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use by Taft or Roosevelt-neither of
whom uses the weed--occupies the after
portion of the spar deck. and is cozy
lounging space with inlaid foor, cane
chairs and sofas of the same material.
When the presidential party eat
aboard, they sit at q table surrounded by
Louis XIV appointments in white and
gold. The light falls upon them through
mahogany trimmed skylights, and their
ngures are renected by large gold
framed mirror which stretches its oval
above the carved mantel of Italian mar
BILE. The viands which they eat have
been stored In a modern refrigerating
plant, near which Is q wine room for
use on state occasions After the re-
past, which the President-always good
sailor-enjoys with the same relish be-
slowed upon his viands ashore, he ad-
journs his. party to a, reception room, fin
ished In the same. white and gold, and
adjoining a library, whose shelves OF
flemish oak are well stocked with books
of the kind that help one to forget the
heat of the city left behind.
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old as ever. and at every jump his heart
and his liver and his lungs protested vio-
they pleased and stopped not. They
plunged into rivers and carried him
across half strangled They scurried
through towns with him yelling, Head
me Oft! Head me off, somebody! I'm
running away! and all the pepole turned
out and gave chase until they tired OF 1t.
And still the legs ran on, until one night,
away down in Texas, the Bilious Beggar
tumbled over in a heap and went to
sleep.
X
'And when he awoke behold his legs
were tanned. They were no less young
and vigorous and they kept him on the
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ON CHEVY CHASE LINKS
A HITHERTO UNPvBLl<nEp PRINT

bears the official coat of arms Of the
United States upon each door; also Mrs.
Taft's little electric buggy. which Is her
own personal property. The two of1icial
cars were purchased out of an appropria-
tiOn of $4,000 made by Congress in lieu
Of the usual allowance for horses and
carriages.
The most frequent afternoon trip Of
the presidential touring car Is made to the
wealthy and exclusive Chevy Chase Club.
which Is now erecting a handsome new
clubhc cuse-a massive structure built OF
stone. This is the favorite playground Of
the President. and when he Is out on the
links there Is strict enforcement Of the
rule that no gallery" shall follow him
from hole to hole. -
Mr.. Taft's usual goifing costume con-
sists Of dark gray outing trousers. a gray
flannel shirt, worn without q tie. and a
cap Of the same general color. This May
he presented a handsome silver cup,
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Mr. Finne.an. having frazzled his
nerves in the pursuit and capture of many
dollars was troubled with insomnia He
didn't have time To rest and he wouldn't
take any dope" So the doctor en-
gagged storytelling nurse. modern
Sehehcrazade. TO talk him TO sleep. Fin
negan was Instructed TO get into his bed
at 10 o'clock every night and then TO
came and seated herself by his bedside
he was to fix his eyes on her chin for the
hypnotic effect forget everything else on
earth and listen TO her stories.
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Last thing I remember the princess was
putin on flesh TO beat the band"
Never you mind about that, Mr.. Fin
negan," said the nurse Some or these
nights I'll give you the ends OF lot OF
stories all at once. and see II you can MT
them where they belong"
Huh" grunted Finnegan. That re-
minds me of dramatic critic l used to
know. He said that when he died and
went TO heaven-imagine dramatic
critic going to heaven, the first thing he
was goin' TO ask ST. Peter was to show
him the last acts OF all the plays he'd
reviewed while on earth"
Not bad idea, either, admitted Mrs
Peterson, with ghost OF a smile. but
this isn't gettin you to sleep. Mr. Fin
negan. Now, NIX yourself comfortably and
listen while / tell you the wonderful
story of The Bilious Beggar and the.
Il think / know him." said Fnnegan.
but go ahead
The Bilious Beggar." began the nurse.
was not always a beggar nor bilious. He
Was the son OF a man milliner. who, by
various devices well known to the trade,
and some that he had invented himself.
had induced the husbands and fathers of
the land TO cough up great quantities Of
l,cre. When the old man started in busi-
ness they used to have pretty hard spells
of that kind OF coughing in the spring
and fall only. and they had chance to
pick up little between fits. but before he
retired their coughing had got 10 be
chronic and continuous. and many OF
them never knew what 1t was to have
we'll day. And so II was that the mil
liners son went around with large, tat
roll in each one Of his many pockets; ana
he scattered the money where it would do
the least good. He knew all the head
walters in town by their first names; ne
vas an expert Judge Of marvellous French
dishes that taste like heaven ana feei
lIke-Satan. and he could dispose Of more
champagne without loss Of vision than
any youth of his accuaiatapcs- And. ie
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How EAF'Twilenor cor

A L FRESCO Dinners on
IA His Roof Garden Under
Ruby Light-Midnight L Auto
mobile Rides Through Parks
and Suburbs-Lawn Parties
and Visits to Ball Game
Other Favorite Summer Di-
versions - Fortifies Himself
Against Summer Discomforts
Mainly by Not Fretting-
Devotes Part of Each Day
to Diversion.
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The Flyers First Lesson.

The aviator's first lesson is to learn 70
steer his airship in q perfectly straight
line for distance OF mile or over This
looks very easy. until you discover that
an aeroplane possesses the perversity
common TO all inanimate objects. Il al
ways wants to 90 the other way, instead
Of the straight way that you seek to di-
rect. Your flrst dash across the field
and back takes two minutes. II no mis-
hap occurs After two dashes Of thia de-
scription q discreet teacher will dIsmiss
you for the day. You have had all that
your nerves ought to be asked to stand.
In the best schools Of France-a land fa-
nous Tor Its avtators-no pupil. however
lesson than dve minutes at the outset OF
his course: and ~. Houpert, who q :
graduate Of leading French schooo &C
aviation. follows this plan
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Well Applied.

w LILLIAN DEAN HOwELI.S. the nov-
ehst. was talking at the Authors'
Club In New York about charge OF
plagiarism that had been brought against
Mark Twain.
A big man like Twain stealing from
little man. like Blank" said Mr.. Howells.
This, surely. is case for applying the
old Hindoo proverb:
The ass heard the lion roar, and
cried, The plaglaristr''"
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.ovER. THE MOUNT AIMS AND
THROUGH THE VALLEYS HE
WENT"
jump, but they didn't run away with
him any more after that. And whether
1t was the influence of the water from
the Fountain of Youth creeping upward
or whether 1t was the exercise that the
legs imposed upon the rest Of him. no.
body knows. but he lost his biliousness
and his indigestion and his Crouch. and
then he surprised himself with real
bath and he took job In harvest field
and got away with it And he shaved
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War and WedI0ck.

= EORGE ADE. the brilliant satirist, de-
~ lights In satirixing marriage, and In a
Memorial day address At an Indiana
veterans banquet in Brook. he said:
Take II from me, q bachelor, the only
difference between war and matrimony
IL that In the one fighting takes place
during the engagement. and in the other
some time afterward."
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Of the Bilious Beggar
and the Fountain of Youth

OF wandering and inquiring came to
great round pool i'm the midst OF the
Ozark hills. And he asked Of q man nan who Who
Fountain OF YOUTH And the man an
swered without taking his eyes from the
cork: Yep. that's what they call It.
Then the Bilious Beggar took OF his
shoes and rolled up his pants. This is q
serious matter. he said. will go at
II by degrees So he put one foot into
the water and quickly took 1t out, with
word that It Is unbecoming in lady to
is to say. the water was.
And he sat him down to rest. And
presently he looked at the foot that he
had put into the water and behold, 1t
had become white And as he continued
to look at it. it began to turn rosy
red. and then 1t commenced to work back
ward, and forward and sideways, nor
could he restrain 1t. And he felt queer
all Of a sudden he was pulled up standing
and went hopping down the road on one
foot at tremendous pace, dragging the
other foot. after him. For one leg had
grown young and % skittish. while the other the
himself. but hoped on and on. scream
ing for help at the top Of his voice. until
his voice wore away to a whisper. He
clutched the young leg with both hands
and pulled on 1t. but he might as well
have tried to stop a. steam engine by
catching hold Of its wheels. He dug the
toe Of the old foot into the ground to
act as q brake and he thought for q
minute II had been pulled out by the roots.
But at last he managed to grasp a tree
and get his arms about It, and he circled
around and around and around that tree
until he wore the bark of and even the
young leg began to slow up.
~
"Tf can just get back to that spring
and put my other foot In he thought.
And by and by he took chance. And
he let loose Of the tree when he was
faced in the direction Of the spring. and
went hopping back. but not so fast as he
had come And when he got to the pool
he threw himself down on the bank and
clawed the earth with his hands until he
came to q stop.
And the man who was fishing did not
look up. for he had a bite;
Then the Bilious Bcggar stuck both
feet into the water and stood up on them.
gritting his teeth. And while he was
standing there wondering what was go
ing to happen next. 1t happened, With
q yell that echoed among the hills he
leaped upward, turned q double somer-
sault and lit q 'runnin',' as the saying
goes. And never since the world began
did any man ever run so tar or SO fast
as did the Bilious Beggar with his new
legs, Over the mountains and through
the valleys he went, and he could do
nothing but pant and wheeze and holler.
for from the waist up he was still as
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which was played for in tournament and
won by, Champion Travis one of his
favorfte golfing companions.
Another Presidents cup purchased
by Mr Taft, is handsome silver trophy
which Will be competed for late in the
summer by the fleet of sailing yachts. at
Beverly and the President will personally
award II to the victor.
Yachting is one of the chief Sumner
pleasures OF the head of the nation and
In common with his predecessors, he has
slWays at his disposal tile little Sylph,
relic of the Spanish war auxiliary navy
which he uses for daylight and moon
light sails up and down the Potomac:
and the larger Mayflower, former priyat
yacht Of Ogden Goelet. built at Clyde for
brush with the dons, and refitted during
the Roosevelt regime as the presidential
commander-in-chief. Presidents are en-
are to ~-rlies to attend their riding
horses. and military surgeons to give
them medical attention. But all eatables
and refreshments used by the presidential
party while aboard these craft they pay
for privately. unless distinguished foreign
guests are being officially entertained
aboard. in which case the hospitality Is
paid for out of the neutrality fund.-" al
ways. at the command oi the State De-
partment.
While the sylph will probably remain
at the Washington navy yard all sum-
mer. the more commodious Mayiower
will doubtless be at the Presidents COM
mand while he Is at Beverly. The Presi-
dents Quarters are ait oil the main deck,
and include six staterooms for the use Of
his family and friends. =.
Mr.. Taft's stateroon,, furnished during
the Roosevelt administration, has white
enameled woodwork decorated with gold,
and the walls are papneled with silk.
The billows rock the chief executive to
sleep in a brass bedsted. and when he
and his family rise they may take their
morning dips in any of four bathtubs,
each cut from q solid block Of white
marble. t
The smoking room. never put to full
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TAfTS In SUMNER
TOURING CAR

zIing yellow and the substitution of the
ruby globes was Mr.. Taft's own idea.
Guests at these al fresco dinners are
usually received on the emi-circular
south portico overlooking the river.
and after the coffee has been discussed
the man guests sometimes retire to the
corresponding roof garden. over the
east terrace-opposite the Treasury
entertained in this oriental fashion at
one time.
Almost any hot night our suburbanite,
lolling late upon his grassy lawn, is
somewhere surprised by the passing Of a
monstrous. droning shadow, within which
float half-dozen apparitions and behind
which snort two motorcycles bearing men
in somber garb.
There goes Taft observes the subur-
banite, for even though the night be
dark he recognizes the presidential tour
ing car by its rear guard-the inevitable
secret service men who are directed to
follow the executive equipage wherever
and whenever 1t stirs up the stagnant
atmosphere. There have been published
stories of the glee with which the Presi-
dent, from his tonneau, has viewed the
discontinue of these guards, stuck In the
mud while trying to keep up with his
touring car, but these are echoes OF past
times.
Until the return of cold weather the
White House garage Will hide the glossy
surface OF the great limousine car in
variably used in winter by the first auto
mobile-loving President-or. rather. the
first executive to chance the voting farm
er's displeasure by driving sans Dobbin.
Through the ten miles OF Rock Creek
Park and back. or out over the new
Bridge Of Lions to Chevy Chase and
around home by the Tenleytown road
perhaps to Brightwood or over the Con-
duit road to the famed Cabin John
bridge-the great car steams, with
careful chauffeur at the Wheel one who
thoroughly realizes that he holds in his
hands the life of the head of state.
Only once has the presidential auto
mobile figured In an unhappy accident.
Last summer, at Beverly. the Presidents
eldest son. Robert, while driving the tour
ing car himself. struck an Italian laborer,
whom Mrs. Taft visited in the hospital.
and who after his recovery from his
wounds received from the President $500
in money, besides his travelling expenses
back to Italy.
The Presidents head chauffeur receives
a salary OF 800 a month. and Is given
an assistant. who works at lower wage.
Between them they care for three cars.
the black limousine and dark green.
pleasant weather steamer. each OF which
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Cullen Witnesses a Polo Game

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK, June TO- 1911.
WONDER why is polo, or why polo
is?
/ saw one OF those polo games at
~ Meadowbrook between the American
and English teams, the first game, in
which the Americans grabbed the game
in the final third thereof. after their best
player had been disabled.
1t was a very restful afternoon I had
an opportunity to think OF so many
things aside from polo while watch
Ing that polo game: things that
had nothing whatever to do with
polo: about what 1 was going to do
when the rent came around and other
dreamy things of that sort.
l know as much about polo as / do
about lacrosse-and l don't believe in the
heart of me that anybody whomsoever
knows anything whatsoever about la
crosse. Anyhow. have met several per-
sons who claimed TO understand the
meaning Of polo. but 1 never met q hu-
man being. including the players of la
crosse. who could conscientiously place
his hand on his heart and tell me that he
knew what lacrosse meant.
1t struck me that all, or nearly all. of
the intelligence in connection with this
first game Of polo that l ever saw was
ponies, but they looked like regular
horses to me.) The ponies. l considered.
played the game OF polo. They had the
thing down perfectly pat. All the riders
of the ponies did was to take a whack
at the ball when the ponies carried them
to the spot where the ball was.
And the ponies always knew where the
ball was. The ponies wheeled. reared.
sidestepped, cavorted. sat down, stood on
their heads rolled over and did many other
little stunts like that. all with the intent
and purpose of going to the ball, and
they always got to II. Often, noticed,
the players-that is. the so-terTned play
ers, the human beings astride Of the
horses-appeared to have not the least
notion in life as to where the ball was:
they looked bewildered about II and sort
o. glanced at the sky and rubbed their
hective state of mind as to Just where
that ball could be. Not so the ponies The
ponies were on the job. They had their
eyes on the sphere At every moment OF
anywhere they just bumped themselves
to carry the persons riding them to where
1t was to give those persons an opportuni-
ty to lean over and take a wailop at
the sphere. Very frequently these wal
lops didn't reach the ball at all. but land
ed-kerplunk!-on the legs Of the ponies.
Now. anybody who has ever been kicked
on the shins knows perfectly well just
how 1t feels. I feel perfectly confident
that Keats could nee have written his
lode to Nightingale" directly after
having been kicked on the shins or club
bed on the shins. But these polo ponies
didn't appear to mind In the least being
whacked over the shina They never even
hinched from that stun. On the contrary.
they seemed to look panied and q leetle
bit disbusted that the man. instead OF
driving the ball somewhere, had merely
fooled and delivered a shin wallop.
/ shall go through life possessing the
greatest respect for polo ponies. Their
fortitude Is surprising, and their helpful
ness OF the humans bestriding them
something beyond words.
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rs THIS THE FOUNTAIN OF
YOUTH"
say? And she answered: Nay. nav
You're a nice boy, Wnlie and 1 like your
chocolates fine But the man / marry
must be able to do something more than
punch little balls with stick. You 20 on
and learn how to make q livin' without
pullin' your pas leg. and then maybe ri
think about IT.
so Willie. believing himself Ia earnest.
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HAD a bully sleep
last night said
Mr.. Finnegan. as
the story nurse en-
tered his room. Il
woke up seven or
eight times. but I'd
imagine you were
still talkin' and go
right back TO sleep.
But say. how did
that " a S h b o ard
v a rn tur n out!
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GAINST the semi
tropical sizzards
of the National
Capital - w h o S e
I h erm o m e I e rs
mounted to % even
in the forepart of
May-the President
of these United
States, indefatisa-
BILE servant OF
ninety million ex-
acting m a S t e r 8,
while a feud-ridden
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Otherwise the game appeared TO me to
be just shinney. with the shinney players
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must fortify himself while a feud-ridden
Senate fiibusters and haggles over un-
welcome legislation. showed at 1t by a
hostile House of Representatives.
Although handing over a goodly sum
monthly TO the landlord of "Paramatta,' -
his newly leased summer cottage at Bev-
erly. the first citizen of the realm must
forego its comforts. perhaps until late
summer. and be content with life as he
finds it-and helps to improve it--450 miles
to tie southwark. by the way the old
crow flies Understrappers of the execu-
tive departments will bask in the balmy
breezes of mountain and lake. forest and
seashore while the head of their estab-
lishment tolls and sweats in the oven
breath of a city whose asphalted streets
have been used as griddle for frying
eSes a la maitre d'hote. Lincoln, Gar
fed and Cleveland fed to the cool up
lands back of the federal city to escape
its summer scorch, but the present chief
magistrate will remain only a few feet
above river level. in the least altitudinous
section of the city of magnificent tempera-
lures.
Inasmuch. however as the Taft philos-
ophy declares that no day is really too
hot or too cold. lest fretting makes 1t SO.
Taft, the arch-foe of worry, whose
chairs and who breaches the gospel that
"humor is a shock absorber." may be
depended upon to make the best of the
sultriest sizzard that his weather bureau
can brew out Of the sluggish zephyrs
from Nirgin.a's verdant hills.
Roof-garden parties. midnight automo-
bile rides. lawn fetes. river excursions,
horseback rides and golfing parties in
the late afternoon will be the chief means
of recreation upon the summer program
of the President who insists upon the
truth of the old saw that "all work and
no play make Jack a dull boy" and who
religiously devotes part of every circuit
of the clock to some means of diversion.
AL fresco dinners upon the roof gar
den of the west terrace, which joins
the White House proper to the Presi
dents recently enlarged office annex, are
an invention of Mr.. Taft's, and will be
enjoyed by his guests now and then on
hot nights. The accompanying tele-
photo view made the other day from
the top of the Navy Department, ex-'
clusively for this article. will show you
this roof garden In detail
These open-air feasts begin at and
the globular electric lamps. whose pill
lars flank the rectangular space. throw
soft. red light upon the diners. who
are partly hidden by the rows of bay
trees in their little tubs. For the stor-
ing of these trees alone, the White
House is provided with a special green
house no feet long. Ordinarily the
globes in the terrace lamps are of daz-
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went forth into the world to seek his for
tune. all by his lonesome. And Fortune.
bsxs 6s,ns ,sara good dodger as some some. OF ,, US
He went hither and he went thither and
he went yon. but he never got even a
bird s-eye view Of Fortune. And as the
months and the years went by he forgot
what he was looking for. but kept on
going. For the Old Man had cut on the
supply pipe. and then had made a will
leaving all his money to an asylum for
imbecile women. And although for
time William held many jobs in rotation,
meme of them seemed to fit him. and
by and by he quit trying to hold any.
For he said to himself, what's the
useg Nevertheless he kept on going.
because some ill-natured people In uni
forms wouldn't let him stop. And the
hair grew out on his face unhampered,
and his clothes disintegrated. as you
might say. and were held together with
wooden pins and pieces Of string. and
and months were ground into his hide.
For why he argued. should man
wash when. behold, he becometh soiled
again. even the same .day?' And he
slept wherever the night found him. COW
ering himself with the sky. And he
fed upon the left-overa OF many tables.
handed to him from the back doors by
kind but misguided people who little
doing to Willie's insides. For williams s
digestion, be 1t known. was on the bum.
as well as In the bum. One who lives
by handouts must take things as they
come. and. the things that come out Of
the back door are not always selected
for their hygienic values. Hence and
wherefore. William had acquired q large
and profane crouch against the world In
general and victuals in particular.
Now. it so happened that on cer-
tain day the Mflhners Son lay resting by
the roadside In the shade Of a slippery
elm tree. And he dreamed a dream. And
In his dream q woman came to him and
said: Arise and go into Arkansas. There
you will find the Fountain Of Youth.
Battle in 1t and you will grow young
again. And the face Of the woman was
the face of the girl who had sold gloves
years and years ago. And he awoke In
q cold sweat and rolled over into the
sunshine and went to sleep again. Then
the woman came to him a second time
and he awoke .shiyering. although the
summer sun beat upon him. And he
walked a mile and q half and rested.
And again the woman appeared with the
same message. - 49,
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when he awoke the third time he
felt refreshed and he unused within him
self. I don't take no stock In the youth
business he thought but It might do
soniethin' to this old secondhand liver
O. mine. Won't do any harm to take IN
Arkansas this trip an see about It. That
glove girl must be wAntin' me to come
back
gar. surnamed William, after many days