The herald., 1897-09-05

tan as a girls, and he does not gain
flesh. He likes tennis better than golf
| because it is more exciting. About
thirty or forty people offer to play ten
mis- with him every day. He is such an
accommodating little fellow that he
would like to play with them all; but
as he can't he puts them off with a
Hobart SMILE" (which makes 'em feel
good" as the hotel bell-boys say. Any
body who tries to baby" him in the
game gets called down at once.
'Why, am playing just as well as I
know how" said Secretary Alger's son,
Russ" the other day.
IT beg your pardon, but I watched
you when you were playing with some
body as big as yourself yesterday"
was Hobart, Jr.'s, reply.
Son "Russ" is also pretty popular at
the hotel but he is too big for the
young women to put their arms about
him as they do around Hobart Jr."
That does not detract from the fact that
Hobart, Jr.," allowed young woman
to beat him at tennis the other day,
just to encourage her.
Hobart, Jr," is polite and debonair,
and democratic besides. The bell-boys
like him as well as the bellies who are
after boys He bears his honors with
all the ease of his father. When his
family first arrived at the hotel, Mr..
and Mrs Hobart went off to Burling-
ton with the Presidential party, so that
Hobart, Jr," got the sole benefit of the
mountain of roses which had been
stacked on the Vice Presidents table in
the dining room. There, eating his din
| ner in high state with all the dignity OF
Lord Chamberlain, sat Hobart, Jr., :"
looking no larger than spoonholder
and with a Hobart smile he asked the
waiter to keep the roses nice and fresh
until his papa and mama could see them.
Hobart, Jr.," says the waiter is a
brick" and the waiter thinks Hobart,
Jr,'' is another.
WOULD BE SECRETARY OF THE
NAVY.
Mr.. Mckinley is fond of Hobart, Jr.," :"
who speaks up to the President of the
United States with the same candid and
| else.
"What office would you have, my
boy?" the President asked him the other
| day.
I'm not old enough for an office yet,
L.
like to be Secretary of the Navy,
think" Hobart, Jr, replied.
The Hobarts are among old friends at
| the Hotel Champlain. Long before Mr..
Hobart became Vice President he was
known as one of the best story tellers
who ever visited the hotel.
| There is good reason to believe that
Hobart, Jr.," does not like the COM
%
that of the men; but he is too polite to
show his real feelings by look or word.
| If his face isn't tanned it isn't because
he doesn't want it to be. He envies the
| tan of the farmer boys in the neighbor-
hood. He wants to be known as dash
ing all-round athlete-a bicyclist ten
mis- player, and a camera fiend.
HIS PICTURE.
| His tutor is a good enough fellow, he
says, but he doesn't know but he would
have more fun if he went to school like
other boys When the reporter asked
| him to pose on the hotel piazza for a
picture his eyes twinkled he gave the
| Hobart smile" full play and said:
"Yes. That would be good fun. I'd
like to-"
Then he warned the reporter to keep
| the camera level and not to let the sun
| light get into the lens. THAT was the
trouble with most of my pictures at the
start" he added. Papa and mama and
I laughed a lot over them. But I'm
pretty good at it now"
There is no record at the hotel of "Ho-
bart, Jr.," having ever been "cross."
His train of admirers-all the guests
say he does not know how to be.
Copyright. 1897, by Bacheller Syndicate