IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS Chauncey M. Depew: " Charles W. Adams of Boston, 90, challenged me to a 15-mile walk. Said I (who am 89): ' The reason I am healthy is because I refuse to do stunts like that.'"

Mrs. Robert Treman (Irene Castle) : " Before sailing for Europe I told reporters: 'The dancing in New York and the Central West is unspeakable. Three inches is the proper distance.'"

William Randolph Hearst: " At a convention of motion picture men in New York, I said in a speech: 'I have heard a good deal in the publishing business about the necessity of writing down to the public taste and I have never found that necessity to exist.'" Lord Asquith: " I wrote an article for a charity of Paisley, my constituency, in which I declared: ' Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.'"

David Lloyd George: "An officer of the World Alliance for Inter- national Friendship Through the Churches announced that I would go to America to speak before that organization in Philadelphia next November, provided ' internal affairs ' do not keep me at home."

J. Pierpont Morgan: "I went to Cambridge, Mass., to see my young- est son row as No. 4 in the Harvard boat against Cornell--but Cornell won by a third of a length of open water." General Degoutte, commanding the French Army on the Rhine: "One Herr Schoene Landiat of Essen wrote me an insulting letter. He has now to pay 10,000,000 marks fine and serve five years in prison."

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt: "Because at the International Suffrage Conference in Rome I succeeded in getting a resolution for an official visit to the grave of the Italian Unknown Soldier changed to a one- minute standing tribute to the dead of all nations, a Boston newspaper spoke of my ' perverse and mischief-making mind,' my 'busybody brain.'"

Secretary of War Weeks: "Speaking in California, I told how we had refused to sell a foreign country 500,000 rifles and 50,000,000 rounds of ammunition--remaining from the war. I declared: 'We knew this foreign country did not intend to buy the rifles and ammunition to shoot birds. Rather than sell the rifles and ammunition for the purpose they evidently were intended for, I would rather dump them into the seat.'"