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Washington, Dec. lb.--tSpscisi TA well known man who has known Tres 1 idenf Roosevelt intimately for dozen years or more. and who IS on suen I friendly terms with him that he ofttn spends informally an hour CT two az the White House, says that in spite CT 1 the general opinion the4Chief Execu- tive is easily influenced bA certain per sons enjoying his friendship and conn dence.
 For instance" said this friend ofthe
 President, T know that Mir. Roosevelt has often made up his mind to do this or that thing. or not 70 follow a cer- tain line when all of a sudden ne would switch about and make an ap- pointment, | removal IT WIT, n'ef- sage when least expected. Inap,ry on the part of those in rosiHon H' nnu out the true situation would find out that somebody having the ear of tte President had influenced him. Is may say tht in spite of Colonel RooseNelts $ reputation for doing his own thinking without the aid e anyb9dy else. tnas William Loeb, Jr.. Secretary to the mead of the nation, gets hi. work In mighty
 If Mir Loeb is against you, you had better watch out. and if he Is TOT ydsl and says a good word you are in fajr way to get what you want at tne executive offices. The President prop ably IS not as cHumtiy "lib 1lsoSp NS President Cleveland was with Dan La mont during his first term, but Just the same Loeb has the confidence or his surerior and Colonel Roosevelt has great faith in his Judgment.
 Tcft the ChoS@n One.
 According to the gentleman quoted above, Secretary Taft has the conn dence of the President tc greater ex- tent than any of the present members of the Cabinet, and next to him Is sec retary Root For department or rcu- tine detail the President is said to rely mainly on the advice of Postmaster General Coftelyoy. 1t was only about was 6 clerk in the Postofflce Depart ment ster by step he was promoted, and as is we'll known. on being detailed to act as a clerk at the White House he attracted the attention of President Cleveland, was promoted and continued with President Mckinley until he nnal- ly became a member of the Cabinet. When he becomes Secretary of the Treasury Mir. Cortelyou will have held three Cabinet positions under one Pres idents
 Those given to lively gossip assert that there is no danger of Mir. Cortel- l you becming Attorney General, for 1 while he studied law 1t is not believed that he has enough legal knowledge | to render 1t safe to some day ask him to preside over the Department of Jus tice. Most people think, however. that at the end of President Rooseyelt's term MT. Cortelyou, if living, will be in an Eastern city Those institutions have fondness for securing the ser vices of / men prominently identified with the Treasury Department, and any sharp, wide-awake man who gets In the public eye as a result of holding a Treasury place does not have to wor- ry over the question of obtaining bread and meat for himself and family"
 Children of President.
 The friend of the President mention ed above talks interestingly. also of the children of the Chief Magistrate. By long odds" said he, Archie and Quen- tin, the youngest of the three young Roosevelts, are the best looking. In- deed, I think I am right In stating that they have more claims to being good looking than the rest of the mem- bers of the family. from the father | down. They are also children of rath- | CT gentle manners. Theodore, Jr., and Kermit are impulsive and hotheaded just like their father. and that doubt 1 less accounts for the trouble in which Theodore, IT,, found himself recently at Cambridge, Mass. Miss Ethel Roose- welt who is still school girl attending the ra shedral School (EpiseopaD on the suDt 8 OI WuohluHtOHf aS IVY JSe"S | yet i.l me 10 formulate an opinion as to how she will look and act on grow ing to womanhood.
 ''She will hardly be old enough to make her debut at the White House before the term of her father expires, unless her 'coming-out' party is ar- ranged prematurely. I hear that her mother Is extremely anxious that she should make her debut before the Roosevelt's retire to private life, for it would be the one great event of Miss EtheTs life-greater perhaps, she would consider 1t. than her marriage If she follows the example of her half sister and early links her fortunes with that of an acceptable lover. l am curi-
 ous to live long enough to see if Mrs.
 Roosevelt realizes her ambition to have
 her daughters debut party in the White House
 "The chiid is small for her age and will have to do some rapid growing in face and figure to be considered a, woman graduate at her school and eli sible to enter the class of 'grown-ups' by the time her father is ready to va cate the Presidential office for his suc- cessor. Mrs. Longworth takes more after the family of her mothers side of the house than after the ROosevelts.
 True, she has considerable of the snap py nature of her father. but her gem eral traits are not inherited from him. " A story is being told here remarka- hly Illustrative of the impulsiveness of President Roosevelt The episode rela- ted occurred many years ago when he was comparatively an obscure man in that he was then only a member of
 the Civil Service Commission, and that