg these past four years. Practically all of her personal possessions have been moved there. Moving out of the White House, for that reason, will be far less of a change for her than many previous first ladies. Mamie Eisenhower has been a First Lady with a strong sense of history. It was the first thing that awed her, on coming to live. in the White House—that feeling of "being a part of history," as She once put it to a friend. Evidence of her feeling is the energetic way in which she went about securing missing china representing previous White House tenants, Throughher ef- forts the record is now complete with pieces of china from the Coolidge, Harding, Taft, and Johnson families so that every administration is now represent- ed in the display on the ground floor, The Eisenhowers. themselves are leaving as their contribution the stunning pieces of gold cas- tleton china used at White House dinners during their oc- cupancy, Mamie Eisenhower will carry with her into retirement the iLeniories of one of the most clamorous social eras the White president • has ever known. a No president and First Lady h ever entertained as many high - !ranking foreign guests as the Eisenhowers. And when it comes to enter- taining Mrs. Eisenhower is a erfectionist. Everything must e in place, with not even the rush of a footprint on the rug. No one underestimated her feel - logs on this score. Newswomen who came to view the table decorations before a state dinner were invariably and firmly cautioned by Mrs. Mary Jane McCaffree, Mrs. Eisenhow- er's social secretary, "not to step on the rug;" Mamie Eisenhower will go down in history as one of the most gracious hostesses the White House has ever had. She lied a gift for making a guest feel welcome. And when feted at luncheon after luncheon and fashion show after fashion show, she always had managed to con- vey the impression of genuine enjoyment. Her radiant smile and warm, friendly way of greeting people put every guest at ease and somehow made him feel he is a V.I.P., whatever his social or official status. In addition to the kings and potentates greeted by Mamie Eisenhower during her White House tenure were the residents of institutions and homes for the aged in the Washington area, for whom she gave a garden party. The first party of its kind ever held, at the executive mansion, Writes Josephine Ripley in the Christian Science Monitor, Nor did she forget the wives of members of the Marine Band and orchestra who play for so- cial functions at the White House. They were her special guests at tea only recently the first time in thirty years, it was said, that wives of the musicians have been entertained at the White House, One unusual White House guest, some years ago, was the wife of a soldier in Korea whose invitation to tea with the First Lady followed receipt of a letter from the, soldier requestingthe invitation as a kind of Christmas. present for his wife. r SALLY'S SAtiSS "I don't want to hurt your feelings, sir, but .. . While the women of the press - were disappointed that Mrs. Eisenhower did not hold press conferences, they owe to the present First Lady the only in - invitation they ever had to a formal luncheon at the White House, complete with the best china, elaborate table decora- tions, and White House special- ties on the menu. Fashionwise Mrs. Eisenhower has dressed to suit her own, style, and always been listed among the "ten best -dressed wo- men." Her clothes have been smart and simple, in design, full - skirted and generally colorful,• She likes colors and wears them well, even bright red. Because she is petite she chooses small hats. And if she has established a fashion trade- mark of her own it is in the colored gloves often chosen to match these hats. In decor her liking for pink is well known. An article in the current issue of Good Houser keeping tells of a White House servant who was sent out to buy some flannel for bags to cover the mops. When he returned with pink flannel the housekeeper express- ed surprise. "But everything else around here is pink," he said, "so we may as well have pink -. mops." Many events, personal as well as political, have marked the Eisenhower tenancy of the, White House. Mrs. Eisenhower has seen her husband recover from two illnesses during the past eight years; she has known the thrill of having a grandchild born at this famous address. Now, moving to Gettysburg will be "just going home"—to a private life at long last, • Shed A Tear For Poor Cold Liz ! Following a mu- ch -publicized illness that held up production of "Cleopatra" for seven weeks (and led to a still -unsettled dis- pute between Twentieth Cen- tury -Fox and Lloyd's of London over a $2,380,000 insurance claim), film star Elizabeth Tay- lor reported back to work—her temperamental teeth chattering. It was so chilly (40 degrees) in the British studio where the pic- ture is being made that Liz sat bundled in her dressing room for hours; only after the heat came up did she go through with the day's main chore—trying on flimsy Egyptian gowns. Smallest compact on the mar- ket we know of is made in De- troit and costs $250. It comes in the shape of roller skates power- ed with a one -horsepower en- gine strapped to the "motorist's" back. Obey the traffic signs — they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY. LUCKY NUMBER? — Bride No. 13 for Glynn Wolfe, 47 -year-old "minister" of Los Angeles, is Sherry, 20, left. Sherry also was bride No, 11 for Wolfe, who says their remarriage resulted from listening to evangelist Billy Graham who recently spoke in 'Las Vegas Convention Center, YOU'RE THE TOPS - Regina Schwarz gets fringe benefits from peek-a-boo hot in Munich West Germany. She's 'been named her country's Amibassadress of Fashion. ILONICLFS L., INGERFARM Well, I suppose everyone within a fifty mile radius of Toronto has been experimenting with television's Channel 9 over the week -end. And with different results, I imagine. We don't quite understand what is happening... here. When the new station was experimenting we sometimes turned on Channel 9 and got the test pattern as clear as .a bell. On New Year's night we tuned in just as . we had done before but . no picture. We turned the nobs this way and, that with- out any satisfactory result. And then, by sheen accident, we sud- denly found we could'get Chan- nel 9 programmes quite clearly on Channel 8! Probably the aerial needs adjusting to bring in the new wave length but we don't want to take a chance• on not getting the other stations so we'll ' just wait for awhile and. see what happens. We are still able to' get Channel 6 without too much interference. Looking over the week's pro- gramming we are glad to_ see For Half -Sizes PRINTED PATTERN Channel 9 has a newscast: at ten- thirty. That means we can get to bed half an hour earlier. We always like to get the news summary before retiring (es- pecially now) but sometimes it is an awful struggle to keep awake. In the afternoon we -now get a woman broadcaster giving the news. That is a change; We like her — she is quite good. Altogether we are well satisfied to have another local outlet. Not that we have had too many' complaints about the C.B.C. but we think competition should im- prove tlie'programmes'all round, One thing is certain The Asso- ciation. for Retarded Children. must have .got quite a shot in the irm by the C.F.T.O. mara- thon arathon Broadcast. And that 'is all to the good. First thing we know there won't be any excitement at all, The' Festive season is a thing of the past; the new T.V. station is on the air, so I guess we can all settle down to normal living.. Or can we? You neves know. The start of the new year could hardly be called auspicious in regard to world affairs. Cold wars, hot wars and rumours of wars. What a world we live in. And yet our everybody life goes , on much as usual. - In that respect we have been doing quite a stint of baby-sit- ting lately — for family and neighbours. Ross and Cedric were here yesterday as Mummy and Daddy were going out to dinner. They weren't any trouble at all: Thank goodness'. all our grandsons have, now reached the age when they don't indulge, in crying spells when their parents leave them. How times change, even with children. Just recent- ly I have been browsing over a couple of diary -account books — 1921-22. That was when we lived on the Saskatchewan prairie .I had forgotten Dorothy was late in walking; took her first steps at 17 months and had only four teeth at a 'year old. Nowadays a baby is backward if he doesn't walk at a year old or cut his first teeth at six to eight months. Why the difference? What else can it be but improved • feeding? Dee had little else but milk, cream of wheat and cod- dled eggs for the first 18 months, Canned baby food didn't exist at that time. However she grew and thrived but at a slower pace. One entry mentions meas- les. Temperature 104 — and I didn't have a doctor. She also had frequent attacks of croup and would go blue in the face• Our remedy for that was insect. cuanha wine, Half a teaspoon would produce vomiting and thus clear the bronchial tubes. Another unforgettable experi- ng ea gl pee ss.She falling uthila:earrhuge • gash in the palm of her hand. It should have been stitched but, there was no doctor., The best I could do was phone a neighbour who had been a nurse, She came over and between us we got the bleeding stopped; Dee' still has the scar as a monment°, The weather occasionally came in for casual comment One en- try says briefly — "Cold today — '45 below zero this morning," Another entry — "Had a party here last night — 12 carne. Stormy, 35 below, team got away." "Team got away" — that's, a story in.itsel t I re- member it as if it were ,yester day. Gert Siddall (the; nurse) had said she would come over to help me if Partner would Pick her up on, his way home from the village , — which he did. It had already started to storm. Driving up to the backdoor with the team and sleigh, he left the horses standing while he brought groceries and .blankets into the house. In that few minutes a blizzard blew up and when Partner went out the horses were nowhere to be seen. Presumably they had headed for the shelter of the stable. But they got lost,• It was not until the storm was over that Partner dar- ed to look for them or he would have got lost too, He found the horses in a field near.the barn where they had run round and round in circles. The sleigh had upset and one shaft was broken. You have to know the west to realize how a thing like that' could happen — and how easy it, is to get lost. 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