“CASHAND CARR Y”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 433, 15 August 1928, Page 5

“CASHAND CARR Y”

INVENTED BY MRS. HOOVER

A GREAT WOMAN

Mrs. Hoover, wife of Herbert Hoover, Republican nominee for the Presidency, and considered most likely to succeed President Coolidge at the election in November next, is one of the busiest and most popular women in the United States. Of her thirty years’ married life, more than half of it has been spent in England, European countries, the Near East, China and Australia. She speaks four languages fluently, besides English, and is a woman of very high literary attainments.

T»ORN in lowa, like her liusband, she -*-* went as a small girl to California, which has always been her home. She graduated at Leland Stanford University, at the same time as her husband, and they were engaged before graduation. Her graduation was in geology, as was his, and they were associated technically with his many engineering schemes for a quarter of a century prior to the Great War in various parts of the world. Together, they translated from Latin a huge technical work on metallurgy written in the 16th century. The work occupied them six years of their spare time. Mrs. Hoover is ex-president (now vice-president) of the Girl Scouts of America, and carries on many social, educational and philanthropic duties. She has a corps of secretaries, all of whom are graduates from Leland Stanford. Three of her husband’s nieces, although married, are now there as students. It was due to Mrs. Hoover that the little house, known as “Home, Sweet Home,’’ in Washington, which was built in the Park, patterned after the home of James Howard Payne, famous composer of the old song, was saved to the nation. When the Federal Government needed the land for an extension of the park, she bought it, and had It moved to the corner of Eighteenth and New York Avenues, opposite the Department of the Interior, and it is now the national headquarters of the Girl Scouts. Mrs. Hoover is the inventor of the Hoover apron, which became popular with women during the war.

She was the first to use the slogan, “Cash and Carry,” thus urging women to carry home their shopping parcels, and so saving men for service in the war. One of the secrets of her untiring physical energy lies in the comfortable and substantial moderateheeled shoes she wears, even at State receptions. Her dress is quiet, mainly tailored, and not extravagant. She wears no jewellery. At her homes in Washington and Palo Alto, California, there is always an atmosphere of cordiality. At the Cabinet banquet, which she and her husband give annually to the President and Mrs. Coolidge, which is attended by Washington society, the food is always cooked under her supervision and selection.