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Show POLAR BEAR OF THE SENATE - r ' ' 4 : ) ru- -3,..- ? "The 'Polar Bear of the Senate" ia the title which "Uncle Knute" Nelson, senator from Minnesota, justly bears. It is not without cause that he has been so named, for In the coldest weather the windows of Senator Nelson's Nel-son's offices are open and many and many a committee has shuddered as it thought of entering his committee room on a snowy December morning. "Visit the north," Senator NelsoD said, "and get out in the cold once in a while. That is what keeps a man young. Hot weather saps the vital energies. You know it Is a well established es-tablished fact that the southern races mature before the northern people. It is no fallacy. It is a fact." "What do you mean by getting out in the cold?" was asked. "Good freezing polar weather; lots of snow. Briskness everywhere. No opportunity to loaf and let the blood grow sluggish. "These are the things that keep a man young. You know a man is only as young as his arteries, and if he lets his blooa grow slow then he himself will begin to slow down." Senator Nelson affects a snappy, biting manner of speech. He is always known in debate by his swift, biting retorts; certainly not the retort's of a man who has passed the allotted span of life as the senator has. - "When I was a boy in Norway," said he, "we never thought of old men. A man, as he grew older, acquired wisdom and was not impaired in energy It was the good, cold climate. No man can become sluggish if he once gets stirred up by a snowstorm." Senator Nelson has followed this hobby of health for years. Today he . Is recognized as among the most virile of the men In the upper chamber, and he will undoubtedly remain so for some' time to come. |