Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-01
HOUSE WHERE ROOSEVELT WAS BORN

morials: in Washington and in Oyster Bay.
 There were 200 women at the first meeting; there are now more than
 1000 foundation members. T feel"
 said the secretary, that the women
 owe more to Roosevelt than to any
 other man of recent times. Just one thing ale1e ttt he did has made
 countless women contented in their
 homes"
 And that was rural mail delivery!
 The Panama Canal closes up in in signaficanae when compared with what the r,lral mail delivery means to men and wdmen, especially women. in the isolated regions. But to go back to the interior of l the birthplace of this great American. | If you have a relative who furnished her parlor some fifty-oc years tXo, and has never done anything to it but 1 to. give it semi annual cleanings since,
 you have some idea of how you are l biffed in inc o-'"s witcn you enter
 tn par1or of the Roosevelt house. Perhaps It ..-4gi.. u- c>li1ed the Mld- Victorian style. The name doesn't sound at all bad unless you have kin 1 whose parIor had made you previously
 acquainted with it. The carpets are 1 of floral design; great punches of blue roses and pink lilies with green of the greenest shade, all surrounded with broad sprawling frames of scar | let dividing one bunch from the one in the next strip.
 They are not pretty. Time is slow CT in it's work of subduing these car- ] pets than in anything else it works on. k You lift your cSes to the wall for relief, and a yellow morning Dry, as big as your grandmother's sugar bowl jars you. Perhaps, with all these colors screaming at you, you sit down on the soft, hoping to shut Il your. eyes and forget them.
 | You slide off to the floor, for the furni- i ture is of haircloth and it is the same set on which the child Theodore used to scratch his bare legs. Of course Il there is a chandelier. made of long
 prisms of glass; there is a long mir TOT in a rold fro me in which the morning glories on the wall are re- f1ected, and there l5 lne carved wood-
 piece hanging near showing hunters , !dog pursuing a stag, which used t , worry the child on his rare visits . to the parlor, so afraid was he tha the dog might catch the fugitive. The bookcases, to quote MT. Roose-
 yelt's own description, are of gloomy : responsibility" and your kin's parlol has some just as gloomy and as re- spectable of course. ..-.
 In the dining room there is a carpe II and 8 wall paper that is lurid, and t brighten up" this Hoom there a:t f hung many fruit and game pieces. the expected glass dish containi | June strawberries and October ap 2 ples in defiance of the difference il fi their seasons; fish lying on the ban = 1 ann hanUinp a IT. hn fine La j these hang pictures of the colonel V hunting trophies of a later day. The interior of the house is no r, beautiful, it is not even quaint, no e in any way attractive, if one goes t
 look for such things. But it is tru e to life. which is much better Tn a visitor to the Roosevelt house forget . all this in tn very precious priYileg = of standing, sitting or moving 'Nller . Theodore Roosevelt stood, sat c Q moved, of seeing the household articl # which he used from infancy to man - hood, and thus perpetuating in a spir
 itual sense the contact and comrade
 ship which he manifested toward a
 his countrymen.
 :. It is recalled that a woman, Mis Pamela Cunningham, of South Carc
 lima, started the movement among we : men which oulminated in the aequir; .t mt and restoration of Mount Vel Y non. In like manner the women U today are perpetuating the intima u life of another great American, wi 'i in his aims and in his achievement comes a, little nearer, perhaps, tha le any other man of modern time to en h. bodying the popular concept of q '- vigorous, resourceful, fearless and LII > compromising American.