Show taft as bachelor in the white house cv president tatt taft W washington the summer bachelor ot at the white house ts Is sharing the fate fata of many other government offic idis and washington residents whose families havo bavo gone away to mountains or seashore the president la Is taking the situation philosophically seem to mind the hot weather and Is reading dally daily with great delight letters from neverly beverly which tell of tho the rapid improvement in mrs tafts tafta health living bachelor fashion at the white house ts is not fraught with tho the same discomforts comforts dis that beset the mere inere man who has his homo home closed up on him when hla his wife goes away and la Is compelled to seek food and lodging as best beat he may the president and mrs airs tatt taft divided the white house help when the occupancy of tho the beverly cottage was begun so the president to la well taken caro of and domestic affairs at the tha white house run on much the same tho the president however allowed mrs mra tatt taft to take the first cook to beverly white he bo Is served by the second cook who Is a legacy from the roosevelt administration she Is a negro girl named mary who halla hails from old virginia and whose sway over the white house kitchens now la Is complete the president has bus happily solved the problem of disposing of tho the long even evenings by taking long alos about tho the city and suburbs lie iio usually starts out ou on these trips about 9 returning to the white house nt at it 11 or afterward capt archibald butt the presidents denta aldo aide Is always ills his companion on these journeys and usually tho the pros president ident telephones chonos in an invitation to some cabinet ot licer senator or representative und and steps artt the guests house bouse or club to pick him up the evening rides often extend out into the beautiful rock creek park which stretches bea for nilles miles along the little waterway whose name it bears at other times mr air taft has ills his chauffeur drive about the city or on the potomac park driveways which skirt the river back of tho the white house and tho the monument grounds arising at about soven seven the I 1 president gi elves ves nearly nn an hour to dumbbells dumb bells balls pulley weights and other i forms of exercise prescribed lor for him lie he breakfasts slowly and usually alone during his bis morning moal meal an and d for halt half an hour or so afterward tho president reads the newspapers between and 10 ho he begins his bis busy day in the executive offices at comes luncheon at the white house always with saint bome invited guest for company the afternoon la Is devoted to golf tor for the president hopes to play every afternoon that ho he remains in washington dinner always finds guests assembled and usually it to la an informal and delightful meal which begins a little after seven and sometimes copti continues tor tar an hour and a half bolt |