The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-10
PRESIDENT IS WELL
Health Not Impaired by Strain Of
o, War.


o, War.
Washington, July l0.-President
Wilson has not been Jared by the
war In health he never was better.
He is up to date ON his mail and APP
pears less worried than at any time
since he assumed the presidency. He
GETS up at 5 every morning and goes
for a horseback lide with Mrs. Wilson.
They 90 by motor to the old mill IN
Rock Creek park, where the horses
are waiting and after an hour or two
1f exercise return to the machine and
ride back 10 the city for a bath and
breakfast by $50 he is ready for his
mai.
The President has adopted a new
system in handling his personal mail
and much OF his business is now dis
tinctly personal He goes to the Of
ice section of the White House only
twice a week: then to attend Cabinet
meetings At other times he does his
work in the old or residence part. He
has set a tier or filing eases behind his
ttsh eNiAA liiutN'D anu ltAto tA ti III =
limse.
Perhaps during the wartime this in.
/ sures the keeping of important infor-
nation until such time as it should
/ )e, communicated lie has his type.
writer in front of him on his desk and
| pecks away at 1t like a professor writ
ing history. His Flag Day speech
| vas written on this machine and the
original copy treasured by Secretary
| rumulty in leather binding might be
sent out as an advertisement by a
l ,ypewriung firm.
l Appointments are made for both
morning and afternoon. but most OF
he personal bushes occurs in the
afternoon. Interviews at the White
House are followed by frequent trips
o the capitol and 1t is not unusual
or Mr.. Wilson to run over to the Wal
Department, or the federal trade com
Missions offices to see some man OF
1usiness ne wishes to straighten out
at once His visits to the capitol hav,
Jecome so frequent they no Longer
,reate surprise.
| The President has not given up golf
About every third day he goes to tn,
l Washington club and plays II holei
BY reducing the number he cuts on
couple of miles of the course anC
,aves an hour or so of time. DR.. Gray
on is still his riding and golfing but
| lie" and the long-suffermg secre
Ieryice men have had to add tn,
| equestrian art to that of riding motor
l ycles driving automobiles and lonl
distance hiking and running,
| About three evnings in the weel
| he President goes cut. One of thes'
S sure to find him at the local vaude
| lille theatre, and another at som,
)ther theatre where there is a non
serious attraction. The serious il
fanatics does not appeal to MI
| wilson lie takes his serious drami
rom real life.
| Whenever Washington has had
stock company putting on the oil
aVOrtes, as IL has for a number q
Tears, the President was sure to b
here. He knows all the stock favor
es and has had them as guests a
he White House. Other evening
when not dragged ont to some ofiicia
junction, he works in his study writ
ng state department communications
'epCrts on the progress of the arm
organization, the doings of the navy
oonfldentially communicated by tn
secretary, and writes state papers {
De signed by Secretary Lansing.
Any reports that Mr. Wilson /
Ishowing strain or wear under thi
life are misleading. He appears t
le growing younger every day an
never was in better physical form.