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Show I INSIDE FACTS ON j I WILSON'S ILLNESS II GIVEN IN REVIEW M : n Bv" Woodrow Wilson leaves the White, j House tod.iv to resume the role of a private citizen 3nd again take up nc Hi i practtc of Inw- a profession in wW n rr "e has not been active for forty yciira '. with Bainbrldgc Colby, the retiring HfV secretary of suite. thj retiring presl-H presl-H ',' rlert has formed n partnership ;ind the H -ij nejv firm will maintain offl es In New ; York and Washington. j Mr. Wilson's announcement that ne I; would take up the law again came )' as a surprise to all Washington which ! hrxu been led to believe that for the JrKi nr-M few months a leas! he would gO Jif Ui for r 1 1 r - of rest and recreation IttM and then probabb pursue, In some w unannounced way. his work for world Nil peaee SECOND SINCE JAGKSOBi The second Democratic president Is ,i since Andrew Jackson to fill two suc-Uh suc-Uh cetfllve terms. Mr. Wilsons eight j till enrs in ih. White Hons, carried him I'M through the priKf of human emotions ' He was almost blindly idolized and cordially hated. Profound peace, the most terrible of wars, d'-ath of a wife and helpmate, courtship and marriage, and finally lingering IllneeH all came , i In turn to brighten or darken his days EHf'U years of It whitened his hair. rVeH his fmmo and impaired his 81 Phvslcal vigor, but did not rust hla mind. J S Characterized by his friends as I much a wounded veteran of the world JI war as If be had been shot in battle, I Btl ho rocs back to private life todaj r Kg gardod by his partisans as a living sacrifice to hie Idt ' Mi Woodrow Wilson was not a well man j (ijS when he took up the presidency. He SE was decidedly a sick man H. Wfll lwl threatened with linght's disease kP which physicians diagnosed as having i fi$E been brought about by a pariicular Sjjj treatment for frequent head colds to. gjd which he and the first Mrs Wilson j ftja were subject. The wife died soon af- H ter. but his case yielded to cure. Some years before that, Mr. Wilson j had suffered a thrombosis, in one of mi his legs. It was the Iddging of a blood Ml clot In an artery, but because' of Us jn location not serious. It was, how - atv ever, a complaint of lh- same nature; Jki which caused his breakdown In 191 9 J 4j when the clot formed on the rlgh Ld ii of his brain Impairing the control of; t his left arm and leg ONE EYE BLIND. j Little known also. Is the fact that' ft Mr. Wilson, like Mr. Roosevelt, was mm practically sightless in one of his, Wt eyes. Bursting blood vessels In the1 BI retina practically made it useless, al- Bj though the Impairment was in part; Bjj overcome by the us of eyi gl Wei Ml' He suffered also from nervous indl- BH gestlon. With S pn -disposition to II take cold easily added la this list of, troubles. Woodrow Wilson took ui the Hp arduous duties of the presidency with Hi far less physi .;1 equipment than the: jtfl public generally gave him credit for. : 1M Once in office the round of com-, K plexltles which brought Mr. Wilson' HJ praise on one side and 'damnation on HI the other was not Jong In starting. HI and like a snowball rolling down hill im continued to take on volume until the da: ol his departure from the White House. KB Once in the midst of his siege of n prostration which accompanied the Hj first stages of his present Illness, he ttfl debated with himself w hether he ought Hj not to relinquish his office and give fly wav to a successor. Later when health jJM had Improved and the Democratic .iM convention at ?an Francisco was bal- 'J ; I lotlng nigh' and day to agree on a I,!; presidential nominee, Mr. Wilson de- W-i bated with himself whether he should jig be a candidate for a third term. It mM could not be said that either subject H reached the stage of "being consldcr- 91 cd." But It is known that Mr. Wll- flB son gave the subjects some thought. UNWRITTEN CHAPTERS H These with many other things form fflH the highly interesting unwritten chaP-Ay chaP-Ay ters of Woodrow Wilson s life They j would make a volume of far more en-T en-T ! grossing reading than anything that ;j 1 ever had been written about him 3:J Such a volume might include the iV'i inside" storv of the break with Col Jij House, his former confidential aflVls-or. aflVls-or. It might tell how Mr Wilson apl rousing Mr Clemenceau. the French I premier, from bed at 2 o'clock one j morning, practically charged the j French delegates with tampering with l , the records of the peace conference proceedings A A It might tell how Mr. Wilson made lid 1 up nis m'n(1 lo ' ,ir?" some other cab- Hr 'i J irei officers soon uiier the resignation HJ Ail of Secretary Lansing, but desisted be- Hj j cause, he said, it would add to the HJ jj popular impression that he "couldn't HJ , ' get along with anybody." It might also tell what Mr- Wilson "said with a smile to Lloyd "Jeorge concerning the relative strengths of 'the British and American navies, and lit might disclose I hat Mr. Wilson w ent !to the peace conference prepared to withdraw, as he threatened to do, In Its midst. KEPI IN SECRET. All these things, however, if they do become public, probably Will do so bj the pen of the historian after lrow Wilson has been assigned to his proper niche in the wall of history While the principal actors in thai series ser-ies of drumas live, all these tilings are lli .lv to remain behind the scenes Mr Wilson's retirement to private life Is not likely to release them for public consumption I'nill the beginning of the world war Mr Wilson held the attention of the ...iintrv with his swift strokes at getting get-ting Legislation from congress. With the coming, of the war he devoted the i last two years of his first term to an attempt to keep the Fnlted States out of the conflict and as the seemingly inevitable drift toward war set In he gl idually aSSUntCd the diplomatic leadership lead-ership of the nations arrayed against Germany and her allies, and flnallv assumed what his partisans characterized character-ized as the moral leadership of the ; world During the diplomatic correspondence correspond-ence with Germanj he displayed man; homelv human emotions On May 7. 1915. when Mr. Wilson heard the news of the sinking of the Lusitanla. he was almost at the end of his patience Like a man making a last effort to avoid a quarrel with w If. who has just laid on the last Straw he I lapped on his hat and went OUl and walked around the block. lie knew how to give vent to his emotions on other occasions and has been known in say something stronger than the "tut-tui" which has been accredited lo him on having made a faux pas al golf. However cold and austere he may have been accounted In his dealings deal-ings with public men. those who have been privileged to view his family life troin the Inside of the circle testify that he is Intensely human-w human-w II r of rrn it i What part he may take In public affairs in the future, living as he will almost under the shadow of the dome of the capttol, Is causing lively speculation. spec-ulation. So far as the records show no other president has remained In Washington after going out of office. Mr. Wilson first intended to live in Baltimore. Hs and the present Mrs. ilson settled It, by playing a game the president Invented during an Idle hour on the steamer George Washington Washing-ton on one of the trips to and from the peace conference It was 8 game of percentages with certain scores allotted al-lotted to the various advantages or amusements of life of which both were most fond. Baltimore, a the game worked out, had the highest total But breakdown and continued illness intervened in-tervened and it was decided to remain in Washington, where almost all of Mrs. Wilson's family reside The new home, bought recently, is I on an elevation In the northwest res-lidence res-lidence section not far from a site long held bv the Imperial German government govern-ment for embassy. Mr Wilson ex-ipects ex-ipects to spend the future almost on ! the spot where the Kaiser expected I his ambassador to sit. FIB SIC 1 CONDITION. Because of the secrecy which has 'been thrown around his physical condition, con-dition, the country is probably most interested In that just now. Mr- Wilson Wil-son is convalescent so far as nature (permits from what medically Is call-,ed call-,ed thrombosis a blood clot In one of (the arteries on the right side of his ibraln which impairs the motor nerves In th.3 left arm and leg. He can walk j short distances alone with the aid of a cane: longer distances require the !use of a wheel chair. Walking up i and down stairs Is a precarious experiment ex-periment seldom attempted. Mr. Wilson was not stricken on the LeagCO of Nations speaking trip In the I west as is popularly supposed,, but Within a week after he returned to the I White House. Warning signals of the coming attack were what caused his I return. For three das after he came I back he seemed to be Improving; In Cat i. he took a motor ride the day bc-ifore bc-ifore he was laid low, and on the 'night before played billiards The (seizure came In the night at an hour 'when the president was alone, and he 'was found stricken Just before daylight. day-light. t Blsls is REACHED. For a week his life was despaired of, but his real condition was kept secret by his family. Then came a |