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Identifier: recollectionsoff00taft (find matches)
Title: Recollections of full years
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) Philippines -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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as a student atBryn Mawr College and she went in to Philadelphia to dosome shopping. Among other things she had to get herselfsome shoes. At the shoe store she was waited on by a girlwho was anything but intelligently attentive. She had triedHelens patience considerably by suggesting in a certainnagging way that her superior knowledge of what was beingworn deserved respect, and that Helen didnt know whatshe wanted anyhow. Helen selected some shoes and decided to have themcharged to me, and she thought what a satisfaction it wasgoing to be to reveal her identity to the patronising andoffensive young person. The young person produced padand pencil to make out the check. Please have them charged to Mrs. William HowardTaft, said Helen with what I am sure was her loftiest air. Address? 363 RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS Washington. The salesgirl held her pencil poised over the pad and withthe familiar expression of satisfaction over a sale accom-plished said pleasantly: D. C.fc? 364 !*5Rfcstt
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/ - j- CHAPTER XVIII SOME WHITE HOUSE FORMALITIES My very active participation in my husbands career came toan end when he became President. I had always had thesatisfaction of knowing almost as much as he about thepolitics and the intricacies of any situation in which he foundhimself, and my life was filled with interests of a most un-usual kind. But in the White House I found my own dutiestoo engrossing to permit me to follow him long or very farinto the governmental maze which soon enveloped him. I was permitted fully to enjoy only about the first twoand a half months of my sojourn in the White House. InMay I suffered a serious attack of illness and was practicallyout of society through an entire season, having for a muchlonger time than that to take very excellent care of myself.During this period my sisters, Mrs. Louis More, Mrs. CharlesAnderson, Mrs. Laughlin and Miss Maria Herron, camefrom time to time to visit us and to represent me as hostesswhenever it was necessary for me t

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