PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AS A WONDERFUL ENGINE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9094, 21 May 1908, Page 3

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AS A WONDERFUL ENGINE.

In the April American Magazine, "K" writes a aotable article on President Roosevelt. It is a remarkably interesting explanation of the man. "K" says that he has known ths President rather intimately for 10 years and cannot longer contain himself. He must relieve himself on tbtf subject. The following is a irief extract: "People sometimes call t'.TJ Presidant 'erratic' and 'eccentric'* (tney mean 'impulsive'); but I could njver see that he waa. either erratic or eccentric. He couldn't be. He is profoundly normal, physically and mentally, (which genius i 3 not). His habits and life are temperate; he is abstemious in eating, drinking, sleeping, for that is part of the care h 8 gives his energising machine. His family life is normal, and ha exhorts all America to a similar normality. He exereise3 every day with t'iu regularity of clockwork —tennis on Wednesday, a tramp on Thursday, lionuback riding Friday, boxing Saturday, or to that effe:t. It may say in violent exaruise to some] to R >o savelt it is tha normal expression i of his highly energised daily life.; His religion is normal and expressed ( normally. He has normal capacity I / for friendships. Contrary to the belief of some psople with whom I have -talked, the President is the very incarnation of order and regularity in his work. Every morning Secretary Loeb place 3 a typewritten liit of engagements for the day on his < djik, -sometimes reduced to fiveminute intsrvals. And no railroad engineer runs morj sharply upon his Bshadula t'nn he. His comas out of his pocket, he cuts off an interview or signs a paper, and turns instantly, according to his time-table to the next engagement. If there is an interval anywhere left over he chinks in the tim 3 by reading a paragraph of history from the book that lies always ready at his elbow, or by writing two or three sentences in an article on Irish folk lore or bear hunting. Thus ha never stops running, even while he stakes and fires; the throttle is alwas open; the engine is always under a full head of steam. I have saen schedules of his engagements which showud that he was constantly occupied from nine o'clock in the morning, when he takes his regular walk in the White House Park with Mr 3 Roosevelt, until midnight, with guests at both luncheon and dinner. And when he goes to < bed he i 3 able to disabuse his mind instantly of every cure and worry and go straight to sleep, and he sleeps with perfect normality and on schsdule time."