The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-06-07
Physical Endurance Of TAFT Il
Extraordinary. ..-.>
IS DUE TO HIS Temperament
Beautiful Lawn Party at tho White
House for international Red oross
DeIeqates-Grounds Of the Ex-
ecutive Mansion Are Among
tho Most Attractive.
1v GEORGE CLINTON.

paigning this year. He has made not
only political addresses, but certainly
so or more speeches on occasions non.
political. Mr.. Taft is an extraordinary
lily big man physically, and yet the
strain of hard work does not seem to
tell upon him as it does upon other
men who carry much less weight.
Friends of the president ascribe his
continued good condition to his buoy.
ant disposition. In other words, his
temperament stands him friend dur
Ing his hard work.
There have been one or two lawn
parties at the White House this year.
and before the spring season closes
there probably will be on or two
more. At one party the guests Of hon,
or were the visiting delegates to the
International Red Cross convention.
The president and Mrs. Taft, standing
under the trees on the south lawn Of
the White House, received distin.
guished guests from all over the
world. The president had just re.
turned from a weeks campaigning and
was to leave again at midnight, but
he stood the three hours social siege"
as If he had been resting instead OF
working. Physically. the president Of
the United States Is a wonder to that
part of mankind which gets a chance
to see him.
At tho Red Cross Reception.
The lawn parties at the White
House are the most picturesque social
events Of the year in Washington. It
Is not probable that those who do not
actually view the scene can realize tho
the White House in May and June.
There are many trees, much shrub
berry and in some places profusion Of
lowers. At the back is the house itself,
q fine specimen of colonial architeo-
ture, pure white and impressive, with
each of its great pillars adding line
Of beauty. The day Of tho reception
on the lawn given for the Red Cross
people was perfect. The thermometer
was at 70, and the sun was in a cloud
less sky. The ladies all wore white,
while tho men, or most of them, for Il
was largely an ofacial reception, were
In uniform, many Of them being in tho
picturesque garbs of the Latin-Ameri-
can countries and Europe and the
countries Of the far east.
Present at that reception, unknown
to most Of the guests and bearing her
self with extreme dif1idence, was q
+ woman who had just returned from
China. She has been connected for
years with q school maintained by tho
Protestant Episcopal church In tho
heart OF. the f1owery kingdom. When
civil war broke out In China recently
and the Young Chinese started on
their crusade. the woman who was q
guest at the White House reception
left OF her teaching in the college and
went into the field as volunteer Red
Cross nurse. She had many hard ex-
periences, but not as hard as 1t was
expected that she would have. China
ordinarily Is not considered thorough
ly civilized. but even In the midst of
the madness of civil strife it was
found that both factions Of the Chi
nese observed the Red Cross yegula,
lions as implicitly as would the coun-
tries of the west.
Chinese Republican, Hopeful.
The representatives of the Chinese
republic already are In Washington.
They believe that the republic has
come to stay and they are earnestly
DESTROYS Of the support of the great
republic to which they are accredited
as diplomatists. Every member of tho
Chinese legation here speaks English.
They wear no queues and they dress
In the western garb. Several Of them
received their education in America
and they are surcharged with the
spirit OF progress and Of liberty.
One does not like to leave the White
House lawn, because It's attractions
are holding. The parties are held on
tho south lawn, which is closed to tho
public ordinarily. Some of the trees
there are Of gigantic growth, most Of
them having witnessed the advance Of
the British on Washington and the
burning of the white mansion which
they guard. There was ono great pop-
lar In tho grounds which is said to
have been the favorite tree of Abra,
ham Lincoln. Under it he used to sit
and ponder on the problems which
confronted him and occasionally, when
he had called some cabinet officer or
general of the army into conference,
he would lead him to the poplar and
there, on bench under it's shade.
he would discuss the problem of tho
moment
In the northeast corner Of the lawn.
walled in by hedge of privet, is an
old-fashtoned garden which was laid
out and cultivated under the direction
OF Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. This gar
den has all the flowers in it, one after
another throughout the season, which
are met with In the gardens of the
people throughout the country. After
the crocuses and the hyaoinths come
tulips. and after them the pansies, the
mignonette. the nasturtiums, the bach
slor buttons and the hollyhocks. Mr..