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house party. If you were invited over to lunch, you were likely to run into half a dozen other people that had no relation to you or to anything you knew was up at the moment.

Mrs. Roosevelt was being entirely social so far as the Governor's life and work was concerned. However, she performed her social functions with great political astuteness. She had a job in New York City. She was teaching in the Todhunter school and was very much intrigued by it, very much interested in it, and sort of regarded it as a great victory that she could do it. She was entirely popular. She was, as always, over modest. She would think it odd that a great, tall woman like herself, who towered over everybody in Grand Central Station, would be recognized when she ran for a train and that they would hold the train for her. It never occurred to her to ask to have the train held for the Governor's lady. She was utterly without the quality of presuming upon her privileges. She would be so surprised if they did hold the train when they saw her coming up. She didn't think they would see her running down the length of Grand Central, but of course the trainman did and he held the train immediately.

At that period she had to learn the trick of reading on trains, otherwise she got buzzed so much about politics, about troubles, about something people wanted done that not only did she have no peace, but she was afraid of committing