The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-25
HAS FOUND SECRET
OF RECALLING YOUTH
Roosevelt Looks Forty-One Since
His Return From the
African Wilds.

W hen Theodore Roosevelt landed in
Naples his biggest trophy was seq
ment OF Old Father Time 5 scvthe. The
man who sailed from Hoboken on the
Hamburg, March %, 1909, was older
by ten years than the man who dis
embarked from the Prinz Heinrich on
April :, 1910. A year from the high
pressure Of American public life-ten
months III the African jungle-has
restored his health and constitution to
what they were before he undertook
the heart-breaking responsibilities of
the presidency, and has put the apostle
OF the strenuous life in the vanguard
OF those who actually lead that sort of
life. He went away past middle life.
lie returns about forty-one years old.
And Professor Starr prophesied he
would die of Sleeping-Sickness
The big" story from Egypt, from
Naples, from Rome, from anywhere
over the sea, is simply bulletin tell,
ing of the rejuvenescence of Roosevelt.
Obviously, the one thing which count.
less people desire to know is what man
ner Of man they will meet with when
Colonel Roosevelt arrives in New York
about the middle of June
They will find him appallingly
healthy and etfusively strenuous-even
more strenuous than ever. They will
realize that they have an ex-President
on their hands unlike any other ere.
But they need not puzzle their heads
over the mooted question: "What are
we to do with former Presidents?'
As a private citizen, Colonel Roosevelt
will find his own work to do and do
it as BELTS the man.
Oddly enough, the first thing that
struck me in Colonel Roosevelt S ap.
pearance as he walked down the gang
way, was his clothes. He wore a gray
tweed suit-and it was well pressed!
The wrinkle to the coat, the bag to the
trousers. so usual with him, were con-
spicuously absent. Whether this be a
characteristic of second youth or not,
can I say. The first near view of
his sunburnt face told the story of his
regeneration. How Mike Donovan
would have enjoyed this first sight Of
him, | remember talking with Dono.
van, an ex-pugilist. but a thoroughly
good citizen, who acted, at one time,
as Roosevelt 5 physical trainer. After
commenting on the then President 5 re-
markable physique, Donovan added,
with something of sigh:
''But he s got on about twenty
pounds too much Dieting would take
him down, but he just can't diet. You
see, he has to go to dinners and ban
duets and he will keep nibbling.
Before Roosevelt left the White
House the "twenty pounds " was near
err forty. Despite his violent exercise
including the hundred-mile ride-was
beginning to show heaviness about his
laws and embonpoint. All that is gone
now. He seems not to have a pound
of superhuous weight His eyes are
markedly bright-and nothing gets by
them. His skin is clear and his cheeks
hard. Wrinkles are scarcely to be
found-lndeed, many a woman on the
right side Of forty would be de
lighted if her face were as free from
crow 5 feet What little gray there IS
IN his mustache and hair is not visible
a few feet away. 1t viii be easy
enough for a country editor to run a
photograph Of Roosevelt taken when he
was civil service commissioner and get
away with it.