TWENTY-ONE STONE TAFT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 294, 5 September 1908, Page 9

TWENTY-ONE STONE TAFT.

Mr. T-rtft, tho'Ropublican candidate for tha Presidency, has (says the New York correspondent of the "Daily Express" oft. July 3) gone to Sot Springs, Virginia, where the waters are bcneficial to people, of excessive size. Mr. Taft is notoriously ono of the heaviest men in - the United States. Ho weighs'twonty-ono stono net, and he has told tho reporters.recently that "no gentleman' should .weigh moro than twenty stone weight." Already tho cartoonists aro making capits! p»t of Mr. Taft's weight, as thoy did in former years when Mr. Cleveland, also au exceedingly fat man, "ran" for the Presidency. Obviously a man burdened with so mncli weight does not present a particularly dignified hgnro when lie is "running," aiid Mr. Roosevelt is doing his utmost to assist Mr. Taft in his efforts to rcduco himself to normal proportions, so that he may comfortably occupy the executive chair graced by Washington, Lincoln, and Grant. Mr. Taft said yesterday—"Washington waa a . thin man, and when be ordered the executive chair he was inconsiderate enough not to think of successors who might bo heavyweights like Cleveland and others. So lam off to Hot Springs." .

After being married a year, a young man named Halm,' living at Volosca, Dalmntia. discovered that' ho had not married tho girl he intended. When he proposed to her ho mistook her for her twin sistor, who so resembles her that they can scarcely be distinguished, and he did not realiso hig orror until ho began calling her by hor Christian namo instead of by the terxni of endearment he had hitherto used,