Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1911 — President Taft’s Joke. [ARTICLE]

President Taft’s Joke.

President Taft likes a joke and loves to be liked. When he drops work for play he la as boyish about it as when in college. Neither does the president appear to be oversensitive about his weight, which is rather more than that of most men. He had gone to the Chase club outside Washington, for an afternoon game of golf recently, and came swinging out of the clubhouse in golf togs, which, If anything, add to Hile stature. Passing the tennis courts he saw a Washington friend who is heavy enough to have been taken for the president at a distance bqfore .now. The president stopped and smiled broadly at the efforts of the stout one to reduce. “Hello, Walker,” he said, as the game slackened, “far be it from me to suggest that you need that exercise, old man.”