The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1912-03-11
MANY OF The
PUBLIC men
HAVE HOBBIES
ftfn1RltITIfs MARK THEN
By ERlea THEY ARE KNOWN
IRREGULARITIES OF EVEN THE
Up PLAINLY AMONG THEIR
, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS SHOW
FRIENDS.
FRIENDS.

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de Bergerac was known by his pso-
trudmg PROPOSES. Leaping acro-s a
century or more, Theodore Roose-
veh Is found typified In the popular
mind by q Tapping fe4 hat. eye
glasses and mule tee>h.' IL these
three features of his appearance
were drawn alone It would mean
ct. R." to everybody who saw them.
Nobody ever thinks of Vice PresiL
dent Sherman as other than sunny
JIM" nor of President Taft without
spotting his smile and his series of
double chins as typical ard charac-
terhSttc OF the man.
Public men are seldom drab in
their physical coloring Nature
seems to tag them Enthusiastically
with some physical eccentricity or
habit, by which men shall know them
Up on capitol hill, where congress
sits, there are many such men. There
is hardly one of them who is without
his hobby, or his hall mark.
Some of them have both habit and
hall mark. Representative Prouty OF
Iowa is one of these. If you ever
come to Washington, and are sitting
in one of the galleries of the house
of Representatives when a tail, red
faced man with shock of light hair
rises to speak, notice him. If he Is
Prouty, you will see that he has
b1EShy white eyebrows, and that hs
chews gum necessarily. No ont
ever mistakes Prouty for some one
else The combination of white eye
brows and gum chewing is as dis
tinctive as a tattoo mark.
And when it comes to habits ana
hobbies, Representative Bartholdt o
Missouri, and Representative Hobsol
of Alabama, hold all champion lonS
distance records for advocating tn.
same things, at least once dIEdng {
session.
The other day one of the member
of the house said: Death and take
are not more certain of arrival thai
is the speech of Representative Bal
tholdt ON the restoration of the arm,
canteen and the speech of Repre-
sentative Hobson, in which b
launches has annual and ever recul
rent Japanese war scare"
Now hobbies are usually harmless
but Representative Bartho'dt's veal
ness for the restoration of the arm
canteen conflicts with the precol
ceived views of Representative Hol
son on that subject and becomes
source of irritation and vexation, an
so the two often prance their hol
bies I'D and down the house chan
Der for many minutes at at time.
Augustus o. Stanley, from Kel
lucky, who is at the throttel of til
steel trust investigation committe
has a little habit all his own. Ofte
when some witness like CaIUegi
Jim Hill, President Farrell of til
! U. S. Steel corporation, or men I
} like wealth and affairs are upon til
I stand, the audience is startled b
J seeing the chairman of the comm
} tee deliberately open his wallet al
extract therefrom a crinkly bill, ii
denomination of course depen6I
! upon the state of the Stanley e
I chequer. These bills have bet
known to run from ones to twenties
) Then Mr.. Stanley removes fro
I his nose his little glasses, the len
es of which are shaped just Ill
) timid little harvest moons, and b
7 gins to polish them with the bill.
Upon Witnessing a performance
! this sort, thrifty Andy Carnegie, Il
4 Canny Scot, one one occasion near
2 forgot to repeat to the commits
for the 10th time how he once stal
Z ed so young men in business.
: Henry Clay" Sulzeri That's VIII
: they call him. He is the represent
Z tive from New York, chairman
: the house committee ON foreign {
< fairs, and if names go for anythin
z product of Teutonic strains. B
. it makes no difference. he IS call
3 Henry Clay Sulzer. After a faShi
Z he hooks like the Tugged old state