Recollections of full years

Cincinnati—City of Birth and Early Memories. Educational and Musical Advantages. Childhood in Large Family on Moderate Income. Meeting Mr. Taft—Political Turmoil. First trip to...

The Superior Court—First Doubt as to Desirability of Judicial Career. Mr. Taft’s Embarrassing Truthfulness. My son Robert. Solicitor General—Move to Washington. Mr. William M. E...

The Second Philippine Commission. Army Transport _Hancock_. Honolulu. “Aloha Oe!” Yokohama. Mr. Taft in a Jinrikisha. His Size Interests the Japanese. Audience with the Emperor...

Keeping House in Yokohama—In Quarantine with Measles. A Japanese Ménage. Fascinating Oriental Sounds—Alluring Shops. First Letter from Mr. Taft. A bit of Philippine History. Miy...

The China Sea. Manila Bay—Strange Scenes and Strange Peoples. First Home in Manila—“Getting Used” to my Environment. Seventy Thousand American Troops. General Arthur MacArthur—S...

_El costumbres del pais_—Employes and _Parientes_. A Pair of Black Ponies—A Runaway—Filipino Coachmen. Charlie’s Playmates. Shopping—Saloons. Manila Society. “He may be a brothe...

Unrest and Uncertainty—Guerilla Warfare. Re-election of Mr. McKinley. Optimistic in the Face of Chaos. Christmas—Eighty in the Shade. A New Year’s Reception—Silk Hats and Frock...

Through the Southern Islands. Establishing Provincial Governments. A Test of Endurance—Filipino Bands—_Banquetes_ and _Bailes_—the _Rigodon_. Moroland. Aguinaldo—Colonel Frederi...

Into Northern Luzon—the Wild Men’s Country. A Spanish Steamer. General and Mrs. J. Franklin Bell. A Side Trip. Impedimenta and Military Discipline. An Amazing Summit. Where no W...

The Inauguration of Governor Taft. Two Thousand Guests. Moving to Malacañan Palace—Social Activities. The Governor’s Working Day. General Chaffee—Continued Differences of Opinio...

Some Unhappy Memories. Business in Washington—The Friar Lands Question. A Mission to Rome. Left Behind but Follow Shortly. Position and Character of Commission—Complications and...

A Great Demonstration. Cholera—Rinderpest—Famine—Turmoil. The Church Schism—Aglipay. Archbishop Guidi. Ladrones and Assassins. Taft declines the Supreme Bench—Mr. Roosevelt Insi...

Contrasted Attitudes—Guests of a Nation and “Just Nobody.” Settling down in Washington—Difficulties in living up to an Exalted Office—Life of a “Cabinet Lady.” The Panama Canal—...

“The Three Musketeers.” A Political Campaign—the Rush of Life. The Supreme Bench again. A Presidential “Boom.” Mr. Taft not Interested. I misunderstand Mr. Roosevelt. Athos and...

Japan—Shanghai—Manila. Opening of the first Philippine Assembly. Trips and Entertainments. Vladivostok. Across Siberia. Moscow—St. Petersburg—Berlin. A Shopping Expedition and a...

The Evening of March Third, 1909. A Dinner Party at the White House. A Stormy Night. Washington Ice-bound and Isolated. “I always said it would be a cold day when I got to be Pr...

Mistress of the White House—Domestic Responsibilities—Some Innovations. The White House staff—Furniture and Porcelains. The President’s Hospitality. A Diplomatic Tea. Forms and...

A Long Illness. Garden Parties—The First Disappointment—Subsequent Success. The Nation’s Summer Capital—A Question of Privacy—The Secret Service Men. The Washington Social Seaso...

Mr. Roosevelt Returns from Africa—Calls at Beverly—An Agreeable Meeting. A Cruise on the _Mayflower_. The President of Chili. A “Whirlwind” Existence. A Cabinet House Party. Fit...

Cincinnati, the city of my birth and early memories, was, in the ‘sixties, about as begrimed and noisy and altogether unattractive as any place well could be; yet it possessed c...

One day after we had been married less than a year my husband came home looking so studiously unconcerned that I knew at once he had something to tell me.

The United States Army Transport _Hancock_ had been assigned to the Commission for the trip from San Francisco to Manila and it was at noon on a pleasant day in mid-April—the se...

To be quarantined in a house too small for the number of its occupants, behind closed doors, each one of which bears aloft a sinister yellow placard across which is printed in l...

The China Sea has an evil reputation. On its shores one hears much about the typhoon season and the changing monsoons, and bad sailors would, no doubt, like to have their sailin...

In the Far East one meets certain expressions the significance of which may be described as adamantine. Each represents a racial attitude against which it is useless to contend....

There was a trying period of unrest and uncertainty in our early experience in the Philippines, during which we lived in a state of suspense which can hardly be described; a sta...

The Philippine Islands as mere territory do not seem to have impressed themselves very forcibly upon the general American mind, and the average person one talks with really has...

I should like to say here, by way of explanation, which may or may not be necessary, that I am not trying in this narrative to pose as a woman endowed with an especial comprehen...

There is no denying that the arrangements made, during my absence in the north, for my participation in the events attending my husband’s induction into the office of Governor o...

The winter of 1902, the greater part of which we spent in Cincinnati, is memorable only as a period of bereavement and protracted illnesses. Perhaps such a record has no place i...

When Mr. Taft reached Manila he found the city _en fete_ and in a state of intense excitement which had prevailed for two days during which the people had expected every hour to...

To illustrate what seems to me to be rather widely contrasted views of the position of Secretary of War for the United States, I think I must relate two experiences I had in the...

These were the days when Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Root and Mr. Taft were known and very aptly caricatured as “The Three Musketeers,” a thing which both pleased and amused them. Mr. Ro...

I have not the space to give a detailed account of this trip around the world. After a pleasant voyage on the steamship _Minnesota_ we were given in Japan the same warm welcome...

Shortly after my husband’s election, having spent a couple of restful weeks at Hot Springs, Virginia, we went to Augusta, Georgia, and took the old house known as the Terrett Co...

The members of my family, and especially my children, are prone to indulgence in good-natured personalities and they like to make the most of my serious attitude toward my domes...

My very active participation in my husband’s career came to an end when he became President. I had always had the satisfaction of knowing almost as much as he about the politics...

Our second summer at Beverly began with a call from Mr. Roosevelt. When the ex-President returned to the United States, on the 18th of June, 1910, after an absence of a year and...