The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-20
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NIrs. lad surprised Thcm.

Mrs. Taft Surprised Them.
Mrs. Taft surprised even those IA
miliar with the improvement in health
that she has shown by remaining by
the presidents side in the receiving
line all the evening. She wore q gown
OF white satin, brocaded with silver
flowers, with a court train. Miss Helen
Taft. who was near at hand, wore
gown of pink satin, with a tunic Of
pink chiffon.
In spite of the unusual crowd, thu
machinery had been so perfected that
everything worked smoothly. The au-
tomobiles under the watchful eye Of the
police, chugged up to the east entrance,
deposited their occupants and steamed
away again half dozen to the minute.
The foot passengers found access more
difficult but the police arrangements
were good and with a little rushing
now and then, little diplomacy here
anu there, they got through the crowds
of the curious. More than 100 police
men in uniform were on guard around
the fence and the usual plain clothes
men and secret service guards were
within the grounds.
While clock had been named as
the hour at which the reception was
to begin, no time was fixed for the
end of the festivities and at midnight
the Engineer band struck up, Home,
Sweet Home" the last dancers swept
out on the floor of the east room and
During the festivities George j.
Schumacher, former consul Of the Uni
ted States at Ensenada, Mex, was ar
rested at the east enrance of the WhlIe
House. The ex-consul insisted on hav-
ing his card sent in to the president,
saying that he wanted to see him on
urgent business. Schumacher was re-
Gently relieved from his post owing to a
nervous breakdown.
President Talks of the Future.
President Taft, in a happy vein, de-
livered an address to the Commercial
club of Cincinnati during the day in
which he lightly referred to the posi-
bility of going back to a less active
life" away from the presidency, is
having both welcome and unwelcome
phases. He said in the absence of any
provision for ex-presidents, he would
open law Office in his old home city
and that he was determined that his
son. Robert, should work out his life
amid those surroundings
Mr.. Taft was speaking at the CneVy
Chase club here. in the Washington
suburbs. at q luncheon rendered him
there by the Cincinnati Commercial
club and was formally accepting for
Mrs. Taft and himself a silver rose
bowl presented by the Cincinnatians.
The president said
Mrs Taft and I esteem the coming
of the Commercial club here to attend
our silver wedding as the chief pleas
ure of the occasion.
1T is not so long since We left Ci1-
cinnati. 1t is only II years. and e
years in the life of q man or the life
of a nation or the life of an assocla-
ton, as we grow older and look back,
is not a period of a very long duration
But we have to measure time rather
by events than by the tick of the
watch; and certainly in II years it has
fallen to my lot to have a great many
unusual things happen to me. To be
,I-.~ Z fro
another, from contact as a civilian or
as the arm of the administration of
justice to the chief executive, for the
time being. of 80 millions of people IS
a tremendous change; and to have the
last four years made a period such as
1 have experienced is to prolonS the
perior until it seems almost life
time. And then to come to Washing
ton and to remain six or seven years,
under conditions SO different from
those at home, creates a period that
has much greater distance in it. so to
speak than the mere months or years
of its duration. The effect that it has
upOn ones life aud character is some
thing that one realizes fully, but can
not explain.
"To go from the somewhat hum
drum but always delightful life of q
Judge who could retire from public life
in any sense without being exposed to
criticism, to a place where there
seems to be nothing but criticism, was
a change that only a man who has
been through it can fully understand.
1.-The prospect of going back to
less active life has in it at this time
some phases that are welcome and
some that are unwelcome. The neces-
sity for labor which will follow my
retirement, however, relieves me some-
what from anxiety on that score
There is as yet, so far as I have been
informed. no provision for an ex-presi-
dent. and while I do not wish to hold
out any competition to the two lawyers
who honor this club, I wish to say 10
! the rest of the members of the club
that I shall open an office and be ready
/ for business, not at an old but at a
very new stand
1T will be now, when my son, Rob
! ert, comes back to Cincinnati to praC-
/ tice law, four generations in Ciacin-
natl, and while it has been pressed on
/ him and on me to have him go to
some place where possibly his emoII-
/ meats would be larger. am deterTnin-
ed, and he sympathizes with me, that
/ he shall go to the home that knew his
great grandfather and his GRANDPA
\ Their and his father, and there he shall
work out his life under the influences
that I hope will be favorable to his
success-at least in restraining him
within the path and limitations of an
! honorable life
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