Show e S Letters 9 al BY E EDITED 4 i V O R C MARL St R 3 1 Y R At the time Ume these letters were written some of the biggest events of the Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt administration were taking place The Garfield report on Standard Oil was the text of a presidential message in which rebating and the crushing of competition competition competition com com- petition were assailed In the spring of oft 1906 6 the American er st stomach was upset t bY by bythe bythe t the packing house e scandals which obtained obtained ob ob- 0 publicity through Upton SInclair's Sinclair s novel The Jungle President Roosevelt ordered a special investigation and sent senta a a. message to congress demanding the I federal meat inspection which now safeguards safeguards safeguards safe safe- guards our food The The Editor PRESIDENTIAL RESCUE RESCUE OF A AK K KITTEN ITTE N White House June 24 1906 Darling Ethel s mehin t. t n n r as T fI TY with Sloane some twenty-five twenty yard 5 behind I suddenly saw two terrier s racing to attack a kitten which wa was s walking down the sidewalk I bounced bounce d forward with my umbrella and after r some active work put to flight the dog dogs while Sloane captured the kitten which was vas a friendly helpless little thing evidently too well accustomed to being bein g taken care of to know how to shift fo for gr gs r itself I inquired of all the bystander bystanders s and of people on the neighboring porches to know if they knew wh who o owned it but as they all disclaimed with many grins any knowledge of it itT T i marched ahead with it in my arm arms s sa for foi about half a block Then I saw a avery a avery very nice colored woman and little colored girl looking out of the v window of a small house with on the door a dressmakers dressmaker's s advertisement and I turned and walked up the steps and asked if they did not want ant the kitten They said they did and the little girl gir welcomed it lovingly so I 1 felt I had hae gotten it a home and continued toward church Has the lordly Ted turned up yet yetIs 1 Is his loving sister able unassisted to reduce the size of his head or does she need any assistance from her male parent 1 Your affectionate father SPORTS OF QUENTIN AND ARCHIE Oyster Bay Aug 18 1906 Dear Kermit Quentin is the same cheerful pagan philosopher as ever He swims like a little duck rides well stands quite se severe severe severe se- se vere injuries without complaint and andis andis andis is really becoming a manly little fellow fel fel- fel- fel low Archie is devoted to the Why sailboat The other day while mother and I were coming in rowing we met him sailing salling out and it was too cunning for anything The Why looks exactly like a little black wooden shoe with a sail in it and the crew consisted of Archie of one of or his beloved beloved beloved be be- loved playmates a seaman from the Sylph and Skip very Skip very alert and knowing know know- ing ing SKIP AND ARCHIE White House Oct 23 1906 Dear Kermit Archie is very cunning and has handicap races with Skip He spreads his legs bends over and holds Skip between them Then he says On your jour mark Skip ready go and shoves sho Skip back while he runs as hard as he possibly can to the other end of the hall Skip scrambling wildly with his I 1 paws on the smooth floor Ioor until he can get started when he races after arter Archie the object being for Archie to reach the other end before Skip can cin overtake himA him A TURKEY HUNT AT PINE KNOB KNOD White House No Nov 4 4 1906 Dear Kermit Just a line to tell you what a nice time we had at Pine Knob Mother was wasas wasas wasas as happy as she always is there and andas andas andas as cunning and pretty as possible As Asfor Asfor Asfor for me I hunted faithfully through all three days leaving the house at 3 o'clock one day at 4 the next and at 5 the next so that I began my hunts in absolute night but fortunately we ne had hada a briliant brillant moon on each occasion The first two da days dais s 's were failures I did not see sec a turkey and on each occasion when everybody was wa's was perfectly certain that I was going to see a turkey something something something some some- thing went wron wrong and the turkey did not turn up The last day I Iwas was out thirteen hours and you may imagine how hungry I was when I got back not notto notto notto to speak of being tired though fortunately fortunately fortunately fortu fortu- most of the time I 1 was rambling around on horseback so I was not done out But in the afternoon at last luck changed and then for one on e everything went right The hunter who TV was as with me marked a turkey in a point of pines stretching down from a forest Into an open valley allej with another forest on I its farther side I ran down to 1 the he end of the point and hid behind a bush He lIe walked down through the pines and the turkey came out and ad started to fly across the tte valley offering me a beautiful beautiful ful side shot at about thirty five yards yard just just the distance for my 10 borc I I kilted killed It dead and ind f fH felt mighty might happ happy asit is HS isit it came tumbling down trough the thc air j r t a 41 I accompanied by Mrs l Roosevelt Roose went ent to o the isthmus of Panama where he spent three days in inspecting the work of building the Panama canal returning returning return- return ing ng ing by way of Porto Rico The journey journey journey jour jour- ney was taken on the naval vessel Louisiana and many of his letters to the he children were written while on onboard onboard onboard board that vessel and mailed Trailed after reaching caching Colon PETS ON SHIPBOARD On Board U U. S S. S. S S Louisiana on th th Way Yay to Panama Sunday Nov ov 11 1906 Blessed Quentin You would be amused at the pets they hey have aboard this ship They have two wo young oung bulldogs a cat three little i raccoons and a Cuban goat g They seem to be verj very amicable with one another another an an- other although I think the cat has suspicions suspicions suspicions sus sus- of all the rest The coons clamber about everywhere and the theother theother theother other afternoon while I was sitting reading I suddenly felt my finger seized in a pair pall of soft black paws and found the coon sniffing at it making me feel a little uncomfortable lest it might think the finger something good to eat The two puppies play endlessly One of them belongs to Lieutenant Evans The crew will not be allowed ashore at Panama or else I know they would pick up a whole raft of other pets there The Jackies seem especially fond of the little coons A few minutes ago I saw one of the jackles jackies strolling about with a coon perched upon his shoulder and now and then he would reach up his hand and give It a sma piece of bread to eatTo eat I To be continued j jJ J |