Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-19
TIT FOR WHITE HOUSE
Taft and His Family Will Do
Credit to Home of Nations
Chief Executives
MRS. TAFT BRILLIANT WOMAN
Not Stranger to White House Sur
roundinss and customs-Three Chill
dren in the Family of the Republican
Nominee = Some Of Their Accom-
pIishments and Characteristics.


Washington, June 19.-The Taft
family. if the November elections favor
the republicans, will do the honors OF
the White House in fashion that will
be entirely creditable. The prominence
given to Secretary Taft this week has
served to call attention to the fact that
he has about him a strong and capable
family group Mrs. Taft is an unusual
woman. of winning disposition but of
children have not suffered in the mat
ter of dispensation of brains. Brains
seem to have way of running in the
Taft family and the children of the
secretary of war give every promise
of possessing large degree of that
intelligence that has made Mr.. Taft a
power in the Roosevelt administra-
ton.
Secretary Taft's family consists,
aside from himself and Mrs. Taft, Of
three children. The Oldest is Robert
A1phonso, aged IS. He is a sophomore
aged II, and Charles is aged 10. Miss
Taft attracted notice a day or two ago
4 by winning the Pennsylvania state
scholarship from Baldwin school at
4 Bryn Mawr to Bryn Mawr itself. She
is tall, attractive young woman, with
golden hair and great liking for
study. She inherits her mothers love
of books and it is generally believed
that she will stick to school even at the
}expense OF missing several seasons in
the White House. Robert,yis likewise
an excellent student. He won num-
Der of prizes in the freshman class at
Yale and has set out to equal the rec
ords made by his father and grand
father His father was second in the
Yale class Of rs and his grandfather,
Judge Alphonso Taft, was third in the
Yale class of 1888. 1t is apparent the
young man has no easy goal ahead OF
him. He expects to study law. He is
a good athlete and has taken to row.
ing with success. His young brother,
/ Charles, who Ii always referred to as
4 Charlie" Is bright young chap, who
/ has had a remarkable experience for
a lad of his age. He has been twice
around the world with his father and
being a great reader and a keen OBJ
server for his age, has profited by his
travels. He has until recently gone to
Force School here, the same school
! that Quentin Roosevelt attends and he
and Quention are great friends.
Mrs. Taft Has Influence.
1t is probably due to Mrs. Taft that
Secretary Taft entered the race for
president. She is ambitious and when
the president offered Secretary Taft a
place on the supreme court about two
years ago, she was the member of the
family who objected. She took the view
| then that her husbands chances for the
presidency were too good to be thrown
away and that 1t was unwiseafor him
to allow himself to be shelxedj on the
fsupreme bench. Her Judgmentsprevailed
and 1t seems true that if left to his
own inclinations at that time Mr.. Taft
would have told the president he would
take the associate judgeship. If
]; take the associate justiceship.9l
~ Mrs. Taft, if her husband is elected,
win fill the duties of head of the
White House household admirably.
| She is a comparatively young woman.
Mrs. James r. Garfield is the young
! est wife Of cabinet member Next
| to her, Is Mrs. Taft who was fire.
quently referred to as the youngest
cabinet woman before the appoint
ment Of Mr.. Garfield. Mrs. Taft is
attractive rather than handsome. She
| is quite tail and slender, with hand
some brown hair and gray eyes. Her
/ friends say she believes the sphere of
the woman is the home altho she
feels that every woman should get
the best possible education. She is
one of the best-liked women in the
cabinet circle, being witty, bright and
vivacious with disposition to live
carefully up to her social duties as
the wife of cabinet official In re-
i ligion, Mrs. Taft is an Episcopalian. 1t
was officially explained a few days
ago that Mr.. Taft is a Unitarian, thus
answering certain charges that have
been printed that he is an atheist
2 An Accomplished Woman.
! Mrs. Taft is fond of music and a
| trained musician. She was prominent
| in Cincinnati music circles. She was
president for seven years OF the Gin
cinnati Symphony orchestra and for
| fourteen years member of that or
sanitation. She has number of
medals, goblets, cups and the like that
she has won in music competitions.
When she went around the world with
her husband she carried with her
beautiful silver certer piece given her
by the Cincinnati Orchestra associa-
| ton, and whenever she gave dinner
to friends on that trip, this center
piece always was on the table filled
with flowers. In the stress of her So
cial duties In Washington, Mrs. Taft
finds but little time for her music. but
nevertheless does not wholly neglect
it. Mrs. Taft is not only an accom-
plished musician. but is wide reader
of good literature Jane Austen and
Thackeray are among her favorite au
thors
No Stranger to White House.
AS to the White House, Mrs. Taft
is far from a stranger to it, If she
becomes the lady of the White House
she will feel quite at home. 1t is not
generally known, however that her
acquaintance with the White House
is much older than the date of her
husbands commission as secretary OF
war Her father. John w. Heron. of