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paint, light colored brocade, a lot of palms and so forth. On the whole it was just about what you would have expected from Altman's, decorating department in the year 1918 or so. It was not sophisticated decorating. It was department store decorating, rather than sophisticated and suitable.

The old room that had been Whitman's library where the Governor met people was made over into a kind of a breakfast room. That adjoined another kind of an enclosed porch that had trellises all over. The family ate there more than it ate in the dining room. That had fine, heavy Spanish pressed leather, which is very fine, but very gloomy and very dark, though very expensive. I think it was the Lehmans who many years later painted it over light green. It was good and shouldn't have been painted.

Under Smith there was a sort of a dolling up. One of the little sitting rooms was pink satin. The other was blue satin. There were a lot of gilt chiars.

When they came to move down to the city into an apartment, they didn't have any furniture, as the furniture in the Executive Mansion belonged to the state. They had to furnish completely new. They had to fit themselves out. It was furnished again so that it looked like something that Miss Pedrick would have selected. It was all right, but not sophisticated. It was a little more showy than necessary,