South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
No CONVEN|ENCES
FOR PRES. WILSON
ON HIS VACATION
Summer Home is in Country
Where Modern improve
mentS Have Made Little
HeadWay. h
BY BURTON Il. STANDISH.
(Written for the United Press. ,

WINDSOR, VT. July 23.-Pres.
wrote some of his messages to con-
gress by the light of a smoking oil
lamp. If, after Pres. Wilson comes
here for his vacation. he decides TO
spend some Of his evenings writing
his next message to congress, he will
have to do it either by oil lamp light
or candle light Which is some re-
turn to the dark ages for the president
of the United States in these days of
aeroplanes. flying boats, gas and cleo
tricity.
Last night Mrs. Wilson and her
daughters ate their evening meal by
lamp light. When they give a little
party planned for some Of the per-
sOnal friends Of the presidential fam
lily, there will be oil lamps in the
front room. For there is no gas
or electric light at HarIakenden
House, the presidents summer home.
Pres. Wilson is accredited with love
of simplicity in all things. He can
humor that liking to the limit when
he comes here for a much needed rest.
The large grounds about the house are
well kept up and, with the exception
of the lighting proposition, Harlaken-
den House is strictly modern.
Natives Like Him.
Windsor i5 three miles by New Eng
land roads from Cornish, VT. The
natives are not frustrated over having
a president and his family for neigh
bors. There were quite a few at the
station when the president recently
visited Mrs. Wilson and his daugh-
ters, but they always go TO the station
TO meet the two daily trains. They
gave Pres Wilson "A hearty and cor
dial welcome 10 their village but that
was all. As soon as the train pulled
out they went back to their work.
when the pTesident accompanied
his family to church one Sunday while
he was here. the StOlid old Vermonters
weren't a whit fused. They took
il as "A matter OF course that the pres
ident OF the United States was a
church gOer. and let it go at that.
Many of them casually hung around
after church TO shake his hand but IL
was all done in the same way they
would greet any other new resident
who wasn't a president.
As one native put IT. Mister Wilson
is a nice, simple lOOkin' man who ap-
pears TO know his business, and his
wife is a mighty fine woman. His
daughters appear TO be fust rate girls
and Miss Jessie's beau. who was up
here visiting when the president was.
looks TO be considerable OF a man."
That's the way the natives up here
look at IL. Down in their hearts they
are mighty proud of the presidents
selection OF their town as a summer
capital and there is every evidence
that. although some of them voted
the republican or progressive tickets.
they all have been very favorably i'm
preSsd with Pres. Wilson. But ID
would be foreign TO their natures TO
let anyone think for a minute that
they "are all set up about having
Pres Wilson for a neighbor.
Windsor is in a valley between the
foothills of the White mountains. Ii
is noted for its climate. a great deal
Of which has been apparent since the
presidents family got here. The
temperature for a time persisted in
clinging around ninety during the day
and eighty at night. while the enthu-
siastic postmaster and the town tailor
swore that II was the hottest year in
their history.