Show I SUMMERTIME AT WASHINGTON On Monday at Washington Mrs Irs Taft wife wire of ot the thc President of ot the United States was overcome by the heat icat and became unconscious There Thero was more than temperature or or even the usual Potomac humid humid- It ty ity Mrs Taft had shortly shortt before beron passed through a a. trying time In which she sat with her son while whilo a n surgical operation was performed upon him It was a 30 trifle and yet ret some ome pain was Inflicted and the mother heart was Impressed The mother soul was racked b by suffering for or her bo boy Then came tho the kindly effort of ot the tine Pre President to take her r mind off ort the tho subject b by going for a asail asail sail Ean on the river And there on onboard onboard board tho the vessel the good gooel woman gave way to the stress of ot overwrought nerves and and fainted The Tile Incident is not an especially important one Many mothers are aro dally daily tried as severely and they re respond ro- ro spond just as ns did this first lad lady of or orthe the land But It is a n. pleasant thing to feel teel that that eminent woman I Ione Is Isone Isone one with the womanhood od and the motherhood of ot the nation She set sat with her son while he needed her presence presence and resisted the natural the tho natural tendencies to evade the distress of or It end And only after atter the need of ot her sustaining presence had pa passed sed did she permit her dot defense ne to go down It Is a little tiling thins And yet et tho the country will feel reel a kindlier regard for tor Mrs Taft because she ahe proves her herself herselt elf even In the little things the tho mother iwho I Iwho who wins and holds tho the love and re reverence reverence rev rev- of ot all aU good Americans Incidentally It proves pro that summer summer summer sum sum- mer has come como to Washington No 10 Noone I ono one could have been overcome b by heat In Salt Lake on Monda Monday It isa Is Isa a a. suggestion that even en the deliberate the tho tho pitilessly deliberate deliberate r. Mr Beveridge Bev- Bev of ot Indiana should take th the I hint hint fix the tariff schedules schedule and ad alt- journ |