Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-21
ROOSEVELT. The BOY,
AS SISTER SAW HIM
Loving. Sunshiny Brother and
Little Solemn Dreamer, Mrs.
Douglas Robinson Recalls
Brother.

Little known incidents IN the lief ol
her brother. the late Theodore Roosc.
welt, we're told yesterday by Mrs Doug
las Robinson. who was Gurinne Roosc.
welt. in an intimate talk iu the West
Side Y. NJ. G. A. SIS West Fifty-seyentb
street
II want to tell nf the little personal
things and to speak Of my brother as
my loving, srinshiny brother and not Of
the statesman, she SAID 90 she dclved
into memories Of hours In the little
house IN West Twentieth street whoro
Rooseyeltis boyhood was spent. Ono
recollection that stood out through the
haze of time WIS III ~ little, solemn
boy, then about q years old. who would
grasely survey visitors to our home and
II he was fayorabfv impressed, would
audibly suggest thnt the favored ones
bc invited 20 sit III tho castle chair, =
n great carved chair which the Roosc-
welt children. influenced by Thcordore,
fancied. from its very size. must have
come from some queer old castle,
Mrs. Robinson described tho poor
and pale and seldom well, she ENID, ,
and told how be came 10 make his first
conquest. Theodore was q. and his
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grow robust. built porch room
open 20 the air and fitted with exercise
apparatus for him.
My boy, my father said TO Theo-
dore, you've the brains, but without
a strong body that brain can do any
thing. Here arc the tools now Will you
build YOURSELF
"My brother looked at the room, and
that determined look came into his eyes,
that look which evil polit icians came 70
know later, and he said: Il will make
my body
A SLOW PROCESS.
II was long, slow process, however,
said Mrs. Robinson, and there were
many DAYS when Theodore could not
leave his bed At snoh tirncs the other
children would gather around the led
and Theordoro would tell long stories
about junglcs and hold mighty and
imaginary fights with strange beaets,
"and there was always a small boy IN
the storiesi suspect it was Theodore
understood the language
of the animals and would translate their
opinions OF cakes and the like 70 VS..
Forests ard jurgles and beasts, these
were the things that Interested the SICK
DVy UhNts hhiu 'ffss JsFbHbDns hip On
days when he WAS able To be about the
house he carried under one arm STAN
ley's book on Africa and under the
other Woods Natural History. One
day in the book on nature Theodore dis
covered an explanatory note which, ~ it
dealt with subject that preceded it,
was headed 'eThe Foregoing Ants"
That was enough for Theodore, for the
young man who later was TO find the
River Of Doubt Never IN all his valiant
in Woods had he ever come
across the Foregoing" species of ants.
1t was a discovery He must share
il with the household So he carefully
wrote an essay" on this particular
kind Of an ant and invited everybody,
from the cook to dad and mother" up
10 his room at 40 o'clock the next
afternoon Theodore read his essay
with a great deal of excitement, and
everybody agreed-they told him So
that il was a most remarkable discov-
cry. But, as Mrs. Robinson pointed out,
the father ard mother did laugh a great
Zeal out IN the hall later on.