Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-31
BY FREDERIC j. HAsK1N

Washington, D. c., July 2s.-Many
are the adults, especially parents. who
give Il sigh of relief on the twenty
sixth of each December and rejoice that
Christmas comes but once a year. You
know the feeling. Yet what would you
do IL dear old Santa visited you con-
sistently every day in the year and
brought you every conceivable present
from nearly every land? 1t is practical
ly true that, for the president, every
day is Christmas-at least as far as
the gift receiving part of Christmas
is concerned. One might also add. with
complete sincerity, as far. as the good
will part of Christmas Is concerned,
also
Psychologists could learn much of
the power of suggestion had they the
privilege of signing for the white house
parcel post AID express packages. "A
Sunday supplement publishes story
stating that the president has been
known to pitch nasty horseshoe,
as modern Americanese has it, and
! forthwith comes a deluge OF gilt horse
shoes silver horseshoes, brand-neW
horse shoes and good old rust-encrusted
horSehoes. Again, suggestion is mace
that the president prefers of all things
in tobacco the unaristocratic and
tnedply StoSlt. Ing mans Va
the next week bring in stacks of boxea
| of the anemic cigar. There are ONO
stogies West Virginia stogieS. Ken
| lucky stogies. Pennsylvania stogies.
| Similarly "a picture of the president
playing golf brings him golf sticks and
caps: he is reported as spending many
of his precious spare hours on the May
| flower-he gets many specimens or
| yachting headgear; he is snapped TAX
ing an early morning walk-he gets
canes of all kinds from all over the
country and also blackthorn walking
sticks from Ireland and de luxe shark
spine canes from Panama.
One of the most unusual of these re-
| sponses to stories of Mr.. Harding $
preferences was the sending of gold
| and silver comets to the white house
because. when he was a boy back home,
he played the cornet in the village
| band. The funny part OF the story, how
! ever is that his admirers are not con-
| tent to stop at comets, but send in
! trombones and other musical instru-
ments.
There seems also to be an unusual
desire to provide the presidential head
with suitable adornment. Whether TINS
lis caused by anxiety to keep MT.
| Hardlng's dignified silver locks from
| the following influences of sunburn or
because his extensive front porcn
campaigns last year led the general
public to believe he didn't travel be.
cause he hadn't n hat to wear varied
lis the assortment of gift hats. There
are silk hats. opera hats. cowboy SOM
breros bowlers, heaters" las our
British cousin calls she American
straw. caps of all varieties and Pan
lamas so beautifully woven that water
can be carried in them. Last. but FAR
from least both in size and quantity
are the good old straw piles for plain
i"f.shin." the kind that used to retail
lat five and ten cents. Many OF these
hats. sad to relate. do not in the least
fit Mr. Harding. and 1t would take a
hydra headed president to pretend TO
wear even Il reasonable percentage OIL
them.
Many of the hundreds of boxes that
core to the executive office offer n
fair census OF the agricultural re-
sources OF the country. The first cot
ton ball from the south was sent the
president on July sth. The first bear
irgs from the American fig trees In
| Arizona and Califc--iia came about
tho same time. The Far West and the
south compete in early offerings OF
oranges. lemons. Erape fruit an d
olives. The northwest sends its apple
prodirIes. New England lays It's prize
pumpkins before the president and the
middle west proudly submits man.
moth melons and gigantic ears Of corn.
GIFTS OF FISH AND GAME.
From the seas. lakes and rivers.
salmon. mnckcrel. and cod. oysters.
HOLSTERS and CLANS trou: bass and