Arizona republican., 1921-09-27

or amusement. Once week he has a motion picture show of his own. } Occasionally he goes to a vaudeville show. It rarely happens that some body fails to discover the visitors and a demonstration of hand clapping en- sues.
 Evenings at home are spent in the family circle. The former president and Mrs. Wilson read book togeth-
 CT, or perhaps Mrs. Wilson reads aloud.
 He takes to bed early. not to sleep.
 however, but to relax, to read and
 write. Like Mark Twain, he does
 much reading and writing in bed.
 Propped up by pillows, and with a
 little writing board across his knees.
 he reads and makes notes in short
 hand.
 Nobody knows what they are about.
 He puts them carefully away. They
 are not notes for a book which many
 expect. Unless MT. Wilson changes
 his mind he will write no reply to
 Robert Lansing or any one who has
 criticised his policies. A writer, who has been given access to MT. Wilson's papers, of which there are almost a ton, is writing a book, but it will be his own. not MT. Wilson's.
 Never NesIects Bible However, the evening may be spent, however tired he may be, there is one thing the former president
 never neglects. It is the reading of few verses of the bible, which al-
 ways rests on the reading table at his bedside.
 MT. Wilson will be 65 years old next December and has passed through an | ordeal which few men survive. His
 normal weight in health while he was president was 1S0 pounds. He shows little departure from that fig ure. His eyesight is as good although | he has discarded his fayorite nose glasses for spectacles. His hair has turned snow white. His appetite IS too robust to please his physicians. Last March when he left the White House with President elect Harding, an attendant had to place his feet on each succeeding step from the 1 portico. The other day he sent his attendant away and climbed alone, not without some effort, into his au- tomobile, just to see if he could do it. Motor nerves and muscles of his
 left side have given more response | to treatment than was hoped for. He still walks with a cape most of the time. but frequently hangs the crook l OfCI LlS diAu SoSS At oAOAtC eiea4 out my third leg
 MT. Wilson is far from a well man; he was far from a well man when he entered the White House over eight I years ago. But during the last two years there have been times when his
 voice was inaudible and when he 1 could not support himself alone. His condition today shows more improve
 ment than his family and friends dared hope for.
 There are many angles to MT Will
 sons present day psychology. Living 1 in Washington, and easy of access to
 party friends, he might give consult I tation on party policies, but he does not. Whatever a visitor may say in criticism of the Republican adminis- 1 tration, MT. Wilson never replies He never permits any one in his pres l ence to speak what he regards as "disrespectfuly of the president of the United States
 1 MT. Wilson brought with him to I the White House the small savings l of a life time, which he preserved 1 During his terms his royalties from I books previously written mounted T into rather handsome sums. They l have shown a slump since he left the I White House.
 l While he was president, eircum- stances helped him save money. The E war and the suspension of social l functions and entertainments were I quite an item. It has been estimated I that his pocketbook was at leas I $25, ,000 richer because he was no
 called to to wine and dine numerous ' dignitaries and official persons.