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herself or committing the Governor to something or other. She learned the trick. She would say, “I'm so glad to see you. You'll sit beside me, won't you? Then nobody will talk to me and I won't have to read all the time.” Otherwise she buried herself in a big book or in what appeared to be a manuscript and didn't look up. That was a device for discouraging people from speaking to her. They did recognize her.

I think that during this period Mrs. Roosevelt was perhaps as handsome as I have seen her. Her dress and her way of dress for the street and for ordinary circumstances was not very elaborate or charming or interesting, but her evening clothes at this period were perfectly magnificent. I remember her evening clothes with great satisfaction. Her hair was still quite blonde, so light that you were aware of the blondeness. She had never had it cut then, or thinned out or clipped. It was an extraordinarily heavy head of hair, but with a natural wave and curly near the face. She used to do it in great coils or braids around her head or piled up on top of her head. It was a method of hair dressing which Mrs. Sam Rosenman talked her out of when she came to Washington, but it was extremely becoming to her. She was so big and tall that this big head of hair was becoming. It fitted her shape, size and height. Her head was rather