The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-12
|HARDLNGS PORTRAIT AND MAN WHO PAINTED 1T
y. nrRcY A. ADAMS.

Hv PERCY A. ADAMS.
r,,,ernbcr when l was boy In
,a.rs and spent about 20 hours
R ~ ,yery "a with the rest OF the
o.. ~, in the vacant lot near the pa
s.ns home engaging In the great
'.'cri,au outdoor sport how l used
=. 'ononly declare to whom IL might
- ,oTcprncd that my household
NV ,,e worst-conducted household
,,e world for the good and suffi-
\ ! w, reason that ! could never find
H. f,yortc bat, or my wornout and
fgi.nGIv glove and my battered
new day with the warm sun
hin, creeping out over the noun
,airs was bad day without these
"l.ourtorwcnts, for the gang was
u, aud ready to make the welkin
',,,,', On, tine inhabitants OF the sleepy
i,tio village would crawl out OF their
'c,refu suwhor, and woe unto the
ii Who would delay the game. The
rorg would brook no procrastina-
io, / had q mean disposition.
rovld fly into Il rage that would
... ..u rDd II an an instant |
we're unable to lay my hands on
VIII, would accuse brothers
.I sIsisrs and cousins and auuts,
81 .y,o moor old zig" the family
an" for misplacing my priceless
/ ,,osso-slors. knowing fun well that
b,l mid them in such-and- such
mace the night before aud expect
M lind them In such-and such
4 plagc I'm the morning.
4 Having been the victim OF gross
'bousohold negligence" therefore, l
,on well sympathize with Warren G..
Harding. a resident OF Washington,
n g. Tor his failure one bright gld
srppy Sunday morning to locate the
obfsrt OF a long search which had
hecn so vgilant and complete as to
,ake I'm every room and nook and
rronnv OF the historic old mansion
where an presidents live. II was a
Bible he was looking for. He
needed II. He wanted to read It.
There is nothing incongruous about
tho president of the United States
desiring his Bible on the Sabbath.
Resides, 1t was a day which he had
selected for the preparation of
speech, and he required the Holy
kIble to UuOte from passages therein
i contained. The fates of a nation
nahaps "a world--hinged on the
fIfing OF that Bible.
But there was no Bible TO he had.
Al the end Of his tour of eXplora-
ion about the places where all good
bibles are supposed TO repose I'm the
4 White House. he had cultivated
frown and was on the fringe of an
fsxploion when n happy thought
4 struck him. "Ah," he must have
4 said 10 himself, Mrs. Harding is
4 discussing my portrait with Muncy.
She ought 10 know where the Bible
s" And thither he departed.
j The President of these United
II States burst into the room as the
N artis, was about TO add a delightful
i mixture Of paint upon the canvas
+, before him. He was trying to deepen
4 the lines about the forehead, as II
directed by some occult power that
n conveyed to him the information
q that Mr.. Harding can frown when
n he likes.
There are about forty Bibles
n about this place" the president ad-
n dressed himself to the first lady of
"a the land, who stood at the artists
III lght Offering suggestions as 10 ar
H tistic technique-Mrs. Harding is n
N painter in oil herself-"and / can't
\ find a single one of them"
The president OF the United States
81 looked appealingly to the first lady
n like all good husbands do when they
4 are In distress. 1t is one of those
curious traditions of the Anglo
4 Saxon race. When In doubt the
= stronger sex appeals to the female
a o; the species. When the men run
n mp against a stump they run to the
women for assistance. Women as n
rule have the run OF the household.
\ They know the position--or should
know, at least-of every article In