PARTAN LIFE

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 28, 25 January 1933, Page 8

PARTAN LIFE

_ .. — U.S.A. PREMIER’S WIFE MRS. ROOSI’.VELT’S TASTES NEW YORK. November 29. Airs Franklin I). Roosevelt, wife of the President-Elect of the United States, declared in an interview to-day “I never wanted to be a President's wife, and f don’t want it. now." “For my husband, of course, I'm glad—sincerely.’’ sin* added. “Being a Democrat, I believe that this change is for the better. But there isn't going to be any ‘first lady of the land.’ There is going to be plain, ordinary Airs Roosevelt—that’s all. “I shall have to work out my own salvation. I am afraid it may be a little difficult. I know what Washington is like. I’ve lived there. I shall very likely be criticised. But I can’t help it. “Sometimes 1 daresay 1 shall feel a litfl ■ like one of mv bovs felt after I • ... had lectured him. on the responsibilities in cum brnn t on the sons of a man in publm life. Tie said: “Wouldn’t it bo fun to do things, just because you wanted to do them?’ •” The next mistress of the White House has two salaried jobs at present, but she is going to give up the one she likes the better. On March 1 she will discontinue her teaching in the private school for girls of whirl) she is the assistant principal c.-jd part owner. “I hate to do it,” she said. “I’ve liked it more Than anything else I’ve over done. But it’s got to go T realise that the job in White House will probably make much heavier demands than the job in the Now York Governor’’s mansion made.” She will retain her post as editor of the magazine “Babies—.Tust Babies,” for which she is under contract. ' English School Liberty Mrs Roosevelt was an orphan at, the gge Of ten, and was brought up by a “strict and extremely conventional” grandmother. She was sent to a school in England when she was fifteen. There, she declares, she was given more liberty than she would have dreamed of giving her own daughter. She made her debut the winter before she was married, and acquired “a lasting distaste for formal society.” For a woman in her position, Mrs Roosevelt lives a truly Spartan life. Money spent on herself she seems to regard as wasted. She dresses simply and economically. She sometimes lunches nt a “drug store” soda fountain, and often travels to and from her school by bus.