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by commercial work on the side. Others have managed to pick up a living one way or another, but there was nothing for them then.

She annoyed me so with it, told me so many cases, told me so much of the kind of thing that they could do, that I finally listened. I remember that she told me, and she must have gotten this from Barr, that all the public buildings of America were so dreary and so gloomy that artists could decorate the walls of these public buildings- the post offices, the libraries and other places - so that they would be interesting and cheerful, and make people happy when they sent into these buildings, and so forth.

At any rate, after a few weeks of brooding about it, I finally did say one day, “Well, I'll speak to the President.” I spoke to the President and found him extremely responsive. “That's true,” he said. “That's so.” He was never a great appreciator of art. He had almost no taste in the field of the graphic arts. A pretty picture was a pretty picture, but he had no discrimination in his taste in the field of the graphic arts. Neither did Mrs. Roosevelt have discrimination, although she had had some education in the field of art appreciation. She knew, therefore, what she ought to like. She knew that the old masters were to be admired. She would admire a Giorgione for the right reasons, because