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Show PRESIDENT Its SEEK SECLUSIBfi j No Public Duties to Intrude at the Present Time, Tumulty Says. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. After a day of rest President Wilson was I described as "sliglitly better," In an official bulletin issued tonight by Dr. Cry T. Grayson. The bulletin, svhich recorded the first change to be officially noted in Mr. Wilson's condition since he was taken ill last Friday, did not give details. It was issued at-10 o'clock tonight and was as follows: "The president is slightly better." bet-ter." (Signed) "GBATSON." WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. Under an absolute ab-solute prohibition against work or worry, President "Wilson bepan today i'.uj vacation vaca-tion which has been prescribed as the cure for his attack of nervous exhaustion. After another troubled nigtu ho slept' from early morning until toward noon and In the afternoon was taken for a;i hour's automobile ride. Tho- remainder of the day he spent quietly secluded in hfs room or talking with members of his family, his attention being kept scrupulously I away from executive business of any form. I So thorough will be the effort to prevent j him front doing any work that he will not be permitted, for the present, to see any of the senate leaders in charge of the fight for ratification of the peace treaty. White House officials believe it essential that tnis subject, whk'h has occupied such a large place in tiie president's mind, be put entirely aside. The visit of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth, of Belgium, to the White House also vin he postponed, it was announced definitely today, because of Mr. Wilson's condition. Instead of being received by the president at the end of tho present week, the king and queen first will make their tour of the country. It was- said' at the White House that these precautions only were a part of Dr. Grayson's original program of quiet for the president, and were not to be interpreted in-terpreted as indicating any chanue in his; condition. The president's physician has made no qualification of his original hullo,-, tin of Friday in which he said the illness was not alarming, hut that a considerable period of rest would he necessary for recover re-cover v. The feelin- of the White House officials is that the nervous reaction which has interfered with tho president's sleep and with his digestion constitutes a cnmiitinti which mav require some days to- reveal the exact extent of its srip upon his svs-tem svs-tem Mr Wilson is nearly sixtv-ihrec vears of nu- nnd his advisers wish to take no chances of permit Im his ailment to run into complications. brief bulletin of 1 r. Grayson, si von out at 10 o'elnck this morn in?, c0astituied the onlv official news durinar the day regarding re-garding the president's condition. It was as follows: "The president passed a restless m:;ht, but is sleeping this morning." OX HOARD THK IT. S. P. GKOp.oi-; WASHINGTON Sept. 29. (By Wireless to the Associated Press.) King; Albert of Ilelgiuni. on learn hip of the illness "f President Wilson, sent a wireless mos-saK'u mos-saK'u of sympathy to the president and iilso requested that he be kept informed :ts to h:s condition. KinK Albert.. Queen K'dzabeth- a nd ,'rown Prince Leopold spent a quicV'.Sun -1;iy. read ins:, promenading- (he decks and ree-'iving informally a few of their i'r;ciKis. ; Tcday tin- Gcor-e AV'n -h m on Is fa- t cort.fi with perfect weather. 1 |