Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-16
T..R., No Longer
Rich, Works
For His Liu,ing
Former President Again Has
Health Back and Is Fat
South American Trip Was
Hard on Him
By gibson GARDINER.

OYSTER BAY, n. Y, May 13.-The
only thing that ever got Roosevelt
was that South American trip. Keep
ing alive for weeks on small quantities
of monkey meat and being shaken almost
to death with tropical swamp fever
made a difference to even his powerful
physique. There were days when 1t
was doubtful whether he would survive,
and it has been a long fight to get
back the vigor he had before he embark
ed on that unfortunate expedition. For
months the fever hung on. and even last
fall when 1 saw him at Oyster Bay 1
found he was still subject to mild at
taclxs.
Now he seems quite his old SELF in
some things. The last meal 1 saw him
eat reminded me of a breakfast on the
Kronprincessin Louise from London to
New York in June, 1e1e. 1t was a case
of Yes, Karl, / guess 1 could eat an
other portion of that excellent steak"
1t was a pleasant contract. Thick steaks,
hard rides, long walks and strenuous
Opinions strenuously expressed are the
very makeup of the man.
IN GOOD HEALTH AGAIN.
Physically, Roosevelt is pretty hard
now He is not as hard as he was
seven years ago after the journey afoot
from the terminal of the East African
railway to Gondockero (Which is 1900
miles south of Khartum). That was
"a wonderful physical eXperience-eight
months in the open, camping, marching,
and hunting-and its results told when
It. R. stood up before that Milwaukee
audience with Schrank's bullet in bis
i. ~ h-YY oh,
he had intended to deliver.
That bullet, by the way, is today the
least of Roosevelts troubles. The thick
hard chest muscles stayed what force
it mad after it had gone through his
coat, the spectacle case and the manu-
script of his speech, and it embedded
itself about two inches deep in front
of a rib. To a man in Roosevelts phys
ical trim wound like that is mere
scratch"
The colonel is a little heavier than
he would like to be. His fighting weight
would be about 100. Nowadays he finds
himself creeping. up toward the 200
mark, despite the hardest kind of work.
And he does work.
TAKES DAILY EXERCISE.
Exercise is just as important a part
of Roosevelt's daily life as meals. When
a o'clock comes, no matter what the
weather or who the visitor, he is off.
1t may be horseback, but it is more like
Ily to be afoot. At Sycamore his attire
generally is the loose gray homespun
coat and knickerbockers, heavy wooden
stockings, thick-soled, hob-nailed, tan
walking shoes, unstarched white negligee
shirt with collar attached, a loose four
finland tie, and the old rough rider hat
And this is his attire rain or shine on
the long walks and rides. If there are
Il ees to be chopped he chops them,
but there Is limit to the timber on
Sycamore Hill; so he can't be Telling
trees all the time. One day / found him
back OF the barn pumping his Winchester
into a big, paper target, and lamenting
bitterly two shots that had landed in
the fourth circle from the center. Pre-
paredness seemed quite inadequate when
BULLETS could go so wide as that.
Inflexible system and rigid appllca-
tion of the do-it-now principle are re-
sponsible for the coloners immense ac-
accomplishments in work He never puts
loff till tomorrow what, by any posi-
bility, can be done today! He does
things standing up. This particular in
slant is the time for deciding anything
to be decided. He comes into his study.
HE is in his old clothes. visitor is
talking to him; he picks up a bundle of
new mail and goes into 1t. He answers
questions while looking over the let
ters. He stops to make a note of some
thing to be remembered. He gives a
direction. He is busy all the time.