The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-07
5HNE. VNKN0WN AS
 EVEB Is COOLIDGE.
New President Takes White
 House Lie Simple As In .a Early vermont Days
By RAYMOND CHAPTER Geased Wire to The Age-Hernld)
 (Copyright, 1923)

Leased Wire to The AEe-HernId)
 Copyright, 1923.)
 WASHINGTON, Nov. s.-Three months in the White House have left Calvin Coolidge five pounds heavier Otherwise he is unchanged. He goes to bed before 10 o'clock and his daily life is as simple as it was in the early days in Vermont.
 oliticians-friendly and otherwise -have watched him with hawklike eyes for three months. Not single word or act has escaped them. Yet to them he is the same unknown quantity that he was when he stepped forth from the obscurity of the vice presidency. There has been nothing like him in the White House within the memory of this generation of politicians.
 The writer saw Warren Harding as he lived in the simple days of his rocking chair and morning news paper at Marion, and then saw him expand to the growing stimulation of the White House. He reveled in the weekend cruises on the May flower, the dinner parties at the White House board. the movies in the east room. It was also easy to de- tect the expansion in the Harding
 
 the White House. Within a month he was commenting to those of us who often saw him upon the amazing difference which the Presidency made in his mental outlook. Problems looked entirely different to him, he afterwards said.
 Cruises Short Ones
 The writer has had the same op- portunity to observe Collage in the ot with the late President is complete. He de-. nies himself the small physical pleas ures. He has gone down on the Potomac in the Mayflower two or three times, but only for short two hour trip-about the kind of cruise that the afternoon excursion boats run.
 The President has entertained no one a dinner except such visitors as he wanted to confer with about not gathered in for social evening. As to what has gone on inside of Coolidge's head-no one has been taken into his confidence. Visitors come away without single illumin- Iathom the secret of his personality ating anecdote. They are unable to though all concede his ability in the occupation of politics.
 I am able to describe in detail a typical Coolidge day. The President SGtS Qp at OsOO iOI AlS PIS-p LII walk. But he does not put on rough togs. He adjusts his high stiff col lar and donS carefully pressed, double breasted business suit-the one he wears all day. He puts on freshly polished shoes. He also in- tends to wear them through the day. No walking stick.
 If the morning is bad, he winds big muffler around his neck. Then he sets out alone, except for the in evitable secret service men. But he does not seek out the spots of nat ural beauty which abound around the capital He walks down through the business streets. as they are be- ginning to wake up. There are milk wagons, an occasional man hurryIng to work with sleepy eyes, street cars starting their regular runs. Out to the edge of the business section and back-that is his hike. It lasts 20 minutes or so.
 Eats Frugal Brcakfast.
 At o'clock Coolidge sits down to breakfast. It Is frugal. Fruit, cereal and cup of coffee. Before o'clock he is at his office. He glances over the headlines in the morning newspa- rers. He looks over his appointment list, inspects any documents which are to figure in these conferences. and then dictates mail until 10 o'clock, when the appointments begin. / Visitors are of all sorts, cabinet members, senators. congressman, out of-town politicians, leaders in finance, railroading, and business, Lunch is at ] o'clock. Sometimes late caller is invited for the mid day meal. Shortly after o'clock Cool idge is back at his office.
 The afternoon is kept clear so that he may sign papers, study reports, answer mail, and attend to the rou- tines of his job. Usually he leaves by e:30 or o'clock, his desk clear and everything arranged in perfect order for the next day.
 Dinner is at unless there are for nal guests, when 8 o'clock is the hour. As there seldom are guests the Coolidges finish by 8 and the Presi- dent goes upstairs to his study. Some- times he turns on the radio and lis- tons for few minutes. Usually he reads some non-fiction book He reads everything published On Lin- coin, but otherwise has no particular preference. At 9:45 he goes to bed. Coolidge never reads in bed, and sell dom IS he sufficiently interested in any book to stay up past his regular bed time.
 He has not been to the theatre since he became President. Th\-e have been no movies at the White House. He has been out to E. B. McLean's for dinner twice, once the night of the Harding state funeral, and once since. He sometimes calls on his nose doctor at night.
 Except for the funeral trip to Mar ion, Coolidge has not been beyond the 10-mile boundary of the District of Columbia. He ventured outside for the first time Thursday to visit Alexandria. where he attended the corner stone laying for the George Washington Masonic memorial. Al though not Mason, he accepted this invitation out of respect for the first President.
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