Milford chronicle., 1924-09-05
UNCLE TED'S
BEDTIME STORIES
UNCLE TED, WITH COOLIDGE
RIDES SHANKS' MARE

L wish you would play golf. I'm.
Gle Ted, and let us have some OF
your old golf balls to plav with .
SAID Jack, as the three pals sat on
the front porch after supper. There
goes Mr.. Brown, just coming back
from the country club, and 1 saw his
golf clubs sticking out of the side
Oh MS auto. He lets George Brown
have his golf balls to play with af-
ter they get too badly injured to be
good to play golf with"
Yes" chimed in Ruth, Eve could
bat the balls around here on the
lawn and then we could bounce them
on the sidewalk. It is wonderful how
a golf ball will bounce.
Why don't you play golf, Uncle
Ted?" continued Jack.
We'll, kiddies, have often
thought of it, but never could see
how 1 could find the time. But mi
get you some golf balls to play with
If you want them.
THE matter of time is not the
only reason I do not play golf. hut
II is the principal reason. You see, I |
am pretty busy with my work. I'm |
still comparatively young man and |
have to keep pretty close to the Job
TO make a success of my business.
There is not much pleasure in play-
ing golf unless a man plays often
enough to play a fairly good game,
and l never felt that I could play
that often"
But our physical director at
school says that everyone should
take some regular exercise" inter-
'upted Ruth
We'll, I do take regular exercise"
replied Uncle Ted. "I walk down
own every morning and back every
hight, and then my work takes me ,
,ut on the street a great deal every
lay. That kind of exercise does not
axe any time away from my busi-
less. 1t would take me practically a
alf day to go out and play a game /
f golf.
Just to put myself in good COM
any, am going to remind you that r
take the same kind of exercise that "
ne President of the United States r.
lkes. President Coolidge does not if
lay golf but he goes for a walk ev-
~ morning. He walks two or three r,
lies, or even more, sometimes be- nj
re breakfast but always before Of h,
&c hours. That does not take any II
me away from his work and I n,
dge that it is all the exercise he W
'eds in order to keep fit, for I read he
the papers the other day that hi
resident Coolidge had been examin- on
by physicians at Walter Reed m,
Dspital and had been found in fine
ysical condition. fir
II don't know what other reasons tn
r. Coolidge may have had for not he
aging golf but suppose they are
city much the same as mine. The is
me is quite expensive and neither t11l
;. Coolidge nor myself ever SEEM
inclined to form expensive habits. he
nile he was practicing law in
Massachusetts,, and inC
lie he was Governor of his state bri
res and while he was Vice Presi- moi
1t, Mr.. Coolidge used to go back to 4
old home on the farm at Ply +ba
nth, Vermont, every summer, for the
NdCdJlOus ne put III MS Time ed
ping with the farm work, pitching wit
?, and such other work as must 7
done on farm. That was just as roa
ID exercise as playing golf, and anG
got the fresh country air and the fan
nge of climate, too Arc
You remember that President if u
ding died in the summer and neo
N the news of his death came, and
Coolidge was up there in Yer n
II On IHe farm anu ne look Ihe leas
Now I don't want you to under &c
ID that because do not play golf TooI
remind you that the President nIe
he United States does not play, +bo
n assuming that everybody who ond
play is unwise or extravagant. do+a
re are a lot of people who have obi1i
ty of time to play and who enjoy sarv
Id can afford it. It is a mighty II
thing for them. But I also think and
a mighty good thing for lot Of cT1t,
r people to keep pretty close to tbe Z
lob and live economically. wo,I
hat is what President Coolidge oroc,