Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-14
From The Battle-Ground of Thought.

Roosevelt When Theodore Roosevelt
Is Young landed in Naples his big
As Ever. gest trophy was seq
ment Of Old Father Time s
scythc The man who sailed from Ho-
bokeu on the Hamburg, March 90 1909,
was older by ten years than the man
who disembarked from the Prinz Helm
rich on April o. 1910 A year from the
high pressure of American public life
ten months in the African tungle-has
restored his health and constitution TO
what they were before he undertook
the heart breaking responsib ilities IL
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 Prof Starr prophesied he would
die Of sleeping sickness The big
story from Egypt, from Naples, frou
Rome from anywhere over the sea, ls
simply "a bulletin telling Of the rejuVen-
essence Of Roosevelt. Obviously, tho
one thing which countless Americans
desire TO know is what manner Of man
they will meet with when Col. ltoOse-
Welt arrives in New York about the mid
de of June They win find him APP
paulngly healthy and eftusively strenu-
ous--evcn more strenuous than ever
They viii realize that they have an eX-
president on their hands unlike any
other retired" occupant of the White
House But they need not puzzle their
heads over the mooted question; 'What
are we to do with our former pres,-
deuts2" As private citizen, Col.
Roosevelt viii md his own work TO DO
and do IL as BELTS the man. Oddly
enough. the first thing that struck me
an Col. Roosevelt's appearance, az
he walked down the gangWay' was
his clothes He wore gray tweed
suit-and Il was well pressed! IN"
wrinkle 10 the coat, the bag 10 the
trousers. so usual with him, were con
splruously absent whether this be a
charactcristic " second youth or not.
I can't SAY The first near view Of hiS
sunburnt face told the story ot his re-
generation. How Mike Donovan would
have enjoyed this first sight of him. /
remember talking with Donovan, an
OK pugilst. but thoroughly good clu-
zen. who acted, at one time, as Roos'
yclf,s phvsical trainer After COM
mentlng ON the then presidents re-
markable physique, Donovan added.
,ylfh something ~ sigh, But he's
got on about twenty pounds too much.
Dieting would take him down. but he
lust can't diet You see, he has 70
20 10 dinners and banquets and he viii
icon uibbling" Before Roosevelt left
no Nhitoe House the twenty pounds
was nearer forty Despite his violent
exerrise- including the hundred mile
ride-he was beginning 10 show heavi-
ness about his jaws and embonpoint
All that Is gone now lie seems not To
have pound OF superhuous weight
his eyes arc 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 delighted n her face we're
as free from crows feet. What little
gray there is IN his mustache and hair
rs not visible n few feet away. IL Will
be easy enough for country editor 20
run n photograph Of Roosevelt taken
when he was civil service commissioner
and get away with it-Henry Beach
Necdham IN Golfers for May T.