The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-12-15
ROOSEVELT AT HOME.
H. w. Lucys Impressions of
the President.
aLIMPsEs OF LIFE AT WASHINGTON

Toby, NJ. r., the British Journalist,
Says the Chief Executive Is an Om-
nivorous Reader and Tells How He
FINDS Time For His miscellaneous
Reading-RooseveIt shows One of
HIS Most Precious Art Treasures.
The following extracts are from the
travel diary of Toby. NJ r. (Mr III.
w. Lucy, the famous British journal
list, who was lately in the United
states), as printed in the London
Punch:
President Roosevelt is the kind Of
man who would make himself at home
anywhere, whether In the backwoods
Of the west, In the stately home the
United States provides for It's presi-
dents or anywhere in the wide range
that lies between these extremes.
Healthy in mind and body, be is gifted
with the CHEEKY nature whose price is
above rubies
The president il an omniyorous read
err. AT one turn OF conversation he is
reminded Of passage In Homer the
next he is expatiating on the history
Of Tittlebat Titmouse Contemporaries
ously with the announcement of the re-
bellion In Panama, dexterously exploit
ed by the president and his secretary of
state, John Hay. personality as popu-
lar in London as In Washington, there
was published in the States new edi-
ton OF the works Of Samuel Warren
The time seemed TO the president oppor-
tune for renewing his acquaintance
with the works of the author of 'sTen
Thousand Year" so while the oppo-
sltion papers Illuminated denunciationof
his Panama policy he read OF Tittlebat
Titmouse. As for Dickens, he knows
him so Intimately that he would have
been a dangerous competitor In the con
test initiated by Calverley In his fa-
nous examination paper on Pick
wick
How does the president. a man upon
whose personal labor the sun never
SETS hnd time for this miscellaneous
reading? Well all over the world 1t Is
the exceptionally busy man who has
spare moments for desirable ends.
President Roosevelt shares a secret
possessed by Mr.. Gladstone. whom in
his animated and varied conversation.
with its wide range and intimate ac-
quaintance with any topic started. he
strongly resembles.
AL my life" Mr. Gladstone once
said TO me. II have taken care of my
ten minutes, certain that the hours and
the days would take care Of them
selves"
ministerial colleague who accom-
panied the president on a recent trip
westward told me OF habit that ex-
plains everything
We Travelled day after day lie said. !
the president addressing at successive |
stations crowds Of country folks 1t
was a pretty hard days work for the
toughest Of rough riders For myself.
though / hadn't to make speeches
was thankful after the turmoil To turn
into my berth for 4 snooze or rest.
AS soon as the train moved off out
came the presidents book, and be read |
away ill. the train pulling up at an
other crowded station, a fresh speech
was demanded and delivered under the
abiding sense Of supreme ministerial
responsibility"
This practice the president observes
wherever be is in residence. Il read
when ] can" he says-"always d bit |
before | 80 to bed. Sometimes at be-
RODS Of great pressure, awake about
in the morning. If lay there think
ing Of things, | should be worried to
deaal. unfit for my work ia the coming
day So ] switch on the light, take IN
my book, read chapter or two. fall
asleep and wake up bright and earty.n
liz his philosophical, CHEEKY way the
president makes the best Of what-say
to the Duke Of Devonshire would be
an intolerable nuisance
When was a young man. he said.
Il lived mostly out OF doors and en-
ioyed abundant exercise. Now l can't
get much, But you go and stand in
my place on an autumn afternoon and
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