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wife. one Of the few who managed to |
get to their husbands fighting in France, |
reached him there. She was engaged In !
war work. During the same month. July, |
Quentin was killed.
Kermit Goes with British.
When the Americans started prepar- !
ing for the way Kermit and his wife
had Just returned from Argentina where |
he had gone to help establish branch !
of the National City Bank He immedi-
ately enlisted in the officers Training
Camp al Plattsburg. While there he was
offered n commission with the British
forces He accepted and later was cited
In British dispatches. He had himself
transferred TO the American forces TO
flight under his own flag"
Archie abandoned his business in
carpet factory in Connecticut, where
Theodore Jr. had started his career
years previous and also went to Platts
burg Archie won a Second Lieutenancy
Both Archie and Theodore. Jr.. We
among the first to go to France. Theo-
dore. Jr, was prospcring in the oil well
t business when he abandoned 1t for his
country.
Mention has been made o. Col. Roose.
velt's first wife Alice Hathaway Leo or
Boston. and OF the one child OF that
union. Alice Roosevelt Longworth and
OF inc FPHln III lNNt bl. inc lllSb -i'E
Roosevelt. In 1885 he married Edit
Kermit Carow OF New York city. and ~
that marriage four sons and daughter
were born, Theodore Jr., Kermit. Archi-
bald. Quentin ard Ethel. Only the close
friends OF the Roosevclts comprehended
his love OF family his alteration of do
mestic simplicity and. indeed. what an
immense part Mrs Roosevelt played in
his career She was very often the re-
stra,nirr Influence upon his character
istic impulsiveness.
Ideal Domestic Life.
No mnrr,ed couple ever lived more
happy. tranquil life. Mrs Roosevelt has
been noted for her graceful mastery OF
every social situation and few Pres'den-
tial ladies that ever adorned the White
House had more success than she In cul-
tivating and preserving all OF the trad!-
tons OF dignihed hospitality that be-
longed to the mansion of Presidents.
One turns naturally at this point TO
something more OF the personal side Of
the late ex-Presdcnt, his aptitude for
science, his fusncy In languages his ex-
traordinary memory for faces and the
names Of men, his love OF sport. his
fondness for exercise, his quickness at
repartee, his power for delivering a thun-
dering rebuke. his love OF justice and
democracy-there are so many such at
tributes that all of the pages of THE
Bun could not chronicle them or begin
to chronicle them.
John Burroughs the naturalist In
1907 declared that he did not know It
man with keener and more com ere
henslve interest IT. wild life. an interest
both scientific and human. Speaking OF
the Presidents TRIP to the Yellowstone
Park in April, 1898. Burroughs said he
was struck with the extent OF his nat
ural history knowledge and his trained
powers Of observation. On that occa'
sion the naturalist was able IN help the
President identify only one bird. All the
others the President recognized as
quickly az Burroughs himself
II was while the Presidents party was
bear hunting in the Yellowstone that he
remarked
81 heard Bullocks oriole a little
while ago"
You may have heard one" was the
polite objection Of a man familiar with
the country, but doubt Il. Those birds
won't come for two weeks yet"
~ caught TO bird notes wAich could
not be those OF any bird except al
oriole," the President insisted
You may have TIE song twisted" OBJ
served a. friend.
There Was the Oriole.
As the members OF the party wer,
eeated at supper in the cabin that ~ e
ming Roosevelt suddenly lay down lii
knife and fork. exclaiming, Look
Look!'
On a shrub before the window was
Bullocks or!ole. Nothing that happeneI
on the whole trip seemed to please tn
President so much as that veriticatlon o
his bird knowledge.
Burroughs, following a visit to III
President at Sycamore Hin in 1907
wrote that the one passion Of Roose
Nelt's life seemed to be natural history
for a new warbler that had appeared Il
the woods "secmed an event that threw
the affairs OF state and the Presidential
succession into the background" II
told political visitor at that time tina
Il would no impossible for him to dis
cuss politics then as he wanted to tai
and hunt birds and for the purpose h
took his visitors with him,
Fancy" suggets Burroughs, "a Pres
ident OF the United States stalking RAP
idly across bushy fields to the wood
eager is boy and filed with the on
idea Of showing 10 his visitors the blac
throated green warbler"
On this walk the party passed lare
and wide spreading oak The natHrA
list pointed to IL and observed that il wa
remarkable example Of the noble tre
"Ycs. and you see by the branchin
Of that ok" said the President, this
when 1t grew IN this wood was an ope
field, and maybe under the plough It
only in fields that oaks take that form
THAT is true" agreed the naturalis
''but for the minute when | first oil
served the treo my mind didn't take
that fact
Placed Eye Two Inches Too Low
do you see anything wrong wit
the head OF that pronghOrn?" askt
Roosevelt az he handed Burroughs
COPY of his Ranch Life and the Hun
Ing Trail"
1t was a picture of hunter bringlr
in an animal on the saddle behind hi
Burroughs saw nothing wrong with Il
picture. The President took the natura
ist into one Of his rooms where q
mounted head OF a pronghorn hung ov
the mantel and pointed out that the e
was CLOSE under the root OF the horn
whereas the artist, Remington, hi
Jl1ced the eye in the picture two Inch
TOO low,
Roosevelt's interest In birds and ma
ural history OF course dated from !
toyhOod Early in his teens he pll
lished a list OF the birds In Frank
county, New York He kept n bi
journal at the age OF II. whom he "
In Egypt and on that tour with
father up the Nile 10 Luxor his succs
as a naturalist was foreshadowed
lie made a collection OF Egyptian Dir
found I'm a the Nile Valley which is n,
r. the Smithsonian Museum In Was
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