Show rr w y THE PRESIDENT HAS FUN TAKES INFORMAL JAUNT IN COUNTRY WITH FAIRBANItS I Plays Ball with Boys and Tell Wife of Farmer Thomas Her Buttermilk Butter-milk Is Finest Hed Ever Tasted Akron OWhlle Vice President Fairbanks sat on a fence and drank buttermilk President Hoc cvul hopped about In Farmer Frank Thorns I is backyard his coat and hat oft and his sleeves rolled up and battul out balls for tho awestricken children ol the farmer I i Then when tho Thomas boys had almost run their legs off chasing his I long drives the president Ql the United States climbed up on the fence I beside the vice president said i dad d-ad a bully time and joined Umin another glass of Farmer Thomaii hilt toiinllk And when ho hand c bath the glass President Roosevelt matxi I lira Thoinas tho proudest woman In the state of Ohio by saying Thatft the best thing Ive tasted In years This Isnt a fairy story Its positive posi-tive fact This Is how it happened After leaving Canton the other day heio he had attended the funeral nt Mrs McKinley President Iloosev t learned that his train would have lo lie over at Akron for four hours before be-fore connections could ho made for Imllamipolls The president did M l relish the prospect of kicking his heels around Akron for four hours and had his private car dioppr4 about two miles outside of the cltr where the country roads thereabouts looked cool and inviting Then with Mr Fairbanks who anticipated I ticipated a quiet stroll nod nothing I more tho president started off alone tho most alluring of the roads Ot r trailed behind secret service man hlld IJeen er IIIPcII Wlto Uut The presltlcnl Ivulv set n Ilrclt all day In a car t for the lengthy vice preslllo lance notch moro had they gone before and Fairbanks was hot than a milt Mr and gasping thirsty the farmhouse of about then Just Iholllat hove III sIght path the Frank country set out for It across president working on a haYlltnclt was TholllllS threw down his rake mighty hut he when the president introduced quick himself Cold the vice president and himself have a glass They could Tholl1 The cOIIII have ItJlIIhllcnn n8 Is a everythng else In all tho milk and farmhouse After they had one ho buttermilk tho of the farmers glass prowled out into tho yard president So of the farmer were wlVlre the children scared were nlaying Hall The boys white when they knew who it was who wanted to take a hand In tho game and the president From Pranks farm the went over to Mr Fairbanks Thomas where ho house of David chll asked Mrs Thomas how many Iren sho had Eight the woman modestly re fed ledAh he exclaimed when I return o Washington I shall have to tell Mrs Roosevelt that 1 have found ono than woman who has a larger family hers then dropped In to Tho president visit Mrs Rose Hanson who could not speak English and ho had to talk German Then ho dropped In on John Wuch ter That proud old farmer said that If ho had only known that Mr Roosevelt Roose-velt was coming ho would have had Mrs Wuchter prepare a spring chicken chick-en supper The president said ho was mighty sorry to miss that |