The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07

I Of using the Rockefeller golf links by
Mr.. Rockefeller's invitation that his old
stomach trouble Is causing great un-
easiness. Mr.. Rockefeller's diet is con-
fined as to Solids to this slices Of
unbuttered toasts. softened in warm
milk or water. Weak tea is his only
beverage and for the actual sus-
tenance of life he is compelled to rely
| upon tonics, of which a great variety
have been prepared and supplied by
local pharmacists. Preparations of
beef, predigested with pepsin. and pam
creatin albuminoids. and other chem
ical nutritives constitute his diet.
III-HeaIth May Account for Much.
! Such long and continued attacks Of
acute dyspepsia often eventuate in
failure of the nervous system to fulfill
its duties. A tired body or brain US
ually Is accompanied by a refusal OF
the digestive organs to do their task.
Physicians attribute Mr.. Rockefellers
exaggerated desire for absolute Sc
cluslon from the outside world and his
self-immurement in his forest -hedged
residence to his nervous digestive dis
| orders.
Whatever else has proved on Mr..
Rockefellers mind there can be no
doubt that he has been and is intensely
worried over the condition of his
daughter, Mrs. Strong who, suffering
from the. delusion that she will die
In poverty, is at Cannes, south France,
attended by the ablest French and
German specialists on nervous diseas-
| eS.
| Mrs. Strong Is Mr.. Rockefeller's old
est daughter. Mrs. Strong and her
husband, who was professor Of moral
| philosophy at Columbia university,
| occupied a cottage at Lakewood for
| three seasons.
| Her father made his home with
them. He bought the Country club
residence and converted 1t into a resi-
dence and then bought the Clafln cot
tage and presented it to his daughter.
The Lakewood gossips wagged their
tongues when Mrs. Strong suddenly
| withdrew from the cottagers' society
| three years ago.
Daughter Develops Money Mania.
She, to whom her father would give
untold millions, explained that she
could not afford to give teas and sim
adopted such rigid economy as dyang
her ch1ldren's dresses and making them
over. Curious stories were told by the
tradesmen of the village as to her
prasimony in making purchases She
bought sparingly Of necessities, and
they were doled out with care to the
servants. Mr.. Strong, who was aware
Of his wlfes affliection saw to it that
the servants were abundantly provided
with food.
In the hope that travel and treat
ment of foreign specialists might
benefit her, Mrs. Strong went abroad
two years ago, accompanied by her
husband and children. Since then
Claflin cottage has been in charge OF
a most taciturn caretaker.
1t was reported in Wall street year
ago that John D. Rockefeller, Jr,
would not inherit his fathers power in
Standard Oil affairs; and that he had
been tried and had shown the ''busi-
ness head" required.
Last May, after five months of alb
sence abroad, John D. Jr. announced
that he would be obliged to give ur
all work owing to the failure of his
health. He offered at that time tc
resign from several corporation boards
but was persuaded by his father tc
hold on. He suffered then from acute
nervous dyspepsia and nervous de-
preston.
Youngest Daughter Unhappy.
The youngest daughter, Alta, the
wife Of E. Parmelee, is now 80 years
old. She was married in 1891. From
childhood she had been deaf and wher
she was grown to womanhood, she was
wholly depriving Of hearing. She was
treated and cured by Professor Isado1
Mueller Of Vienna, just prior to he1
marriage, and he has continued to at.
tend her from time to time since HI
marriage. While she was in Vienna
an interviewer suggested that, bein,
rich and envied she should be happy
She replied:
Happy! Can happiness be pur.
chased with money? Are there no
many things which make us profound.
ly miserable that money cannot avert
And isn't it we'll known that those fav.
ored by fortune are more sensitive tt
the needle pricks of life than other per
sons? No, I am not happy. Say 81
to all those who may envy me-"
: In addition to these troubles of him.
self and his children has come the Ill
ness of his brother and coworker, viii.
liam.
The secret William Rockefeller.
illness has been guarded with th&
greatest care for months. The nature
of the disease was known to a few
members Of the Rockefeller famil,
and to two or three of the most i'm
portant men in the Standard Oil com.
pany at the time Mr.. Rockefellel
sailed for Europe, but the informatio
was never permitted to have any cir.
culation. All of the skill of the Stand
Oil in its most secret undertakings has
been employed to keep the true nature
) of Mr. rRockefeller's illness from be.
coming konwn.
William Rockefeller is 81 years old
He has lived under a tremendous nerv-
Gus strain for forty years. He has
} been the speculative member of the
Standard group Of capitalists and has
engineered all of the vast deals of that