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EAST VIEW OF WHITE HOUSE.

to get away from the shop he VIII have
ever at his command luxurious yacht,
the Mayfiower, OF $3.50 tons, for which
Mrs. Ogden Goelet originally paid 500 900.
and which she sold to the government
for $4JU,CG0 during the Spanish war. This
has been refurnished to meet the demands
OF Presidents and their guests. and it
has a crew OF nine officers and iii jack
les. Mrs. Roosevelt and her children
awaited themselves Of this craft several
winters ago for a trip to the coast OF
Cuba. The next President will have at
his command also the smaller pres
Dental yacht Sylph, on which the Roose-
veltS have made occasional trips down
the Potomac and on Chesapeake bay. At
tached to this latter vessel is a seventeen
knot autoboat. designed at the Norfolk
navy yard especially for the use of presf-.
dental families When official guests Of
the nation are entertained aboard these
vessels the contingent fund of the Navy
Department can be drawn upon to cover
the expense.
The future President will also enjoy less
restraint as to where he may go on these
cruises, and this freedom. toe. he will
owe to Mr.. Roosevelt, who has estab-
1ished the precedent that will allow flu
ture executives to leave their native
waters when they see fit, just as he has
established the others allowing them TO
go aboard foreign warships or to visit
foreign embassies and legations in Wash
ington.
bills to pay. for, being the commander
in-chief of the army and navy he may
cali in those services regular surgeons.
par. of whose official duty it is to
give medical attention TO officers and
their families. Moreover, if the next
President by any i'll fate should die in
office all of his funeral expenses will be
paid by the government. which will grant
his widow free use of the mails and
pension of 5000 year for life.
To keep petty details away from him
he will have an office force receiving
SG1.020 a year, headed by a private sec
rotary paid $500 year, in addition. and
to pay for such contingent expenses as
stationery, record books. reference books,
kilograms, office furnishings, maintenance
of office horses, carriages, harness, etc,
he will be allowed S20,01O a year. His
official correspondence will go free in
the mails and his secretaries will open
all of his letters, save those cont tanning
the private mark confded to his relatives
and very intimate friends. Only commu-
nications of Importance will ever be
shown to him, the others being referred
to the different departments of the gov
eminent. His secretaries will have forms
for answering the various letters which
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The Men Said MotIlinn.

A T dinner at the Plaza in honor Of
\ Mrs. Elinor Glyn, the fashionable
writer. the lights went out.
Then in the dark, Mrs. Glyn in her
prim English voice told this story:
"a debutante was describing to her
mother a weekend visit she had made
70 a smart house in Devon.
.''At dinner on Sunday night. she said,
the lights went out, a23-Wasn't II funny,
mamma ?-the women d.C1't want The but
Ter to light ther! again.
.'IIow do you know they didn't asked
the mother.
Because they were all crying out
DON'T" and stop And the men didn't
say word"
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remain in his office, and he will have to
dictate individual replies to but a small
percentage
Servants Paid by Government.
Uncle Sam will pay the valet who shaves
him, cuts his hair and cares for his ward
robe, the maid who waits upon his wife,
the groom of his stables, and also his
stable labOrers; the laundresses who care
for the White House linen and the corps
of house domestics who dust. scrub, wait
on table and polish up the handle of
the big trent door But his coachman
and other domestics hired for purely per-
sOnal service he will have to pay out of
his own pocket; and he will have to pro-
vide his own riding and driving horses,
as well as their oats. But, like any other
high officer of the army, he will be pro-
vfded with an orderly to fetch and take
his mount and accompany him when
riding abroad, while petty officer of the
navy will be detailed to raise and lower
the flag which indicates the Presidents
presence when flown over the White
House. Some time ago house servant
flew this flag in distress, with the ensign
down. and this signal being a just cause
for alarm as 20 the Presidents safety it
was deemed best to make regular sailor
responsible Cor it.
The wife of the winner of the coming
campaign will not be worried much by
housekeeping details. At salary of 81, 500
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WHITE HOUSE KITCHEN.
she can afford TO employ one at her own
expense as Mrs. Roosevelt has done.
Will Get Many Presents.

she can afford TO employ one at her own
expense. as Mrs. Roosevelt has done
Will Get Many Presents.
She and her husband will be showered
with presents from every part of the
world Mr.. Roosevelt has received gifts
from nearly every crowned head of the
old world, and these have ranged from
menagarie of Zebras, lions, balloons and
other wild beasts from the King of Abys-
snia to a magnificent rug which arrived
the other day from the Sultan of Turkey;
but all of these gifts from royalty he has
accepted on behalf of the nation and has
turned them over 20 the Smithsonian. He
has also been sent all kinds and condi-
tons of things by admirers in this cOun-
try. and these have varied from hlooded
riding horse given by Wyoming cowboys
to "A tetl-pound cake of ice mailed TO him
in BaltimorC. Had he kept all of the Gu
rious animals given him he would have
private menagerie rivaling that of Baron
Rothschild \ few weeks ago he received
from a citizen of Nicaragua an immense
turtle weighing $50 pounds. When he re-
turned from his western trip in 19HS he
brought with him three wagon loads OF
gifts and when his eldest daughter re-
turned from her oriental trip with Secre-
tary Taft she brought home twenty-three
cases of gifts upon which She paid 81 300
duty.
Mr. Roosevelt's successor will not have
the trouble with office seekers which has
confronted other executives to date. Ex-
elusive Of the five thousand and odd presi-
Dental misunderstanding, which are gener-
ally distributed through members of Con-
greSs. Mr.. Roosevelt has left little outside
the civil service pale except the big berths
in the diplomatic corps and about a thou
sand odd jobs in the internal revenue,
public land, customs and Indian services.
Even the consulships have now been made
permanent; but, of course. another Pres-
dent could tear down the civil service bar
riers if he wished to take the conse-
Quences.
But although the presidency is now a
far more tempting berth than ever before
it is not yet a bed OF roses by any means
The White House becomes a mecca for
more cranks and lunatics as the years roll
by, and its present occupant has been Wis
tied by all sorts of demented persons
varying from bewhiskered individual
announcing himself as the devil' to an
other calling himself King Charles XVI"
and demanding Miss Roosevelt's hand in
marriage
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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VIII have no cause for shame when mov-
ing into it,
Thanks to Congress also the presi-
dency is a safer Office than when Mr.
roosevelt assumed it. Attacks upon the
lie of the Chief MAGISTRATE are now
iederal orenseS, and an unsuccessful at
tempt to kill him is punishable by death.
Whlle mere threat to assassinate him.
Ut even the advising of another to do So
Is punishable by ten years inlprison-
ment To prevent Il repetition of the
Garfield tragedy separate wing of the
new mon station, now being completed
IN Washington, is being furnished and
appointed for the private use of Presi-
dents who hereafter will pass to their
trains without exposure to platform
crowds. This suite has a retiring room
where the Chief Magistrate may rest if
his departing train be late or where he
may arrange his toilet after leaving his
car. and there is also an elegantly dec
GRATED apartment where he can meet
official guests Of the nation or be met
by functionaries welcoming him to the
same roof is branch police station and
another has been put in the new east
terrace of the White House. 1t occu-
pies the left wing of the new public
entrance. shown in the foreground of
the accompanying photograph of the
renovated White House as it appears to-
day in all of its summer grandeur. The
public, now admitted to this wing in
Sledu VI W the NUItn uODlWdy uSeQ Dy
the presidential family views the mu-
scum features in the space beneath the
rows of bay trees and is admitted up
stairs to the East Room, but no further;
so the President may now pass down
stairs to one of his drawing rooms with
out lodging some crank or Zealot who
might wish to buttonhole him. The ex-
terror OF the building is guarded by
thirty-eight policemen. and, which has
been greatly to Mr.. Rooseveit's chagrin,
the President is no longer allowed to go
out of sight of the secret service men.
To guard against another Mckinley
tragedy, this branch of the government
detective force has been enlarged and
made more adequate, and these detec-
tives are the only government employees
who can safely disregard the Presidents
orders. Were they to obey them re-
ligiously they would keep out Of his
sight.
Will Have Two Yachts and Autoboat
So Uncle Sam will take pretty good
care of the man who wins out in the
November contest. His life will not be
all fuss and feathers and humdrum and
grind. If he wants to take a sea trip
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DANGEROUS.

Z w. BALDWIN, the noted aeronaut.
1 paused in his aeronautical expert
ments at Hammondsport, n. Y, TO say
to reporter:
Advise the general public to go in for
flying. A coed airship can easily he
made fer S15. or course, it has no mo-
tor; it's a glider; you take a run from
hilltop and go gliding down the air.
When all the people are experimenting
with these simple and cheap gliders then
real progress in flying viii be made
But said the reporter. 1.-The danger?''
There's no danger" said the aero
naut "YCu learn from low hiltops; you
don't attempt the heights until you have
mastered aerial balancing. No. there's
not nearly the danger in flying that there
young BRIDE
Mr.. Baldwin smiled.
How dangerous it is.'' said he, ito
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Church of the Covenant which is Presby-
terrain. and she is a regular attendant at
the services An interesting coincidence
about the possibility of Mrs. Taft and
Mrs. Sherman occupying CONFORMITY such
exalted positions in national affairs Is
that their mothers were longtime friends
and they have themselves always main
tanned the most pleasant relations.
Mrs. Taft's mother was Miss Harriet
Collins, daughter of Col. Eli Collins oe
Utica. and in their girlhCod Mrs. Heron
that was to be and Mrs. Babcock were
very fond of each other. They kept up
the intimacy until family cares made cor
respondence difficult; but Mrs. Babcock
is always a welcome and honored guest
in the Taft household when she comes to
Washington.
Everybody has some small fad said
Mrs. Sherman, land l have mine. Nat
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everybody was amazed TO
discover how little was known of Mrs.
Sherman But" observed a close friend
of that prospective second lady of the
land Mrs Sherman has always been
too busy with her home and her boys
20 make a record in Vanity Fair"
Mrs Sherman is well known and much
admired if she does not shine star
in thei social armament, and. during her
eighteen years of residence here has made
many friends II she attains the lofty
eminence accorded the spouse of the heir
apparent of the presidency, so many in
teresting possibilities are suggested.
First and foremost, the Daughters Of
the American Revolution have cast a
longing eye on Mrs. Sherman the
successor of Mrs. Donald Mclean, whose
term expires just one month after the
Inauguration of the new President. Mrs
Sherman does not belong to the associa-
ton. but she has always intended to join
IT, so say her friends She comes Of
heroic stock. her maternal grandmother,
Emily Ethridge. was direct descendant
of Pocahontas and she had two ancestors
who signned the Declaration and who
fought in the war of Independence and
subsequently. Mrs. Taft is eligible Tor
the Daughters but she is essentially not
a cluDwoman. Mrs. Sherman. on the con-
trary, sees much good in clubs of certain
sorts. only until the present she was too
much occupied to join any. The feminine
side of the vice presidency offers the
same leisure which is afforded the Presi-
dent OF the Senate. that is the leisure to
give society a large share of attention.
Mrs Sherman was among the first to
Join the Congressional Club. and she may
join the newly formed college club for
women. AS she never attained a degree.
she can hold only limited membership
in this organization. Her education was
obtained at the Utica Seminary and she
later took a course at Balliol College, but
she did not complete her studies. Per-
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which now has a special dress uniform
for all White House entertainments.

Whicn now has a special dress uniform
Tor all White House entertainments.
Home Luxuries.
Mr.. Roosevelt has broken all records
for executive inequalities which have
probably cost him far above his sal
airy. for he has seldom sat down to meal,
save breakfast. without one or more
guests. But he has considerable personal
fortune-estimated at s250,O0O when he
was Governor of New York-and Il poor
man, such as Secretary Taft, will have to
go bankrupt if he wishes to live on an
equal scale while in the White House.
The home luXuries of the remodeled
White House include, on the first floor,
four magnificent parlors-the great east
room, with its s15, 900 piano. where Presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt have given their
musicals; the adjoining green parlor, now
refurnShed in the style of the first
French empire: similarly furnished the
blue parlor sometimes called the throne
room" because it is the apartment in
which the President receives his geusts
on all state occasions; the red parlor, in
the same empire style as the other two,
and used as a smoking room for family
guests; the magnificent state dining
room with its tapestries and trophies of
the hunt, which President Roosevelt had
enlarged to hold 100 dinner guests instead
of forty. and the adjoining private dining
room. On the upper floor, reached by an
electric elevator. there now are eight
bedrooms, with private bath to each
suite; the Presidents study and large
library. where Mr.. Roosevelt's successor
can enjoy a valuable collection of books
gradually assembled by presidents from
the time OF Fillmore down to the present
tfme. In the basement the new lady of
the White House will find two modern
kitchens. large laundry and wonderful
pantry containing an electric dish heater
with a capacity Of 5000 plates At the
state dinners over which she presides the
viands prepared in her two kitchens by a
caterer. will be served on q 100000 serv-
Zee of Wedgewood china, besides the new
glassware, also bought under Mrs. Roose-
velts direction, and the historic silver
plate which has been collected by White
House matrons since Abigail Adams
time Cards of her guests will be brought
to her by ushers paid by the government.
while on formal occasions guests Will be
presented to her and her husband by bril-
liantly uniformed army. naval and marine
officers detailed as social aids to the
President" She will never. have to re-
turn any calls, and all of the petty de-
tails of social correspondence will be at
tended to by her private secretary, II
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DOOSEVELT Has Made

DOOSEVELT Has Made
MT Comfortable and Pay
ing Berth-$2,os3 a Month
Now for Travelling Expenses
for President and Guests
White House When He En-
tered Was a Flat Crowded
Next to an Office and Above
a Museum-Now a Dignifed
and G o m fort a lie Home
With Respectable Accommo-
dations-Presidency a Safer
Office = New Federal Law
Furnishes With Death Even .
Attempts Upon Presidents
Life-Threatening or Advis-
ing His Death Also High
Crime - White House Now
Has a Branch Police Station +:
and President Has Railroad
Depot Practically His Own !
Winner of Election Will d;
Have Two Yachts and an !
Autoboat-Less Restraint as ;
to Where He Shall Travel !
Doctor, Undertaken and
Servants Paid by United !
States - Wife Relieved of !
All Domestic Cares-Home (:
Luxuries Guaranteed Her !
Presents, Perquisites and :
Patronage Enjoyed. !
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MRS. JAMES SCHOoLCRAFT SHERMAN

equal Mrs. Hobart undertook for her.
But the Vice President can live in quiet
stateliness and perform, all that is re-
CURED for the office en- smaller income
than is credited to Mr.. Sherman. Then
the increased salary will help along mat
tiers, and Mrs Sherman is one of those
excellent homekeepers for which her
home region is famous.
I'VE are David Harum people up my
way" she said recently, land every par
ticle of the wit and humor and struggling
and economiZing is familiar to us through
the flesh and blood Davids whom we fire.
ouentlY meet. Thla book. by the way, is
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VOpyrlgnt. l9OS. by John Elfreth Watk1nS.)
T HANKS to Theodore Roosevelt,
the great goal for which Mr..
Taft and his democratic oppo-
nent now commence to battle
looms up far more alluring
than it has appeared to contestants in any
of the great quadrennial political strug-
giles of the past. The purse for the Win
ner will be the same-S21O, 900 for the
term, si37 a day. $40 per hour. 4711 cents
per minute. But Mr.. Roosevelt has fixed
it so that his successor will enjoy much
more comfortable. dgnified and decent
manner of living than that which con-
fronted him when he moved into the
crowded fiat which Uncle Sam then held
in reserve for presidents over his little
museum at 18th street and Pennsy lvania
avenue. The next President will not have
to lie behol3en to the shrewd generosity of
the railroads whenever he wishes to COM
ply with popular demands for his presence
here and there. There will always be on
hand in the Treasury s2,OS3 a month Ito
defray the travelling expenses of the
President and his invited guests as the
law puts it.
And the victor in this campaign will
find the White House much more tempt
ing as a home than did Mr.. Roosevelt
when he first had his trunk carried into
it. What he then found Uncle Sam to
have in store for him was indeed a fiat
over a museum, and one end of the fiat
was given over to Offices State dinners
were being held in draughty, upstairs
hallway. reception guests were making
their exits out of a front window, and
the President himself couldn't take
bath in his own congeSted suite of liv-
ing rooms without fear of some intru-
der's peeping at him over a half parti-
ton separating his tub stall from a part
of the lavatory space frequented by Of
fice-seekers. Mr.. Roosevelt told the lead
ers in Congress that the President of a
respectable nation should live respect
ably, and he got an appropriation which
he used to- clear his sleeping floor of
its workshop annex. He moved the latter
to new wing. added bedrooms and
baths. had the building restored to it's
original architectural grandeur, had its
bizarre and rocco furnishings sold at
auction and had 1T redeeorated and re-
furnished in simple but classic good
taste The White House today is the
mos. stately type of colonial mansion in
me land and Mr.. Roosevelt's successor
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the higher duties still have the call? Her
friends say that she has been conspicu-
ously successful in all that she under
takes. and If fate casts her at the head
OF the official circle after the Presidents
wife she will meet her obligations cred
itably. But no one expects in any con-
tingency such tremendous social activity
as the Fairbankses developed. Looking
over the past, only two former vice presi-
Dental families made such efforts to
dominate the social, armament as the
Levi p. Mortons and the
Carrot Hobarts.
Mrs. Morton had always been a society
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queen. and she merely carried out in
Washington the program to which she
had been committed in New York city.
The Hobarts occupied peculiar posi-
ton. The ill-heath of Mrs Mckinley
and the close relations which existed be-
tween the Mckinleys and the Hobarts-
probably closer than any which ever eX-
listed between the incumbents OF the TWO
Offices before or since-gave the HobartS
special prominence. Any large function
to which Mrs. Mckinley did not feel
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Personality Is Enthusiastically
Pleasing.


AS Washington knows Mrs. Sherman to-
day, she is a dignificd woman with soft.
prematurely gray hair worn in waves
little low on her forehead-with clear,
gray eyes and soft. pleasant way of
speaking. She never gives one the i'm
preston of clothes and yet thinking
things over. the conclusion is that she
gowns herself well and appropriately
Last winter she spent the season at the
New Willard, and her dinner gowns were
always well chosen. She is partial to sill
yer gray, to whites and blacks. with a
touch of lavender or old rose, but in her
own expressive words, There is nothing
which l so utterly detest as mutton
dressed lanb-fashion.' Mrs. Sherman
is never dressed lamb fashion. nor Goes
she ever suggest anything but stately
dignified woman, who would like to keep
the world out Of her private affairs.
Yet she is affable To strangers, and
very chatty and communicative to -
friends Last W inter- sc was diScuss1:s
that all-absorbing theme about the Gals
which the women of the House of Repre-
sentatives were required to make to fol-
low the dictates OF official etiquette Mrs
Sherman took leiSurely view of her So
cial obligations. Il call on the cabinet
hostesses.' she said, and on those from
my immediate environment whose hus-
bands are in the Senate. and on those
congressional women whom friendship or
the obligation irksome. | have always
felt that higher duties have the claim
Because a woman has married a poll
tic:an her natural cations cannot be
cast aside. l have heard much of the
social drudgery which women in official
life endure. Now / yield to no one my
devotion TO my husbands cause and my
anxiety TO help him. But the question
is how best to help ones husband when
he selects the warfare of politics as his
lot. Ny answer is to keep him comfort
able at home, to look carefully after the
ways of the household and 10 perform
that highest duty of all. the training of
the children. Happy homes. says u GER
tain French philosopher whom l am
fond of reading, are the best foundation
for useful, successful career for chill
dren.'
Home Virtues Most Important.
my conception of the best way to aid
Mr.. Sherman was TO make good men of
our sons For years this claimed me and
chained me at Utica. l believe in boys
growing up in their natural home en-
vironment. so l remained in my house in
Utica until the boys had finished their
education You cannot have two homes
tain one in Washington. Changing schools
and dividing the attention of growing
boys is not the best training. | think. SO
/ remained in Utica. though il was
lonely during Mr.. Sherman's absence, and
| should have LIKED the social diversions,
as any woman would. But l have my
own ideas and | have carried them out
l did not find that Mr.. Sherman's political
prestige Ianguished because l did not set
up a fine house in Washington and wear
myself out making calls. When my boys
were well launched in the tide / came to
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Washington. and have enjoyed myself
very much indeed / have always found
politics an absorbing study. so the win
ters here have not failed to interest me.
But l am not in favor of petticoat poll
ticians. not of any career for women but
the natural one of home and the rearing
of children
Then comes the question which is caus-
ing Washington some anxiety If Mrs
Sherman is the second lady of the land
will she disdain the social amenities, will