The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-21
CAN'T EAT ENOUGH,
WORKING TOO HARD.
After Visit to White House,
Aged Woman Thinks "Will"
Is Doing Best He Can, but
Insurgents Hinder Him.
Trying to Keep Pro-
mises.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.7

| Especial to The eTlmes-Dtspatch.1
| Boston. Mass, February 2o.--Miss
Della Torrey. aunt of William Howard
Taft, President OF the United states.
and one of the few remaining per-
sons who dare to call the President
WILL" has Just returned from her an
! nual visit to her nephew, and is loud
in her praises of the White House.
| Miss Torrey. however, is much per-
turbed over wills" worrying. "Wilp'
said Miss Torrey. speaking of the
President, rs just the same old VIII.
Hes bigger and he's buster, but in
every other way he is Just the same.
The people who say that he has chang
ed for the worse since he became
President don't know what they are
talking about.
II am eighty-seyen years old, and
have known Will ever since he was a
baby 1 have met enough people TO
know Just what they are, and l say
that he is just as simple and as un-
affected as he was when he used to
come here to Millbury on his vaca-
tions from college.
can't help worrying, myself. a lit
tie over him. But i guess he is able
10 take care of himself all right
Worried Over Insurgents.
lie SAID several times that he was
worried about the insurgents. He said
that ne was working hard to keep
the pledges which his party had made
10 the people. and that the insurgents
hindered him. And what he says is
right. because he's one of the honest
est men that ever lived. He will GER
tainly do everything that he can to
Keep all the promises that any ono
whom he was responsible for ever
made. You may be sure of thar.
Another thltfe that am sure ne
would be IN favor. of. If he thought It
was really wanted Is woman suffrage,
Nils father was an ardent woman suf-
fragist, even at n time when such
stand on the part OF man was very
rare and very unpopular. And I am
sure that II all the women In America
showed that they wanted the suffrage
Will would try to get 1t for them
II understand from letters which T
have had from Washington that since
] left Will has decided to eat only
two meals day, and not come home
to lunch at ALL. He will surely make
things fly. working at the office all
through his lunch hour.
The President said to me ONLY a
little while after had arrived, Aunt
Della, the doctor has told me that +
must diet, so II you notice that I am
not eating as much as usual you will
know 1t is because the doctor has told
me not to. I've got to do 1t, though
if don't want to get tat.
Loses Several Ounces.
II asked him IL dieting had done him
any good! and he said that it had. In
fact, he said. that he had lost several
ounces. But could not notice that
he was looking any lighter than he
was at inauguration time.
"'Well.' / said, i should think you
would feel hungry If you don't eat all
that you want
"Hungry,' said he. You bet Tn
hungry. I'm hungry all the time. You
see that platter of roast beef coming
in? Well. I could eat that whole
platter full and not notice it at all.
But I can't can only eat one piece
Now. it seems too bad that he
can't have all he wants to eat, but
| suppose it's for the best"