Show PRESIDENTIAL PRIVACY When VIlen one of his itis courtiers condoled with Louis XIV over tile the interest manifested bv by French men and FI French women womer in the details of or his hs daily life and the consequent lack of privacy Le Grand replied If I could I would have IHl the I Iry very ry walls of my lied bed chamber made mado of glass that the whole hole world might see how the King of or France Ji es Curiosity is one of the traits of human na na- na ture Explorers into regions where the conventions of society never neve have penetrated and where therefore therefore there there- fore human nature exhibits itself in native nati sincerity sincerity sin sin- have returned to tell us of their inability to withdraw or esc escape pe from the wide eyed d stare The TIle national slang factory of the United States has ground out a word for it rubber it It is not nota a vicious thin thing at it all and it is isery very ery naive nai and sincere sincere sin sin- cere but it is annoying to some sonic people to be made the subject of it and andery very ery properly it is forbidden by ly the conventions cOln of polite life Some of the newspapers newspapers news news- papers have been annoying President Roosevelt and family by rubber necking in the interest of a smiling and expectant public upon the d details tails and incidents of private ate and family life in the tile Presidential Presidential Presidential summer retreat at tt Sagamore Bill Hill Oyster D B Bay y The servants are bribed hou house e maids coachmen coachmen coachmen coach coach- men hostlers cooks and all for Cor incidents and md details details de de- tails of daily life None one of the tile family can venture o out t I of doors without having a kodak leveled at him and the trigger pulled The life of th the President and of the members of his bis family is made creepy by a I perpetual sense of being watched by byan an public This ought not noL to be s so sQ No doubt about dut I that But so also hungry people ought not to eat ent with knives or fingers the they should use forks or Ol spoons No o doubt about that either Facts and folks s f being heing as as' as facts and folks are it is likely that f for r some years to come conic as for some dozens of centuries cen con tunes in the past c conspicuity will be one of the penalties of greatness And maybe this was part of what Horace ha had hf d l in mind when he warned us ex cx pertus the the fellow who has bas tried it ever er after shies at it In fact there is only one way that Presidential residential privacy acy in the United States can be secured for the home life It is an old old remedy and it is the only one ever eyer found to be effectual It Itis It Itis Itis is ample fenced grounds and and door door- keepers This remedy has an objectionable Europ European European Euro Euro- p an aristocratic savor a. r. r The only other remedy proposed proposed pro pro- posed the education of the American public in the amenities of refined society is slow in operation and hardly would have ha time to prove e effective before the expiration of President Roosevelt's leave of summer absence from the White House In this connection naturally arises to the recollection recollection tion of or an adage older than the the theR R Republic public What bat c cant can't nt be cured must be he endured I |