Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1926, Page 73

ILLUSTRATED FEATURES Part 5—8 Pages i President’s V Waiting outs Pegsonal Guides of the President — Ormond Doty axnd Dadar Obrs. BY imost immediately upon his_arrival at his camp in the Adirondack Mountains, at what hours sired his me °d during his ation, le replied briefly, but with- hesitat ust the same ds back Wash The Dresident of no good T be an added that he knew son why there should » just because he was in the mountains and be se he was supposed to be on a vacation. Since then the Coolidge , 80 far as rising and retiring are concerned, has not been Although the President is known to poor hand at changing his per- customs, it was thought by some who eame to the mountains with him that he might make a-few alterations. But thus far the only change noted js that he is giving just a wee bit more ht to play, such as fishing and ting, and a little less time to work ding. This change, while revolutionary, is only gradual, ves much promise. friends * him to pls forget work: to put the Nation's ness ide for a limber up. One not go’ familiar with the Coolidge habits would think this should be easy to bring about, but those who have been close to the President know differently. In the first place. Mr. Coolidge has v little play in him. He is one of those who, have pever learned to play. The' President smilingly remarked, v the other day, that before coming to Washington as Vies President and later as President le was al- ways too poor to play, aad when he had reached a point where he could afford it he could not spare the time. Moreover, the President has never ted a vacation with play. It has been to hiny a brief rest from his labory; a change of scenery an changa cf air. He is the authority for this fijnself. Before leaving Washington Zew his vacation he told some friends, (ke writer being one of the company, that he was not going away from W ashington to dodge the heat or to forget the cares of his office 2 play, but mevely for a change. 1ie contends every one should have a brief change every year. added that If the White House were located permanently in the Adirondack Moun- tains, he probably would come to Washington for his vacation: Nevertheless, those with the Presi- dent are hoping the play symptoms he is showing, although only slight for the present, will develop. Probably 10 one at the camp is more eager than Mrs. Coolidge, She has always want- ed her husband to get a hobby of some kind—anything that would “serve to zet his mind off his work and would take him out Into the open. She has Rever pgreed palh.the Lresideqt that b and really but it only ide the Sarana to see the Presi ent. MILLER SERVICE. ake Presbyterian Church ‘WIDE WORLD PHOTO. WASHINGTON, Q IR MAGAZINE SECTION he Sty She? D. acation Days Furnish First Real Period of Play | Pres by}’cai Guards al enlrance of White Pine Camp. 3y miLLer service SUNDAY an 'Church at SaranacLake. Wide wOflgl Photo JULY Ihe Presiden ang, 9 5, ' 1926. w MILLER SERVICE. UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD- Secrelary Sanders inspect a new auto. his short daily strolls completely an- swered the requirements of physical exercise In his case. * X ok ¥ - F THIS angling business, for which Mr. Coolidge appears to have de- veloped a liking, actually gets into his blood, it is thought he will then make some alterations in his daily schedule. True fishermen are out after their quarry early in the motning. They know not the time, and don't eare. Maybe they'll.come back to lunch or dinner, and maybe they won't. That all depends upon how the fish are act- ing. For @Galxin Coolidge to walk in late to some meal would create a real sensation in .the Coolidge household. If once he should remain away from a meal without having given word in advance, it would, up to this moment, have been just as probable as his de- claring war on Japan. But there Is hope. There is no telling. He has held out from this sort of thing for a lifetime, and if he should fall, he would fall - good and hard. The Coolldge household schedule would be knocked to:pleces. In the meantime, “everything runs like clockwork. At 7 o'clock each morning President Coolidge arises. The White House valet is ready to serve him. His bath is prepared and his clothes for the morning are lald out. The President is not one of those eold-shower flends. He takes his sitting down, and the water 18 of a moderate temperature. He had his share of iice water for bathing back in the days in the Notehe Coolidge homestead “at Plymouth Next on the program is shaving. Although John Mays, the colored valet, is an expert barber, the Presi- dent rarely calls upon him to do the shaving. . He would rather attend to this job himself. He explains that he is used to it, and besides, he knows his face better than any one else, and he doesn’t want a barber #;leu he. is in a great hurry, or when wants his hair cut. Little time 1s wasted in getting into his ciothes, He is what is gen- erally referred o as.a neatly groomed man, but clothes are of no great im- portance In his scheme of life. Frequently, when on vacations, the President goes collarless for his stroll before breakfast. If the weather is inclement he generally dons an old blue sweater but never carries an um- brelia. President Coolidge very seldom misses this stroll before breakfast. 1le does, however, vary its length and its course. He looks upon this exer- clse in the open as essential to his keeping in good health, and besides i# affords Mrs, Coolidge time to do her dressing preparatory to heing on hand when the breakfast hour—8o'clock— arrives. ¥ Breakfast in the Coolidge household is not a light or puny affair, and-up here in the camp, with the President and Mrs. Coolidge out in the open. a greater part of the time, the meals are . even larger than ordinarily. There is always meat of some Kkind. The President prefers steak—and not very well done either. Fish has ap: pearéd frequently on the breakfast menus -at the camp, and both the Prefidin and Mrs, Coolidge enjoy it. Of course, there are the hot cakes, which have made the White House breakfasts nationally famous. Ham or bacon, fruit or berries, and preserves make up the remainder of the morning meal. Strawberries are still plentiful in this séction and since their arrival President and Mrs. Cool- idge have.shown a preference for them as an opening appetizer. * & x x HEY are not much for lingering at the table, once the meal has heen disposed of. The President pulls a long cigar from the leather case he carries in his upper vest pocket, and goes directly to the living cabin, about 40 feet distant from the dining vabin, where he sinks himself down into the cushions of a large easy chair near the window, and reads the newspapers until he has finished his cigar, . Those few mornings ‘it *has not rained, and if the mornings are not too.chilly and the winds are not too strong, the President has gone from the break- fast table to a large, rocker on the front porch of the living eabin for his smoking and reading hour. It is at ‘this point in the President’s dally ‘routine that the change has been noted. On his first morning in the camp he had Erwin Geyser,- his personal stenographer, report to him at 10 o'clock with his' mail, and such business papers -as were considered important. enough to demand his im- mediate attention or signature, and to be on hand for dictation. This went yery well the first day, although the President ‘huiied things along to try his hand at fhing for the first. time - fodnt ‘| since he-was in Plymouth Notch. He was very much elated at his first day's luck, and several times during the after- noon talked angling with Oscar Otls, his native guide, and Col. Ed. Starling of the secret service, both of whom are thirty-third degrée fishermen and sportsmen. It always has been a trait of Calvin Coolidge to do” well anything he at- tempted. It is” the same with his fishing. He has taken it very seri- ously, Aind he makes it plain that he wants quickly to graduate from the freshman class and to be able to hold his own with the best of -them. To perfect his skill-and to become better acquainted with the rod and reel, he went to a remote end of the lake front of the camp, where he idled away an_hour or so practicing casting and reeling. As might be imagined, his patience was remarkable. The following day It rained hard and the air was cold, but he attired himself in a slicker and again went at his- casting' practice. To get at this early he hurried along his after- breakfast smoke and his newspaper reading, and when" hie stenographer appeared for duty, the ‘President told him to go to the little room in the living cabin, being used as the Presi- dent’s den and office, to wait. It was with reluctance that Mr. Coolidgee turned his attention to the affairs of the Nation. Probably for the first time since he has been President such a .thing has happened. With him it was always ‘work first. - Duty and application, fundamental ideals in his make-up, are showing signs of faltering. Just - will tumble during. this.| shores vacation period depends on just how firm a grasp this pike and pickerel fishing obtains. There is no telling how it is all going to end if the Presi- dent becomes a real fish fan, Up to the present Mr. Coolidge has seen to it that he was on hand for midday dinner. ' The hour, 1 o'clock, has not vet been changed. - This meal is no light lunch affair. There is'al- ways some form of soup or consomme, a relish, generally fowl anq fish, a salad, vegetables fresh from the gar- den at White Pine Camp, milk and a dessert—the last mentioned consists mostly of pie—apple pie. On certain, days a meat hash with apple sauce as a side dish is served at this meal. As a matter of fact, President and Mrs. Coolidge are apple-sauce addicts, and a plentiful supply graces the table usually at other mealis. Mr. Coolidge belongs to that large army of American men who enjoy dipping bread or rolls in apple sauce, or else smearing their bread with a generous coating of the sauce. * K X X ‘HE afternoons areé uneventful at * the Coolidge camp. The Presi- dent and Mrs. Coolidge, with the two ‘white collies they brought with them, go for a stroll about the ‘grounds, always ending up at the boathouse two or three hundred feet away from the main cabins df the camp. There they stand or sit for some time, looking off at the lake and the wondrous beauties about them. Away off toward the end of the lake, the peak of Mount St. Regis, probably. 10 north of the camp, can be seen iprotruding ~above the wooded . of, Lake Osgood. . They . ap- pear never to tire of the scene. Both seem to enjoy the quiet, and the murmur of the trees, almost every- where around them, appears to be music they cherish. There is no question about Presi- derit Coolidge having selected a beau- tiful spot for his rest and recreation. This lake country, -with its dense forests, the smell of halsam ' in the air. and the difference in the tem- perature, appeals to them. Already show thie — they ' are - beginning to benefits of thkeir visit. Their brief vacations have been either in the hills of Vermont or by the sea, but these mountain lakes and the great, silent forests are something new to them. So natural and wild and varied is the scene about them that upon-it. In answer to inquiries about how they liked the country, they have replied that they are charmed. They add that they will never become lonely in the midst of this wilder- ness solitude. Several times when the couple’s afterdinner walk has taken them to the boathouse, the camp guide has been called upon to take them for a spin_about the lake in the high- speed motor boat belonging to the camp. Several times the President has been paddled about in one of the several canoes of the camp. late, he has been using one of the larger of these canoes for his trolling in the lake. ‘As 3 o'clock approaches, the Presi- dent is generally found heading for the_couch in the living cabin, and then follows his nap Sometimes Mr. Coolidge tries to pasw’ L.up this sleeping. hour. . His time Is they never grow tired of looking out | of an hourly The President Teaving Savanac Lake Preshylevian Church. U 13 Yelephone Gitls at Paul Smith'sNY., who handie the Summer Witite House calls. rso limited, and the day he tries hard to steal this sleep hour for his work and reading. He starts off bravely and with a real determination, but invariably his re soon batting and showing signs of drowsiness, his head drops forward and the President is asleep in his chair. Some one is always nearby quietly to remove his book r papers from his limp hand, and the word is passed along that he is | asleep and is not to be disturbed Mr. Coolidge enjoys these He is accustomed to them. are not new with his arrival camp. They are a part of his daily routine back at the White House, and his daily schedule of en ments arranged He is a firm believer in nap being of great benefit to man, who must face daily tasks of | sreat magnitude. He attributes much |of his good health to this. One would think that he would not be ready for bed at an early hour after having an hour’s nap in the afternoon, but the President rarely remains up later than 10 o'clock. Once or twice since com- ing to the camp he has broken his rule and stayed up until 11 o'clock. The radio and Mrs. Coolidge's piano playing, both of which he had been enjoying, are said to havé been re- sponsible. The President is not what one would describe as a music lover, but Mrs. Coolidge's playing of the old pieces he knows so well never fails to please and entertain him. Mrs. Coolidge is an accomplished pianist and seldom needs coaxing to sit at the piano. There-is an excep- tionally good one in the camp, and she has played more sfce arriving here than at any time for a number of years. slip along * ok kK might be expected, Mrs. Coolidge attempts to make her activities during the day conform with the wishes of her husband. She is always near at hand if he wants to chat or to go for a walk, but she manages to | squeeze in the necessary time to give to her personal and household duties. One of the first things she does after breakfast is to consult with the house- keeper about the menus for the day and the purchases to be made and regarding such other matters as are necessary to the regulation of their orderly abode. Then there are the dogs and four canaries to be fed. She- enjoys at- tending to . this personally. She brought the izs to the camp, fear- ing they would not get the proper attention during her absence from the White House. Two of these birds are really wonderful singers, and Mrs. Coolidge is happy to stand for long periods near their cages as they sing for her, Next come her flowers. Here is where Mrs. Coolidge’s heart really lies. Probably no mistress of the ~(Continued on Fourth Paged 3