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THoMA5 JEFFERSON
By GILBERT 5TVART

was neither We'll built nor compact that
he lacked symmetry and that his hands,
wrists and feet Were too large yet I'M
preJudIced observers agreed that his ex-
terror was majestic and impressive. He
had an abundance of silken red hair
sometimes called sandy, sometimes light
auburn, beneath which was the usual
rudy, freckled and easily sun-peeled skin
OF the rufous-haired. He had mild,
full, clear, deep-set gray eve in which
seine could see fiecks of hazel: nose
rather small for the breadth of his face:
an amiable mouth with lines curved al
most to cupids bow. and with corners
slightly on the ascendant Parting in a
smile, these lips disclosed perfect teeth.
and the chin below was firm. His neck
was very long. and some thought that he
carried his head too far forward As he
grew older several red spots developed
upon his face, due to the bursting of
small veins under his skin. Another
defect was weakness of the vocal or
sans which made his voice husky and
ms articulation fndistinct when he at
tempted public speaking
He was a dandy in his dress when a
Young man. and in his early forties while
minister to France, he appeared in red
brooches. which caused somewhat of a
1urore when he wore them in New York
soon after his appointment as Secretary
or state But during his first admins
tration as President his political enemies
repeatedly accused him of affecting the
unkempt. and it is recorded that at his
inauguration he appeared with hair
unused and in shabby suit. including
blue coat, gray waistcoat with a red
under waistcoat over it, green veIveteen
'breeches, yarn stockings and slippers
down at the heel. Senator Plummer. who
saw him in his first administration. de-
scribed him dressed, or rather un-
dressed, in an old brown coat, red waist
coat, old corduroy small clothes, much
soiled. wooden hose and slippers without
heels, and Senator Maclay complained
that his clothes seemed too small These
corduroy trousers were said by others to
look as il they had been through the tub
until faded. But during his second adj
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Expensive Economy.

THE late Senator Piatt, discussing one
l day in Washington an economy he
had no faith in, said:
Such an economy reminds me of old
Smith and his keg of beer.
Smith and his wife used to drink a
quart of beer every night before retiring.
This indulgence cost them 10 cents. But
Smith came home one day in great ex-
element and said:
Here's a man with barrel of beer.
1t will only cost us cents quart thja
way. An economy of cents, Huldah'
THAT evening the Smiths sampled the
new barrel and they found 1t good. After
the pitcher was finished, Mrs. Smith said
slowly
George, we've saved cents on our
beer tonight
We have so.' George answered, and
G cents saved is cents earned.
Well. George said his wife, shall
we have another quart and save II
cents%"
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minstratiOn criticisms of his unkempt-
ness ceased. and he was described as
wearing black coat. Throughout his
later life his dress was scrupulously neat
but plain.
While Washington was self-educated
Jefferson was a college man. He started
TO school when five. and by fourteen
knew French, Latin and Greek. in all of
which he could read long as he lived.
At William and Mary College he worked
diligently at his books, but was no "flend''
at study. and took plenty Of time for sports.
He went through college in two years,
doing best in mathematics, and yet In
after life he had difficulty in adding his
accounts. He did well also in literature,
and left college familiar with the mas
terpieces, but preferring poetry to novels.
His penlnanship was always beautiful.
every page being neat and every letter
so well formed that it could be read as
easily as printing.
He was ambidextrous. and could write
equally well with either hand. This he
proved when he broke his right wrist and
trained his left hand to write as wen as
its fellow. He wrote more letters with
his own hand than any other man in
public life. and copied most of them be-
fore mailing.
X
Jefferson was probably the most versa
tile man who has lived since Leonardo da
Vnci. AS a scientist, he was elected to
Frankin's chair as president of the Amer
lean Philosophical Society. He could fore
cast an eclipse, to the dot, as he did that
of IT'S, and could reckon latitude and
longitude as well as any navigator. He
calculated the prevailing winds of his To-
cality and suggested reforms of the al
nlanac anticipating our system of stand
ard time. Besides devising the entire
system of instruction for the University Of
Virginia. he was the engineer and archi-
tect of its classic buildings. the plans OF
which he copied from the most beautiful
Greek models He was architect for the
Virginia state capitol. for his home, Mon
ticello. and for the colonial mansions of
several of his friends, well as for one
of the Virginia state prisons. He was
also one of the judges who passed upon
the architectural plans for the Capitol of
the United States. His mathematical for
mula for a mold-board for a pillow took
a gold prize in France. He invented q
copying press and revolving chair both
still used in our offices, a folding chair.
camp chair that could be transformed into
a walking stick. a two-wheeled sulky,
hemp break pedometer and a polygraph
for duplicating letters.
He devised plan for spelling reform,
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ann as Its parent hopes TO ma d lie"
candidate for the office which he filled
more than a century ago. In any event
the face of the entire country is now to
he turned once more to the shade OF
Il man who, in many respects. was the
most renarka bic genius that America
ever produced. But while, as upon past
Jefferson days this oratcry will nlumn ;
Jcfferson's official side, his human side
will remain in shadow. although Jeffer-
son the lover. husband and father, the
scientist, litterateur and inventor, was a
parsonage even more amazing 10 behold
than Jefferson the politician, legislator,
dipionatist ard President
II is of more than passing interest that
the three most noted OF our Presidents
required more than two ward sticks TO
measure their stature, Washington and
Lincoln being each six feet two in their
stockings and Jefferson a half inch more.
TIE last named was therefore the tallest
of our chief magistrates.
Some of the adjectives applied to de-
scribe Jefferson's figure at twenty-one
have been: Angular" Stacking" and
"raw-boned," yet straight and ''yigor-
GUS" Some critics complained that he
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were the cells formerly used by the
monks. in many cases but six or seven
Ieet square and lighted by small windows
In the shape of Roumanian cross. Here
many of Carmen Sylva's poems were in
splred and written and here she saws
some OF he happiest days were spent
The castle is built in the old German
style Of architecture and furnished
throughout in the same way The cor
ridors are long aud dark being paneIed
WIN black oak, and the furniture is old
ana neavy. The stained glass w:ndouS
are relieved here and there by the figure
OF German knight of the middle ages
Inc windows are, for the most part.
small and the soldiers outside give the
place martial look. But the people
walk almost up TO the doors, as there
are no gates nor walks to cut the park
OFF from the mountain woods. A guard
house with sentries and cannon must be
passed before the castle itself can he
reached, but visitors go by unchallenged
and 1T is only on reaching the terrace
Immediately outside the castle that the
guards ask their business But the
Roumanians respect their king and queen
far too much to encrcach upon their
privacy. 1t is said that the guards never
have occasion to warn the people off the
grounds. The road from the castle down
to Sinaia itself is kept In perfect condi-
In summer the te races outside the
palace are a blaze of flowers of which
the queen Is passonately fond. Their
ma1esties drive about III the mountains
ard more rarely. dos ED into Sinaia
where there, is nlentE of animation and
movement. but the court fingers in the
pure air long after na'a is empty and
all the hotels closed eXlep: one which is
kept open for the accommodation of
ministers who go TO and from Bucharest
At Sinaia the queen has the company
of the crown prince and princess and
their children, who live in vii a n gar the
castle The chief note of the rova, resi-
dence Is cultured simplicity and refine
meEt. The ladies' OF the court, no have
been attached to her majesty since her
marriage and have, for the most part.
grown old with her. are quiet and fond
of reading The king; in spite of his age.
is fond of playing billiards. in which, he
says. he forgets the cares of state. He has
the deepest admiration for the queen and
her many enterprises for his subjects
wei-being. The'r great grief was the
loss many years ago of their only child,
who died when a young girl. They say
neither Of them has ever recovered from
the shock.
Queen Carmen Sylvia is a great admirer
of American energy and enterprise but
she admired Queen Victoria more than
any other woman as being the hardest
working and most innocent person she
ever knew. For Tolstoi as a man and as
a poet and writer, she has the greatest
veneration and admiration. She Is a great
reader and knows English French, Ger
man and Roumanian literature thorough
~. Her majesty always wears the
Roumanian headdress, which consists
of fine white veil hanging from the top
OF the head almost to the waist and
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many of the hundreds of letters received
she answers herself. She controls all the
institutions she has founded and takes a
personal interest in all the inmates of
her homes and orphanages. She knews
exactly what is going on and frequently
visits all these places talking to every
body and finding ont exactly what each
person wants. In addition to all this
work she has always some book in hand
AMI often the supervision of transa-
ton as well The day is spent on her
public work and her correspondence; the
night on her literary work. She types
all her correspondence herself and uses
three machines-for the Roumanian,
French and German languages. respec-
lively. Besides this she reads
average one book a day and arranges
receptions and private concerts in the
palace several times month. When one
remembers that her majesty is over
sixty and far from robust In health, one
can only ask, How does she manage it,"
Many stories are told of her wonderful
memory. She never forgets a face. and
people say, rarely forgets a CONVERSE
ton. A distinguished foreign general
not long ago visited the Koumanian
coHrt after a lapse of twenty years. At
dinner her majesty turned to him with a
smile and said:
Now, general, We VIII continue the
argument we began twenty years ago
about bi-retalifsm You said then
that and here followed the principal
po.~ts CT their last conversation. 1t
was scarcely strange that the general had
forgotten even the colVe~sI ion. But OH
retul. no home he looked up his diary and
there. re enough, was an entry, twenty
year ~. with an account of his visit to
the ilOumanian court and the remark
her majesty graclouslv talked TO me
about bi-metalisnl. a subject We are both
much interested in.
one day she was driving in the noun
tains at Sinaia where the court spends
the summer. The horses were tired and
the queen got out so that they might
rest. There was a cottage nearby and
she went there to drink some milk. She
looked at the peasant woman for a mo-
ment and said:
Il remember you: your name was So
and-So before you married. You used to
bring milk to the monastery at Sinaia
ten years ago.
This reutentive memory endears her
TO the people. The milkmaid, whom she
had seen once. perhaps In passing, will
almsys tell this story with pride. THE
queen" she will say, remembers what
looked like ten years ago
Queen Carmen Sylvia possesses another
valuable quality, and that is immense
and gracious. but lovable as well. There
is something in her smile which draws
people to her and puts them at their
ease. as soon as she speaks. And yet,
nobody would dream of being familiar
with her She is respected well as
admired and loved.
The royal palace at Bucharest is COM
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paratively small building with the disad-
vantage of being quite on the street. The
queens apartments are in the left wing.
and at the back there is a fair-sized
garden, where she gives parties in the
summer. But her favorite dwelling is at
Sinaia, in the Carpathian mountains This
is Carmen Sylva's real home. Twenty
years ago this beautiful spot was almost
uninhab ited Nov. 1t is the most fashion,
able summer resort in the kingdom
Everybody who is anybody has villa
at Sinaia and the hotels are crowded with
Roumanan and foreign visitors from the
spring till the coming of the autumnal
frOstS.
Many years ago King Carol came upon
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Sinaia during an excursion into the noun
tains and was enchanted with the beauty
of this spot, where, nesting among pine
forests, was a very old monastery, sadly
in need of repair. The queen also thought
it the most beautiful part of the country
and they decided to build a summer
palace nearby, little higher up the hill
great deal TO do Not only had the castle
to be built and furnished, but 1t was
necessary to make roads and extend the
railway line up the valley. This work
took over ten years. and while it was go
ing on the court spent ten summers in
the monastery, which was restored. The
rooms in which the king and queen lived
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The Initiated Debutante.

TT HAT remark said Senator Depew.
J. as he dissected an opponents argu
ment at dinner in Washington-'tha
remark was malapropos.
1T was, in fact, SO malapropos that it
reminded me of the dainty debutante.
fresh as an April dawn, who cried out 1t
her first dinner party:
This pudding tastes just like mus
ia che cosmetic.
And then, when everybody stared ut
her the debutante blushed as red as a
peony.'
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On many occasions she appears in COM
prete national coStume-an attention tn
the patriotism Of her subjects which
pleases them greatly. BY keeping tie
court as simple as possible, Queen Car
mon sylvia has ways striven to render
its presence in the capital as harmless
as possible. She has a theory that courts
always corrupt those whom business or
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teach their neighbors. She has attached
to this school an agency for the sale of
silk to the foreign factors at much bet
ter prices than the peasants could obtain
in the country districts.
And Carmen sylvia has energy as well
as ideas. Nobody in the kingdom works
harder than the queen. BY o'clock she
is at her desk, winter and summer, and
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IZOW Carmen Sylvia Has
/ / Made Roumania Pros
porous by Her Fertile Brain
and Administrative Capacity
Always T linking Out
Schemes for the Benefit of
Her People and Always
Working Them Out in Prac-
teal Detail and Supervising
Them in Operation - Busy
Life of Woman Who Man
ages to C bine the Work of
An Auth, With the Duties
of a Queen and the Activities
of a Observation-Disclosures
Gus Memory and Great
Personal Charm Among Her
Chief Assets.
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in the country where she lives. and In
Roumania she has 50 endeared herself to
the people that NEST melancholy face
brightens at her name.
Any one who avels i'll the country
must ask: What the secret of this
immense populaIsly -? The answer is
that although she Is aa Austrian by birth.
and, until she went TO live in the coun-
try, did not know either its language or
it's customs she set herself to study
both, and with such success that she
speaks Roumanian like native. and has
become the best authority on most of
the countrys problems. and has founded
all manner of institutions by which the
natural talents and resources of the coun-
try. almost dead when her husband began
TO reign, are now fiourishing.
She is the best business woman in Eu-
rope and il is due to her clever adver-
Using OF the resources of her country
and her own popularity as an author
that little Roumania, formerly one of
the most insignificant spots on the map
of Europe. has become one of the best
known and most prosperous. Her head
IS so full of ideas and new schemes
that one catches ones self wondering If
she IL not an American, yet she has
never been TO America in her life.
One of her ideas was to use the Rou-
manIans' talent for embroidery as a
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r. y / W eGneSu3 v
may prove TO be
the most monen-
toJis Jefferson day
ever celebrated, for
il is alleged that
from among the
many orators pay
ing tribute TO the
Sage of Monticello
on that occa sion
his 10th birthday
he PARTY claiming
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partly completed a dictionary of familiar
words in all languages and rearranged the
New Testament for translation into the
various Indian languages as the basis Of
the true religion. So versatile was his
pen that an encyclopedia, alphabetically
arranged, has been compiled of his writ
ings, which include about every subject
that has plagued the mind of man. from
the care of infants to the origin of me-
teors and from Women's dress to the tenn
perature of the moon. These writings
show that he had a knowledge of art,
anatomy. botany, civil engineering, phys
tcs and mechanics. 1t is said that he
taught himself Italian and Spanish in
addition to three foreign tongues he had
mastered at school. And all of these ac-
tivities were subordinate to those of his
callings as lawyer, farmer and statesman
He was a successful lawyer for seven
years, or until elected to Congress, when
he gave up practice He was one of the
commission which revised the laws of Vir-
ginia. His plantation covered more than
100 acres, but he was theoretical and
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he was Secretary of State and Vice PreSi-
dent. were famous. Indeed few If any
of the 'Jeffersonian dinners of the COM
ing week Will e~cel them.
During the eight years of hts presi-
dsncy mis- wines cost him $10, $500. or
$1,356.9S per year, according to his &C
count book. He brought to the White
House a coach and four costing Sl,Gn.
and his coachman and footman wore such
livery as he had seen used by the nobil
ity of Europe Yet he never made any
vulgar display. His expenditures, as
proven by his own account books and
diaries, have led many to doubt that h
ever appeared as unkempt in his person
he was described during the first two
years that he lived in the White House.
Yet 1t was during those years that hs
upset the old orders OF precedence and
established his social rule OF first come
first served, which he after~ard had to
abandon.
* x
So far did he live beyond his income
while in official life that upon retiring
from the presidency he found himself
bankrupt. Fatal inroads into his fortune
had also been made by the lavish scale OF
hospitality at Monticello, which, like
Mount Vernon. became a veritable hotel.
save that no board bills werc ever ten
dered. A debt of $4,000 everything him
until Congress came to his relief by pay
ing So3, 800 for his library of $500 books.
Two-thirds of these were destroyed by
fire in 1851, and what remain have been
assembled in recent months i'm an alcove
of the Library of Congress. Friends also
raised $4,000 for his relief, and he died
with the belief that he was solvent, al
though he was not.
When past eighty-one he was visited
by Webster who found him riding horse
back and described him as still possessed
of his teeth and a head well covered
with hair, sandy. but turning gray"
His eyes were worry bright. his mouth
strongly compressed, wearing an express
sion Of contentment and benevolence."
His sight was still good and he needed
glasses only in the evening. while his
hearing was fair.
1t is our most interesting coincidence OF
dates that Jefferson and Adams both died
upon the same day, and that the an
niversary of the independence for which
they both worked SO valiantly--July 4,
1896. Jefferson thus saw more than two
months of his eighty-fourth year and was
the longest lived of our Presidents. His
refusal while on his deathbed to receive
an Episcopal minister except kind,
good friend was partly responsible for
the popular belief that he died an atheist.
But he left record of the fact that he
belonged to the sect with which President
Taft worships today. In 1922 he wrote:
II trust there is not young man now
living in the United States who will not
die q Unitarian
JOHN ELFRETII WATKINS
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THE Great Genius Whose
l 1o7th Birthday May
Yield Democrats a New
Candidate Next Wednesday
He Was a Red Haired,
Freckled Faced, Ambidex-
trous Giant, Who Rivaled
Leonardo da Vinci in His
Versatility'-W Was Astrono-
mer, Meteorologist, Mathe-
matician, Architect, Inventor,
Author, Theologian, Littera-
teur and Musician, But Vocal
Defect Prevented His Becom-
ing an Orator-Inventor of
the Letter-Press and Revolv-
ing Chair-Designed Classic
Buildings and Revised Tesla
ment and Founded a Uni
versity - Despised Tobacco
and Strong Drink
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CRELY no woman,
and certainly no
queen. enjoys such
popularity as Car
men sylvia. the 90
eteSS Que n of Rou-
mania. For she Is
popular at home as
a queen, and abroad
as a poetess. Her
books are read as
"a gerly throughout
Europe as they are
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reason she shrinks from al unnecessary
pomp ana ceremony. Yet here is the
most hospitable court in Europe. where
ali who have contributed toward The
worlds culture and wel-being are sure
of a warm welcome.
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
BUCHAREST, RouHania. April l. 1910.
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NN) EXT Wednesday

Copyright. 1910, by John Elfreth Watkins,
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were the cells formerly used by the
MONKS In many cases but six or seven
ieet square and lighted by small windows
in the shape of Roumanian cross. Here
many Of Carmen Sylya's poems were in
spired and written and here, she says,
some OF he- happiest days were spent
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-02-23
CRITIC is ALL IN.
Ore of the CIeverest of Prize Ring
Fighters Hit the Pace.

Ore of the CIeverest of Prize Ring
Fighters Hit the Pace.
Young Critic, the Australian feather
weights and probably the cleverest
man whoever put up his hands in a
ring, has not returned TO Australia. as
a great many people imagined, nor has
he been sent to an asylum, as was re-
ported some time ago. He Is now liv-
ing in Chicago. Critic is quite fleshy
now and his hair white. He looks to
be a man so years of age, although he
is far from that. At tho present time
he is living from hand to mouth and is
being supported by his friends, and it
is hard to say what his end will be. II
is only ten years ago that Critic could
n purse up in the thousands
and the promoters were glad to get
him. There are few boxers who have
taken the downward path and contin-
ued it such as Critic has done the past
ten years.