The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-03-04
WHILE MOST WASHINGTON FOLK
ARE FAST ASLEEP PRESIDENT
SPENDS BUSY HOUR WITH HIS
PHYSICAL DIRECTOR.

Washington, March Awhile most
folks in Washington are fast alseep,
a blue-eyed little man is wrestling,
boxing and exercising with the head
of the most exclusive house in the
United States. The servants are still
in their beds and the other members
of the family are sound asleep when
the little man begins his daily frolic
with the big man.
The White House is the home in
vaded by this man at o'clock each
morning. He comes and goes as he
pleases in this home of the first citi-
zen of the United States and by all
the attendants he is respectfully re-
ferred to as ''Dr. Barker"
DR.. Charles E. Barker is not the
presidents physician, neither is he
the presidents trainer. He is COM
bination of both, and while he exer-
cises the presidents muscles he also
exercises discretion as to the presi-
dents diet.
s'Diet with me is a vital matter
says DR.. Barker, "but I have no fads
to exploit or prejudices to be defend
ed. Each man and each women is a
separate physical entity. What is
nourishing for one person is not
recklessly to be recommended for
another
Came Hard at First.
''The training takes place every
day and big room on the third
floor of the White House is the gym
nasium. 1t is equipped as most gym
nasiums are with the usual stock OF
dunn bbells, Indian clubs, weight lifts,
boxing gloves and striking bags.
81 go to his house every morning
and I give him exercises that bring
all of the muscles of his body into
use and start good flow of perspir-
alton. When I first began to exer,
else with the president the exercises
were prudently moderate and con-
siderable time was spent in resting
My object in working with him was
to bring all Of the muscles in his
body into play, as l have said, par
ticularly those of the abdomen ano
chest. AS the days went by we
worked harder and spent less time
in catching our breath.
Spared from "Black Eye"
cat the time I thought ripe, I en-
gagged the president in boxing. W.
do not box furiously nor fast. W.
do not try to hurt each other ant
while there has been nothing said
there is a tacit agreement between
us not to go for the face. 1t woul'
not look nice for the president t.
preside in the White House witt
black eyes, would it,"
When Dr. Barker began his stunt
with Mr.. Taft, the president weighe'
considerably more than 800 pounds
AS time wore on this weight has bee
cut down, and while it fluctuates u
and down as his exercise is reduce
or increased, the president keeps hi
weight around the 800 mark.
When the president goes to Bever
| ly DR.. Barker will be with him AM
the big barn of the Evans place a
Burgess Point will be fixed up witt
the gymnasium appurtenances tina
are now in the White House.
President Chews Well.
The president practices dee
breathing and eats moderately. H
chews his food so well that 1t Nigh
be said that he Fletcherizes. He i
choice about it, too, and, under DR.
Bankers directions, avoids fattenin,
food.
! Dr. Barker weighs $50 pounds ant
the president 800. When the docto
gets a combination strangle, hal
| Nelson, scissors and hammer loci
| combined and a good toe hold besides
he might bulge the president an incl
and a quarter, but that's about thu
limit. The president losses hin
| around at will and the doctor good
\ ~ f,,roIIr hooc Gov y,onro
Fresh air Is another one of DR.
| Barker's ideas, but in that he ha'
firm supporter in President Taft
Mr.. Taft sleeps with his window opel
| and when he is in his office the tenn
perature is kept lower than in an.