The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14

this The mans impossible love for Edith Carow breaks out over and over again., in the most unexpected places, , in letters written 10 children who can not be expected to understand or guess p.c deep feeling that lies under it until utey are oil CT ough 10 feed some sucn emotion thrn.selves To him Edith Carow
 is net o, y the girl who won his heart years ago, but something intangibly love | Her. growing dearer and also growing more physically beautiful as the years go on. One can imagine that when her
 hair became white it was merely the ad-
 dition of a new beauty in her lovers eyes. l What a loveri He was the type for which all true women secretly yearn,
 The most characteristic thing about this payboy of the western world is the joy he takes in animals. a joy he shares with those lusty boys and those hearty girls of his He acquires, off instance, a horned frog and a badger in one of his
 western trips and writes enthusiastically lhome to Archie about them. The badger seems to make the greatest hit-at least he writes to Senator Lodge that Josiah 0his being the badgers name) has been l greeted with the widest enthusiasm py the children and has passed an affec- 1 ticnate but passionate day with us. For tunateIy his temper seems proof What Tom Quartz, the kitten, thought Of Jo- siah, if they ever met, is not recordNL
 Once in 1903, they insisted on his cele- Ibrating Ethels birthday by romp m lthe barn, concerning which he wrote to their Aunt Emily:
 "Of course, I had not the heart to re-
 fuse; but really it seems, to put It mild ilv rather odd that stout, elderly Pres
 ident to be bouncing over hayricks in a wild effort to get to goal before an ac- tive midget of 8 competitor, aged years
 However, 1t was really great fun
 It was You'd better believe he en-
 joyed it. That is why that same EtneL inow a grown and lovely woman, looks
 back on him not as father, but as ichum, an old pal ~ One of the reviewers" of Roosevelt 5 Ietters To His Children," Charles Willis Thompson says:
 'Blessed is the man who can leave that
 memory among his children How true in the main is oscar Wilde's epigram about how children, grown, begin to an
 alvze and then to judge their parents, ana lhis conclusion, "Rarelys if ever, do they
 forgive them" It is a bitter Wilde truth, but rare men like Roosevelt live to con lfound it. Jacob Riis tells how he found
 his way to his boys heart by forgettihg
 that he was a father and becoming fellow fisherman. That, however, was never necessary for Roosevelt, the, man
 with the child heart He did nov need
 to learn children because, like Hans
 
 Christian Anderson he knew their hearts N-their hearts were like his own.
 How. delicious it is to find him reading l"Jim Bludso" to the children, and the
 irrepressible Quentin demanding to know
 'swhether the colored boy did not ma
 sitting on the safety valve hot A
 question that would never occur 10 q
 grown-up; yet how eminently sane, sen ,sible and even vital. Of the millions who have read that poem, how many nave stopped to inquire about the condition or
 the trousers of the 'nigger squat on the safety valve?" Did MT Hay ever learn } of this crticism2 It Is greatly to be hoped that Mir Roosevelt reported 1t 10 nm
 and demanded light
 The hour and space grow on. ana thls badly quotable book still stares us ln the face. Quotation is crime agalhs' the composing room, and. vet how can one give the flavor of the book without l quotation? Here is sage Quentin, aged 4 The President asks Archie how often ne has washed his face. Sage Quenein 7 Very seldom, fear What is one, ever $ a President, to o'with boy like that r Nothing but to curb the damnabie mis' e chief in him, encourage the manly