Mrs. Gunn's Diary: Feb. 6, 1942

She becomes a Boy Scout leader; Eleanor Roosevelt writes of a day on the train

Mrs. Gunn wrote today that she had become a Cub Scout master, with eight boys meeting in her home every Friday night. “I enjoy it,” she said, but she wasn’t happy with the weather in Washington. “The weather is so deceiving,” she complained. “Today it looked so fair I put out clothes on the line but then it rained before they were dry.”

In her My Day syndicated column, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt recapped her experiences riding a train through Tennessee. Paid subscribers can read on about her observations.

The 1944 photo of Mrs. Roosevelt by Canadian-American Yousuf Karsh captures her warm and engaging smile. It was accessed via Wikimedia Commons.