The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-25
Roy. ROOSEVELT FAMILY
Six HEALTaY YOUNG AMERICANS
IN WHOM THE. GOVERNOR
Winds Delight
MoDEsTY A FAMILY TRAIT
EIrs. Roosevelt Has Always Enter
mined the Strongest Objection
o Having Her Portrait in
the Papers.

The Republican national victory will
Nave one result of which the American
people are not fully aware, but upon
which, nevertheless, they are te be con-
graduated, says tire New York Tribune.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has always en-
tertained the strongest objections to hay
ing her portrait in the papers. AS the
wife CT the governor of New York she
has constantly refused to recognize any
obligation arising from her position To
overcome this horror Of publicity, but
when the question was put to her lately
whether, as the wife of the vice presi-
dent OF the United States she would net
consent tC be photographed for publica-
TiOn, Mrs. Roosevelt reluctantly admitted
that III that case she would be obliged
10 do the wives Of Other high fed
eTal officials do. Hence it may be ex-
peCted tbat before long a new portrait
viii Be added to the gallery Of AmeTi-
can women associated in the public Re-
gard with TIE chosen guides OF the ma
ti0n destip'es.
The family life of the present. governor
OF New York, indeed, has always been
Closed TO tl22 neWSpar erS. The governor
himself appears to be as radically OPP
posed IS his wife to anything in the
least like a parade Of his domestic Vir-
tues or tha juvenile charms of his cali
dren Tor the adm iration and entertain
ment Of th9 world that reads and looks
at pictures. Not many months ago *
put himself or record with an indignant
ana forc,ble protest against the nde1-
ency of a man with camera who in
trUde5 upon the privacy of the RooSe-
We hone at Oyster bay This reticenCe
may not be exactly what one would ex-
p6ct of a man whose life and standards
of conduct are generally accepted as
being Of the West, Weseern; but faeo-
dore Ro: seveIt is only Western in af-
fairs of bTCncoS. lariats and firearms; in
his home ne Is a Roosevelt, with the die
nified ana delicate domestic ethics Of old
Dutch New Yock.
81 couldn't tell you much about the
Roosevelt children, However much
might want to-" said an intimate friend
of the family. because I see very lit
tie of thenl although I visit frequently
at their home It's Ike this: Wnen
Roosevelt has his friends to sec him he
wants to talk 10 them, he always has
sometime ne wants to talk to you alb ut,
and tayts With it as. soon as he. catches
you and, while you re there he dOasa t
want to be bothered with his children.
WEen he wants a rOmp with his children,
he doesn' want to be interrupted by his
friends That is the whole case in 4
nutshell"
Evidently the governors children a:e
being brought up under a commercially
oId-fashioned regime not unlike that
which produced colonial New York such
men as Philip Schuyler, or, for that mat
ter, in accordance with the old Eng h
rule that little folks should be seen and
not heard" To at least one newspaper
interviewer Mrs. Roosevelt has plainly
EXPRESSED her disapprCbati0n of any
thing which would have a tendency 10
make the children think themselves OF
any Importance to the public. That toy
have profted by this sensible view OF
their position is evident to all who have
come in contact with them, whether at
Albany or at their country home on Long
Island They are reported on all
hands to be simply hearty, healthy
young Amcrlcans. entirely without self
consciousness or even p suspicion of any
right to fame on the score of being their
fathers children.
As the remark of the family friend
above quoted would seem to imply, there
are times when the governor wants to
TOmp with his young ones without in
terruption. It is a fact not always re-
nembered by the numerous admirers of
''Teddy, the Rough Rider that he him
self was a pigeOn-chested and asth-
matte youngster." According to his own
account he, could, not keep up with chill
dTen Of his own age either in their play
or in their school tasks. This may be
great consolation for the weaker among
his many juvenile admirers; it has prob
ably had much to do with his insistence
upon plenty Of open air exercise for his
boys When lie plays with them he be-
comes for the time one of them, just as
in the Cuban trenches he worked with a
pick among his men, Obvious for the
time Of his regtmental rank.
These children, of whom the Pablo
would like to hear so much, and Of
whom, for reasons which the public is
bound to respect, there is so little 10
tell, are Alice, who considers herself a
grown-up now; Theodore, who was thfr-
teen last september; Kermit just two
years younger; Ethel, nine years old !:
Archibald BulIoch, six and half. and
Quentin, Just three. There is a signifi-
canoe about their given names, which
were not chosen for them at a venture
or cuHed out OF the pages Of popular
novels. Theodore explains itseIf-the
third Roosevelt OF that nanla in direct
succession beginning with Theodore. the
New York merchant and importer Of
glassware, father Of the present gov
ernor
Kermit one might suppose to be some
ancient Holland name, taken from the
remote history of the RooseveIts: re-
mote It's origin may be, but the Manx
not Duth-Celtic, nor TeutOnic-eCm-
memorating its bearers descent from an
ancestor in the quaint island of taiIless
cats, ANA starting him in life With one
presumably unique possession. Of the
rest Arches first and second names
both connect him with the Scottish an
ceStfy, the Bu1loch family, which settled
in the Southern states and is still as well
known in Dixie as it was in the days OF
the Confederacy, When one of its mem
bers fired the last gun on board Sem
mes Alabama. And, lastly, the frey
French Huguenot strain is duly honored
IN Quentin, the baby. It has often been
remarked that Gov. Roosevelt lacks much
OF being typical phlegmatic Dutchman