The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-03

AA&AQ0 04O&9AAR8 WeASSS @@%N fashioned parental manner.
 Sara Delano Roosevelt has one son. And on that son she lave ished not only all a mothers xlor- 1inaI love, but after her husband died (wlaen Franklin was In his late teens), the devotion she once had given him as well.
 It ig nald by relatives Uk the family that in his youth Frank In did not buy necktle with- cut consulting his mother. He even brought his budding lady friends around for maternal aupervisiom.
 Most of these she rejected as ytSthiessly as . stage director passing on Q chorus, until final- ly Eleanor Roosevelt -young, ate tractive, slender, . distant cousin came along. Sara Delano Roose- velt permitted Eleanor to enter the family.
 MatriarCIh
 But once Eleanor was in it, Mrs. Roosevelt, ST., proceeded to doI1i- mate her daughter r-in-law as coE11- pletely as she had always dom- mated her son.
 Eleanor Roosevelt had little to say about anything. If one of the children were sick, her xnOther-in -in.Iaw called in the dOc- tor. She and her son took the eltuetoln ln hand completely. Eleanor was . virtual outsider.
 one story, which . friend of the family tells, concerns on incident that took place when Franklin and Eleanor were living in Q small house in Boston. Eleanor had ordered some mattresses, which were delivered while she wGs out. The children liked them tren1end- oiisly. But their grandmother came along, disapproved, and as one of them sorrowfuily expressed 1t later:
 'What could we dos Grand- mother came and sent them aIl away"
 It was not until the Presidents illness that his wife really sup- planted his mother as the doTl- aaant woman in his life.
 Since then the mother and son have not been as close as they once were. Franklin, expressed in politics, became one Of the busiest men in tho nation. But Mrs. Roosevelt, ST., probably never will quite appreciate this, still thinks of the President as the small boy whose mouth she used to wipe at the dinner table.
 Rather Q Wilful old lady, Mrs. Roosevelt still asserts her auth. ority--somet in Q way which decidedly nettles her son. When Tettled he has been known to 90 out of his way to exasperAte his mother.
 RebeIIiOUS Offspring
 Once, At Q family Sunday night dinner At which were present Mrs. Roosevelt, ST., Sam Rosenfnan (fOrlmer member of the Brain Trust, now N. Y. supreme court judge) and others, the Presidents mother remarked:
 "Now Franklin, I want Sam to slt on your right"
 '.But mother" replied the President in . voice of feigned petulance, 'T don't want Sam Co sit on my right"
 "But I want him Co slt on your right"
 Again he replied: "But I don't want Sam to slt on my right"
 mother, "thsn Sam will sit on my right"
 This started the President off. Mischiovlously he went out Of his way to shock his mother.
 The conversation drifted to q reception given for the President in Los Angeles, featured by Q beautiful array of floats. One float struck his attention. It was dedi- cated to American Wonianhood, and consisted of scantily draped beauties.
 "And on the very tOp," cons cluded the President, with ono gleefuI eye on his mother, twas She most beautiful young girl you ever saw. Not . stitch on, and shaped just like this :" And with his hands ho made imaginary curves n the sir.
 Mrs. Roosevelt, ST.. almost fell under the table.
 Drunken Statesmen
 Then the President unnerci- fully switched to the question of drink. His mother, while not strict prohibitonist Is strong for temperance.
 Liquor, her son claimed. has produced some of the greatest statesmen the country has known. He particularly cited General Ulysses 6. Grant and Daniel Web- ster as the hardest-drinking statesmen in the country's his- tory.
 Then, in great detail he pro- snnwmUA