THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. I). 0., MONDAY, MARCH 4. 1929. SFFCfXC INAUGURAL SECTION*. 3 MRS. HOOVER IS IDEALLYEQUIPPED TO ASSUME DUTIES OF FIRST LADY WHITE HOUSE MISTRESS MRS. GANN TO BE OFFICIAL WELL FITTED FOR ROLE HOSTESS FOR HER BROTHER Travel and Education Have Made Her Home of Vice President Curtis Will Be Competent to Take Charge Presided Over by Up-to-Date Woman of Mansion. With “Old-Fashioned” Virtues. mistress of the White tion in the White House. It keeps her entering disappointments that have House is the doors of from the BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. The second child, Charles Curtis George, the mansion today to preside beset many First Ladies who walked begot of is almost 6. there for at least the next four into the mansion with ideas Charles Curtis, Vice Mrs. Webster Knight of Providence. ANEWyears. The country at large is | their own limited domestic sphere and President of the United 1., father's hom® the States, P.. was married in her welcoming Mrs. Herbert Hoover and found, alas, that it did not fit came to the Capital on Belmont street in the Summer of Washington, the Capital, which knows | Nation's big hostelry, for the first time It was In 1918. She too, has two children, her her well, has every to rejoice. j One of the most difficult things for WHENAugust, 1893, and in re- reason son now 7 years old and a namesake of As mistresses of the mansion go there Mrs. Hoover will be giving up those sponse to President Cleveland's call for his grandfather, Charles Curtis Knight. is no just comparison between them, upon whom she has depended, like Dr. the Fifty-third Congress to meet in ex-! The little girl. Constance, is past 5 each woman being a law unto herself, Frances Foye, who has been her house- traordinary session. He was a new! Mrs. Knight received the major part of at least in so far as personality goes. Os hold physician for some years. The member elected to the House of Repre- j her education at the University of Kan- Mrs. Herbert Hoover, perhaps, even Government again steps in and provides sen tat Ives from the fourth district of sas. She later took a finishing course too much is expected. The world is physicians for the President and his Kansas, and he was accompanied by! at Mrs. Somers' school, familiar viewing her through eyes that belong family. However, the professional atti- his wife, who had been Miss Anna E. through many years in Washington son, King as to the new and progressive cast of tude of the First Lady and her well Baird of Topeka: his Harry the Mount Vernon Institute. She sup- womanhood, women who stop at nothing known woman physician need not trou- Curtis; two daughters, Permllla, ndw plemented this with study abroad. Sena- in achievement. ble their friendship. Mrs. Charles P. George, and Leona. Mrs. i tor Curtis' only son, Harry King Curtis, There is absolutely no doubt in the While Mrs. Hoover is fond of rather Webster Knight, and his sister Dolly, spent his boyhood at the Capital, stud- minds of the great Republic but that severe tailored street garments, always Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, who will be ied at Central High and graduated at this new First Lady of the Land is large resorting to her Girl Scout uniform his official hostess. Ann Arbor, Mich. He now lives in Chi- enough and capable enough to fill her when necessary, or wearing ankle- Except for an interim of less than cago. His wife, an exceedingly hand- position with credit. She is perhaps length. closely fitted skirts and severely tw'o years from 1913-15, when a tangle some woman with abundant deep au- more generously fitted in the way of plain tailored jackets, she Is careful to in the law’s of Kansas prevented his burn hair, was, before her marriage five travel, education and general knowledge adapt her costume to the occasion. This securing the nomination to the Senate, years ago. Mrs. Beatrice Cameron, then by popular of the world than any of her prede- was never better shown than in the which he had won vote. a resident of New York City, but for- cessors. wardrobe she selected to carry with her Senator Curtis has been a resident of j merly Miss Beatrice Elliott of Washing- While large events have come to Mrs. on the South American trip with Pres- Washington and he and his family are ton. They have no children. Hoover through association with her ident Hoover. One of her becoming well intrenched in the affections of its husband, and she has shared with him costumes was a hand-woven two-piece people. Mrs. Gann before coming to Expert Needlewoman. the demands of his country, whether in suit of white, the design in the border the Capital had completed her educa- Next to Mrs. Gann’s acknowledged this or other lands, she has also made a adding the only relief. With this she tion in the schools of her home city, and often proved talent for political particular place herself among Topeka, and had developed as pre- her for wore a becoming soft white hat. politics leadership, outstanding accomplish- women and men. a place so important She likes hand-woven fabrics, and an- dominating traits a flair for ment lies in the domain of what has that had she been an "old maid." her other of her garments was a long coat and a sound sense of values in apprais- been called the art in which woman career yet must have stood forth boldly of white, so woven as to show pink in ing men and their motives. i attains her most exalted and perfs*- against that of other women. Not tha' Charles Curtis, after an adventurous ; expression. namely that the border. She likes rose tints, but youth and long before coming to of needlework. she ever sought the larger places and frequently wears becoming shades of j Always a lover of fine, dainty articles, world-wide publicity, or even a little Washington, had settled into the quiet 1 she especially admired those blue. dignity of a law office and the routine delicate, generous recognition, but through her After the death of her father last | handmade lace curtains which could b» work it has to her. of a family man. He had been married j seen in homes presided by come Autumn. Mrs. Hoover adopted more / established in Topeka, ; over women / some years and ' of wealth and of discriminating Frepared for Duties. somber colors, wearing black for travel- ..vTW l when, the death of her mother, his taste. ing. On election night, when she and on But when the Ganns set up their house- sister, Dolly, became an inmate of his hold goods in their first As she assumes her duties in the President Hoover were entertaining MRS. HOOVER AND MRS. GANN. home. home, a semi- friends, n/' detached house on the brow White House today she is prepared to their official and intimate, in —Sketched From Harris-Ewing and Associated Press Photographs. The tenderest affection always was of Har- their Palo Alto home, Mrs. Hoover wore vard terrace, such articles were beyond do her duty from every standpoint. maintained between the orphan sister their income. one of the new printed velvets in black and the brother's wife and she was So. with the best books Physically she is fitted to grace the and their on the subject and a few specimens gray. For Florida trip Mrs. reared in a home where the strongest loaned being comely and pleas- Hoover added several of the newer President of U. S. Presidential Oath existed and by friends who possessed such drawing room, bonds of family unity laces, this energetic printed crepe de chines to her wardrobe, WHITE HOME where, in her impressionable years, she homekeeper made ant to look upon. She stands about HOUSE REAL her own curtains, and of such entranc- one of white with a figure in green over Given was in touch with public affairs and five feet six inches and her athletic which she wore a black chiffon coat, Heads All Rulers Coolidge by ing design that they were envv of all the men who dominated them. She beholders. Every tendencies has left her a strongly built, quite long enough to cover the dress, Typically American Residence Has Been Inspiration for Past was keenly interested in her brother's window in the home and a black hat and shoes. Only with was thus covered. well rounded figure, erect and inde- In Absolute Power Father Is Recalled political ambitions and has been an Added to an almost her evening gowns does Mrs. Hoover Presidents and Declared One of Most Genuine acknowledged factor in his success. Her prenatural skill pendent looking. Her exquisite complex- adopt the French heel, her favorite with her needle. Mrs. Gann has an ex- pink and white has taken on nieces and nephew regarded her as a ceptional talent for ion of footwear being Oxford ties, laced snugly Thrills Associated With Office. kind and sympathetic elder sister and. cooking. This shorn* none of the harshness of her out-door Honors and Favors resplendently during the doleful days hair over the instep. She is fond of walking Many Ceremony by Lamplight in later years, as a second mother who when life and with her halo of white and finds easy, pleasurable the Food Administration had as turquoise and a it an task than one President of the there that the bedrooms, the sitting could share their experiences.