Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-03-04
LEADS STRENUOUS LIFE
Friends of President Taft Urge Him
to Cancel Speaking Dates and
Lead the Simple Life.
CHerald Specially

9PSSAehA-s
Washington, D. c., March 4.-Some
of the presidents friends, fearing that
he may overtaX his strength and phys
ical endurance, are urging him to
cancel some of the many public en-
gagements he has made for the next
few months and take life bit easier
until the time arrives for his summer
vacation The past winter has been
an exceedingly strenuous one for Mr.
Taft and it is small wonder that of
late he has appeared tagged and worn
out at times. During the past few
weeks he has been absent from Wash
ington several times to attend ban
quets and meetings in outside cities.
The trips were made with the mini
mum loss of time and consequently
left the president little time for rest
or recreation.
The schedule of the presidents pub
lie engagements for the next three
months shows that he will be kept
busy until the arrival of warm wealth
er. Week after next he is to go to
Chicago in response to an invitation
to speak at the St Patrick's day BAN
quet of the Irish Fellowship Club of
that city. The program prepared for
the day is suffici mt to show the
strain imposed upon the president On
such occasions. He is scheduled to
arrive in Chicago at o'clock in the
morning and will be escorted by re-
ception committee to the LaSalle Ho-
tel, where he will listen to the infor-
NAL addresses of welcome. At IL
o'clock he will visit the Newspaper
Club, and at 1890 o'clock he will be
entertained at luncheon by the local
committee. At o'clock in the after
noon he will make an address in the
Auditorium to a conservation conven-
ton and at o'clock he will attend a
reception at the Hamilton Club. An
hour later he will receive the men,
bers of the Fellowship Club, and at
6 o'clock he will deliver his address,
SO that he may leave Chicago at 1920
p. m. After an all-night ride he will
arrive in Rochester in time to speak
at dinner of the chamber of COM
merce in that city. Thence he will
hurry on to Albany, where he will
also make an address. From Albany
he will go to New Haven to attend a
meeting of the Yale Corporation, and
the next day will find him in Provi-
dence to speak at a banquet of the
New England Manufacturing Jewel
ers
During the mon sh-ef,April the pres
ident is scheduled to attend public
functions IN Washington two or three
times a week He will address the
National Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton convention and speak at the ded-
ication of the new home of the Blu
reau of American Republics and also
at the dedication of the new library
building at Howard University. The
first of May will find him again on
his way west to fill engagements to
speak in Pittsburg, Cincinnati and
probably one or two other places. A
few days after his return to the cap
ital he will take a hurried trip to
New York to open the Actors Fund
Fair in that city.
Men close to the president say that
he is not in bad health in any way
and is physically sound and robust,
but at the same time they think he
has been overtaxing himself and have
not hesitated to advise him to shorten
his hours of labor when at home, and
to make fewer trips away from the
city or give more time to them.