The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-01

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BY GEORGE FITCH.

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IN NE cannot cord up too much information about the President of the
United States The common citizens who ave hired a President
sight unseen n have turned the welfare of the ountry over to
him for a period of our years may be pardoned for a n omnivorous hunger for
details concerning the history character. habits dimensions, disposition. beliefs
and relatives of their new employee.
Summing p in brief the architects figures OF William Howard Taft who is
having his clothes made preparatory to being inaugurated President Of the
United States we find the following:
DIMENSIONS Height six feet; frontage enough to allow seven watch
pockets in a ROY across his vest; depth about our times that # William !
Bryan; capacity, sixteen hours work a day.
"GRoUNp PLAZA roun plan = The President elect covers practically
all of the planet He was born at Cincinnati, but lis large and rather deep foot
tracks have been found in almost every civilized country. lie is the first Pfes-
dent who has taken his Office after having crcumnavigated the sfoss and played
hop-scotch across it's various zones
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. an IN most peculiarly mixed with a Inc brand of
tny guaranteed unde h government pure food law Very little precious
metal about the premises. Is said that on Tafts returnf from the Philippines h
did lot have moret than $4,000. He has held som government position OF oher
for twenty years and has always regarded a public Office as an all-dsy job
OF a money bin whha Welcome sign on it.
FINISH Extremely plain. He wears clothes because that a the way he
vas proush up. HIS trousers are a vast "a ant OF hills ant valleys, ant his
coat finding itself suddenly without backing and support down near the pockets
droops away deectedy At the front In ducks he looks like an animated circus
tent In a rock coat e Is owever eimposng-as imposing as our or he ord-
nary men.
COLOR scHEME-Mr. Taft is a white man with a strong sympathy for
men OF a darker color The most patient and painstaking analysis falls to- dis
close any yellow in his makeup or an evidence of greenness in his past record.
Eeng by mature sunny, he is never luz. His clothes are black, his record is
white, md he himself especially after a hard days golhng is a beautiful rose
pink. 19 &
"PERsPEcTIvE-Not classic Beginning generously at the bottom. MI.
Taft swens nouceaby upward to a point just above the belt. and then fades
mansardr roof Separated from that vest only by a collar about as wide as a
piece of baby ribbon rises the, Taft head-a truly noble piece Of architecture
fl Snb. s.nranis, orsno, wnbo.t as nar,or,sr r.ur,,srss. ~ ~ sns
of neck, it rises straight from the collar 70 the temples, and then sweeps away in
ass The turret Of a battssbip n ; N he vast man 81 fac ther. ira hut thrsa
landmarks aside from eyesn hosea and mustache. Two of these arr deer frrows
on the side OF the nose. which when curved upward and outward help make tho
Taft smile. The other is a dimpIe which shows where his chinu used to he
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES steam-heated glad hand; one large: wide neay
laugh; one reinforced concrete backbone; m sow-fring temper with Check
valve and automatic thermostat; m extra-capacty non-capsizable digestive
system; m poorly fastened head OF ar.r rather light slightly grayed: mt light
brown extra-width mustache undomesttashd; " blond eye between narrow
lids; two ehtns; m exua-w width s4-csndkpower smile anday schedule. one
hot-ar plant very moderate he" q aAssA#s s4 A& sEsennxsseo