The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-01

is three inches taller than the ordinary
American He weighs $50 pounds
heavy. bsoad-shouldered man. man OF
immense vitality. The average Presi-
dents forehead lis high. and there never
has been a snub-nosed President
In hight. our Presidents have varied
from Lincoln. who stood feet in Dis
stockings. TO Harrison, who was only
feet inches. In weight they range from
Cleveland's 300 pounds 20 John Adams
40, giving an average of $50.
The youngest President ever inaugu-
rated was Cleveland who was only IS
when he took office, while The oldest was
". II. Harrison. who was SO, Pierce was
40 and buchanan G6. The average was So.
Harrison Was the Most Youthful
Husband.
The most youthful husband who ever
became President was Benjamin Harrison,
who married when only 20. The next
youngest was Johnson, VINO married when
only q. and whose wife taught him TO
read. The Oldest was Cleveland. who did
not marry until he was 49, Madison mar
ried az IS, and Tyler married for the sec
ond time when 50. The average matri-
monial age was % Buchanan was the
only bachelor
John Adams lived to the greatest age
of an our Presidents reaching his 9lst
YEAR and dying i'm the House Of Repre-
sentatives of which he was then mem
Der Jackson lived until So, and Madison
till So. Garfield died younger than any
other President having been assassinated
by Guiieau when scarcely 80 years old.
Polk died at 81. The average age attain
ed by our President is great, being a little
more than 20 years, showing that they
must have been men of great vitality.
This. indeed we should have supposed in
any case.
Several Presidents were conspcuously
slender. among them Jackson ana Tyler,
while others were as conspicuously stout,
as Cleveland and Fillmore. Where any
of them had a corporation" is fact
carefully omitted by biographers The
bulk of evidence seems to show that the
average President was a rather sohdly
built man, with a slight tendency 20 en-
bonpoint.
jackson, jefferson Tyler John Adams
and Madison had narrow faces, while Van
Buren, John Quincy Adams Taylor, Fill
more and Cleveland had broad ones. The
rest were of moral widths Cleveland and
]. @. Adams were wider in the jaw than
through the eyes Monroe and Jefferson
had oval face. Tyler ana Buchanan had
very long faces. A composite picture
would undoubtedly show the average Pres
ident to possess an oblong face, with a
strong jaw and family exaggerated check
bones.
Long. Straight Noses. Every One.
nh. boa na.1
long and straight. Nearly every President
was excellently equipped in this respect.
e no possessor of a really insignificant nose
ever having occupied the White House.
Van Buren,, Polk ana Pierce had especially
long noses. ard Benjamin Harrson's was
probably the shortest of the lot
In another characteristic, too, our Pres
idents have been strangely alike. They
have all possessed fine foreheads, high and
intellectual. Strange to say, however the
facial angles are not large, the forehead,
as a rule. continuing nearly in the line
with the nose. and in some cases even fall
ing behind it, This was conspicuous in
the case of Washington.
The early Presidents wore their hair in
a peruke. Then came a number with hair
fiuffed out above their ears or brushed
up from their foreheads in mop. Last
came the close-clpped fashion of later
ndgb. III nearly every case AilG 0dI was
plentiful, or capable of becoming so if al
lowed 10 grow. There was little tendency
10 badness until in quite recent times. and
what there was showed itself just above
the forehead rather than on the crown of
The head. Jackson had a mass of iron
gray hair, while John Quincy Adams and
Van Buren, were nearly bald. Most of the
Presidents kept the color of their hair
until quite late in life, few of them show
ing more than sprinkling of gray The
average hair was dark brown in color
though jefferson had red hair, Tyler black
and Fillmore light.
Bewhiskered Presidents.
John Quincy Adams was the first Presi-
dent to wear any hair on his face, he
having a luxuriant growth of whiskers.
1t was not until Grant became President
that any occupant of the White House ven-
tured to wear a mustache or beard. Since
then every President has had a mustache
except Mckinley and two others-Hayes
and Garfield
The majority of the Presidents have had
blue eyes. though of varying shades
Cleveland and Arthur had dark brown
eyes, Pierce had black ones while Jeffer-
son had green ones. The composite color
is a dark gray blue.
The average President therefore had
a good nose and forehead the latter
slightly retreating; a heavy chin. plenty
or dark hair sprinkled with gray, slight
traces of mustache and whiskers a mere
suggestion of beard, and a blue gray
eye.
Most of the Presidents have been sim.
PIE livers though nearly all felt compelled
to be extravagant in their official enter
tainments. jefferson set the fashion of
French cookery Tyler followed the Eng
lish style. Buchanan had a negro cook.
w. II. Harrison went TO market himself
while Cleveland had dyspepsia ana ate
very little at any time Arthur had only
two meals a day. Madison never hnl
pastry on his table Hayes and w. "A.
Harrison were the heaviest eaters Of an.
Jackson served lemonade and punch and
cheese to the mobs that attended his pub
lie receptions. Van Buren, used to keen
open house for nearly any one who chose
to come
Until recently the White House has
never been well supplied with silver or
china. Van Buren, was defeated for re-
election because be used gold lined silver
spoons. Jackson, who followed him. used
plain steel. Hayes spent 5000 for new
china. Mckinley now has an excellent