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THE OMAHA, SATLUUAY. MAKLri o. IJIZL Eight Years in White House Whiten Hair, Rack Frame and Impair Physical Vigor, But Do Not Rust Mind of Woodrow Wilson " n.T Tbe A'wriated Press. Washington, D. C, March 4. : VoodroV Wilson leaves the V'hite House today to resume the role of a private citizen and again lake up the practice of law a pro fession in which, he has not been active for 40 years. With " Uaw Irridge Cplby, retiring -secretary of xUtc, he has formed a partnership raid the new firm will maintain 'offi ces in New York and Washington. "Mr. Wilson's announcements that lie, would take up the-law. again .dame as a surprise to all Washing ion which had been led to believe (hat for a few months, at least, he would go into a life of rest and re creation and then probably pursue !is work for .world peace., It was 'bought, fo, that the outgoing president would take up the h'isiness if literature where he left off when Ire quit the presidency of Princeton I ifhiversity to enter politics and be-i-'iMue governor of New Jersey, s Frail in health, it had been sup ifosd by Mr. Wilson's closest friends tfiat he planned nothing else than ix st. But Rear , Admiral Grayson, Ins physician, says he is able to take Hp legal work and could even Hos tility appear occasionally before the supreme court of the United States U which he soon will make appli cation for admission to practice. ' .Blindly Idolited, Cordially Hated, i The second democratic president tat'icc Andrew Jackson to fill two successive terms, M r. Wilson's eight wars in the White House carried him through (lie range' of human iinolicms. lie was almost blindly idolized Snd cordially hated.' Pro found peace, the most terrible ot vvars. death of a wife and helpmate, iHHirtship and marriage; and finally lingering illness all came in-turn to brighten or darken his days. Eight .years of it whitened his hair, racked his frame and impaired, his physical vigor, but did not rust his iti hid, - ' ' . , , ; J 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 t?day regarded by his partisans as a-living sacrifice to his ideals.' - ; Suffered from Thrombosis. . ' : Woodrow Wilson was not 'a' well min when he took tip the presidency. ' He w as decidedly a sick man., He iVa's threatened with Bright's disease, which physicians diagnosed as having been brought about by a particular treatment for'frequent head colds to vhich he aiid the first-Mrs: Wilson we're subject. The wife died soon after, but his case yielded to care. C Sonie years before that,' Mr. Wil son had suffered a thrombosis, in one of his legs. It was the lodging of, a blood clot in an artery, but-because of its location not serious. It was, however, a complaint of the same nature which caused his breakdown in 1919, when the clot fornied on the right side of hi? brain impairing the control of his left arm and leg. Little known also, is the fact that Mr. Wilson, like Mr. Roosevelt, was practically sightless in one of his eyes. Bursting blood vessels in the retina practically made it useless, al though the impairment was in part overcome by .he use of eye glasses, lie suffered also from nervous indi gestion. Willi a predisposition to take cold easily added to this list of troubles, Woodrow Wilson took up the arduous duties of the presidency with far less rhysical equipment than the public generally gave him credit for. Once in office the round of com plexities which brought Mr. Wilson praise on one side 'and damnation on the other was not long in starting, and like a suov ball rolling down hill, continued to take on volume un til the day of his departure from the White House. Thought of Resigning. Once, in. the midst of his sicec of, prostration which accompanied the first stages of his present illness, 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. Wil son 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 considered." But it is known that Mr. Wilson gave the subject some thought. These, with - many other things form thq highly interesting unwrit ten 'chapters' of Woodrow Wilson's life. They would make a volume of far more engrossing read ing than anything that ever had been written about him. Such a volume might include the "inside" story of the break with Colonel House, his former confi dential advisor; it might tell how Mr. Wilson rousing Mr. Clemen ceau, 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. r ; It, might tell how Mr. Wilson made up' his mind to "fire" some other cabinet" officers soon after the resig- I 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 pre pared to withdraw, as he threatened to do, in its midst. All these things, I.owcvcr, 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 last series of dramas live, all these things arc likely to remain be hind the scene. ' Mr. Wilson's re tirement to private life is not likely to release them for public consump tion. , Was Leader of World. Until the beginning of the world war, Mr. Wilson held the attention of the country with his swift strokes at eetting 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 United States out of the conflict, and as the seemingly inevitable drift to ward war set in, he graduallly as' stimed the diplomatic leadership of the nations arrayed against Germany and her allies, and finally assumed what his partisans 'characterized as the moral leadership of the world! During the diplomatic correspon dence with Germany he displayed many homelv human emotions. On May 7. 1915, when Mr. Wil son heard the news of the sinking of the Lusitania, hewas almost at an end of his patience. Like a man making a last effort to avoid a quar rel with a wife who had just laid on the last straw, he clapped on his hat and went out and walked around the block. He knew how to give vent to his emotions on other occasions and has been known to say some thing stronger than the "tut-tut"' which has been accredited to him on having made a faux pas at golf. How ever cold and austere he may have been accounted in his dealings with public men, those who have betfn privileged 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 spec ulation. 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 advan tages or amusements of life of which both were most fond. Baltimore, as the game worked out, had the high est .total. But breakdown and'eon tninued illness, intervened arid it was decided to remain in Washington, where almost all of Mrs. Wilson's folks reside. . The new home, bought recently, is on an elevation in the northwest residence section not far from a site long held by the imperial German government for embassy. Mr. Wil son expects to spend the future al most on the spot where the kaiser expected his embassador to sit. t Always WU1 Be Invalid. - Because of the secrecy which has been thrown around his physical condition, the country is probably most interested in that just now. Mr. .Wilson is convalescent so far a's nature permits frdm what medic ally is called thrombosis a blood dot in one of the arteries on the right side of his brain which impairs the motor nerves in the left . arm and leg. He can walk short dis tances alone with the aid of a cane; longer distances require the use of a wheel chair. ; Walkine ud and down stairs is a precarious experi ment seldom attempted. ' Mr. Wilson was not stricken on the league of nations speaking trip in the west as is popularly supposed, but within a wetk after he returned to the White House.' Warning sig nals of the coming attack were what caused his return. For three days after he came back he seemed to be improving; in fact he took a motor ride the day before he was laid low. and on the night before he played billiards. The seizure came m the night, at an hour when the president was alone, and he was found strick en just before daylight. In the midst of the illness an unlooked-for muscular complication set in and refused to yield to treatment. While physician? and surgeons anxi ously consulted downstairs as to whether the presidents physique could withsand the shock of a sur gical operation and had about de cided that it was a life or death chance, a nurse arrived with the news that nature had intervened and that the operation would be unnecessary. From that moment slow recovery set in. . Hardirigs Expected to Revive Social Life Washington, March 4. Social and diplomatic Washington looks for a revival under President and Mrs. Harding of the formal stale dinners and other social functions at . the White House which ceased with the entrance of the United Stat the orld war. .ith t: cs m to White House has been redecorated ;md the furnishings renewed. In ad' 1 it ton, Mrs. Harding has requested that additional flowers be planted around the White House. Her friends expect her to act as hostess at a number of' garden parties dur ing the spring, thereby restoring one ot the lavonte forms ot entertain ments of former days. Directions from Mr. Harding for abandonment of the official social events incident to his inauguration were conceded by those hoping for a return to a social normalcy to be a blow to their expectations, but the recent shopping trip made by Mrs. Harding, to New York and other events have renewed their optimism. In preparation for the arrival of the new "first lady of the land," the House Fails to Override Veto on Tariff Bill By The Associated I'm. Washington, D. C, March 4. Ef forts to override President Wilson's veto of the Fordney emergency tarilT bill Jailed in the House early this morning and the measure originally designed to aid the farmers thereby met its death. . The vote on the motion to pass the measure over the president's veto was 01 for and 132 against. Only 38 Words Are Used to Swear in President-Elect Wasringtoh, March 4. The oath of oftice of president as administered today by the chief justice of the United Stater, Edward Douglass White, follows: "I, Warren Gamaliel Harding, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States." . NEW AMERICAN TRANS-PACIFIC PASSENGER SERVICE betenSEATTLEand YOKOHAMA, KOBE. SHANGHAL HONG KONG and MANILA via tha SHORT ROUTB. Nrw and palatial U.S.S.B. linm; 535 1 !on; 21,000 tons SAILINGS ' ; - S. S. Wenatchee, Apr. 9; S. S. Keyttoas State, May 14; S. S. Wenatchee, June lfl Fuss, reservations, etc., applj any railroad or tourirt afsnt, or ' E. G. McMICKEM. P.T. M..L.C. Smitk Bid, Seattle OfoADM 1 RALL1NE ft 1417 Douglas Street Buy These Suits On Payments SEnnN'n floor. . T 'yAVi- 7 Saturday- One Day Introductory Sale of Jersey For -, f Sport - ; ; ' and General. Daytime Wear These we present tomorrow are Jersey Suits of the genuine full wool Jersey cloth which is easily distinguishable from the stretchy, shoddy materials which merely re semble Jersey. They are tailored in per fect taste and utmost skill. The shoulders are narrow and trim; the sleeves, while full, are well cut and properly placed. Pinch-back and Tuxedo, with patch pockets on skirt and jacket. ' But, most of all, you must see these suits to realize the full im portance of this one-day introductory sale. Use Your Credit When Buying Apparel It's the "modern ,vay as it permits you to" enjoy the service from the garments you buy while paying for them. ' ' ; '. Money Saving Saturday Specials TRY H AYBEN F I RST Better Values Saturday rr Special Sale of Men's Hats CLOTH, FELT AND VELOURS . At Less Than Manufacturer's Cost tr $4 Quality : Cloth Hats $2.50 All colors, small roll brims; gust the thing for sprint;. $10 and $12 Velour Hats $5.00 All high-grade Ve lours, in all good colr ori and styles. $5 Quality Felt Hats $2.50 Becoming styles in all sites, ' blacks, browns, greens ; big bargains. ALL, WINTER CAPS AT HALF PRICE Specials it Women's Underwear , $4.98 and $5.50 Quality . Kayser Silk Vests or Bloomers , Vests Avith'embroidered fronts, band, tailored or bodice tops, on sale, Main Floor, at $3.98 Boudoir Caps. $1.50 and $1.98 Quality 98c Satin -Ribbons, Plaited Silk Frills : or Lace. , On 2nd Floor In Crone de Chines. Satin or Lace in. assorted colors. Trimmed witiv u wnite. Trimmed witn tuitt or Night Gowns $2.98 and $3.50 Quality $1.98 Batiste or Nainsook in Flesh or Val Laces, or with Embroidered Yokes. On 2nd Floor :,i:!l!il.Ji!i:;l!iluii:l!il!jl Time to Select the New Easter Apparel J The New Spring Styles Are Here In superabundance of charming- designs and , at, , prices which will gladden the . heart of every economical woman. Three Remarkable Specials Smart style suits, made up in tricotiner twill cord and serges, made up in styles suitable for the most discriminating, in a large variety of models to choose from; sisjes for misses, ladies and stouts; made to sell at a great deal more; Saturday, at $45 Hundreds of stylish coats, made up in the season's many smart styles; varied lengths; your choice of many to select from sizes , and styles for the miss, matron or stout; specially priced for Saturday, at Hundreds of lovely taffeta, silk and cloth dresses, made up in almost an end leas varietv of stvlish models: dresses suitable for any time V...VHV " a V . ' - m . it i il i m ot the day, as wen as dresses surcaDie xor ineaier or dinner.wear; large variety to select from; made to sell at $50 to $65. A fortunate purchase for cash enables us to offer 4hem Saturday at, each . . Saturday In the Children's Section Serge Dresses at $3.75 Group of girls' serge dresses, for sizes 6, 7 and 8, sold up to $12, $3.75 Girls' white dresses, suitable for graduation, confirmation and Easter wear, made up in georgettes, chiffons and taffetas, at $15, $19.50 and $25. , Special lot of baby dresses and petti coats, slightly mussed, that sold up to $4.00, at '. 81.50 Girls' gingham dresses, sizes 2 to 6 "and 7 . to 14, in, a large variety of styles; special values, at SI. 98 I.WJHI!lli;illllillWISMIIMI! ' iSl!l,.l,lll.l!!liillH!WHM..' 1 1 FUR SCARFS ! at $35.00 j Just the kind of scarf or choker that one needs for the spring wear with ? your suit or cloth dress; special pur- chase for cash when the fur market a dropped; consist of foxes in different Z shades, wolf in different shades, i opossum, and made up in chokers, animal style; special, Saturday, $35 1 .l;.li:l,l!il.li!i.ihiJI.:liliJ!:iiiliiliiliil;.li:iiili:lnl!Jiiliiliil!iliiliili:lT Great Sale on Toilet Goods ; Saturday 25c Pond's Vanishins Cream. .17c 85c Mavis Talcum 17c GOe Pre-phy-lme-tic Brushes, 39c 3Ee Jereen's Lotion 25c $1.75 Hot Watr Bottles . .$1.39 $1.60 Hot Water Bottles. .. .98c 15a Peroxide 11c $1.00 Listerine 79c COe Pebecco Tooth Paste . . . .39c SOc Pepsodent Tooth Paste.. 39c 25c Woodbury's Face Powder, 18c COo L'Ame Face Powder . . . ,39c 50c French Rouge in Silk box, 29c $1.00 French Rouge, 2 packages, in Silk box ....59c 65c Djr Kiss Face Powder -. .45c 30c Djr Kiss Talcum Powder. .21c 80c Sanitol Tooth Paste 19c 60c Dagget Ramsdels, Cold Cream 48c 60c Non Spi 33c 35c Frostilla 29c A Big Lin ef Standard Toilet Goods at Cut Prices Saturday. V Saturday Specials Men's Furnishings Qualities That Will Satisfy Price That Will Please. MEN'S PAJAMAS in pink, blue, white, and a nice assortment of stripes in silk finish. Soisettes, Muslin and soft washable materials. All sizes. Saturday $1.95 and $2.95 MEW'S DRESS SHIRTS in a large assortment of newest pat terns. Materials in woven madras, soisettes and the finest of shirtings. All sizes. Saturday $2.45 MEN'S UNION SUJTS An entire square of men's light--weight union suits; combed yarns, tan and white, short or lonjr sleeves and ankle length, all sizes. Saturday $1.75 MEN'S SILK GLOVES Men's gray silk gloves in Adler & Fownes makes; double tips; all sizes; Sat. $1.25 and $1.75 Men's Furnishings Main Floor. , High Grade Assortments of Women's Silk Hosiery ' Priced Specially Low Women's Ingrain Silk Hose, (ilk tor, lisle soles, heavyweight, black and colors: pair $2.75 Chiffon Silk Hose, black and colors, ilk tops and soles; black and the favored spring shades of gray, $3.60 values pair $2.95 All-Silk Hose, fine quality open work lae'e patters. (imported;) black, white, street and evening shades; $6.60 values; pair S4.50 Sale of Mers Shoes At Less Than Replacement Costs Men's gun metal in bluchers or English" lace and glaze colt bluchers. All genuine Goodyear . ... . . , welt soles witn oaK outer soies ana iuu grain M i. i x -in- inner soles, sewca wun inc dcsi quamy sun. thread. All Union stamped. Our regular and 6.50 shoes. t ...$4.50 $7.50 only . $4.50 S 1 30 Favorite Victor Records Every one a gem and popular everywhere. MICKEL'S Have All of Them 10-In. Double Face 85c INSTRUMENTAL' 1 7454 Humoresque Venetian Trio 17710 Kohala March . Guitars 17774 Hula Medley Guitars 1 8376 Razzberries Van Eps Trio 18498 Lights Out March Pryor'a Band 18504 Saber and Spurs March Sousa's Band 18536 Sand Dunes Orlando's Orchestra 18633 Dardanella Selvin's Orchestra 18682 Wond'rin (Fox Trot) v Selvin's Orchestra 18689 Beautiful Hawaii Guitars 18690 Japanese Sand- man Whiteman's Orchestra 18698 Chili Bean Benson Orchestra 18701 Oh, Gee! Oh, Gosh! Benson Orchestra 18702 Stop It Pietro 18714 Tip Top (Fox Trot) Six Brown Brothers 18715 Happy Smith's Orchestra 18716 My Isle of Golden Dreams , r Marinba Band 18717 Margie Jazz Band $1.35 e 35324 In a Clock Store --Victor Orchestra 35684 Chon? (For Trot) s SmithV Orchestra 35695 Irene (For Trot) r Smith's Orchestra 35704 Caresses Whiteman's Orchestra Vocal Numbers, 85c sh 17763 Brighten the Corners ' - Rodheaver 18658 Hand in Hand ' Again ' Campbell and Burr 18703 Singin' the Blues . ; Stanley 18704 Sally Green . ' Murray 18706 Old Rugged , . Cross Mrs. Asher and Rodheaver 18707 Avalon ; , - Harrison 18710 Broadway,. Rose , Burr and Quartette 18726 Louisiana , ' , j Sterling,. Trio Hear these with the new March Victor Records i .Saturday, at . M1CKBUS 15th and Harney J .TRY HAYDENS FIRST; -vr
