Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13


duck The President showed not drop
of perspiration about him. He was the
coolest looking iceberg that ever wafted
its way from Greenlands icy mountains:
He climbed into his autonople ana
smiled gently.
The Capitol" was all he said. but in
that little he conveyed a wealth of cool
ness and calmness and general 1mper-
turbability that the Sphinx could not
equal.
How does ne do that" asked the
Seeker.
Bermuda" answered the secretary
with slight smile. He bought those
clothes in Bermuda
You don't consider that President Will
has the secret of keeping cool?'
asked the writer.
Secretary Tumulty again smiled that
vague Irish smile.
It's partially the man. he said. who
considers everything except himself.
That is the truth OF President Wood
row Wilson. He has the philosophy and
the training that will not brook the con-
sideration of self, but demands self
sacrifice.
In earlier generations Rome gave
may be that self abnegAtion, the elm
ination of the individual has made
President Wilson immune to weather.
Nevertheless he wears Bermuda clothes
: of pongee silk and a straw hat which
the proletariat might well envy.
Leaving the White House. the Seeker
a
man with no great idea of his own i'm
portance, but with the title the Vice
President of the United States.
This" said the Seeker after Informa-
ton lis the Vice President of the
United States. Thomas Riley Marshall"
The little man with the gray eyes met
him at the door. clad in rather shabby
looking suit of mohair.
4 x
Il keep cool" he said, because there
is nothing to worry me. ! am essentially
an optimist, and as optimist I be-
lieve that hot weather was God-intended."
There is no reason to worry he said,
about the tariff. The tariff, like the
weather, is inevitable.
Here the Vice President of the United
States threw back his coat and exhibited
one of a half dozen silk shirts which he
had purchased.
My first concession. he said. Ito hot
weather.
\ thousand persons not exalted to the
positions of President and Vice Presi
dent of the United States dodge the
heat as best they are able to do it.
Among these are the motorists, including
the Automobiles, the cyclists and the
boatists. A thousand is a small number
for them: they assemble by more than
the thousands every evening.
Take motor cycling as a sport in itself.
on start forth on a macadam road as
smooth as a billiard table and apparently
resistless. You continue, and by press
ing one foot you increase your speed
until you seem fairly to fly.
This is the description of the average
motor cyclist; yet when you ask him how
he felt when he left his machine his
reply is eternally and despondently:
Hotter than ever"
D.n.onar.n&;ro cono,a D,1-pa 1ybo
comes from New York. has his own the
DRY of avoiding the heat.
Il am in favor of the afternoon slesta."
said Representative Payne, and indeed he
is Each afternoon the senior member OF
Congress from New York trots off gently
to his room in the minority chamber.
stretches his plethoric form on lounge
and is asleep.
have passes and are of the future. Then,
automatically. like a man who has been
aroused by an alarm clock, he returns to
the House chamber
occasions in the House chambers where
d bitter debate is rife. There is no lack
of power on the part of the New York
representative when he is needed.
But in the silent hours of the afternoon
when Congress is fitting around and get
ting nowhere Representative Payne HES
himself away and dozes for an hour.
ITO this said he. 81 attribute my
ability to enter any fight. Answering
your own question. l would say the best
way of fighting the heat was by the aft
ernoon siesta-
Representative Anderson of Minnesota
has queer theory for lodging the heat
Drink lemonade his advice
Drink lemonade whenever you feel like
drinking IL. and as often as you feel like
drinking it. Dill pickles are good. too.
Get the long: green pickles. put them
ice and whenever YOU feel hungry go out
and get one. I believe that the acid of.
the pickles offsets the heat of the blood
occaSioned by extreme weather. Lemon
ade and pickles, they are my advice to
the man who is lodging the heat"
Senator Overman, to whom the writer
appealed for d real definition" had d
thought paralyzing in it's simplicity.
Try base ball. said he This rep