The National tribune., 1909-03-25

Gen. John r. King called on Pcaz
dent Roosevelt the day before he fsf
Office. and presented to him a brC>nze
medal from Abraham Lincoln Fsss
Grand Army OF the Republic, Lima
Peru.
Apropos of the recent discussion re-
sarding the proper designation for the
Presidents house. the late Mrs. Sempie
daughter of President Tyler, who died
Mt the Louise Home here year or more
ago. was authority for the statement
khat the terms White House and EXecu-
. tive Mansion were never used when her
father was President. and that in those
DAYS the White House was invariably
known as the Presidents House.
John Callan O'Laughlin, Assistant
Secretary of State for a few weeks un-
der President Roosevelt, is a young
newspaper man of more than ordinary
bFiiliancy. He was offered the position
of Minister to the Argentine Republic
by President Taft, but declined. Mr..
OIaughlin, whose name is suggestive
Is just as good an American as they
make. He appreciated the honor in
tended, but prefers to remain on Amer
ican soil and continue his newspaper
work.
The report of the Division of Dead
Letters of the Post Office Department
for February shows that 953,795 pieces
of mail matter were received, S16,059
pieces being of domestic origin, and the
remainder, 1876, of foreign origin.
There were 461,067 pieces of mail
matter returned to the senders. while
II was necessary to destroy 250,S65 Cir
cuiars and non-returnable letters.
Six thousand and eighty-eight letters
containing money were received, the
aggregate being s5,013.10, as against
month in 1908. 1t was possible for the
Division to return s4,409.11 to the send
ers
Senator Elkins has just lost brother
by death who was Postmaster at CO.
IuInbia, Mo. He had been Postmaster
there for period of IL years.
Hon. Chas. P. Taft, who, when he
thought he was running for the United
States Senate. got out Of all the cor
porations of which he was a member,
30 as not to have any "entangling al
Hances," has hiked back into the cor
poration harness. He came to Wash
ington for the inaugural ceremonies
and basked in the light of the sun
which he helped nightly to shine upon
Brother WILL" and then he went right
straight back into is "directorships'
and all that. One of the nice things
about the Taft brothers is the way they
hang together. They certainly do have
q warm love for each other.
The day before Inauguration Presi-
dent Taft was nearly mobbed in his
laudable desire to have his feet
trimmed up and corns down for the
inaugural ball. He had the big white
Ty<zor -..t
to the chiropodist's, and was nearly
lifted off his feet when he alghted by
the people who suddenly gathered
around him. They stood there for an
hour, with constantly accruing ranks.
while he was. having his feet mani
his enhancing smiles as he came out.
He will probably. have his foot doctor
come TO the White House after this.
ambassador White will lose his Office
and his daughter about the same time.
Miss Muriel White is scheduled to
marry Count Serth Josch, a rich Sile-
sian. 1t is said he is very rich, popular,
and that the match is purely a love
AFFAIR. Miss White is 2s years old. and
SO ought to know her own mind and
men pretty well. She has been abroad
50 much that she is half foreign, any
how, SO it doesn't much matter.
Jimmy Sloan, Mr.. Roosevelts clos
est companion and bodyguard for the
past five years, has been rewarded.
Within a few weeks he will resign
from the Secret Service to become Mar
shall for the Southern District of Illi-
nois
Sloan's appointment is favored by
Speaker Cannon, in whose district he
will take office. Sloan's home Is at
ltanNilip He will In ha
Service. as the bodyguard of President
Taft until the intricacies of protecting
the Executive have been learned by
Lucien c. Wheeler.
President Taft recently addressed
Normal School for Girls, and the senti-
ments he expressed are not strictly
Rooseyeltian. He said:
II hope that you will not regard mat
rimony as necessary.
Il think that the secret of most do
mestic infelicity is in the thought that
young women think that unless they
are married their lives are not a sue
cess. AS matter of fact, think the
reverse is exactly true. Look into your
own lives and your families.
Take some aunt of yours who never
married. What a sweet, self-saerific-
Ing, disinteresied and lovely character
she has grown to be, 20 or so years of
spread over all the family circle in
which she lives, and then tell me she
would have been better off if she had
been married. L don't believe IT" Safe
and sane sentiment that. If tine Taft
idea will only grow. ii will tend to fewer
divorce cases and lot of happier
homes.
There died in Washington a short
Vine ago colored woman, "Auntie
Cousins" who was proud to say that
she had been slaTe, and her head was
white with the SHOWS of 104 Winters,
according to her own count. She was
a type Of the very best class of slaves.
and had a heap more quality in ner
makeup than many white people who
born on the estate of President Thomas
Jefferson, and served successfully in
the jefferson. Fleming and Webb fanli-
lies of Virginia. Since the civil war she
had made her home with a son-in-law
In Teneleytown.
Despite the fact that she was past
the century mark in years, the former
slave had never beaa seriously i'll until
quite recently. She attributed her good
health and longevity to the habit o.
dispensing with the use of medicine.
One of the very funny pre-inaugura-
sion stories has just come to light A
Southern Senator has a constituent "a
rich one, by the way-who is great
admirer of President Taft. He was
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