Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-22
CHAMBERLAIN AT HOME
Private Life of England's For
 mer Colonial Secretary.
SIMPLICITY IS ITS KEYNOTE.

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 Exercise, am Hours Gardening
 Enough-His Method of Preparing
 Speeches.
 In the hubbub of invective and calumny, amid a perpetual hail of pamphlets and leaflets and newspaper articles, Joseph Chamberlain, England's former colonial secretary, reassures his followers. by his very air of complete indifference to the storm raging around him, and when the uproar is at it's worst he calmly lays out new garden bed, says the London Mail.
 MT. Chamberlain's home is at High bury, large, we'll to do house in the residential quarter of Birmingham. Be hind the gates spacious garden rises somewhat steeply to an invisible house, and through this garden winds the drive. Here are the famous flower beds which occupy MT. Chamberlain's lei sure and banish the burdens of ina perial care.
 The house itself externally is large, modern and undistinguished. Stand ing under the glass portico at it's door, the visitor is confronted by a whole series of doors, which open one behind the other. Through them he passes to a large hall, paneled with light wood, surrounded by a gallery, with great fire burning in the hearth and bear skin rug before it. The magazines and papers lie neatly arranged.
 The hall is lighted by chandelier of electric lights, and around it are vases, rugs and rare embroideries from the east. It is pervaded by an air of sim plicity, which is the keynote in Mir. Chamberlain's public and private life. Like most really great men, he cares little or nothing for show.
 His life on the eve of his recent Glas- gow speech was very trying on him, notwithstanding his appearance of calm. In the first place, the mere physical strain is excessive, and only man in the robustest of health and the very pink of condition could accom- plish what he does. His years are six ty-seven, but he is so young, so alert and so vigorous that he might be taken for his own son.
 MT. Chamberlain rises late in the morning for the minister in the house of commons must habituate himself to late hours. His most serious business is the management of his correspond ence, which shows a tendency to out grow all anageab1e bounds. He re- ceives as a rule over 200 letters day and not only reads them all and an- swers them, but perforce has to an swer them with the extremest care. They may contain riddles asked by faithful followers or traps laid by art full opponents. The statesman has to be always on his guard.
 Two shorthand clerks take down the instructions for the answers under the supervision of MT. Chamberlain's pri- vate secretary. But even so, with all possible assistance, this routine work takes many hours. While the letters are in hand there is perpetual stream of telegrams in cipher from ministers or au clair from less distinguished men, not less troublesome than the letters and often requiring even great CT tact and care in handling.
 Nor is this all. At such time as the present, on the eve of a great and his toric speech. correspondents beset the house in their efforts to discover it's secrets. Mr. Chamberlain has the rep utation of treating them exceedingly well. He never if he can help it sends them empty away and is ready to talk with them at any time Even at this moment, when his mind is full of what he is going to say and what he. is go ing to leave unsaid, he is not inaccessi- bIe.
 He works far into the night. He takes a bath before dinner, dimes at 8 in the simplest fashion with his fam fly and after dinner sets to work. On the Saturday before his recent Glas- gGw speech he was at work until in the morning answering his correspond ents and preparing his speech. One or two days of late when he has not felt fit he has taken matters a little more easily, but his is strenuous life. Of exercise he needs and wants little An hours gardening is enough.
 In the preparation of his speech he uses full notes. His facts are worked out with extreme care. For the pres ent controversy he has had the most careful calculations made by the most accomplished authorities. He tries his speeches over before delivery, declaim- ing them to his secretary while smok- ing brier pipe. Tn his large library he has two libraries at Highbury-a listener might have heard the things which were flashed all over the world from Glasgow. s
 Tn his political work he receives great assistance from his son, the new chan cellor of the .exchequer, who inherits his eyeglass, his aptitude for politics and his Judgment. Austin Chamber lain lives with him at Highbury and assists in the management of the ever growing correspondence. Mrs. Cham berlain takes the ,warmest interest in all that her hubsand attempts, and her grace and tact are never at fault. The happy family life which the younger Pitt lacked and the want of which, perhaps, explains certain weaknesses