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The Conservation of Children.
In a few days there will meet at the
White House, in response to the presi
dent's invitation, about a hundred per
sons who are interested in the care of
dependent children. It will be perhaps
the most important of all the confer
ences relating to the conservation of
national resources. The chief product
of a country is its people. The chil
dren of to-day are the human timber
of the future. The young trees with
which this conference is chiefly con
cerned are those which have no na
tural protection, and which are de
prived of normal soil in which to grow
and flourish. Among the expert for
esters who love and understand this
young growth are Judge Lindsey of
the Denver juvenile court, Jacob liiis,
who lias fought the bad tenements
v/here human seedlings are stunted
and distorted, Booker Washington,
who is laboring to bring up young
ebony and mahogany to more stalwart
growth, and many other heads of
nurseries and child gardens, in old
times every man brought up his chil
dren in his own way, and the father
less child was the object of unsystem
atic charity. In the nineteenth cen
tury, half-scientific, half-humanitarian,
society learned to regard itself as the
universal parent of the next genera
tion, with common responsibility for
every individual child. What children
are we, the present parent generation,
failing to conserve and develop? asks
the Youth's Companion. First there
are the hundred and fifty thousand j
orphans in institutions and homes, !
whose welfare is the avowed subject !
of the conference at the White House. I
Then there are the 200,000 children, j
more or less, condemned to toil in
mine and factory. There are thousands j
not in school. There are countless |
other thousands not getting the full
benefit of school because they are un
derfed and poorly clothed. The future
of the nation depends on all these as
truly as upon the child In the com
fortable home. As those who asked
the president to call this conference
say, the problem of the child is indeed
"worthy of national consideration."
The fish commission of the United
States planted 2,871,000,000 fish in the
harbors, lakes, rivers and streams of
the country last year. That is a big lot
of fish and seems to justify the com
missioner's assertion thai it will not
be long before everybody can go a
fishing with ihe chance of catching
something. He says in time, and not
to long a time at that, he expects the
waters of this country to be as popu
uous as they were in the early days,
lo this end, says the Indianapolis
Star, however, he must have the help
of state authorities to enforce the fish
laws and prevent the wholesale de
struction of fish by dynamiters and
seiners. State Commissioner Sweeney
is right in upholding the need of active
official work in this line.
Booker T. Washington makes this
strong statement concerning the effect
of ihe temperance movement in the
south: "Since the emancipation proc
lamation by Abraham Lincoln there
has been no benefit conferred upon
the negroes of the south equal to that
conferred by the closing up of ihe bar
rooms throughout these southern
states." He urges his colored breth
ren of the south to help in every way
in the upholding and enforcement of
these laws and to refuse to patronize
"blind tigers." Washington well knows
where one of the chief dangers to his
people lies.
A Solomon come to judgment in
London has ruled that a baby has a
light to cry and that in exercising this
natural prerogative it cannot legally
bo held as a crying nuisance. A strik
ing piece of evidence in the defense
was the forced admission for ihe law
yer prosecuting the noisy infant lhat
he had once been a crying baby him
self.
Tolls to get the American batile
ships through the Suez canal are
stated to have been SIBO,OOO. That
looks high; but when Ihe Japanese
fleet starts to capture all our Atlantic
coast cities we will not let it through
the Panama canal for a cent less.
T£E//VG OF/*
IKN the name of Wil
liam Howard Taft was
first seriously consid
ered as a White House
possibility speculation
became rife as to what
manner of woman was
his wife, and whether
or not she would as
gracefully preside at
the White House func
tions as did the one
woman whose name
will ever be a byword
when "The First Lady
in the Land" is dis
cussed —Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
While the members of the Taft house
hold are not as numerous as the Roose
velt clan, nor quite as spectacular or
picturesque, nevertheless the family is
an interesting one, and before the re
gime oi the I afts will have expired
they, too, will have a debutante daugh
ter to present to Washington society.
Helen, their daughter, has three more
>* tiis at I3r> 11 Mawr, and upon gradua
tion will be formally presented to so
ciety. Robert, the oldest son, is now
at. Yale, while Charlie, "The Kid," is at
a preparatory school getting what his
rotund father characterizes as "his
bumps." Charlie is quite a character,
us unique and interesting in a way as
the little Roosevelts, although so far
his escapades have not been given the
prominence in the daily newspapers as
those of Quentin, Archie and Kermit
Roosevelt. But, then, it must be re
membered, Charlie heretofore has been
but the son of a cabinet olficer, and
when his father becomes president, it is
safe to assert that the many busy cor
respondents at Washington will find
ample scope for their imaginations in
making "The Kid" the hero of their
narratives.
The Taft family is an interesting one
from its head to the youngest boy, and
with a womar of so many accomplish-
nients to preside over the White House
It is safe to assert that the Taft regime will
in nowise suffer by comparison, for Mrs. Taft
was born to rule, and rule she will. Many of
the little problems that have proved so perplex
ing to her predecessors will he quickly and
happily solved by her, for no one woman, from
her youngest girlhood, has been better trained
for the exalted position she is about to as
sume than Mrs. Taft, for years one of Cincin
nati's reigning belles.
rhe White Mouse has had two mistresses
since the Clevelands took their departure for
the more secluded and exclusive life of Prince
ton, leaving behind them memories of a re
gime where Mm Cleveland was concerned as
tender and hallowed as those surrounding the
peerless Dolly Madison.
Vlis. William MeKinley was Mrs. Cleveland's
immediate successor, but the delicate state of
her health compelled her to keep well in the
background, and the more arduous duties con
fronting the nation's hostess fell to the lot of
others, the wive?, of cabinet ministers or other
women of the official family delegated by Mrs.
MeKinley to represent her at the hundred and
one public functions that are annual White
House fixtures. Then came Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt, and whereas she is known far and
near as a charming hostess, yet it is a well
known fact that Mrs. Roosevelt is far happier
when surrounded only by members of her im
mediate family than when presiding at state
functions, where officialdom is her guest.
Mrs. Roosevelt has tact —abundance, in fact
—and she is a keen observer, too. This was
clearly demonstrated by the wholesale sweep
she made when she entered the White House
as its mistres-s. Mrs. Roosevelt has as little
regard for precedent as her husband, and this
is proved by Hie rattling of dry bones and
snapping of red tape that followed the general
house cleaning when she became the nation's
"first lady." New York may thank Mrs. Roose
velt for its present police commissioner, for
Maj. Bingham had ruled the White House with
unbroken sway for many years prior to the
advent of the Roosevelts. His word was law,
even to the choosing of the floral decorations
to grace the table at luncheon and dinner
when (lie official family were to entertain.
Mrs. Roosevelt's first act was to select as her
social aid-de-camp Aliss Belle Hastier, :t younsj
u'v.nau of rare charm of manner, tact, beauty
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 4( 1909.
and birth, all of which admirably fitted her for
the post to which she was appointed. As a
result of a clash between Miss Hagner and
Maj. Bingham, the latter received his conge
and orders issued from the war department
deposed him as major-domo of the White
House, and he once more resumed his duties
afield.
A change quite as radical as (hat between
the McKinley and Roosevelt regimes is looked
forward to when Mrs. Taft usurps Mrs. Roose
velt's place. Events of the past few weeks
have clearly demonstrated that Mrs. Taft is
not only a woman of grace and charm, but one
of brains as well. Long identified with official
Washington she has had ample opportunity to
study conditions there existins, and what wom
an who has ever been an integral part of offi
cial Washington has not indulged in that
dream: "If I were the first lady of the land!"
This Mrs. Taft will be in every essential. She
has made a splendid start by allying herself
with that great organization, the National Civ
ic federation, and, taking a commanding lead
in that body, she has endeared herself to that
class of women who are sometimes slightingly
referred to as "s "uinded." The mother of
two sturdy sons a u *er. the latter now
a freshman at Hi. college, she must
appeal strongly to her type, for those
who know her best v. adily testify that she
is the best chum her ys and girl ever had,
and this she will continue to be in spite of
the manifold calls upon her time in the course
of her reign at the White House. In a recent
speech made in New York at a Civic federa
tion meeting Mrs. Taft plainly showed that she
has brains and uses them without in any sense
being aggressive or pedantic. A glance at her
was sufficient to win to her side the hundreds
of women who attended that meeting with tho
avowed purpose of dissecting their guest of
honor to the minutest detail. Her personality
and general appearance won them instantly to
her side, even before she took the floor to
make her maiden speech in public.
Mrs. Taft talks well and looks well when
she is talking. Her smile lias the charm of in
telligence, that quick flash of recognition, dis
tinct from the stereotyped smile peculiar to
women in official life on whom social duties
make many demands, even to that of continu
ously "locking pleasant." Sl;e has a generous
mouth and handsome teeth, a straight nose.
well proportioned to her
other fealures, a broad
forehead, above which her
brown hair is arranged in
a soft pompadour. Mrs.
Taft is a book lover and
has been a student all her
life simply because in the
home in which she was
reared the books came
down from their shelves
atul made the
worlds, they con
tained part of the
domestic environ
ment. Music, per
haps, is her favo
rite art, and while
she doesnot regard
herself as suffi
ciently n practice
to perform for a
critical audience,
she has by no
means lost her
skill and frequently plays for her chil
dren and husband during their evenings
at home, and these are far more fre-
quent than one might at first suppose. Airs.
Taft was one of the original founders and
patronesses of Cincinnati's famous musical or
ganization, the Symphony orchestra. Other
avenues through which her artistic tastes are
directed are her love of pictures and her ap
preciation of wood carving. Charles P. Taft's
world-renowned art collection has no more ap
preciative admirer than his sister-in-law, the
wife of the president-elect, and there are many
canvases hanging on the walls of this gallery
of her selection.
Mrs. Taft has one advantage over her many
predecessors, her knowledge of languages, and
what accomplishment is more essential to a
woman occupying so exalted a position as that
to which Mrs. Taft will succeed in a city
where as many tongues are spoken as were at
the Tower of Babel? Mrs. Taft is, perhaps,
one of the best informed women in America,
and when asked how it is possible for one with
as many demands upon her time to keep up so
thoroughly with the events of (he world she,
unhesitatingly replied: "By reading the daily
papers."
This she does assiduously and intelligently,
and when the papers that are brought to her
boudoir each morning are cast aside Mrs. Taft
has absorbed all that is interesting, instruc
tive and healthy contained in their pages.
As a man is judged by the company he
keeps, so may one's estimate of a woman be
formed by the style of woman she selects as
her closest friend. Mrs. Taft's friends in
Washington are reckoned by the hundreds, but
her intimates are few. Of these Miss Cannon,
the daughter of the speaker of the house of
representatives, may be mentioned
first. Both are devotees of bridge
and each takes the game seriously,
having mastered all of its many in
tricacies. Mrs. Taft and Miss Can
non are frequently seen in public
together. They drive frequently,
this being one of Mrs. Taft's chief
diversions, and then, too, they are
invariably seen together at the many
concerts given in Washington
throughout the official season.
Another of Mrs. Taft's intimates
is Hallie Erminie Rives Wheeler,
wife of the secretary of the Ameri
can embassy at Tokyo. Mr. and Mrs.
Wheeler recently spent several
months in this country, a part of
which time they were the guests of
the Tafts. Their friendship goes
back to long days of travel in the
far east, when they saw for the first
time many strange things together,
thereby discovering a sympathy in
the point of view. Gen. and Mrs.
Corbin and Gen. and Mrs. Edwards
will bo prominent figures in the
White House social set during the
Taft regime. There, too, will be
found the Longworths. The latter
will conserve the relations between
the past and present White House
occupants and this may be strength
ened should Ethel, the debutante
daughter of the Roosevelts, be taken
under the wing of Mrs. Taft and chaperoned
in Washington, should Mrs. Roosevelt decide
to reside at her New York home in the course
of her husband's invasion of the African jun
gles.
The Longworths are quite as firmly in
trenched in Cincinnati's most exclusive cir
cles as the Tafts, therefore it is but natural
to suppose that the present president's son-in
law and his wife will continue to be conspicu
ous figures in Washington society.
The army set will have its innings with the
advent of the Tufts for aside from the Corblns
and Edwardses, previously mentioned, Gen.
8011, as well as Gen. Garlington and Mrs. Gar-
Ifngton, are among the closest of the Tafts'
friends. When Mrs. Taft democratically walk? 1
forth from her home in Lafayette square the
morning of that bright June day on which her
husband was nominated for the office he is
about to assume, it was to the war department
that she directed her steps, and entering the
office of the secretary of war, her little son
Charlie at her side, she was there greeted by
Mrs. Garlington and her attractive daughter,
Sallie, who had been invited to share the good
news with the candidate's wife.
Saved Washington's Home.
The idea of purchasing Mount Vernon and
preserving it to the nation originated with a
southern woman, Anne Pamela Cunningham.
When its last owner announced his intentioa
of selling it this patriotic woman at once se
cured the refusal of it for a stipulated period.
She then appealed to congress for the pur
chase money, but her request was denied.
Upon this she immediately circulated an ap
peal over the signature of"The Southern Ma
tron," urging all the women of America to join
her in this patriotic work. Later she secured
a charter from the Virginia legislature, organ
ized ar. association, became its regent, and
through vice-regents of the association in the
different states began to collect the requisite
funds for its purchase. Soon from every part
of the 1 nited States contributions poured in,
and eventually the money required S"* ""aised.