"When friends heard that Mrs. Roosevelt planned to go downriver on the new boat with her husband, they protested that it was impossible because she was soon to become a mother. But she had paid no attention when some of the same friends had told her, two years before, that it was not proper to go on a honeymoon trip to New Or- leans on a flatboat, and she paid no attention now. When the New Orleans set out, in the fall, she was aboard(Ibid)"