Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-12-06
Theodore
Letters to
Edited by
lNSTALLMENT SEVEN
Loves and Sports of the Children
Edited by
(To Miss Emily T. Carow)

(To Miss Emily T. Carow)
Oyster Bay, Aug. 6, 1908.
Today is Edith's birthday, and the
children have been too cunning in
celebrating it. Ethel had hemstitched
a little handkerchief herself, and she
had taken her gift and the gifts of all
the other children into her room and
neatly wrapped them up in white
paper and tied with ribbons. They
were for the most part taken down
stairs and put at her plate at break
fast time. Then at lunch in marched
Kermit and Ethel with cake, burning
AZ candies, and each candle with a
piece of paper tied to it purporting to
show the animal or inanimate object
from which the candle came. All the
dogs and horses-Renown, Bleistein,
Yagenka, Algonquin, Sailor Boy, Brier,
Hector, ETC., as well as Tom Quartz,
the cat, the extraordinarily named
hens-such as Baron Speckle and
Fierce, and finally even the boats and
that pomegranate which Edith gave
Kermit and which has always beer
known as Santiago, had each his or
her or its bag on a special candle.
Edith is very well this summer and
looks so young and pretty. She rides
with US a great deal and loves va
genka as much as ever. We also go
out rowing together, taking our lunch
and book or two with US. The chill
dren fairly worship her, as they ought
to, for a more devoted mother never
was known. The children themselves
are as cunning and good as possible
Ted is nearly as tall as / am and as
tough and wiry as you can imagine,
He is a really good rider and can bold
his own in walking, running, swim
ming, shooting, wrestling and boxing.
Kermit is as cunning as ever and has
developed greatly. He and his insep-
arabic Philip started out for nights
camping in their best the other day
A driving storm came up and they had
to put back, really showing both
pluck, skill and judgment. They
reached home after having been out
IL hours at in the evening. Archie
continues devoted to Algolq Tin and to
Nicholas. Teds playmates are George
and Jack. Aleck Russell, who is in
Princeton, and Ensign Hammer Of the
Sylph. They wrestle. shoot, SWIM,
play tennis. and go off on long oxpedi-
tons in the boats. Quenty -quee has
cast off the trammels of the nursery
and become a most active and fearless
though very good-tempered little boy.
Really the children do have an ideal
place Tor them. the three sets OF
cousins are always together | am
rather disconnected by the fact that
they persist in regarding me as
playmate. This afternoon, for in
stance, was rainy and all of them from
George, Ted, Lorraine and Ethel down
to Archibald, Nicholas and Quentin,
with the addition of Aleck Russell and
Ensign Hammer, came to get me to
play with them in the old barn. They
plead so hard that l finally gave in,
but upon my word, l hardly knew
whether it was quite right for the
president to be engaged in such wild
romping as the next two hours say.
The barn is filled with hay, and of
course meets every requirement for
the most active species of hide-and-
seek and the like. Quentin enjoyed
the game as much as any one, and
would jump down from one hay level