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Times-Recorder Writer Spends Week
Withißoekefeller On His Vacation
BY JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT
NEA Service Staff Writer
ORMOND BEACH, Fla., March 6.
For a week I have been living across
the street from the
world’s r i c host
man, walking v.a'h
him, brief strolls
they were; talking
with him, though
not officially in
terviewing him;
watching him as he
p.'ayed golf; going
to church and
musicales, in his
wake; getting a
picture intimately,
of his plavtime life.
So I found out
many things about
John D. Rockefel
ler, Sr. Here are
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two of them that stand out:
He isn’t exactly the guarded, cod
dled Croesus you may imagine.
He is being treated here in Or
mond as an ordinary neighbor.
There is no fence around his house
at the corner of River Road and
Beaeh Road; I can see it from my
window in the Ormond hotel. There
are no guards, either. And one
morning I met him at the half-light
hour of 6 strolling along the bank
of Halifax road, unattended.
It is the stranger in Ormond who
ogles him, following, pointing. The
people of Ormond accept him casu
ally as their winter neighbor, and he
seems to get a lot of fun out of such
association.
I fell into step with Rockefeller
on the toll bridge, after he had dug
into his pocket for the nickel which
Adolf d’Grom, toll-gate keeper, ex
acts from rich men and reporters
alike.
(And foolish people say age has
dimmed the eye, blunted the wits,
and dulled the human intuition of
this man.) A?
I admitted my identity and told
him many things I wanted to know.
“Well,” he smiled, walking along
with me (there were no guards
you jajust remember!,) ( '.‘l
don’t think- 1 ..have anything to iay
about-ihQ.se things, instead, Wifcft
yor
shinipg (tir|eX ari< | another.Jfpr my
mother, when I assufretl him I
wasn’t married.)
“We can be friends, can’t we?” |
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[turn hair dark
WITH SAGE TEA
If Mixed with Sulphur It Darkens
So Naturally Nobody
pan Tell
The old-tirfie mixture of Sage Tea
and Sulphur for darkening gray,
streaked and faded hair is grandmoth
er’s recipe, and folks are again using it
to keep their hair a good, even color,
which is quite sensible, as we are liv
ing in an age when a youthful appear
ance is of the greatest advantage.
Nowadays, though, we don’t have the
troublesome task of gathering the sage
and the mussy mixing at home. All
drug stores sell the ready-to-use prod
uct, improved by the addition of other
ingredients, called “Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur Compound.” It is very popu
lar because nobody can discover it has
been applied. Simply moisten your
comb or a soft brush with it and draw
this through your hair, taking one small
'strand at'a time; by morning the gray
hair disappears, but what delights the
ladies with Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur
Compound, is that, besides beautifully
darkening the hair after a few applica
tions, it also produces that soft lustre
and appearance of abundance which is
so attractive,
ROCKEFELLER AND HIS PALS AT ORMOND BEACH
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Here you have the world’s richest man, all togged out for his
daily round of golf in the Florida sunshine, and beside him General
Adelbert Ames, who refuses to defeat him too often, and “Bunk,”
his caddy, who is the daily recipient of a’new', dime.
he said, “without talking about all
those things.”
Those dimes! He gives them to
caddies, millionaires, reporters, so
ciety ladies, photographers, garden
ers, the mayor, chauffeurs, and
children. Formerly he dealt in
smaller coin. Youngsters here told
me he used to give them each a
nickel and a penny, saving: “Now
the five-cent piece is for the bank
and the penny is for the church.”
Is this an indirect expression from
John D. Rockefeller that one-sixth
is the proper portion of one’s wealth
he believes should go to religion
and charity?
John p. hasn’t got a leathery,
mummyyiike face. \ His eye is
clear, and his skin on close ,view
looks healthy. Yet he undeniably j
looks much older in his eighty-fourth ■
year than Chauncey Depew in his
eighty-ninth. Older, too, than Gen
eral Adelbert Ames, his golf-partner
here, who is 88.
Yet he doe: n’t take a nap in the
afternoon cu: Depew, and many i
younger men, do. Often he is up '
before 6, taking a solitary walk it 1
the weather is good.
Breakfast is at 7:30. Tj./jaii./
bacon and eggs, but sometime a
chop. Then a walk in the grounds i
and a discussion with Head Gardens
er George -Whitlinger about the
shrubbery and the prospects for the ;
spring flower-beds.
At 10 sharp he apepars on the Or- ■
mond golf course for eight holes, [
which he usually does in 50 strokes. '
He rides to the course and later |
meets the chauffeur at the eighth i
hole.
Luncheon is at 1. A long automo
bile ride, then, and talks with ;
guests. (Always there are guests.)
Player
f '/.'S likes good coffee. Morning Joy
Coffee meets the approval of
those who play as well as those
Mv who work. It is refreshing, in-
<'/' vigorating, and delightful in a-
. Jb/I , , roma - Hundreds of thousands
(KF families use it all the time.
A s k V° ur grocer.
tT New Orleans Coffee Co., Ltd.
’ New Orleans, La.
At 7 is dinner, to which a few con
genial friends are invited. Bed at
11.
John Yordi is the most impor
tant man around the Rockefeller
menage, next to John D. him
self. Yordi’s title is valet. But he
is more than that. He is the only
known person who can pummel the
world’s riches man and punch his
ribs with impunity.
For this Yordi is a Swiss masseur
and a few years ago Rockefeller
lured this treasure away from an
other millionaire. To , his deft
manipulations is attributed Rocke
feller’s good health of recent years.
Next to. massage treatments the
most important thing is clothes.
Yordi prescribes these:
| FOR GOLF: Gray woolen trou-
I rers, tan silk coat, paper vest, thick
shoes, gray woolen cap and white
cotton gloves.
I FOR RIDING: Black top coat over
; the golf costume, and a vivid blue
j muffler.
FOR SUNDAY: Silk hat, Prince
' Albert Coat, gray striped vest,
. cd troui.yrs, black tie with pearl
.lei’ lci’ cane.
,-VE.‘.;iN'J: Faultless eve
..i . with dinner jacket.
Rockefeller does not lean on his
cane when he walks. You. couldn’t
call him feeble. The only jangling
i note in his resplendent church-going
j costume is in the brown glasses
which hi always wears in strong
sunlight.
The little colored caddy who en-
I joys the distinction of carrying
Rockefeller’s golf clubs and teeing
for him answers to the name of
‘‘Bunk.” The chauffeur pays him
at the end of the game, hut he al
ways gets a shining dime as a bonus.
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Special Exhibition Os
MALLINSON’S «'
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| ‘ ‘The World’s Most Beautiful Silks”
to be given during Mallinson Silk Week
in conjunction with
NATIONAL EXPOSITION OF
EVERYTHING IN SILK .
March 5-10, 1923
The ery latest Silk Fashion ideas for outer or
under apparel will be shown.
Thia display will assist'you greatly in planning
your wardrobe for the coming season.
. DRESSES FABRICS , „
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and there is shrubbery along the
Beach road side. Across River road,
down the river, are gardens. The
house is small and so three other
houses have been bought to accommo
date the 20 chauffeurs, gardeners,
workmen and servants.
John D. bought his winter home
three years ago from a minister.
There is no display in it—no wealth
of tapestries, paintings, distinctive
furniture.
When he took over the house he
sent word to his son that he wanted
an organ. A lette r came asking
height of ceilings ,and statistics like
that.
Rockefeller promptly wrote back
that he didn’t want a church organ,
but a Simple little affair on which
one could grind out a tune occa
sionally. So such an organ was in
stalled. It cost no more than a
good piano.
The capable John Yordi has an
other function besides valet and
masseur. He can play the organ;
hymns are his specialty .
Home concerts are frequent. Sun
day morning, of course, Mr. Rocke
feller attends the little Community
church in Ormond and joins in the
service; but each Sunday evening he
walks across to the Ormond hotel
lobby and listens to the orchestra.
I His favorite selection is the Bar
i carolle from “Tales of Hoffman.”
At the close of those Sunday eve-
ning concerts everybody rises and
joins in singing the Communion Dox
ology. I watched Mr. Rockefeller,
and he was singing, too.
Hostess of the Rockefeller house
hold is Mrs. Jennie Evans, a relative
of the late Mrs. Rockefeller. A fa
vorite guest is Betty White, daughter
of John White of New York; she
has been here with her mother, play
ing golf with he r aged host and get
ting up musicales at home.
General Ames has played golf
with Rockefeller for 20 years.
Another favorite partner is E. M.
Johnson, steel manufacturer of New
York. Mrs. A. B. Wallace generally
walks home with Rockefeller from
church. And John Richmond,
pasto r of the Cmnmunity church, has
a standing invitation for a visit ev
ery Monday afternoon.
No guards, I said surround this old
man during his evening playtime of
life as he courts Florida’s sunny
wintertime.
But there is this protection: So
averse is Mr. Rockefeller to being
quoted, even indirectly, on public
questions that he does not discuss
such subjects even with friends, and
it is an unwritten rule that guests
content themselves with anecdotes
and small talk; best of all he likes
talk of books. And afteP dinner
they join with him in playing
“Numerica,” a mathematical game
of which he is very fond.
TUESDAY, MARCH 6. 1923
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