Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1912 — FOND OF OUTDOOR SPORTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOND OF OUTDOOR SPORTS

Mrs. Ollle James, Wife of Kentucky Benator, Is Popular In Washington Society. There are four men in the lower house whom every visitor, be he from north, south, east or west, always asks the guides to point out, and they are "Uncle Joe” Cannon, the speaker, Champ Clark, Nicholas Longworth and Ollie James. Whenever any of this illustrious quartet is missing from his accustomed place on the floor the guides look troubled and the visiter feels as though he had been cheated out of a spectacle for which he paid his sound casb. Mrs. Japes is a frequent visitor to the house gallery, and she has some lively stories about the way the professional cicerone points out her husband. • , “I used to feel aggrieved," she said, “when I would hear the inevitable prologue. 'See that great big man with a bald head; that’s Ollie James from Kentucky. He is the biggest man on the floor and I can tell you he does love a horse race.’ “Now I look around and see how the stranger relishes this explanation. One thing for which I rejoice, my husband’s baldness is not the result of matrimony. It was just as apparent eight years ago when we were married and I believe even prior to his soul-racking experience of falling in love. ‘lt is some years since Mr. James or I have indulged in our much loved exercise of horseback riding, though

we both still think it Is the finest and most exhilarating of sports and though we must plead guilty to the guide’s description of loving a horse race, we are not alwaya able to be present at these exciting incidents of our familiar Kentucky life. Mrs. James came to Washington a bride shortly after Mr. James took his seat In congress. She Is very popular as an entertainer.

Mrs. Ollie Murray James.