TWO ROOSEVELT STORIES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 448, 16 March 1912, Page 7

TWO ROOSEVELT STORIES.

Once at a White House reception a guest said to the President—"Sir, your name- will go down to posterity with that of Washington." "Which Washington, George or Booker," quickly replied the President. Booker Washington, was the wellknown American negro who, in the early years of Roosevelt's Presidency was responsible for a storm in a tea-cup by receiving an invitation to line at the White House. The president's reputation for strenuosity is well known. He is even strenuous in his arguments. Once at a conference, when the debaters were growing heated, the President rose to his feet hastily. A. 11 eyes immediately were strained to catch the expected illumination. '"I'll bet you a hat," Roosevelt remarked, apropos of nothing at all, "that I can jump over that chair." One of the Senators took the bet. The President with a slight run performed the feat, and added with great satisfaction, "I wanted a hat badly." There was a roar of laughter at Roosevelt's apparent ingenuousness, and the bad blood engendered by the heated argument vanished. As Mr. Roosevelt's name is perhaps more frequently pronounced wrongly than rightly, some readers may " like to know that Mr. HoltWhite, in nis '"Theodore Roosevelt" (Melrose), from which book the above stories are taken, is able to give a brief authoritative note on the subject : My dear Sir—My name is pronounced in three syllables, the first syllable being like "rose," the flower. —Very sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt.