The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-28
DEAREST FAD
Of MRS KERN
She Prefers Children and
Home Life to Autos
and Clubs.

nerS? Or dogs? Or automobiles?
No. No. No. Children. Little
children. Poor children
OF course she is q club woman But
she is a home woman, a thoughtful
wife and tender mother And after
that she deyotes the most of her extra
time 10 the little ones of her home
city who are sick and tired and curbed
by scant surroundings.
Thus you find her often at the Flea
nor Hospital, in Indianapolis, for sick
children There she is the most vel
come visitor and her sympathetic
smile has lent encouragement to hun
dreds of wee sufferers
There is no one more prominent in
the playground movement in India
napolis. She is the most enthusiastic
patron of the fresh air camps
Mrs. Kern is thoroughly practical in
her ideas WOmen'S clubs, she de-
claTes, can do far more good by assist
ing such charities than by discussing
the whyfores and wherefores of Bal
FAC While she was president of the
local council of women she took fire.
quent occasion to emphasize this view,
and it bore good fruit
Mrs Kern Is a great home body
Her home life is ideal. The modest
frame house at 1922 North Meridian
soon to become the political capital
of Indianapolis, has sheltered one of
the happiest, chUmmiest families in
the city
There are three children in the
Kern household Miss Julia, young
woman of striking appearance, daugh-
ter of his first wife, and two sons,
John Worth Kern, JT-, 8. s.Id William
Cooper Kern, ) years old. The Kern
boys are Just kids" of the oId-fash-
Toned sort They are husky young
sters, full of life and play. and prefer |
going barefOoted to dressing up.
Entertained Bryan
When Bryan was entertained at the |
Kern home last February Mrs Kern |
told the boys they were going to have
strawberries, and that they mustn't |
display bad manners by saying any
thing about them. They must appear !
wholly unconcerned at the sight Of /
strawberries in early February
We'll, WELL said Bryan. when the |
dessert came, strawberries in Febru- |
airy That is just fine"
The boys looked at their mother in /
great establishment, then at their /
father They couldn't understand Al
terward one of them slipped UP TO his /
mother.
"Mr. Bryan has awful bad man
nerS. he cOnfided, still astonished
ana big oUev.- tie SPOKE aUUut-U741t
having Strawberries in February
Papa didn't Papa has better manners
than Mr. Bryan"
Kern is a model father He takes
great pride in his boys and is Ike a
big brother to them They tell him
their troubles with a confidence al
ways that he will promptly straighten
them out And he seldom fails t.
find a way.
The daughter. Miss Julia Kern. is
leader in social and club life A grad
nate of Mrs. SewaiI's girls classical
school. and she took a finishing course
in Miss Gardeners school in New
York. Her tastes are musical and she
is an accomplished pianist. Her ia
vorite sports are golf and tennis Like
her father she is of an exceedingly
domestic turn and IS perhaps most
jubilant of all the family over the
turn affairs took at Denver.
Nominee Kern is big-hearted.
thoughtful and considerable 1t is the
other fellows troubles, not his own,
that worry him most.
One night Kern was hurrving home
ward 1t was late and the Kerns were
entertaining company at dinner.
Pepper, mister" pipPd a newsbov.
as he was about TO board a car. He
handed the boy nickel, got a paper.
slipped the change into his rocket
where his youngsters always search
ed for pennies for their savings bank.
and boarded the car
After dinner one of his BOYS came
to him. Papa" he said, may | have
the nickel and the three pennies in
your pocket for my bank?'
Kern thought only moment. Then
he turned to his guests A poor news
boy gave me nickel in change in
stead OF penny He probably needs
it You will excuse me?" and he was
off TO catch q down town car.
He failed TO find the newsboy al tho
corner Appeal to other newSies fall
ed to locate him But week later
Kern ran across him and a nice silver
coin changed hands.
Kern has been twice married His
eldest son, volunteer in the United
States army died n Cuba from fever
during the Spanish-AmeriCan war. in l.
1898 He is d teetOtaler. and strange
" COinCidental- was a mem her OF the
dinner party at which Fairbanks serv
cd the famous cocktail.