Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-18
WILSON RUGGED
And VIGOROUS,
HASKIN STATES
President of United States Today Is
Happy, Optimistic and Salts
fed Nan.
BIZ FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

Washington, D. c., July It's
the Woodrow Wilson who has Just
returned from the accomplishment
Of task that is so stupendous as
70 stagger the Imagination, a worn.
harassed and haggard man, be-
cause of the labor through which
he has passed?
This is a question that occurs in
the mind Of many individuals who
are interested in the work OF the
American president, and the natur-
al supposition is that he shows the
effects Of his six months in Eu-
rope, months that were filled with
much labor and many contentious:
witch were fraught with possibil-
tiles so great that any man might
have been excused for lying awake
at Fight because of them.
A close inspection of the presi-
dent upon those occasions when
journalists in Washington are to
Iaeet him quite Ultimately entirely
dispeIIs this Illusion of the nerve
racked man, worn down by the
travail through which he has pass
ed. The Woodrow Wilson of today
is a rugged, vigorous and healthy
individual of glowing spirit and
genial personality, a man on whose
brow there is no furrow of care.
The Woodrow Wilson of today is
obviously a happy and optimistic
man, well satisfied with conditions
as he finds them in the world.
In fact the appearance of the
president is a matter of marvel to
those who have watched him close
1y during the six years of his in
cumbency in the White house. He
had occupied the highest official
position in the United States but
a few days when he asked those
Journalists who habitually write
of governmental matters to- meet
him in the east room of the White
horse. At that time those men
who had not formerly known him
were very much interested in TAX
ing a measure of the man and get
ting first hand impressions of the
sort of individual he was. The i'm
preston received that day was that
the president was man not great
~ inclined to be spare but giving
that general impression. His face
was long and bony and carried with
it a degree of the austere. In those
days Woodrow Wilson was still
good deal of the college professor
type. Likewise in his manner did
he reflect the results of the life he
had led; his geniality did not come
easily and there was in contact
with him an occasional assertion as
though of authority, certain
sharpness and autocratic manner of
speech. This also probably was
due to a lifetime spent in the class
room where his authority was I'M
disputed and did not quite fit into
the new conditions.
Ceased To Exist.
This Woodrow Wilson has long
ceased to exist. Physiognomists
hold that the facial expression of
a man changing from one manner
of life to another cannot materially
change in less than five years. A
laborer, for instance, becoming a
lawyer remains a Iaborer in facial
expression for half a decade. Like
wise, the college professor becom-
ing an executive, a man of action,
does not Immediately take on the
appearance of the man of action,
though he may actually be that in
diyidual
So it was with Woodrow Wilson.
Those who have known him init
mately have seen the transforma-
ton take place. Two years ago
that Transformation was well on it's
way, and was easily noted by those
who continued to watch the presi-
dent But today, at the time of his
return from six months abroad, six
months OF such experience as few
men have ever had since time be-
gan, the Transformation is complete,
and Woodrow Wilson is as unlike
the man he was as are you or as
am I.
In the first place. he is physi-
caIIy different. His entire form
has filed out and has lost its
sparseness and it's angularity. He
was always an outstanding man,
nearly six feet in height and of
quite admirable physique. Today
he is rather large man, not spare
at all and well rounded. He is
not quite so outstanding, as he has
lost his stiffness and let down a
bit and acquired a Iounging ease
that he used never to have. He car