The courier-index., 1919-11-28

nc brains were God-given,
RCosevbe odily strength and agility
but DIS sso,fmade. He was a small,
we're sen sew and made himself tough
weak oG ~, unceasing labor, which
snd NJ n ny his life. He always main
bstea1 4 hat he never exceeded medi-
tsined y; srl' any of the physical tasks
eentys : = essayed, but it was only by
that nc e zee that he succeeded in
psrseVe.'a all Daniel Sullivan, who
them all;h a. an article with the above
s0nl 1inS saws that when Roosevelt
hesdlng,o " wears old his father took
vas n', 4bo second floor of the family
BIN " Fast Twentieth street, New
bone VI where a room had been made
YORK. aI /. gymnasium, and said to him,
into a ,e 81 YOU have brains, but
'lns sO are of comparatively little use
bt s.nnt = the body; you have got to
Tll lS Uonr body, and it lies with you
~ man. make it; it's dull, hard r,, work put
. o. D san make it." Mr.. Sullivan goes
On. mr.. 10 did not find it dull work, as
sother forecast, it came hard to
d. a ,a Roosevelt, at any rate in the
young cunning He was rather small,
% ssant suffering little child says
l y s;ster in recalling her earliest i'm
y ,. Sons of him. He had acute,
P lssn agonizing asthma and as a
r ulie" how. showed none of the vigor-
a " Qualities which were distinctive
W. 'Ih;m all through the years of his
'a,ar life Despite this handicap and
, dssnite his fathers unalluring char
s s~apr;zation of the task before him,
S S.nno Roosevelt took the words to
Issr From that day. says his sis
!, 4bis little boy of nine started to
make his body, and he never ceased
: s' making that body until the day of
t;s death. But in those early days
voc difficult task. / can see him
nav faithfully going through various
exercises. at different times of the
dsv to broaden out the chest mar
mved BY this terrible shortness of
breath. to make the limbs and back
,tronp and able to bear the weight of
what was coming to him later in life
aHow well Roosevelt carried out
he dull, hard task, is, of course, a
matter of common knowledge. Be-
ause of his delicate health he was
not able, he tells us, to attend school
like other boys, but received his
early instruction from tutors. Until
he was about Is he was not strong.
The asthma troubled him necessarily,
deprived him of sleep and made vio-
lent exercise difficult and sometimes
impossible. But he kept at it with
mAnching diligence, with the result
that he was a strong and normal
young man when he entered Harvard
h his nineteenth year, and despite
his nearsightedness was able to hold
bis own in boxing with any of the
other students of his own weight.
Roosevelt, who developed into
probably one of the best known ex-
smples of the strenuous life'-his
own expression and one inextricably
identified with him in the public mind
started as a sickly boy. In his
photography he says he had no nat
ul prowess, and was not at firsc
able to hold his own when thrown
INTO contact with other boys of
nugher antecedents. He frankly
ays he was nervous and timid. Ev-
cry bit of the making of the fine
Ihysque which enabled him to per-
form prodigious amount of work
vas the result of careful and assid-
'eus training. He set an example
winch could and should be followed
" everyone, to his own sure happi-
ness and comfort. 1t is hardly con-