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Show UNSPOILED BY HIGH POSITION. President Loubet Retains Simple Habits Hab-its of Early Llfs. President Loubet remains his old simple self ard has not changed mauy of Ills hahlte, save In so far nB tho rigid French protocol compels him to do so. With an Instinctive disregard of appearances, thf president wears a frock coat, often dusty, and nu old-fashioned old-fashioned top hat with Its silk disturbed. dis-turbed. Thla oven In Paris, but when ho gets to Ids old homo his clothes simply go without care, and tho great man may ho seen, disregarding his 65 years, plodding along in the rain under a voluminous umbrella. There is no escort, no etiquette. On one occasion M. Loubet, addressing an assembly of French cooks, drank to France's "cull-nury "cull-nury royalty," which he declared to be "eno of tho great sources of our national na-tional prosperity." By no means a gourmet, the chief magistrate la not at all lndlfferont to tho pleasures of the table, although he much prefers slmplo ulshds to complicated ones. Although content to Ieavotho carea of tho household to Mme. Loubet, ho Insists In-sists upon choosing his wlno himself. |