Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06

water TO the cattle and performed a
number Of other chores that another man.
feeling he did would not have dared
TO attempt
What was the result In the fall tile
senator returned To Washington Rudy
checked heavy. yet not fat. clear eyed
steady of nerve as ever he was he jumped
into the fight and created feeling or
establishment which crystallized itself into
the phrase THE iron senator"
Now every summer when he escapes
from Congress the Wisconsin leader HES
himself to his little farm There he again
takes up the duties OF the agriculturist.
He labors in the sun AL day. attaining a
glorious tan and returning TO Congress
in the ripeness OF health.
His philosophy concerning his health
fad is this:
Many a man works as hard showing
canoe or chasing moose as | do on the
farm. 1t is all a matter OF viewpoint.
take the farm labor as a vacation
The Polar Bear OF the Senate" is the
title which Uncle Knute" Nelson. SEN
ator from Minnesota. justly bears. IL Is
not without cause that he has been 80
named. for in the coolest weather the win
dows OF Senator Nelson's offices are
open and many and many committee
has shuddered ii thought OF entering
his committee room on a snowy Decem-
Der morning.
Visit the north" Senator Nelson said
'and get out in the cold once in
a while. That is what keeps man
young. Hot weather saps the vital en-
ergies. You know IL is well established
fact that the southern races mature be-
fore the northern people. 1t is no failac,.
Ii is n fact.
What do YOU mean by getting out in
the cold2" was asked.
Good freezing polar weather: lots of
snow Brishness everywhere. No oppor-
tunity to loaf and let the blood grow
sluggish
These are the things that keep a man
young. You know man is only as young
as his arteries. and If he lets his blood
grow slow then he himself Will begin 10
slow down.
Senator Nelson affects a snappy, biting
manner OF speech lie is always known
in debate BY his swift. biting retorts:
certainly not the retorts OF man who
has passed the allotted span OF life as
the senator has.
When l was a bow in Norway" said
ne. we never thought of old men. \
man, as he grew older. acquired wisdom
and was not impaired in energy. Ii was
the good cold climate. No man can be-
come sluggish if he once gets stirred UP
by snowstorm-
How much time would you suggest
spending in the cold?' was asked
Personally he replied. Il would spend
all OF nv time there if ii were not for my
duties here. As il is. l advise the aver
age man 10 come north at least two
weeks in the fail or winter of the year
and get himself cleared out.
Senator Nelson has followed this hobby
of health for years. Today he is recog-
nized as among the most virile OF the
men in the upper chamber. and he VIII
undoubtedly remain so for some time 10
come.
STAY in the cold.'
His maxim while unique. seemed at
least reasonable.
Senator Bristow of Kansas finds health
while walloping the golf ball He is
man who, unlike Secretary Garrison.
finds his Joy in the heater and finer shots.
He declares that nerve power, rather than
crude Drawn. should govern the true
golfist
When the sad-eyed ball leaves Secretary
Garrison it is pleading for mercy When
it leaves the gentle club OF Senator Brls-
tow it is unframed and happy.
Among Mr.. Bristows golfing COM
panions are Senator's Cummins, Town
send Hitchcock and OGorman.
But when the occasion comes for his
searching for health Senator O'Gorman
removes the habitual judicial frock coat.
sheds the high hat, and with oetermi-
nation worthy of a Trojan martyr goes
forth to preside at the tennis court.
The senator has. in his time, been a fol-
lower of many forms of outdoor sport.
But tennis still sticks to him. And his
friends who watch MIN sm!te the bounce
ing ball declare that he is, without ex.
ception, one of the deftest tennis players
that public life now possesses.
Copyright, l9l3 by John Elfreth WatkinsJ