Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-26

s / 80 PER IA !. Il
Adjourns Being President.

Adjourns Being Preside ent.
For example, take matter ~ slis
sort: will not say whether ii III wise
or unwise, simple or grave, but ceT-
tain ,recedents have been Ell klished
that Ia certain com mpanies the presis
Ident must leave the room first ana
people must give way to him They
must not BIT down Il he Ii standing
up. II IS q very ancomf f6I table thing
to have to think Of al the Other peo.
pie every time get up or ait down
| and all that sort Of thing So that
| when get guests III my own house
and the public Is shut ont 81 af5onra
ISheing president and take leave To be
d gentleman II they draw back ana !;
insist upon my doing some thing hfst
j firmly decline.
| Painful Postoffices.
The postcfices and MANY other
things which stir "reminiscences have
.sicklied them o'er with a pale cast of
| thought There are postotiiees to
| which wouldn't think of mailing II
letter, which j can't think of without
trembling with the knowledgs Of the
Iheartburnfngs of the struggle there
was IN connection with getting some
body installed as postmaster.
Merely Public Exhibit
Some day, after am through with
this Office. ] am going back 10 wash
ington and see IT. In the meantime
| l am in the same category as the Ma
tional museum. the monument, the
smithsonian Institution, OF the con
gressional library, and everything that
comes down here has to be shown the
president II only knew an exhi-
bition appearance to assume appar-
ently ] can assume other appearances
that do not show what is going on In
sidefI would like TO have i Tainted
Eont, SO that could practice Al before
i the looking glass and see IL 3 could
anot look like the monument. Being
4 regarded as d national exhibit IT
I would be much simpler than being
I shaken hands with BY the whole Unit
Fed States,
Job Lot Of Humans
/ And yet even that Is interesting to
me, simply because ] like human be-.
sIings. 1t is a pretty poor crowd that
does not interest you. think they
would have to be all members of that
class that devotes itself to expense
regardless OF pleasure il order to be.
entirely uninteresting These hook SO
much alike spend their time trying
i to look SO much alike, and SO relieve
4 themselves OF all responsibility Of
4 thought-that they are very InonotO-
nous indeed to look at; whereas, a
crowd picked up off the street is just
a a jolly lot-a job lot Of real human
beings, pulsating with life with all
kinds Of passions and desires. II
would be great pleasure Il. unobs
served and unattended, could be
knocked around as have been accus-
toned to being knocked around all
t my life; IL j could resort to any de-
j lightful quarter, to any place 10 Wash
4 lington that chose. s
! Would Like 4 Dissuiee.
! i have sometimes thought oS going
I to some costumer'ssome theatrical
costumer's and buying an assort-
I ment Of boards, rouge and coIoring
I and all the known means OF diBguising
i myself, IL 1t were not against the law.
/ You see ! have a scrupIe as presi-
dent against breaking law and dis
guising ones self against the law, but
! # could disguise myself and not get
. caught would go out, be free Amer
lean citizen once more and have q
. jolly good time. I might then meet
! some OF you gentlemen and actually
! tell you what | really thought. =
!, The president talked most informal
lily. He wore sack suit and stood
!. with his hands In his pockets as he
spoke He was in a happy mood and
!. his remarks were punctuated con-
lstantly with laughter and applause.
! Mr.. Wilson is member Of the Press.
club, having been elected as an author
long before he became president.
4 Speaker Clark and many officials also
Il were guests of the newspaper mer.
ifsuccEssFuL SERIES TO CLOSE
SUNDAY.
The course Of sermons on @The
Church" BY the Rev. o., j Christian
son at the First congregational