The Washington times., 1922-07-23
QUESTION AS To
WILSON'S HEALTH
CROPS UP AGAIN
Apparently Improved
Since Leaving the
White House

President Wilson really is"
In perennial. Everybody asks 1t
and very few people really know
the answer. Every little while
there Is . runIor that he Is I'm
rather q bad wsy'-which is al
ways promptly denied at his home.
One night la week II seemed
peculiarly insisttnt. A friend who
lives nearby tells me that all the
reporters In Washington were sit.
ting on tn" doorstep. waiting for
something 10 happe And moth.
ing happened
Every once IN while one gets
glimpse OF Dr.. Wilson out for
his daily drive, looking a rather
fragile, scholarly. elderly man--not
robust. perhaps, but certainly not
desperately III. And at rather
longer intervals one sees him at
Keith's.
Within a night or two Of the
last rumor Of serious relapse. he
was there; possibly malice afore-
thought" to prove to the newspa-
per men that he wasn't dead yet
not by a long shot! He doesn't
attempt to get into his old place
in the mezzanine boxes; it Is ad-
mitted. that he cannot negotiate
stairs. SO he, accompanied by
Mrs. Wilson and usually by one of
her brothers, who is proud to
serve the former President as
secretary" takes a place re-
served for him in the orchestra
circle. OF course, he is always
recognized, and usually there is
some little demonstration, though
/ gather that he rather deprecates
anything OF the sort, and the
Keith management discourages 1t.
Mrs. Wilson is practically clois-
tered in their 8 street home with
him. She has devoted herself ab-
solutely TO taking care of him,
and during the nearly eighteen
months since she left the White
House has gons iowhere ard
done nothing in social way
except for reception given by
Democratic women some few
months ago, at which she was
the honor guest-an occasional
luncheon and nowadays a semi
occasional evening party. They
have a few friends for dinner now
and then, but really very little
company. The nearest approach
to party" was a luncheon
which President Wilson's last
Secretary OF State. and present
law partner. Bainbridge Colby,
and Mrs. Colby came down for.
And that was not at all a formal
function-not a luncheon so much
as ''Just lunch"
Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo
came down and spent a few daVs
with her father before she went
out to California to live, a few
months ago; and Miss Helen
Woodrow Bones was the guest of
the Wilson's for a few days-over
the Fourth, I believe 1t was.
haven't heard OF Miss Margaret
Wilson or Mrs. Sayre having been
In Washington for months. From
all OF which one might readily
infer that those in a position to
know what the former Presidents
condition is see no cause for
anxiety.
Some one asked me mysteriously
what I made out of the fact that
Admiral Grayson, the former Presi-
dents physician, had been seen
coming out of 234O S street on
Tuesday, and was greatly disgusted
because I refused to make anything
Of It. DR.. Grayson goes there a
great deal, both professionally and
socially. When she's in town, Mrs.
Grayson goes there a great deal,
also. She was Gertrude Gordon,
you remember. a sort Of unofficial
ward" of Mrs. Norman Galt's-a
ward Of the affections only-before
the latter became Mrs. Wilson.
Indeed, IT is to that friendship
that Mrs. Galt's marriage to Presi.
dent Wilson Is generally attributed.
to the extent at least that their
meeting came about through Gray
son, who was devoted to Gertrude
Gordon from the day she made her
debut. Last Tuesday, Admiral
Grayson came back from a week
end at Narragansett Pier, where
Mrs. Grsyson and the children are
established for the summer. II
was the most natural thing in the
world that he should look in, both
TO give the Wilson's re latest news
or MS own family. ana to see how
his distinguished patient had stood
the oppressive sultri..ess of the last
few days. More-it Is almost CON
elusive evidence that DR.. Wilson
was not likely to need his physician