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been brought about by particular SSreatment for frequent head colds to which he and the first Mrs. Will son were subject. The wife diet soon after, but his case yielded tt treatment.
 Some years before that, MT, Will son had suffered thrombosis, in one of his legs. It was the lodgi1e of a blood clot in an artery, but because of it's location, not serious It'was, however, a complaint Of the same nature which caused his break down in 1919. when tho clot formed on the right side of his brain i'm pairing the control of his left arm and leg.
 Little known also, is the fact that Mr Wilson, like MT Roosevelt, was practically sightless in one eye bursting blood vessel in /the retina practically made it useless, although the impairment was in part overcome by the use of glasses. He suffered also from nervous indigestion. With predisposition to take cold easily added to this list of troubles, Wood row Wilson took up the arduoui duties of the Presidency with fal less physical equipment than the people generally gave him credit for.
 Once in office the round of com plexities which brought MT. Wilson praise on one side and damnatio- on the other was not long in start ing Like a snowfall rolling dowr hill it continued to take on volum; until the day of his departure iron the White House.
 Debates Succession
 Once in the midst of his seize of prostration which accompanied the first stages of his present i'll ness, he debated with himself wheth CT he ought not ta relinquish his office and give way to his successor Later when his health had improved and the Democratic convention q San Francisco was balloting nigh and day to agree on presidential nominee, MT Wilson debated witt himself whether he should be a can didate for a third term. It could no be said that either subject reached the stage of being considered". Blu it was known that Mr Wilson gave the subjects some thought.
 T These with many other thing! form the highly interesting unwritteI chantarc of WOodrow XVi1cop'c Iifn They would make volume of ia more expressing reading than any thing that has ever been writtel About him.
 But q volume might include tn, inside story" of the break witt Col. E. M, House, his former con fidential advisor; 1t might tell 0 row MT. Wilson. rousing Mir. Clem epceau. the French Premier, iron bed at ? o'clock in the morning practically charged the French dele gates with having tempered witt the records of the peace conference proceedings
 Resolved To Fire
 It might tell of how MT. Wilson made up his mind to fire" som other cabinet officers soon after tn resignation of Secretary of Stat Robert E. Lansing but desisted. be cause, he said, it would only ad, to the popular impression that h couldn't get along with anybody
 It might also tell what Mir. Wilsol "said with a smile" to Lloyd Georg concerning the relative strength o the British and American navies and it might disclose that Mr Wi son went to the peace conferenc prepared to wi hdraw, as he threat ened to do 90. in the midst.
 All these things, however, if the, do become public, probably will d. so by the pen of the historian afte Woodrow Wilson has been assignet to his proper niche in the wall of history While the principal act ors in the series of dramas live all these things arc likely to remaii behind the scenes. MT. Wilson's re tirement from public life is not lkel to release them for public consuml ton.
 Until the beginning of the Worl War MT Wilson held the attention Of the country with his swift stroke al getting legislation from Congress With the coming of the war he de voted the first two years of hi first term to an attempt to kee the United States out of the conflict and as the seemingly inevitable drif toward war set in. he gradually as sumed the diplomatic leadership c the nation arrayed against German and her allies. and finally assume what his partisans characterized a