The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-07
men IN CABINET WHO LAUGH
very Few of Them Excel tho Pros
ioent in Seeing Things in Their
Humorous Light.
| nited Press Special.

iack or laughter as has been ,Sso,.
ed by a distinguished French scie,-
'ls'' PRESIDENT Taft, who is himself
the rather of a particular brand =,
upfoatous mirth-sound, has an aid
assortment of men whom he has
I paced IN office to run the affairs of
! the Executive end of the Govern
/ ment.
! When the president was secretarv
OF war, the heavy mahogany doors
/ OF the war department We're not suf-
! liclent TO shut out the sound that
/ issued forth despite these barriers
WAen he saw something that struck
MIN as funny. And he saw MANY
things in the humorous light He
laughed more then than he has since
aithough from the Executive office
there still issues forth now and then
i the echo of great and sonorous
/ laugh, big-man kind of laugh he
speaking good digestion and good
lungs.
| 1t is doubtful whether President
Taft has selected a single man who
can duplicate his laugh or even come
anywhere near it.
When Roosevelt was president he
| was no mean second in the matter
| OF laughter to his secretary of wa
1t wasn't the sonorous. easy gong
j complacent sort such as Presi Lent
rats but it had rare qualitie5 it
had the effect of making everyone
who heard it laugh too. or at least
smile. 1t was eXhu5eranr cboppv. if
you like; irregular, boyish at times
raising to a treble as if its creator
was having the time of his life at
the moment of its utterance. MANY
is the time that secretaries passin-
bis door stopped to smile at this
medley of merriment and it issued
forth most Offer just at the time
when one thought the Colonel was
in his tightest corner, held at bag
by his enemies.
Former Governor Guild II Mass,
aChusetts took occasion the either
day before leaving with the Ameri-
can delegation which is to attend
the Centennial Celebration of Mex
leo City. to call upon Roekman
Winthrop, assistant secretar, &c the
navy, TIE result was a pertccl flow
of laughter. Guild has the r3eliow.
club-fellow laugh 1t is all nf good
humor, comfort, enjoyment of the
moment. Winthrop's laugh is an ut
terly wild, unrestrained sory that
ripples and splashes about as if the
survivor of the tennis cabinet dill
not care a rap for anything and pro-
posed to amuse himself as he chose.
Winthrop has a hard time carrying
on the traditions of the former ad-
ministration.
Secretary Knox, President Taft's
premier, likes a laugh now and then
but mostly then. The lips of the
secretary of state seldom emit rip
pie except when the moment is a
most stimulating one. More fire.
quently he sits and smiles, and his
eyes do not laugh at ell They fix
themselves on whomsoever is near
est as though the levity of the oc-
casion was merely bait to draw out
the other person While the eyes scrll
tinted whatever secrets of counten-
ance might be unveiled by the flash
OF merrinent.
Secretary of War Dickinson has a
yaucous sort of laugh although it is
not especially distinctive. It is much
the same as that of any big man
who can take pleasure in a funny
story but it does not always indicate
a mirthful temperature.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer is
not a man of mirth. His laugh Isl
a quiet one such as would not cause
any head to turn in the best ordered
drawing room, but he has the pow
err of emitting it at the proper mo-
ment. He can lean back his chair
from the knottiest problem, I'M
wrinkle his forehead and give al
mirthful, amiable, velvety little rip
pie which suits the occasion.
Uncle Jim Wilson, secretary OF
agriculture, and grand father OF
the cabinet" has a nice, well defined,
western Iowa laugh when the idea
strikes him. 1t is a very character
istic sort of uneuphonious utterahce'
1t comes forth unbidden by circum-
stance, is not very loud and depends
entirely upon the Secretary lh"aru
state of being. He laughs when ne
pleases.
Attorney General Wickersham is
far different from Bonaparte, MS
predecessor, who often chuckled 70