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Show Clemenceau Happy As He Departs For U. S. Tiger Is Showered With Advice on What He Should Say and Do in Country Where He Picked Wife and Jaught Girls' School Years Ago i PARIS. Nov. 10. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press) Georges Clemenceau Clem-enceau sails away for America tomorrow, to-morrow, happy In the spirit of-adventuro of-adventuro Today he was ga Interested and Interesting keen to bo off Considering his age he was SI last September the agetness with which the Tiger of Prance anticipates thu experiences that are soon to conic to him in th I nned States is ojuitfl touching touch-ing to those who see him and lalk with him. What Impresses his American callers the most if his youthfulness of outlook. lie talks of the present and the futtire fn the manner of a man In mlddl life; he refuses to be reminls, :eij . "I never was much of a chap for the past." M. Clemenceau remarked re-marked to the correspondent, who inquired about the former premier's prem-ier's earlier visits to tho United tS'alo. This is not his first o America, as is commonly Si:; -posed but his third I "My father, who was exiled by Napoleon 111 thought It would be a good thing for me to go to America, Am-erica, und I went," M Clemenceau said ' I had been following cents of your Civil war and my sympathies sympa-thies were with the north. Almost immediately after my arrival, however. I went to Richmond. There I met a good many southern south-ern people and soon found out how delightful. how simply charming they were." M Clemenceau paused a moment, mo-ment, and then, with a gesture, went on: ' Shortly before my arrival. Grant had taken the city and I saw for the first time what v,ar and bombardment bom-bardment meant. Then I went to "Washington and later out west as far as Chicago and from there to Bufialo. anjl cftor a whw to Boston." f- lu converse fl on. M ClcmcTrceau sel-( sel-( Continued on Page Two) iSSSJ 00 I TIGER HAPPY I ASHE SAILS (Continue! from Page One) I dom alludes to his subsequent experl- ences In America first, as a ire-htiernan of lelsuro reading extth- I'fcly for two years In the libraries H of Now York and then as a teacher In a girls' school In Connecticut It was during his days as an Instructor In the girls' school that Clemenceau met the young woman who became his wife At that time she was under age, and her guardian refused to give his COnseht to a civil marriage only. Insisting In-sisting on the church's benediction, M Clemenceau stoutly declined to recognize recog-nize the church as essential to a wedding. wed-ding. So he went back home still unmarried That was in 18f' lie had spent four years In America. The next year he crossed the Atlantic again ami was married at a civil ceremony. His btay In America gave to the Tiger that knowledge of English which hus been one of his most useful use-ful accompllsnments in hl3 long public pub-lic career. Always he has taken pleasure In the language and In its literature. INTER n s dj LMtri) (.rx)i "My lntntlons in going to America are good; I feel sure of that.' 'the aged politician suld "I see with considerable consider-able clearnoss ho' It will bo to the material and moral interests of the ! I'nlted States to examine European flit flenltir ii-ltl. s.i.r.f ,..,nr,tl,.n than those they have at present." M. Clemenceau expects to enlarge his own Judgments of the European situation by putting his ideas Into contact con-tact with American views. H does not go to New York with his mind made up and closed as to what would be to the mutual and collective advantage Of the In, ted States, France and Eu- ' rope generally. "I shall talk about the 'league of canons, out i nave nu specific advice ad-vice to offer," he remarked. "I be-lieye be-lieye in the idea of the league. The world must have something of the sort.. I do not say that the league as It now exists is what Americans should adopt, it does not satisfy me. But I am for the aspirations." GE1 S Ml OH LDVICE M. Clemenceau ha3 received quantities quan-tities of advice from Americans as to wnal hi BhouluVjr should not say in his speeches. American travelers of dls- I Unction, v,ho have passed through I Paris during the lu3t two months have ' heaped some of this advice upon him, and otners of no distinction whatever, ! have added lo tho burden upon his ! cars and eyes. So have many Americans Ameri-cans domiciled in France Even those Hying in the United States thousands Ol them ftlt a strange impulse to admonish ad-monish and Guide the Tiger by their letters, and to warn him against tno complexities of American politics. Some of the writers cautlonod him not ti, l.e milter,., t -mil ,v- V, r. ! ki. . . v , .. j. wi iioyuuu- cans Others begged him not to disappoint dis-appoint the Democrats and of this flood of literature, M. Clemenceau lias only this to say: TIGER WON'T MEDDLE "I shall, of course, haw nothing to j.iy about America's Interior politics. I think of the American people; 1 neer separate Americans Into categories cate-gories or undertake to classify them." Naturally, arrangements for the apeeches M Clemenceau is to deliver in the Cnlted States, have been left In the hands of friends, whom he has knoWn for sometime. He always ex-i ex-i plains this to those who seem to have I misgivings as lo whether the active share Colonel House has taken In the preparations might not indicate political polit-ical purposes. The Tiger's health appears to be excellent, and equal to the strain of travel and public speaking that Is sure to come. After talking a while his olce seems to tire, but some of his French friends, who have listened to him recently, say that this Is more of ir;. 'ire than a fu't H- can i really speak moro than an hour with- ' out undue weariness M, Clemenceau Is an early riser. Every Ev-ery day he upends an hour taking gymnastic exercises. Tie jo. s not drink wine, nor does he sinoko and eat heavily. heav-ily. Those meeting him for the first' time are always struck by two thlnr-'i the cloth cap, shaped like a priest's bleretta, shich he wears indoors, and his Invariable practice of wearing gloves when receiving visitors. |