Ishbel

P: She slept at the White House in the onetime room and bed of John Coolidge.

P: "It must have been an extraordinarily fine horse because this is only the second time I have ever ridden and I am not a bit stiff or lame." This was the day after she had cantered beside Mrs. Hoover in the Blue Ridge mountains.

P: "American girls seem much the same as British girls except that they wear their clothes at different angles."

P: She laughed oftener and harder (not louder) than Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the British Ambassador, at The Midde March, salty Shubert-Belasco comedy about British tars and such.

P: En route Manhattanward she entered the newfangled Baltimore &Ohio baggage car, telephoned to the engineer: "Don't let us bump into anything."

P: She looked worried when her father observed: "I have withstood a great demonstration, feasting in Washington, late nights, early mornings, and hectic middles of the day."

P: "I am not an expert in knowledge of children's courts,"--but she visits them wherever she goes.

P: Presented with a dossier of records and decisions at a Manhattan children's court she cried: "This is the choicest gift I have received since I arrived."

P: "Ishbel, because her father is 'proud to be a radical' was snubbed [in Washington]. Of course, there were the official dinners and the assignment of embassy equeries as her constant companions--but the young men assigned were not of the attractive types."--Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. in Manhattan's tabloid Daily Mirror.

"The young men assigned" in Washington included Edmond and Francis Howard, sons of the British Ambassador.

She left all her Manhattan social arrangements in Manhattan to Miss Lillian D. Wald, directrix of Henry Street Settlement, was escorted to a dance by Princeton undergraduate Joseph Boyce, to a football game by studious Horace Anderson of Columbia.

P: "If I told you it would not be a surprise"--to reporters asking what birthday present she would give her father. The "surprise" was triple: 1) a bowl of water with four toy boats, ticketed For naval parity; 2) a toy terrier--I am Scottie too; 3) a slate--Let us reckon up our debits and credits.