Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-10-27
PRESIDENT MAKES HIS SUMMER
HEADQUARTERS IN THE OLD
FASHIONED GARDEN.
SUBSTITUTE FOR EXERCISE
Life In Fresh Air Is Expected to Do
Much Toward Keeping the Chief
Executive In Trim During the
Hot Weather.
BY GEORGE CLINTON,

pitched headquarters tent in the old
fashioned flower garden lying Just
south of the one.story annex, which
forms the east approach to the White
House. He has made up his mind
that he will spend large part of the
summer in Washington and as the
summers here notoriously are hot. he
intends to get all the breezes and
fresh air that he can while at his try.
ing administration work.
Unlike two Of his predecessors In
office. Theodore Roosevelt and VIII
liam Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson
has not been able to get all the exer-
else that he needs to keep himself In
perfect physical trim. Physicians say
continuous fresh air will make up to
some extent for the lack of bodily ex-
ercise. 1t must not be understood
that the president ia sick man, for
he is not; he simply is somewhat
tired and has determined to do that
which will overcome the tired feeling
as much as possible. Mr.. Wilson is
no more tired. perhaps, than are other
workers in Washington. but 1t must
be remembered that he has about
twice as much to do and great many
times as much anxiety as fall to the
lot of other officials in the capital city
When Mr.. Taft came into office
there were many alterations made in
the east wing of the White House.
where the cabinet room, the presi-
dents private office and the offices of
the clerical force are located. The
presidents office is a circular room In
the south side Of the office annex. 1t
communicates by passageway with
the Office Of the private secretary,
which Is at the southwest corner OF
the building. The outlook from the
presidents room and from the cabI
net room as well and from one end OF
Secretary Tumulty's room is over the
great south grounds of the White
House and on to the monument and
beyond that to the Potomac river.
Tent Site Well Protected.
The change which President Taft
made necessitated an encroachment
on the grounds OF the tennis court
where President Roosevelt and his
tennis cabinet played games almost
daily for the seven years in which
the colonel was in the White House
II the tennis court had not been built
upon 1T would have made an ideal
site for President Wilson's outdoor
camp. for 1t would have been close to
Secretary Tumulty's office and to the
Offices of the executive clerks. The
old-fashioned garden. in which the
presidents tent Is located. has a
hedge of privet on two sides of 1t. a
third side being enclosed by the east
White House wing. while the fourth
side is open to the great grounds of
the house and beyond them to the
river over what are known as the
white lot. the monument grounds and
the Potomac drive.
The old.fashioned garden was
planned and planted by Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt. who found what she
thought were too many botanical
specimens in the White House
grounds. in other words. too many un.
familiar flowers So the old-fashioned
garden was laid out and largely was
planted by the presidents wife's
hands. There are lilacs, syringas.
pansies, sweet-williams. bachelors
buttons. forget-me.nots. hollyhocks,
peonies. fuchsias. nasturtiums and all
the rest. President Wilson will have
a fragrant old-fashioned environ.
ment.
Must Show Their CoIors.
Prohibition and woman suffrage are
today squarely before the house of rep
resentatives as questions to be voted
upon. For years the friends of both
causes have been attempting to secure
record votes on the questions in house
and senate and for years they have
failed. Now 1t seems likely that the
prohibition amendment will be voted
on In the house before the adjourn.
ment of the present session. Suffrage
possibly may have to wait.
The two subjects are before the
house in the form of proposed amend
ments to the constitution of the
United States. They both have been
in the keeping of the judiciary com
mittee for some time and If things
were as they used to be in congress
1t is probable the committee never |
would have reported them to the |
house. The members of the commit |
tee, however. were moved by the |
constant charges made by the friends |
of both suffrage and prohibition that |
they did not dare report the amend |
ments and that they were holding |
them back also because the represent
atives did not care to be put on rec |
ord for or against either amendment. |
For long time suffragists and ad- |
vocates of prohibition have been urg- |
ing members of the house to see to
1t that both amendments were brought |
to vote. The answers which the |
prohibitionists and the suffragists re-