Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-15
ROOSEVELT AT HOME.
H. w. Lucy's Impressions of the President.
GLIMPsBs OF LIFE AT WASHINGTON

Toby, M. F., the British JournaIist,
 Says the Chief Executive Is an Om- nivorous Reader and Tells How He Finds Time For His Miscellaneous Reading-RooseveIt Shows One of
 The following extracts are from the travel diary of Toby, M. F. Mr. H. w. Lucy, the famous British journal ist, 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, he is gifted with the cheery nature whose price is above rubies.
 The president is an omnivorous read CT. At one turn of conversation he is reminded of passage in Homer, the next he is expatiating on the history of Tittlebat Titmouse. Contemporane- ously with the announcement of the re bellion in Panama, dexterously exploit ed by the president and his secretary of state, Juhn Hay a person, ,lity as popu larsiu London as in Washington, there was published 1n the States new edi- tion 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 Ten Thousand a Year." so while the oppo- sition papers illuminated denunciationof his Panama policy he read of Tittlebat Titmouse. As for Dickens, he knows him so intimately that he would have been 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, find time for this miscellaneous reading? We'll, all over the world 1t is the exceptionally busy man who has spare moments for desirable ends President Roosevelt shares a secra: possessed by MT. Gladstone, whom in his animated and varied conversation with Its wide range and intimate ac- quaintance with any topic started, he strongly resembles.
 'sAll my life" Mir Gladstone once I 4n .lc9 ten minutes, certain that the hours and the days would take care of them selves"
 4 ministerial colleague who accom- panied the president on recent trip westward told me of habit that ex- plains everything.
 ''We travelled day after day. he said, ''the president addressing at successive stations crowds of country folks 1t was pretty hard days work for the toughest of rough riders. For myself, though I hadn't to make speeches, I was thankful after the turmoil to turn into my berth for snooze or q rest. As soon as the train moved off out came the presidents book, and he read away till, the train pulling up at an- other crowded station, fresh speech was demanded and delivered under the abiding sense of supreme ministerial responsibility"
 This practice the president observes wherever he is in residence. T read when I can" he says-"always bit before | go to bed. Sometimes, at pc riods of great. pressure, I awake about in the morning If I lay there think Eng of things, should be worried to death, unfit for my work in the coming day. So I switch on the light, take up my book, read chapter or two, fall asleep and wake up bright and early"
 Tn his philosophical, cheery way the president makes the best'of what say, to the Duke of Deyonshire-wo be an intolerable nuisance
 When I was young man." he said, n lived mostly out of doors and en- ypyed abundant exercise. Now I can't get much But you go and stand in my place on an autumn afternoon and have your hand shaken by from 300 to l, 1,000 sturdy citizens and if when it's over you don't feel as if you had been felling tree or two you are made of harder grit than l."
 President Roosevelt has inherited at the White House many valuable en- cravings and paintings, the latter in cluding portraits of some famous pred ceessors fn the chair.
 .sco-le along. Toby" he said after