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bringing the il0lid\y Spirit to the poor?? f U IT 18 a question whether the I families helped or the work I I ers helping them get most L ioj out of the Christmas <Ms trtbutlon. A real settlament r Jy worker, one Imbued with the right spirit, wlU Mil you that only one who has rutted the homes of the poor and the suffering on Christmas ere can realise the pleasure of bringing happiness and sunshine Into those homes. Many settlement rial tors, who hare glren up the work for some reason or another, hot who return to assist with tho Christmas distributions, glee generously from . their own purses that the baskets may be larger and mors families aided. wealthy women, who bare never 4 o n e settlement work, enter into the Santa Clans spirit an4 ? visit the alley and tenement dis trict* et the large cltlee on the night before Christmas, their automobiles heavily laden with toys, turkeys afad good things to eat. They employ Inves tigators to canvass the section In which they ate Interested a week before the holidays, and the distribution Is made accurumg 10 meir reports, Oftentimes ?mall tree* are sent to tbe homes, with glass balls, trimmings and candy toys, and the donors, with the aid of their chauffeurs and the parents of the children, fix tbe tree while the lit tle tots are asleep. Though little known. Bents Claus' work In the slums of the big cities Is carried on along systematic lines to overcome any overlapping of the tualtltude of good Intentions. In days gone by, charitably Inclined women would leave a large basket of pro visions In a bouse In Ignorance of another basket hidden In tbe closet And It was not unnsusl for two or three workers to meet la tbe same kitchen at tbe one time, each bur dened with good things for the ooe family. This Is an error of tbe past; for now the Christmas giving has been systematized. Settlement workers of the various societies and represents tlves of the wealthy private givers compile a list of those they will as sist. and all go bver their lists care fully together. Although the Christmas giving la all cut and dried s few days before the time. Bants Clans' secret is not given awsy. Half of the pleasure would be gone If the families knew that the visitors were coming with food and toys In abundance. It Is true that those who are visited and quizzed by the private workers have a shrewd suspicion, after they have _ told their- tale of woe and received tbe sympathy of the visitor, that something substantial Is to follcw. Tbe regular settlement workers know their ground pretty well; they know which families have had a hard road to travel and are putting up a good battle against the tide of misfortune. Tbe settlement workers have little Investigating to do before the holi days; their entrance Into a home or tenement Is always greeted with sur privs. for they generally make It a pol^t to go where they are least ex pected. "The poor are always .with us" 1% dously true at Christmas-time. Fam llles who can barely exist who do not know where the next day's bread' Is coming from, can certainly not af ford any extras for the holiday sea son They consider themselves for tunate if they have a loaf or two of bretd and a small piece of meat for the Christmas dinner and coal for the kitchen Are. Ho one appreciates this adamy side of the bright Christmas story more thud the charity worker. She knows thai: tribulations exist at Christmas ttnw as during any other part of the year. Tsars of experience have shown her how to use tact and good Judg ment on her travels and where she > cannot leave good cheer, she can at least make the sorrows and troubles easier to bear. The "An gel of the Settlement" knoWa, more than any one else, that there are many cases when the word "Merry Christmas" would sound like s mockery; where the hand of death, for Instance, has been heavily felt when It takes away the chief provid er of a large family. She knows, also, that the Christmas spirit Is cherished by the poor as well as the wealthy.. While they cannot spend the day In feasting and merry making, they can at least forget old MU/ia/TCTO) JASTTACLAUi 5fflK . A /KAL CHAUrfifAi /iru/*xyi grudge* and let bygone* be bygones, abake bands with their enemies and wish one another good luck. How many reunions and reconcilia tions take place then la known only to these good women. The hearts of many men who hare been separated from their wives and families be come softened as the holidays draw near, and It Isn't uncommon for the settlement) worker to And them to gether when she comes with the Christmas basket ?Many prodigal sons return on Christmas ere. A striking ease of this kind that occurred two years ago was run across by a settlement work er In Philadelphia. 8he said that she had never witnessed a scene on any stage that could equal It It was a real case of where the Christ mas prayer of a broken-hearted moth er Was answered by the return of her boy. The son ran Sway from home seven years earlier, when a youth of sixteen years. He had a good home and the family consisted of his parent*, an older brother and a sister. His father was a hard-working man and used all his earnings for his home. The young er boy. being the baby of the family, was the pet of all: but be had a wild disposition, and he wanted to see something of life. He decided to run away from home and go West When he reached the ranches of Arlions he found that the cowboy life wasn't at bright as It was painted. He longed for home many a time, but vowed that he would -not return a failure. He persevered until be had made good, though It took seven years for him to do It His fearlessness and daring attracted the attention of the owner of the ranch, and he placed him In charge of another place. When the young igan had a goodly wad of bills accumulated he decided to re turn In time for Christmas. H? reached the old bouse to And that another family was living there, and he learned from neighbors that his father was dead; that his sister bad grieved so over his disappearance' that she died shortly after he had left, and that his brother bad been killed In an accident. The mother, doubly aged with grief, had been left alone and was subsisting as best she cOut|r In a third-story room. The son lost' no time and arrived in the room just after the settlement worker had reached there with her basket of pro visions. The mother had just Anlshed telling her story to the sympathetic listener when this latest prodigal re turned. "dlo one can really appreciate," said a settlement worker In anothe* city, ''how happy one feels after' visiting the homes of the poor on Christmas eve. The gratitude of one woman alone last year was enough to recom pense me for the work I did. This woman's husband was in the peniten tiary serving an 18-year term for mur der. It appears that he and a com panion were working in the cranberry bogs. They quarreled, and in a ecuf Ae this man stabbed his opponent. He made his wife promise she " would never allow the family of six to be separated. She not only kept them together by taking In washing and working until all hours of the night, but sbe refused to accept outside aid In any shape or form. There would have been no Christmas celebration I ? ? t ' THl e/ftUTfrAi HUYUMMtAK to this bom*, and It *u a delicate uu dertaking to bring a woman like tbla < any provisions. But 1 explained to i her that It waa a preeent and bar Joy waa only equaled by that of ber chil dren, who were more than delighted i with their new toy*. "1 have been in home* where the I children never had toy*, and I have brought them their flret plaything*. In one caee there were two children, a boy and a girl, Pepino and Mechalmo. "their father died when they' ware bablea, and the mother supported them. She had come to this country a bride and waa not well veraed with the American way of doing thing3. She did not even know how to make a rag doll for the children. W* brought tboee children a email tree, decorated It. and gave them plenty of toy*. Words couldn't tell the happi ness of those little ones. "There is more pleasure In -the work than you would Imagine. We see many sad scenes, sorrow and joy mingled together, but we also And much to amuse us. Last year we took a basket to an old colored woman. Her husband was a paralytic and she had two orphaned grandchildren to keep. Christmas to her was to be the same as any other day until we arrived with the provisions and toys. She glanced at us as we entered the room, and wijen we put the basket on the table, she stared at it and pointed to herself,; as much as to' say, 'For me?' I said, "Yes, Lisa, that's for you." You cdt^d see nothing but the whites of her eyes, aad she raised both of ber lunds above her head, clasped .them together and said, 'De Lord be praised.' That was all she said; but she repeated It time and. again. One time her eye* would be as large as dollars and she would Joyously sing the 'De Lord be praised' and again she would be sad and mournful and moan 'De Lord be praised." "Finally her husband, who waa un able to leave hla chair, lost his pa tience and he shouted, 'Lisa, good Lord, woman, has you done lost your head altogether? Why don't you thank the ladles T Then, as a sort of apology to us, he said: 'You'll have to excuse her, ladies, for she ha* sure ly done lost her head altogether.' As we left the room and glanced back, poor Lisa was still standing there, looking at us with her hands clasped before her and slowly nodding her head saying: 'De Lord be praised.' We concluded Lisa kAew better than ber husband. She waa thanking the right one. "I have witnessed many reconsilla tlons of* families of foreigners on Christmas eve. The afternoon that I spent at the immigration station last year was one of the pleasantest of my life. It was Interesting to note the ex pression of gladness on the faces of the children In the cstumee of tbelr various fatherlands They couldn't speak a word of Pjtglish, but they could show you that .hey were grate ful for the plaything "I will never forg#. ay first Christ mas visitation. It v?> my Initial ex perience with socly service work. One of the first place*-we visited was in a court, a poor German family. When we arrived a* the house the mother was telling ft* three children Christinas legends. ?he had gilded apples, and that wai ihelr only other reminder that the m< ? row was a great festival. She had no meat nor vege tables In the house for the next day's meals, and there was no coal In the bin. But the p{*ce -<^s as clean and neat aa a new pin. "The mother was ti educated wom an. and you could tel*" jt a glance that ' she had Been better .lays. She had married against the wishes of her family and she was ^o proud to let them know of her po^rty. Her hus band had gone West o try to better his condition, but wt> unable to get work there and btaame stranded. The wife kept the woj away from the door as best she cauld by sewing. We brought her a turkey, vegetables, fruits and cranberries, then went out and got a tree and a Vail for tbe chll dren and left an ord.'r to have coal sent there Immediate.-/, It is impos sible to tell how grateful, that. poor woman was." ?TELEGRAPHESE' BEST TO USE Correspondent Finds English Lan guags to Be the Terseet in Europe. Which language makes the best' telegraphese"? At so much a word c" might hasten to say German, bactn of Its purely typographical dev-e sticking a number of words toeet" to look like one compound word tt really do exactly the same thinj ti English, only we print the elements o: the ccmpoiiiK' -? separate words. But In Inteir-Vr 1 ? legraphlng there la a word '??? I* 1 fit (or. as the Oer ntars v. oul ' i r"*bv a wordlengthllmlt). Ir'itr- 'he maximum allowed i ? i rd) Any word longer that counts as two; or as three ot* beyond the second ten. as orman words do. it comes to counting letters king up Intelligible telegraphese, ':sh, It aecma, Is the tersest lab : ..ige in Europe. An Italian nowa j r. per correspondent has lately dlscov ered this in telegraphing news from London to hli paper in Italy. At the beginning' of the war he used Italian. Then when all languages except Eng lish and French were forbidden he took French. Lager, Ending that French, though .accepted oy the post office, seemed to cause delay, he changed to English, and to his sur prise he flnds that he is saving quite . a lot of money in telegraph fees owing i to the superior brevity of the Eng- 1 iish language as compared with 1 I French or Italian. BELGIAN CITY OF THE PAST Ypres Ranked In Greatnaaa On* Tim* With Chicago add Other Cen ter* of Trade. Ooubtleea there are millions and millions of Americans to whom the name of the little Belgian town of Ypres comes as an absolnte stranger and without significance, remarks the. Philadelphia Record Still. In the heyday of Its greatness and pros perity Ypres ranked as large in (be clrlllzed world as Philadelphia, Chi cago, Berlin and other clttea of to day. Indeed It waa a aplendtd city when Berlltwwaa a mere hamlet of half-clTlllzed Slaya. It was In the daya of the commercial greatness of Venice that Vpres attained the aammtt of Ita prosperity. It waa an Important dtstrtbntlng center for the traffic which came np through the Adriatic by boat, was carried oyer land and then scattered from Belgium to England. Trance, Holland, Germany | and other Countries, it also has great manufactures, and in the fourteenth century its population exceeded two hundred thousand, making It one of i the largest cities in lEurope. Orient and Bruges. Its nearest neighbors, i were no less prosperous. With i the changing of the trade routes cf Eu- i rope the wealth and population of Ypres disappeared, until It ha) now less than twenty thousand people. But the young fool Is not excusable on the ground] that there Is no tool like an old fooL > 1 Fundamental { Principles of f Health'^^s j jjj By ALBERT 8. GRAY, M. D. ? WeasixaiiaflflflMXMQMm (Copyright. 1*14, by A. & Gray) CANCER AND THE RADIANT RAYS. It 1* exceedingly difficult (or most of i? to grasp offhand g clear underttand Ing of anything we oannot see with our own eyca, hold In our hand*, touch, taste, amell or hear; but with a very little effort we can achiere the seem ingly Impossible and secure an un derstanding of phenomena beyond the reach of our personal senses. And this Is well worth while because a com prehension of natural forces enables ns to lire sane, wholesome and there fore happy lives. An emanation Is anything flowing or radiating out from something. For example, we speak of light emanating or radiating from the sun. In the evo lution of our modern. views of the con stftutlon of matter.the study of the radiations has furnished some of (be most significant dews in connection with both the undulatory or wave ra diations of which light Is the charac teristic example, and also of the cor puscular radiations, which are proved beyond all question to consist of par ticles of matter or electricity. These particles are proved to be traveling at speeds varying from one millimeter a second to approximately the velocity of light, which Is as we all know, 18Ce 000 miles a second. wuen ordinary nguies are uwicu iv %bout 500 decrees Centigrade (032 de grees Fahrenheit) they begin to emit risible light, no msitter what the sub stance may be, and the radiations ap pear to be due to this definite temper ature and are referred to as tempera ture radiations. But In certain cases light la found to be emitted at a tem perature far below that at which tem perature radiations set In, and these phenomena we know as luminescence, phosphorescence and the like?llgljt without heat, we call It. But one Knd all are due to the Interchange of some form of energy apd most of It Is be yond the border line of our ability-to pe reel re without externa! assistance to our limited senses. Light wave radiations are propa gated exactly Hks waves In water or sound In air, without the transfer of any matter slang the path of propaga- _ Hon, but corpuscular radiations con sist of streams of fine particles pro jected at various degrees of high ve locities and may, perhaps, beet be Il lustrated by Imaging a stream of fine gravel. Probably all are familiar with the sand blast and how It will cut away the hardest surface and not In jure the softest 'fabric. There Is?a close relationship between the two types of radiation, Just as there la be tween the air and the sand, and the principals Involved are undoubtedly those which will be found to account for the many marvelous effects of both the direct and Indirect sunlight on human diseases and on life In gen eral. We bare noted the effects of direct sunlight In a general war and now come to the matter ot Indirect sun light, for we should not for a minute forget that all forms of energy on this earth are but converted sun energy. But before considering the subject of radiations In general perhaps It would be best to survey very briefly the field of their application to our needs I* order to get the connection and shew that tpe matter Is worth considering. Shortly arter the X-rays were dis covered It was found that they exert ed a destructive Influence on living tissues, which became more marked 1 the longer animal structures were ex posed to them, and Immediately It was ' suggested that here we had the long- j hoped for remedy for the destruction ' ot cancer. But soon It was learned that It was a very dangerous power. In Germany a few careful, conscien tious workers have very persistently developed the technique and apparat us, as all human experience proves must be done In every department, and ' have slowly evolved a method that Is showing most encouraging results. In cancerous conditions and In some , forms of sepsis Kroenlg's clinic at . Frelburgis Is equipped with modern apparatus and with some l,70u milligrams of meso thorium and radium. Mesothorlum Is i some 200 tithes as concentrated as ra dium, hut gives similar results In shorter time. At the clinic, where for cancer only a slight operation Is re- 1 quired, the operation is performed and then the ray is used; where a severe : operation ordinarily would be required i the ray alone Is employed. LAST HOURS FREE FROM PAIN Testimony That Tend* to Prova Scien tific Investigator* Right In Their Contentions. An English scientific publication has recently given much space to a discus sion ot the old, but very absorbing, (luestlon as to whether the process of dying Is accompanied by conscious physical pain The conclusion arrived at Is the same to which the scientific Investi gator has always adhered, vis., that s merciful Nature so benumbs the senses as the body is losing Its hold upon physical life that the dying pert son Is entirely unconscious of pain. Among the many Incidents which apparently shed" light upon the matter one is mentioned which occurred only the other days, it Is the case of a man In his eightieth year who was sud denly prostrated by a very severe In fluents. The malady progressed until all hope ot his life was abandoned by the musicians. He lay gasping for breath I RmuIU bad In that* cases vara con ?blared not dua to any bactericidal ac tion that the ray may possess, bat ratber to a change la the blood ttaeif. which makes It antanable to these bacteria It la considered to bear out the vaccination theory of the X ray. this being that there la a rapid menu facture of the antibodies. Tbla theory and these results are exceedingly sag gestlre In connection with the results we hare recently considered from the use of the direct rays of the sun In the matter of surgMal tuberculosis cases and of hellotheraphy In general THE X-RAY. The discovery of the X-ray buret upon the worl<( without the slightest warning and completely astounded Bven the moat astute and learned ?dentists of the time. But we can uow sea that It was the perfectly logl- | cal sequence of a long series of dis coveries. following numberless experi ments by many Individuals with a scientific toy known as the Oelssler tube. Gelssler had demonstrated the peculiar behavior of electric dls charges through different gases con fined In a sealed tube and under vari ous degrees of vacuum, whereby the spark became a more or less steady stream. Foltowlng Gelssler, 81r William Crookes became the chief Investigator along these lines, snd by means of miniature wind-wheels and turbines In his Improved tubes, now known as Crookes tubes, demonstrated that the current of electricity flowing from the , negative pole and known as the cath ode stream could be transformed Into kinetic energy. "Radiant matter" was the term used by Crookes to describe the highly rarefied gas. or "ultra, gase ous matter," which he found to pro- i duce certain peculiar mechanical and luminous effects when a charge of high potential electricity was passed through it as wttn all new tnougnts. tne mea was fiercely attacked by many of the scientific men of the time, wbo strenu ously argued against It and endeavored to prove that both the theory and the r demonstrations amounted to nothings But a 'few choice spirits pressed on. Lenard demonstrated .that the cath ode stream could be detected outside the tube as well as within It and that It could be deflected or attracted by a magnet A professor of physics In the University of Wurrburg, In Ba varia, W. K. Roentgen, noted In 1895 that substances such as potassium platlnocyanlde became luminous when brought near to a tube exhausted to a vacuum so that the glass was brightly phosphorescent. About this time also he noticed that a large number of pho tographic plates placed within range of a Crookes tube with-which he was experimenting were fogged, although they were simply protected from light by the usual light-tight plate holders, and he began to suspect a connection belwueu the two phenomena. A few more experiments and the Idea crystal lised?he viewed his own bones through the flesh of his hand and knowledge of the new ray was born November 8, 1898. Because the ray which produced fluorescence showed him the bones In the living human body, affected photo graphic plates while inclosed In light tight boxes and could not be reflect ed, refracted nor deflected by a mag net, Roentgen knew that he had dis covered a new and unbroken ray and he therefore called It the X-ray. It may be asked how It Is possible to distinguish between %uch radiations of different wave lengths. This is achieved through demonstrating by means of photography, or a fluorescent screen, or the electroscope, the "pene trating power" or "hardness" of the short wave emanations after travers ing various thicknesses of a medium which absorbs X-rays, such as, for ex ample, aluminum. The shorter the wave length the "harder" the ray, and the "harder" the ray the greater Its penetrating power. Soddy has dem onstrated the penetration of one-half Inch steel. This discovery of the com plex character of the X-ray tube ema nations and those from radiant sub stances In general created the need of a system for designating the differ ent rays, and they have therefore been named alpha, beta, gamma from the Qreek alphabet corresponding with our a, b and c. The original X-ray tube shot the rays from the cathode directly against the gjlass at the opposite end; subse quently a metal target known as the antUgathode was Introduced to re ceive the rays, but the bombardment from the stream of corpuscles or elec trons was so Intense that the target was soon raised to a white heat, and It would become necessary to stop the action. For these anfl other reasons which we Will discover, later radium . with Its gamma rays seemed to offer certain advantages over the X-ray tube, but recently Dessauer of Frank fort-on-Main has perfected a tube by which he can produce rays practically Identical with the gamma ray from ladlum or mesothorlum, the ratio of hardness being as 1 to 1.2. These results were obtained by employing a ?peclal and highly efficient water cool Ing device In the anti-cathode. ?/ and apparently In the moat Intense agony. The long hours of the night were terrible to his family, who sat by bis bedside expecting the struggle to end at any moment. As he was a man of strong constitu tion. he became better In the morning, anally returning to entire conscloua aess, and upon being asked how be Felt, declared to the amazement of all that he had passed a most comfortable atgbt. In citing this case, the English edi tor acknowledges that It le really not ' aeeded to strengthen the scientific as surance that dying Is practically pain less, although the problem is of such engrossing Interest to evsry human being that any Incident which serves to Illuminate It is well worth pub ilclty. Grateful Suburbanite*. -A Towne?"Do you make your cook pay for'What she breaks?" Suburb* (In amar.ement)?"Make her pay? I should aay not! Why, every month, bealdea paying her aalary, we reward her .liberally tor what aba Uda't break!" ' BRITAIN'S WAR CENSOR Sir Stanley Owen Buckmaster, K. C., M. P.. who la censor of war news for the British government. Is prac tically unknown to thin country, and I* not yet a very familiar figure to the public in England. But he haa a great reputation in the courts, where be has been a leader In chancery for many year*. Whereas Mr. Smith at forty-two would be called yonng by all men, Sir Stanley Buckmaster, who Is fifty-three, would only be called young by some men. His great gift is lucid exposition and directness In thought and speech. He can clothe the dry bones of chancery law with such Interest and fascination that It Is a recreation for a layman to hear htm argue. A case the presenting of which by the average lawyer would be a painful punishment to bear, when armed by Sir, Stanley becomes al most romantic. For many years he has been what lawyers call a "special," a rank which has been created by lawyers In obedience to the injunction that to him that hath shall be given. It means that upon every brief delivered to his law chambers there must be aaarked, in addition to all ordinary fees, a special sum of SO guineas, about $260. His parliamentary reputation haa grown very markedly since he was appointed solicitor-general last year As a busy lawyer In private practice It was not possible for him to make more than an occasional contribution to debate, though whenever he did it was on such a high level that the bouse heard him with a sense of profit and of pleasure. Now that he haa retired from private practice and occupies a ministerial position with a seat on the treasury bench as an active lieutenant of Mr. Asqultb In the passing of leg islation, he Is steadily growing to the place and power that all who have known him and watched his career had prophesied and expected. WOULD PREPARE FOR WAR In the discussions of the lessons of the European war aa applied to the military problems of the United States no man In congress has a larger part than Representative Julius Kahn of California. Mr. Kahn, aa president of the National Defense league of the United States, Is an ear nest advocate of peace, but he holds that for the United States, at least, preparedness for war Is the only In surance against war. "Militarist," his very good friend. Representative Richard Bartholdt of Missouri, calls him. In their debates on the subject. "Pacifist." retorts Mr. Kahn, for Mr. Bartholdt la committed to the cause of peace, and is one'of the country's moat noted advocates of arbitration aa a cure for way. Both of German nativity, both of long service In congress, both leaders of thought on their respective sides, Messrs. Kahn -and Bartholdt are at opposite points of the pole on mill lary suDjects. Mr. ttabn, personally gentle and kind of manner, fair and liberal In debate, philosophical In his habits of mind, never comes so near to losing his patience as when he hears paclnst arguments, and especially when he hears them In these days of the European war. "Yes, yes," said he, almost Impatiently, when some of the recent publics-' tlons were brought to hjtp In which appeared articles arguing that preparation for war Inevitably Is an invitation for war. "Yes, yes; 1 have seen all that stuff. How silly and futile it appears In the light of what Is going on In Europe! "What comes to a nation that attempts., by power of Its peaceful example, to lead the nations of the world Into the paths of peace and concord and to avoid all war? China, with her four hundred millions'of population, furnishes the answer!" . ? MRS. DAISY OWEN "Fancy names, abbreviation!, or pet names do not claim mucb favor In these times," remarked Mrs. Owen, wife of the Oklahoma statesman. "I < am frequently asked why I do not call myself Margaret, and 1 reply prompt ly because I have no. right to the name. I was born when the fields of my native heath, then Indian Terri tory, now the growing state or Okla homa, were abloom with the starry flowers we called the daisies. My mother had gpne to the new land with my father from among her kindred and beloved friefids In North Caro* Una, and naturally she was homesick. The daisies reminded her of the old place back in Carolina, for there, too, thousands of snowy 'blossoms dot the fields? and she called me Daisy Deane. The latter is a family .name, and also the words of the plaintive old song 'Daisy Deane,' very popular In the times of romantic ballads and before the era of ragtime and the coon song. ? never see one 01 me loveiy time nowers wimoui minsing 01 my momer, and I cling to the rather Infantile name without the least desire to make it more dignified of sedate. I like names with meaning, so we called our only daughter Dorothea, gift of Ood, for she was the only grandchild on both sides of the house, and her coming meant so much to us ail." Senator and Mrs. Owen are among the adaptable members of official c. society, and have affiliated with many active organizations. They belong to the Chevy Chase club, and enlivened the tedium of the Summer by al fresco dinners there and by teas and afternoon dances. They are both members of the Columbia Golf club, and may be seen constantly during the mated tirm following the'elusive ball over the hills and dales of the course. ? I ' '? ' 1 SIMEON E. BALDWIN, WALKER Gov. Simeon E. Daldwlo of Con necticut, defeated for the United 8tates senate at the recent election, la seventy-five years told, but a great walker. He believes^ In walking He was In Washington while the Ameri can Bar association was In session, and he and ex-President Taft, among others, were named to go to the White House and escort President Wilson to the seifclon. They rode serosa Wash ington In an automobile and the gov ernor explained their purpose to the president. "I hear, governor," the ex-presi dent said, "that you are fond of walking." . * "I take a dally constitutional," was the reply of the tall, siiarse, won derfully active executive. "Good." said the president 'In that case we'll foot It to the meeting." ? And oft the party Started. The governor acted, as pacemaker and the ex president had hard work to keep up with the procession. Last summer, at stoninRton, toe governor maae an light-mile through the country In the morning, and In the afterootra refined ro ride in the parade, which was a part of the celebration he wae attending. "No. t% walk." he aaid. And walk he did, right behind the band. ? ., % %' p.4 . JBS
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