The following charming sketch of America's new President and his home and family is by one who has known both of them well. The regrets felt at the death of Mr. Harding are tempered by "the thought that one so° well qualified to succeed him is instantly ready for the task. That and the ease of success sion may perhaps not be lost on emulators of republicanism in other lands.
A brief despatch in Saturday's paper announced that Vice-President Coolidge had taken the oath of office as president at Plymouth, Vt. M@onday's issue brings the additional information that the oath was taken in the presence of his father, wha is a justice of peace. Probably Plymouth, Vt., conveyed little or no meaning to most of the readers of the '"North-China Daily News.". It was: the writer's privilege to spend thesummers of 1903.and 1904 in Plymouth and. much of-that time in-the home of
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.