Show rAFf AS A SHOPPER I Makes His us Purchases Like an Ordinary Citizen SHOPKEEPERS WELCOME HIM Shelves Book of Present President and His Predecessor Contrasted ContrasteD ContrasteD-An- An Another other Sorrow for Mrs John A A. Logan In Death of Her Grandson By GEORGE CLINTON Washington Washing President Taft Tatt occasionally occasionally oc oc- goes downtown afoot to do dobis dohis dohis his bis odds and ernie ends of shopping He Hehns has hns made mad several trips to the business center recently mingling with the street and the shopping crowds and doIng do- do Eng Ing things generally like Uke the ordinary American citizen When the president president I dent goes Into a store of ot course he Instantly Is recognized and there Is e of ot anxiety on the part of each clerk that at his counter the president shall do his shopping Mr Taft makes liberal purchases and as his patronage carries with It something In the nature of ot an advertisement adver storekeepers storekeepers' han hall his coming with a good deal of satisfaction Business Business Busi Busl- ness cess comes pretty near to a standstill In the smaller shops when Mr Taft appears appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears and this Is not the fault of Inattentive inattentive In in- attentive clerks who after the first minute of the presence turn back again to their ordinary customers who vho prefer to turn from the counters to watch the president wh while l he buys things It must be rather a a trying position po po- po- po In a way way but doubtless by this time the tho president Is used to It It is his bis custom to make liberal purchases and this cust custom m was carried out to lo the full rull during the days just Just before C Christmas Christ mas and even now Mr Taft Is making up for certain before Christmas by laying In a greater store If at presents to send to friends Books of Two Presidents Theodore Roosevelt used to go shopping shopping shop shop- ping In the same way that William Wllliam H. H T Taft Tift ft does The former president bought all kinds of things but his favorite fa fa- fa- fa write shopping place w was s a certain book store where he would go and ami spend an hour or two every little while looking over the new new books and old books giving perhaps a greater part of his time to ancient volumes many ot of thorn them second-hand second In the hope of ot finding something of t Interest not only because of or its text but because of Its rarity President Tafts Taft's White House office library consists almost entirely of law law books There were not more than two or Dr three law b books In the office of ot fort or mer President Roosevelt for he w was s I no lawyer and was willing to no t. t In the White House proper today Tn in inthe the study stud of ot Mr Taft there are books of ot all kinds poetry fiction history essays and miscellaneous works On the same shelves shelve's when Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt was president was a n great collection collection collection col col- col- col lection of ot nature books book He had bad works on birds birds- mammals mollusks and In fact on every form torm which living nature assumes Including g vegetable getable life It mus must not be supposed from this that Mr Roosevelt did not have poetry fi fiction history essays and miscellaneous mis works for It Is generally admitted that he was the greatest reader who ever served as president nt ot of ot the United States and he had and has bas a remarkable faculty of at r rememberIng remembering remembering bering ev everything that he reads Mrs Logans Logan's Afflictions The body of Captain Logan Tucker Mrs John A. A L Logan's Logans gans gan's grandson andson who died In Iii New York the other day has been burled buried In th the tomb of his grandfather ther General Logan In the Soldiers' Soldiers Home cemetery Mrs John A A. Logan who was In a good many respects the strong right arm of ot the general during his lifetime still sUll lives In n Washington She writes for tor the press and the magazines mag mag- names occasionally and despite her years is still sUll an exceedingly active woman She has had more sorrows In recent years than ordinarily fall to the lot of womankind Her only son was killed in battle in the Philippines Mrs Logan a accompanied companied the body to this country Now her grandson also an army officer Is dead Mrs Logan Is deeply Interested In everything connected connected connected con con- with the armed services of the country f Her hair is pure white but but she keeps the appearance of youth Plans of National Press Club Ono One of ot the thriving Washington Institutions Is the National Press club In which virtually all the correspondents correspondents cor coy respondents and local newspaper newspapermen I men Den have membership with a great resident son list on which the names of hundreds of the well known men of th the United Stat States s. s rho rhe club has baa had a great holiday time if f It in a properly quiet way Hospitality Hospital Hospital- ity has bas marked the season seaton as It t During the next nept few months there will to Ira many entertainments at the press ress club and they promise to be of i L character which will excite countrywide country country- wide side NI e interest Last year car at the tho club there jere was a debate as to the comparative tive lve merits of whiskers and bald heads 13 LS aids to statesmanship Columns were Nero printed about this affair with Jo- Jo G G. Cannon former speaker of the louse of representatives leading one lido tido of the debate on behalf of ot whiskers whis kers lers and Representative Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati leading the theather ther ather side on behalf of ot bald heads Something of ot similar nature and andret andret andret ret entirely different will be one of ot the f features ot of the program for tor the time now and early summer when whan I Ul LII Washington lag activities lag except those hose of ot congress which at times Umes must 1 work under the broiling sun U at threatens occasionally to set the asphalt asphalt as as- pavements ablaze The Nation al ai a Press club entertains entertain's nearly every distinguished visitor from abroad who comes to the capital Some day its visitors visitors' book will be of immense value for tho autographs which it con tame McLean Baby's Christmas A good many years ago Thomas F. F Walsh an Irishman poor In purse but butrich butrich butrich rich in energy went to Colorado There he worked as a a laborer and miner Finally when he had a knowledge knowl know 1 edge of ot prospecting ng Mr Walsh used his senses senses and his Strength to do things for tor himself He le succeeded so sowell sowell sowell well that he acquired many millions and then thea in after life lite he came with his wife and two children lo to live Uve Inthe in inthe inthe the Capital City About a year ago Thomas F. F Walsh died Trouble had come to him in his latter years His only son was killed In an automobile accident and his daughter was badly injured but she happily recovered and later married mar mar- mar mar- ried ned Edward Deale Beale McLean son of John R. R McLean of ot Cincinnati and Washington Mrs Thomas F. F Walsh is still living and as she shared many of ot the early privations of her husband she must have been struck by the contrast contrast contrast con con- between the scene In her WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington home a a. day or two ago and tho the scenes In the early Colorado days ys Vincent Walsh McLean the three year-old year grandson of ot Mrs Walsh was celebrating the coming of ot Christmas The child Is heir to an enormous enormous' amount of mone money Invited to help him enjoy his Christmas were some 35 or 40 children between the ages of ot 18 months and 6 years They were all the children of either wealth of of ot high official degree Descendants of Gen Ulysses S. S Grant were present and of ot Elihu Root and of ot other men who are or have been presidents army commanders senators or foreign am mi- nl- nl It Is probable that not inthe In Inthe inthe the history of ot social life lite in the capital have lave there been gath gathered red together so many little ones who have clutched fast silver spoons ever ever since they were born Sampsons Sampson's Son In Army Arri Harold Bu Burling Bulling lIng Sampson son of the late Admiral Sampson who was jn in command of the fleet In front of S Santiago San n. n tiago during the Spanish war war has been appointed a s second ond lieutenant in the United States army by President Taft Young Sampson wanted to foll follow w his hs In a sea career career- and he hO was appointed to the United States Naval Academy He was compelled to leave after having served as a cadet only two years So It Is Is that from the I navy to the army h has s been transferred a name Intimately connected for years with the sailor life lite Vandalism In Washington As a result of the work of ot the vandal who mutilated th ferry erry at Lake Erie which hangs in the senate wing of the tho capitel capitol capi- capi tol tel the police watchfulness supposedly SUPPOSedly SUPPOSe supposedly edly h has s been redoubled If U they should treble the police force In the District however the chances are that a malicious person could cut any picture or damage any statue that he ae chose unimpeded bul but of course he be would have some difficulty In escaping escaping es es- caping after the act The capital city has been remarkably ly Immune from acts of ot vandalism of ot this kind In the past Relic hunters hunters' hunters occasionally have chipped pieces of statuary and have tried to break bits bitsoff bitsoff bitsoff off bronze work raised doors but the damage in in the main has been slight President Receives Socks Among President Tafts Taft's holiday presents was a pair of ot band made hand ade knit socks sent cent him to-him to from War Branch Ky by b. Miss Elizabeth Brock who who who- sent with the gift a letter in which she said said that she ShE- she hoped lOPed hoped the president would wear the socks 0 on cold dax damp j days Presidents of the United States get many presents most of which are returned returned returned re re- re- re turned to the donors If It can be done gr gracefully Gifts of great value always al al' always ways are returned unless they are sent for some specific occasion like a wedding wedding wed wed- ding anniversary or a birthday and andare andare andare are made for personal and not noe at all for official reasons Small gifts gUts where the Inspiration is simply dimply from the heart are accepted almost Jones Controversy Reopened Washington Is interested In the reopening reopening re reo re- re opening of the controversy as to whether or not the real body of ot JohnPaul JohnPaul John JohnPaul Paul Jones was secured when the grave was opened in Paris and the remains was brought to the United States to be placed In the chapel at Annapolis Charles Henry enry Hart of ot Philadelphia has reopened the con con- He denies that the body which was secured was that of ot the great Scotch Scotch American sea fighter and andIn andin In n a book which he h-e intends for private private private ate circulation he he gives his reasons for or the doubt in the matter John Paul Jones Jones' body has not yet been placed In tn the chapel at Annapolis An An- but is reposing In Its metal coffin under the tho stairway In Bancroft Hall which Is the great reat barracks of ot the sailor boys William T. T Lopp who Is in charge of or the governments government's reindeer service in Alaska has Just como corno to Washing Washing- ton Ion He believes that within the next 25 years with the reindeer of Alaska Increasing at the tho present rate there will be bo prime animals In the territory which can be drawn on by bythe bythe the people of the United Slates States to re- re enforce their meat supply Reindeer beef beer Is said to be excellent food Today It is eaten occasionally by the rich who in the day when It becomes a cheap article may perhaps lose their I taste for tor it It but if it all that is said of Its excellence of ot flavor and Its sustaining SUB ass I taming qualities be true reindeer m meat t l one day may maybe may bo popular to thA mosses DUCI |