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i THE PRESIDENT'S WIFEAS A WOMAN SEES HER "!- (Note After her visit td Oys ter Bay, Idah McGlone Gibson, who was assigned to write inti mate personality sketches of the 1 SwPn JHjf WE"' H Mrs. William Howard Taft wives of the presidential - candi dates for The Day Book, went to the vacation home of president Taft, to see Mrs. Taft. Mrs. Gib son had a personal visits with the president's wife and the following article is the result. Editor.) , By Idah McGlone Gibson. It is an unwritten Iawthat the wife of the president of the United States may not talk for publication, and the -newspaper Avoman who 'gets to her does so only under strictpromise that she will not quote her in- the first per son. . The vacation home of th&presi dent is -very beautiful, L thought as I approached the doorway where was ushered 'into the great living hall with its tapestry covered walls, its beautiful did furniture, its open fireplace in which a fire was burning1. This hallway has about it a balcony from which a stairway comes down into the room Through an open door I caught a glimpse of a music room all in white wood work, before the mistress of the house entered . Mrs, Taft shows the -wear and tear of the last few years to -a greater degree than the1 president. She never had a. "famous smile' however so the tired lines which have made their appearance about her mouth may not be noticed by the casual acquaintance. Eut ft is an open secret among her friends that the.social strain of the white house regime has been too much for Mrs. Taft's physical, strength. She has ndt the poise of Mrs. Roosevelt, the sympathetic toler ance of Mrs. Wilson, nor that courage to silently bear that seems the abiding force of -Mrs.