Identifier: manrooseveltport00leup (find matches)
Title: The man Roosevelt, a portrait sketch
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Leupp, Francis Ellington, 1849-1918
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Presidents -- United States Campaign biography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the heart. The persistency of his refusal to let anythinginterrupt his daily exercise in the open, ismatched only by the unfailing regularity of thePresidents frolic with his children. Of thesix, two have now passed beyond the age ofrough-and-tumble play, but with the youngerones he can still be a child again for a littlewhile each day. One of his favorite sports inthe old times used to be the game of bear. Itwas played on the floor if in the house, or onthe grass outdoors, and on all fours to preservethe dramatic realism. First he was a big bearwith a terrifying growl, and the others were theyoung hunters; then, when they had killed orcaptured the object of their chase, they becamebears in turn and he the hunter. A convenienttable or a bush with space to crawl under madea model den for Bruin, and almost anythinganswered for firearms for his pursuers. The most uncomfortable feature of the newarrangement of the White House, with the ex-ecutive offices so far removed from the family 3H
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WITH THE CHILDREN quarters, is that the little people can not peepin from the next room and say good night whenthe father is burning the midnight oil over his *work for the state. It has its advantages fromanother point of view, however; as there hasbeen no necessity, since the change, for inter-rupting a Cabinet meeting in order that thePresident might step into the corridor andshoo away two sturdy-lunged boys who wereromping there. The family all have pets and are devotedto them. Archie, next to the youngest lad, hasfor his chief joy a pony, so ridiculously smallthat one looks to see the stalwart attendant whoaccompanies him pick it up and lift it over wetspots and hard places in the road. All thechildren are brought up to ride, from the timethey are large enough to bestride a saddle.This is a part of the program of self-relianceand fearlessness mapped out for them. No vetois put upon their climbing propensities, andthey make free with the trees and even with thearchitecture of the

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