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 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. — The 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. "Oh, our manhood's prime vigor. No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing, nor sinew embraced. Of a plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of a bear -A quotation from Robert Browning, in one of the 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 exercise. Mr. Roosevelt stands for the new conditions which have arisen in this country since he was born, and under which a large part of the population live in big cities, where they are employed in occupations that afford little or no opportunity for physical development. From those conditions athletic sports have sprung as a necessity of life. They were unknown fifty years ago, and they have had most of their growth in the past twenty-five years. When Mr. Roosevelt went to college he found the intercollegiate games in their infancy. To him sport is more than sport; it is a duty. 'Always in our modern life, the life of a highly complex industrialism," he has said, "there is a tendency to softening of the fibre," and therefore "it is especially necessary to provide hard and rough play. Of course if such play is made a serious business, the result is very bad." Enthusiastic as he is in his love of all forms of athletics, he draws the line very sharply. "Here is Moody," he said to some Harvard men once, and referring to his Attorney-General, who is now an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: "Moody was a great athlete |