The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-10-06

The right time to study the million
aire, prominent pdlitician. and man of
affairshis when heis on his vacation.
Then the true character shines out,
and you get glimpse of the real man.
. Americans. so=noncentrate:$ them
selves ON busines4 that the financier
at his desk is soShbsorbed in money
getting that all hit* natural character:
istics are swalloWed, not to reassert
themselves till heIIallows himself the
pleasure of a brief@surcease from the
Office and it's carey.f
Forgotten impulses then crop out,
some of the natural boyishness that
has been repressea in the process OF
years of money-getting crops out, and
the august man tbf affairs becomes
the noisiest and lolliest of compan-
IONS g.
Every Americam was Interested in
the recent vacation trip that John d.
Rockefeller took toIEurope. The news
papers sent reporters to accompany
him, and all they..iwrote was eagerly
read. 1t was something new to see
the iron head Of The most rapacious
trust in existence hollicking over Eu-
rope, and men studied the spectacle.
The vacation idea is divided into
two classes. Men#frst of all want a
change of scene with new ideas to
take overstressed minds off business.
This much contents some, but others
of a more active turn insist their va
cations must also lie made the occa-
sion of physical exercise with which
to stir up muscles fallen into decay
from long inaction..i
Mr.. Rockefeller took plenty of this
exercise. He played golf everywhere
he could during his stay abroad. =:
President Roosevelt works as, tire
1essly on a vacation as he does at
home. The sort of: thing that the
strenuous president regards as diver
sion would be: the5death Of some men.
He must be ONT 81, alrsthe time: He
loves to hunt, and the game cannot be
too big, or the, danger too great. He
also boxes, rides horseback insistently,
plays tennis, fences and wrestles.
His picnic trip the other day with
Mrs. Roosevelt and the children was a
pretty incident. 1t brings one closer
to the chief executive, and makes our
democracy more convincing to learn
that the Roosevelts,: big and little
from the father down to little Kermit
rose early, filled their. hampers and
went out o nan old-fashioned picnic.
Mr.. Roosevelt did the rowing. NO
one going along to give any aid. Mrs
Roosevelt cooked the coffee that went
with the luncheon. The father and
sons played ball, and the fun was Of
the same kind that thousands OF
Americans are taking to-day all over
the broad stretch of country
Secretary Cortelyou takes his vaca
tions somewhat like the president.
|: Commissioner of Corporations Gar
! field spends, good part of his vaca
tion awheel. He loves to ride, and is
like the president and Mr.. ICortelyou
an expert tennis player. .* 80
Grover Cleveland takes his vacation
in more dignified manner that better
fits his greater adiposity. The only
living ex-president knows only one
amusement that he really loves-that
is fishing. It is an old joke about Mr.
Cleveland, and the saying is generally
credited to his old pal, the late Joseph
Jefferson, that the former president
would never stop fishing till one Of
three things happened - darkness
came, he had: his creels:~ FULL, or. the
river dried UP:
Thomas Lawson, the inveterate foe