Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-30
BEING A GOOD SPORT

When speak of person "a good sport" we mean, usually one who takes success without concei failure without bitterness
 Good sports" at the game of life are ExPresident and Mrs. William Howard Taft
 One does not need to delve into politics to inquire the reasons for changes of administration at a to that merely the human side the Mir Taft the presidency 1912 have severe blow. Elected with so much acclaim in 1908 to have the people so plainly after four years that they no longer him have been an experience which would have humiliated small man beyond recovery.
 But one has only to read the utterances of Mir Taft wife to realize whether wise or unwse the of politics they play the of life with skill
 Said the Ez-President at the National Press Club in Washington the other day:
 "The last fourteen or fifteen months that have spent have really been if happiest certainly happy any other part that have lived It is a real comfort away and settle down to a quiet modest and silent
 life and then be catapulted twice three times
 year into this vortex of political feeling and ambition struggling for the there in the country and find that. whether it be administration another,
 
 "one does not know until he has tried it, the educa- of facts Until you have been eiected until you have been forced into the apple tree of observation in the absence of influence you really don't know much. You how valuable for peace and conentment sense of humor is. Now have learned great many things in politics learned to find that all menshave something good-it took me some time to reach that conclusion and that all of them have some defects this it not hard to establish.
 But to know them. have had experience with them and then you left the stage to watch the act whom you knew your life of activity and see things out. you expected from your knowledge the characters that they would is really fascinating study"
 There speaks the man of personal genuneness and of vital interests outside himself the man of courage There speaks the good sport" taking failure genialy
 Writing a series of articles in the DeHueator on "WhiteHouse Keeping" Mrs Taft refers only once to the political situation and then in these terms:
 "rhe Presidency of the United States is the most difficult position given any to hold but there
 one sentiment strong in the hearts of our people which must be comforting to any bearing burdens and responsibilities Of that high office This sentiment is expressed "Our Country, right or wrong" presi- dents political fortunes may or fall with his success es or mistakes but he knows that the president Of people who when the smoke of battle has cleared away will permit him to take his place as an honored citizen whose mistakes are all forgiven and whose successes will in time, be recognized. Such is our history"
 One Of the things which women need most of all to learn-and many men might take lesson or two to their adyantage-is how to be a good sport
 Too often women when they fail in some undertaking rail at fate throw blame hther thither on any per son or circumstance handy instead smiling cheerfuy and saying Failed that time Cant expect win every game must find where I'm lacking and improve form "
 Blaming fate for misfortune weeping in a corner over disaster is a weak and silly thing. The woman who wants to amount to something may we'll take lesson from the Tafs, carry her head high and with smile sure that when the smoke of battle has cleared away mistakes will be forgiven and successes will in time be recognized"