Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-07
Hun,dniSmS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

DRESIDENT HARDING stood in front
L of the big, Hat desk in his inner Office
at the White House and talked to the fifty
people who had been admitted.
noted that his skin was quite bronzed:
that his eyes were big and brown and
kindly. that he possessed that feature by
which the physiognomiSts put such store,
hawk nose. that his physique was trimmer
and more athletic than ! had expected.
Then I looked at his hands. The hands
of the President are probably the most uu.
usual element in his physical makeup They
are of peculiar type that one secs once in
n blue moon. They are very long and very
wide. but they are also very fiat hands.
There is surprisingly little thickness to
them. The fingers, somewhat big fingers,
arc of inordinate length.
One does not associate physical strength
with such hand. 1t suggests two things
dcxterity and genius \ commonplace man
would never have such hand An inventor
of complicated mechanical devices might.
teacher, thinker, dreamer, idealist, would
be likely to.
Mr.. Harding, from his hands. is all that
man with thick palm and stubby fingers
is not.
Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Coolidge made
their first public appearance after inaugural
when they attended the hobby party OF the
National Press Club
They came together. Upon arriving at
the theatre Mr.. Harding and Mr.. Coolidge
went down the lobby together and the two
ladies followed.
They had gone half way down when /
dawned upon Mrs. Coolidge that she was
walking on the right side of the first lady
of the land while, as a matter of precedence
she should have been walking on her left
She hesitated in confusion and stage,
whispered: "Oh. am on the wrong side.
abs, annh oil
| members of the sex in the presence OF q
faux pas have done since time began. There
was n bit of trembling of shoulders They
would have liked to giggle.
ut does not matter. Come along, SAID
Mrs. Harding and they went their way
AS floor leader of the Republicans in the
House of Representatives, Frank W. Mon
dell is called upon to meet many Sltua'
ton in which rough methods are ncces.
sary. To him and his associates ON tle
steering committee falls the responsibility "
mapping out the program of work ana JAM
ming 1t through.
Quite naturally there are many men MItn
special enthusiasm for pet measures. inc!
| fight hard for those measures. are likely 10
feel strongly and express themselves Dlt'
tcrly when they are placed on the sidrtracm
1t is said Of Mr.. Mondcl that h" meets
these situations with the frmnrSS that i"
| necessary, accepts dCnunCiatlOu phllOSopn.
ically, Then, at the end Of the day W.
carried over On the morrow h" is aN good
| friends to the man whom he has steam.
| rollcrcd and who has angrily resented It "
il nothing had happened. TO him it Is
new day.
II ono goes over to the Navy Department
| to visit Major General John Archer IT,
| 4 pt nf IN u
the outer Office Of that informal GcntIGma"
tall, angular aide. with tho bar "i Ilc",
| tenant on his shoulder. and n rOunt"naO'
50 battered that it would seem to have Dee'
through all the wars.
This individual is John II. Craig, one
| time football star, later amateur lstlr rAa'u
pion Of the Atlantic ScabOnrd, mcmbrr .,
tie American team in the Olympic game
| in England. the man who hung out emu
lcngc in lnriS and fought all comcrs' d
! fight a day throughout a season, tramp SUI
| dicr of fortune, journalist. .-.
Craig has found his niche in the hght'ps
marines and bears stronger resemblance .ho" ="
| the popular conception Of devil dog 'h""
any artist could paint.
Samuel l.. Shortridgc. new senator irOm
| California, had not been in Washington 'V"S
when he dinCd with Herbert Hoover,
| He pointed out to the new secretary w w
parallel in their lives. Both were born !"
| Iowa: both went to Salem. Ore, to Init,
both attended school at San jose cam
both went away and worked during Na,S, Na,n,
tion time in the mining camps, where oo, uoy
senator became Hn expert tool sharpen
and the secretary an underground l'lnv.
Now both have homes within IA mile OF ta.' GOV,
| other across the bay from san franr'Su"i Sni
and both have boarded up those homes NV
J come to Washington to hold high po''' '
the government.