New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1921, Page 3

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oston Store ® Dress Ginghams I'h2 tfashions tell us that ngham is to be one of the | ading dress fabrics for eet wear during the com- g season. We have the goods ‘in a rge WEuwiety of selected and McCall's Patterns 0760, 2124, 2114, 9501, 58, 9436, 2040, 2022, 2037, 6, 9763 will show vou how make them up. SPECIAL McCall's Magazine onths for $1.00. Stay Covered. low i the time to take special of the complexion iIf you wish look well the rest of the year. The h winds have a strong tendency bring out freckles that may stay summer unless removed. Now is tfime to wuse Othine—double ngth. This proparation for the removal freckles is usually so successful at it Is msold by druggists under rantee to refund the money if it jls. Get an ounce of Othine— uble streagth, and even a few ap- tions should show a provement, some of the smaller bckles even vanisHing entirely. wonderful | WUUDRUW WILDUN, PRIVATE CITIZEN Intimate History of His Term at | White House —— Washington, Wilson leaves the White House today to resume the role of a private citi- | zen and again take up the practice not been active for 40 years. With Bainbridge Colby, the retiring secre- tary of state, the retiring president has formed a partnership and the new firm will maintain offices in New York and Washington. Mr. Wilson's announcement that he would take up law again cama as a prise to all Washington which had been led to believe that for the next few months at least he would go in for a life of rest and recreation and then he probably would pursue in some unannounced way, his work for | world peace. It was thouxght too that ! the outgoing president would take up the business of literature which he | left oft when he quit the presidency | of Princeton unmiversity to enter poli- tics and become governor of New Jerscy. Frail in racked by health, with his body eighteen months of illness it has been supposed by Mr. Wilson's closest friends that he planned nothing but rest. DBut Rear Admiral Grayson. his personal! physician, says he is able to take up legal work and could even possibly appear before the supreme court of the United States to which the retiring president soon will make application for admission to practice. Has Terrific Strain. second democratic president since Andrew Jackson to fill two suc- cessive terms, Mr. Wilson's eight years in the White House carried him through the range of human emo- tions. He was almeost blindly idolized and cordially hated. Profound peace, the most terrible of wars, death of a wife and help mate, courtship and marriage, and finally lingering illness all came in turn to brighten or dark- en his days. Eight years of It whitened his hair, racked his frame and impaired his physical vigor, but , did not rust his mind. Characterized by his friends as much a wounded veteran of the World war as if he had been shot in battle, he goes back to private life today regarded by his partisans as a ltving sacrifice to his ideals Was Not Well Man. | Woodrow Wilson was not a well man when he took up the presidency. | He was decidedly a sick man. He was threatened with Bright's disease, which physicians diagnosed as hav- ing been brought about by a particu- lar treatment for frequent head colds to which he and the first Mrs. Wilson were subject. The wife died soon after, but his case yielded to care. " Some years before that, Mr. Wilson had suffered a thrombosis, in one of The 20 March 4.—"Woodrow | of lJaw-—a profession in which he has | | the 10 g of a hlood clo! in an artery, but because of its location not serious. It was, however, a complaint o the same nature which caused his breakdown in 1919, when the clot formed on the right side of his orain impairing the control of his left arm and leg. ‘Was Almost Blind. Little known also, .is the act Mr. Wilson, like Mr. Roosevelt practically sightless in one of eyes. Bursting blood vessels in th retina practically made it useless, al- though the impairment was in part overcome by the use of eye & es. He suffered also from nervous indi- gestion. With a' prodisposition take cold easily added to this list of troubles, Woodrow Wilson took up the arduous duties of the presidency with far less physical equipment than the | public generally gave him credit for. Once in office the round of com- plexities ' which brought Mr. praise on one side and damnation on the other was not long in starting. and like a snowball rolling down hill continued to take on volume until the day of his departure from the White House. The Once, in that was Third Term Idea. the midst of his siege of prostration which accompanied the first stages of his present illne he debated .with himself whether he ought not to relinquish his -office and give way to a successor. Later when health had improved and the demo- cratic convention at San Francisco was balloting night and day to agree on a presidential nominee, Mr. Wilson debated with himself whether he should be a candidate for a third term. It could not be said that either subject reached the stage of “being consider-d.” But it is known that Mr. Wilson gave the subjects some thouzht. These with many other things form the highly interesting unwritten chap- ters of Woodrow Wilson's life. They would make a volume of far more engrossing reading than anything that ever had been written about him. Break With Col. House. Such a volume might include the “inside” story of the break with Col. House, his former confidential ad- visor; it might tell how Mr. Wilson rousing Mr. Clemenceau, the French premier, from bed at 2 o'clock one morning, practically charged the French delegates with tampering with . the records of the peace conference proceedings. It might tell how Mr. Wilson made up his mind to “fire” some other cabinet officers soon after the resig- nation of Secretary Lansing but de- sisted, because, he said, it would only add to the popular impression that he “couldn’t get along with anybody."” It might also tell. what Mr. Wilson “said with a smile” to Lloyd George concerning the relative strengths of the British and American navies, and it might disclose that Mr. Wilson went to the peace conference prepared to withdraw, as he threatened to do, in its midst. All these things, however, if they do become public, probably will do so by the pen of the historian after Woodrow Wilson has been assigned to his proper niche in the wall of history. While the principal actors in that series of dramas live, all these things are likely to remain behind the scenes. Mr. Wilson’s retirement 75$ o FATIMA CIGARETTES his | to ! Wilson | o0 private e is not ely to release them for public consumption. Was Fast Worker. the beginning of the World Wilson held the attention Until War Mr. | of the country with his swift strokes | . at getting legislation from congress. ! With the coming of the war he de- voted the last two years of his first term to an attempt to keep the Unit- ed States out of the conflict, and as the seemingly inevitable drift toward i war set in, he gradually assumed the diplomatic leadership of the nations jarrayed agzainst Germany and her | an and finally partisans characterized as the moral leadership of the world. During the diplomatic correspond- ! ence with Germany he displayed many homely human emotions. Gone. Paticnce Nearly On May 7. 1915, when Mr. Wilson hcard the news of the sinking of the \ isitania he was almost at the end of his patience. Like a man making a last effort to avoid a quarrel with he clapped on his hat and and walked around the fhlock. He knew how to give vent |to his emotions on other! occasions and has been known to say something stronger than the “tut-tut” which has ‘been accredited to him on having made a faux pas at golf. However cold and austere he may have been accounted in his dealings with pub- lic men, those who have been privi- leged to view his family life from the inside of the circle testify that he is intensely human. What part he may take in public affairs in the future, living as he will almost under the shadow of the dome of the capitol, is causing lively specu- lation. So far as the records show no other .president has remained in Washington after going out of office. Mr, Wilson first intended to live in Baltimore. He and the present Mrs. Wilson settled it, by playing a game the president invented during an idle hour on the steamer George Wash- ington on one of the trips to and from the peace conference. It was a game of percentages with certain scores allotted to the various ad- vantages or amusements of life of which both were most fond. Balti- more, as the game worked out, had the hightest total. But breakdown and continued illness intervened and it was decided to remain in Washing- ton, where almost all of Mrs. Wilson's family resides, The new home, bought recently, is on elevation in the northwest resi- dence =ection not far from a site long held by the Imperial German govern- ment for embassy. Mr. Wilson expects to spend the future almost on the spot where the Kaiser expected his am- bassador to sit. straw, went out Mr. Wilson’s Condition Because ‘of the secrecy which had been thrown around his physical con- dition, the country is probably most interested in that .just now. Mr. Wil- son is convalescent—so far as nature permite—from whdat medically .is called thrombodis—a blood clot one of the arteries on the right side of his brain which impairs the motaor nerves in the left’arm and leg, He can walk short distances alone with !the atd of a cane: longer distances require the use of a wheel chair. Walking up and down stairs is a precarious: experiment seclaom at- tempted. M. Wilson was not stricken on the League of Nations speaking trip in the west as is popularly supposed, but within a week after he returned to the White House. Warning signals of the coming attack were what caused his return. For three days after he came back he semed to be improving; in fact he took a motor,ride the day before he was laid low, and on the night before playing billiards. The seizure came in the night, at an hour when the President was alone, and h was found stricken just before day- light. \ Life Despaired Of. For a week his life was despaired of, but his real condition was kept secret by his family. Then came a turn for the better and for many weeks the president was confined to his bed—a bed in which Abraham Lincoln before him probably had passed many a night of pain and sleeplessness of a different nature. Even the White House barber was not admitted to the room, and Mr. Wil- son, usually clean shaven, grew a beard, and made humorous remarks to his physicians and family as he brushed it for amusement times a day. In the midst of the illness an un- looked for muscular complication set in and refused to yield to treatment. ‘While physicians and surgeons anx- fously consulted downstairs as to whether the president's physique could withstand the shock of a surgi- cal operation and had about decided that it was a life or death chance, a nurse arrived with the news that na- ture had intervened and that the operation would be unnecessary. From that moment slow recovery set in Shows Impovement, Motor nerves which had refused to respond to needle pricks showed signs of reaction. Pretty soon Mr. Wilson waa about in a wheel chair. A few weeks later he was learning to walk again with the support of an attend- ant. Massage, electricity and every- thing known to science, were em- ployed to coax his muscular faculties back into action. Then he got out-of- doors for motor rides, and received some visitors. He took up a routine of a few hours work each day die- tating to stenographers and increased the time as strength gathered. One evening he surprised Washing- ton by going to the theater and walk- ing only with the aid of a cane which he humorously called “my third leg.’” He probably never will play. golf again umed what his | | city 4 —-Advt. ’ wife who has just laid on the 'Iasll' in | several | CITY ITEMS. Complete line of Victrolas. Pierce & Co.—advt. Wives and mothers, vote for two platoon system tonight.—advt. Wallace Reid at Palace tonight.— advt. Verne H. Penfield of Stamford, for- merly of this city, is critically ill with pluro-pneumonia. | Down the high city salaries at the city meeting tonight.—advt. All cars transfer to State meeting tonight.—advt. Victrolas and records. Henry Morans’ C. L. Armory i Mrs. J. E. Murphy and the Misses Murphy, are, at present in Atlantic | City, at the Hotel Traymore. Decency, not dollars, vote for platoon tem tonight.—advt. two Visiting Nurse Asso., Has Week of Activity | The monthly session of the Visiting Nurse association was held yesterday at the home of Mrs. A. J. and reports afternoon Sloper, the president, were presented showing a month of activity. The nurses visited 1,015 | cases. Five “Well Baby Conferences” were held with 54 in attendance and nine ‘“‘Little Mother League” meetings | with 51 little girls present were car- | ried on. OverstockSaleo 175 BEDS Complete 150 BEDS Complete 95 BEDS Complete At .. 75 Double COUCHES complete $ 1 5 0 i $10.0 50 Smgle COUCHES Complete 150 CRADLES Complcte 75 lé(gLDING BEDS Comp]ete At ... $10. 0 SALE STARTS SATU RDAY Come in and See Our Bargains B. BERSON 549-551 MAIN ST. Opp. St. Mary’ Tel. 1165—Res. Tel. 639-13 Temark Shoe s HONESTLY MADE Thru and Thro Tomorrow “Winds Up” This Unusual Money-Saving Sale Of Snappy, Last Word Styles Right now—on the very threshold of Spring offering values in Stylish, Dependable Oxfords that really border on the impossible, of this fact:—They are last season’s surplut Notwithstanding this, they—every pair of then ‘in perfect accord with this Spring’s prevailing Why not take advantage of this seldom - opportunity to Save $2 On Your Spring Footwear? The regular $4 lines have been cut to $1.98. The $5 ones to $2.98 and the'$6 values are going fast at $3.98. The assortment embraces all desirable leathers and sizes, thus pers the g e g $Q 28 ou choice of Gun Metal ;um with baby Louis heels. Bnght Patent Ox- fords and one Eyelet Ties with Louis heels. Mahog- any Calf Oxfords with Louis heels. Havana Brown Kid Oxfords, One-Eyelet Ties and Theo. Ties with Louis Heels. Battleship Kid Gray Kid Oxfords with Louis heels. Black Satin Pumps and Ox- fords with Louis heels. 98 £ or Giv_s -l N i N D T T =LA LR R L L Vo o T o g b g b g g 7 o g o g g g g g 0o i g Ll - b g e g =T T T S T T Values.. offering far-sighted shop- Gives you choice of Tan Calf Pumps with Louis heels. Tan Satin Oxfords with Louis heels. Black one-strap Housec Slippers. ark Shoe 3t The Largest Chain of Shoe B

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