Foreign News: Ishbel

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

¶ "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.

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

¶ She laughed oftener and harder (not louder) than Lady Isabella Howard, wife of...

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