President; there are so many things we can't do here." No doubt he had learned with disappointment that it was an idle dream which the old rhyme expressed:

"If I were President of these United States,

I'd eat molasses candy and swing on the White House gates."

Still no one feels much like pitying Quentin, when he is seen romping about the south portico in blue overalls, just like any other boy. He can play police, too, with the real police who guard the grounds. He and Archie delight in lining up with the bluecoated squad at roll-call and saluting the sergeant gravely. When one of the policemen was removed for some cause, Archie became his champion. "You meet me when I come out of school to-morrow," he said to the man, "and we'll go see Senator Lodge about this." He knew enough of practical politics to know that it was well to have an influential senator on his side.

The boys go to the public schools, even if they are the President's sons. When one of them was asked how he got along with the "common boys" in school, he is said to have replied: "My father says there are

only tall boys and short boys, and bad boys and good boys, and that's all the kinds of boys there are."

When they are old enough, they go to Harvard, their father's college, and when Theodore, Jr., joined the most sought-for club, the President left the White House and made a special trip to Cambridge, in order to see him admitted. He himself had belonged to the Porcellian, and he took as much pride in seeing his son enter its sacred precincts as when he gained the coveted privilege twenty-five years before.

AS A SPORTSMAN

- The

The Roosevelt doctrine as to sports. Physical exercise a duty as well as a pastime. - The "square deal" in athletics. — The President on football and prize fighting. His ideals as a hunter. How he killed his first deer, and his remorse. chase, and not the slaughter, is the true object. To live in the wilderness, to learn to endure and to gain self-reliance the greatest rewards. - Joys of hunting in the Yellowstone without a rifle. Chasing the cougar, the wolf, and the bear. - A battle with a grizzly.

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Oh, our manhood's prime vigor. No spirit feels waste,

Not a muscle is stopped in its playing, nor sinew embraced.
Oh, the wild joys of living—the leaping from rock up to rock,
The strong rending of boughs from the fir tree, the cool silver
shock

Of a plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of a bear

How good is man's life, the mere living . . .

- A quotation from Robert Browning, in one of the

Roosevelt hunting books.

ATHLETIC sports are among the many activities of his time which President Roosevelt represents. It cannot be said that they ever before had a representative in the White House. Most of his predecessors grew up in simple communities where the mere task of getting a living was a sufficient muscular