CUPID'S COURSE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 321, 21 January 1908, Page 3

CUPID'S COURSE.

HOW A FATHER AM) SON' MEET IX 'VARSITY LIFE. New iork, November 11. Mr. Ellsworth Van Natta. lias just entered himself as a freshman at the Missouri Stale University, where bis son Earl, a slaluart young man of twenly. [is a "sophomore "—that is, a second year man: and the other students are becoming interested ill the relations between [he two. Already Hie younger Van Natta as sophomore lias aided in compelling his "governor ' lo discard his hat and don one of the little freshman caps. lint the lather got even with his

yonng hopeful in the class rush. The older man lined up with the " freshics " aril the son with the ' sophs," and when smoke cleared awav there was the older man waving three-fourths of his son's shirt.

The father is athletic. lie goes in for gymnasium work three times a week. I He is afraid to taekle football, but is a " rooter," or shouter, of the first water. The elder Van Natta is forty years old, and prematurely grey. He was a student in the State University twentythree years ago. Then he returned to his home in Audrian County, and etipid stepped in and ended school days for nearly two decades.

A few years ago liis wife died, and last summer, while visiting his son at the university, he met a "sweet girl graduate," and married her. She was si ill at her studies, and he decided to finish the course interrupted twentythree years ago.

MR ROOSEVELT TESTS A FRIEND. President Roosevelt has tested in his own peculiar fashion Mr. Bcek-inan Winthrop. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. who has just been admitted to the circle ol While House intimates, savs the " New York Herald."

Mr. Roosevelt asked Mr. Winthrop to take a walk with liiin. and in pouring rain led him a wild ramble across cotnw try try for ten miles. M r . Winthrop, divnchcd and gasping, kept up with his chief until the hank of the Rock Creekwas reached.

Mr. Roosevelt went boldly in and Struggled across with the water above his waist. Mr. Winthrop hesitated, and then with a last despairing effort, floundered ill and gained the other bank, when l tile President laughinglv congratulated him and sent him home.