Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-06-26
PRESIDENT Or FRENCH REPUBLIC.
NJ. Fallieres, Gifted in Oratary and Brew
ity of Speech, Plain Safe Man.

Armand Fallieres. President of the
French republic, is a robust and large
bodied old gentleman Of sixty-six. He is
from the Midi. the south that provides
France with Otiise holders as inevitably
as Ireland provides New York with POI
licemen. Like all men from the south
he possesses the gift of oratory. but
combines with it love for brevity. III
fact it is said that the longest speech
he ever made only occupied nalf a coll
umn Of a newspaper and that since he
has become President he seldom needs
more than twenty lines.
When NJ. Fallieres took over the Ely
see palace after his election his first act
was to reduce the military and naval
staff attached to the Presidency. The
fifteen or twenty others of high rank on
NJ. Loubet's personal staff We're cut
down TO three, the highest in rank being
a colonel Fourteen officials attached to
the protocol or etiquette department
were dismissed.
1T is out of place for the chief magis-
tr;.tr ot q democratic republic TO be sur
rounded with so much ceremony" was
the new chief of states remark
Nine. Fallieres ran her side of the
official residence on the same lines An
army of cooks, scullions, chambermaids
and Wallets had to 90, and Marietta, the
family cook, who has been in the Fal-
| Heres service from time immemorial, was
installed in the Presidential kitchen.
These changes and others, such as not
keeping up the state stables, but hiring
horses when they are needed for state
occasions. are ascribed by Partisan
satirical newspapers less to dislike for
ostentation than to love of thrift.
Winter and summer NJ. Fallieres rises
! at and Immediately takes Il cold
shower bath. Then, weather permitting
he starts off for his morning constitution
| al walk. never less than FIVE miles. He
! begins with I four mile an nour gait
which dwindles down to a stroll if, as
! is usually the case. the walk finishes
along the quays of the Seine, for he is
a great book lover and cannot pass the
old book stalls along the embankment.
! Luncheon is always frugal meal,
washed down with a mild claret, the
| product of the Loupillon vines, NJ. Fal-
| Heres native place. He dimes promptly
at 1. and if there is nothing to prevent
| him doing so spends the evening quietly
| in the family circle, retiring to bed at
| 1890. He rarely goes to the theater OF
| the opera except when obliged to do SC
on state occasions.
| A man of simple tastes and straight
| forward character. NJ. Falieres was
elected to the Presidency first of all on
account of his personal merit and mod
| crate views. and second, because the
| French Republican leaders have laid
! down as an axiom that the President
| should never he what is commonly called
a man of action who might be inclined
TO interfere with the decisions of his
ministers and even at times to try to
| lead them. They selected Armand Fal-
Heres in opposition to Paul Doumer be.
cause they knew he was a safe man
who would contine himself strictly to his
constitutional prerogatives, whereas NJ
| Doumer was tainted with n suspicion OF
| elf-assertiveness.-P Daily Mail.