Show president ent belongs to the cane carrying brigade president wilson does not call his fondness for walking sticks ALTHOUGH A a fad a hobby or even a habit the tact fact remains that he has a large and handsome collection in which he takes a lively interest and constant pleasure whenever he walks he selects a plain stout stick from among the number and carries it after the manner of men who punctuate their steps as aa they tramp but inasmuch as the presidents chief exercise is golfing and he always drives to and from the links he cannot be identified as one who wears a stick from choice or ja habit he does not even carry one of his ebony sticks to church but tak takes es the greater pleasure in what his collection of canes means the variety intrinsic value and more intimate association joseph P secretary A to the president Is never seen without his neat blackthorn any more than t franklin lane secretary of the interior can be found upon the street without his malacca tho the secretary of state doubtless has walking sticks but no one remembers seeing him wear one on any occasion whatever both the assistant secretary of state mr air osborne and tile the third assistant secretary of state mr phillips have sticks but not the habit while the second assistant secretary mr adee is identified with no other concomitant than his bicycle with which he has toured the highways and byways of europe every summer for or many years until the war made it impossible the secretary of the treasury wears a slim stick a gift from one of his sons lt at christmas and it la Is not unusual to meet secretary mcadoo on the street with comptroller of tho the currency williams both of thera them swinging their sticks as vigorously as they walk only with a difference secretary mcadoo holds his hia exactly at the top in the hollow of his bit liand land and brings it down to the pavement tapping each step mr williams takes his stick halt half way between the crook and tho the end and swings it horizontally zon tally |