Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-23

Mr.. Roosevelt has declared call
children should have as good a time
as they possibly can" and his own
youngsters have manifested marvel
Gus capacity for observing both the
spirit and the letter of the law.
There are half dozen of the Roose-
welt children: Alice, aged eighteen;
Theodore, Jr., fourteen; Kermit,
twelve; Ethel ten; Archibald six, and
Quentin, four years of age. Teddy is
rather reserved in manner and has
the emphatic ways and positive char
acter of his father. Not long ago he
said, "Of course am glad my father
Is president but 1 don't see why I
should be bothered about it," Teddy's
collections are marvellous. The OBJ
jects are Systematically arranged,
and each object is labeled. There are
BIRDS eggs and nests, beetles, butter
flies, bats, lizards and insects, together
with owls, and a number of other
specimens, for the young man has
developed some ability as taxiderm-
ist. He now spends most of each
year at Groton, Massachusetts, where
he is attending an old Episcopal edu-
cational institution, preparatory to
entering Harvard College. Teddy is
not brilliant pupil but he studies
r1 Tn, y.it h
branches he is most proficient.
Kermit is an enthusiastic wheelman
and very fond of all kinds of outdoor
sports. On the day on which the
Roosevelt family took up its residence
in the White House Kermit and his
sister Ethel well-nigh Mortified the
staid old attendants by the thorough
ness of their exploration of the his
toric mansion, even carrying their
Investigations to the point of running
the elevator from garrett to cellar at
high speed.
Archibald, the six-year- old, when
not dashing up and down the streets
of Washington on his sturdy little
pony, Algonquin, is prone to make
excursions about the White House
grounds on stills, stumping across
flower beds to the despair of the gar
dener and his assistants.
Ethel, the present Mrs. Roosevelt's
only daughter is a very winning little
maiden. She strongly resembles her
mother in features, but has blue eyes
and fair hair like her sister Alice.
Of the entire family of children at
the White House the greatest popular
interest attaches to Miss Alice, who
at the age of eighteen years has just
made her formal bow to society.
Miss Alice is the daughter of the
presidents first wife and is named for
her mother, who was Miss Alice Lee
of Boston and who died when the little
girl was only three years of age.
If any of the Roosevelt children be-
come "spoiled'' the harm will have
been done after their entrance into
the White House for all their earlier
training has been democratic in the
extreme. Each little Roosevelt has
been taught that one person is better
than another only when he is
the more honest, stronger and Drawer
The junior Roosevelts have attended
Sunday school regularly, and since
they have been in Washington there
has been scarcely Sunday that they
have not accompanied either father
or mother to church.
None of the junior members of the
Roosevelt family can be said to have
many intimates in the Interpretation
of the term as ordinarily applied te
the friendships of young people. The
Roosevelt clannishness has long beer
byword, due doubtless to the fac
that the young people of the family
formed so large circle that they
were less dependent than most chill
dren upon utsiders.-Erchdnge.
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by local applications, as they cannot reacl