Show ROOSEVELT AND my mk in introduction to theodore roosevelt was a sac most unusual one ada was characteristic of theman raid eald ja oo 00 A adis of new york who was in washington a lew day ago P akly my book how the other half lives had just been pu published bUshed at thai that time ume I 1 had my office in one of the downtown newspaper buildings on my return to to my desk dealt after an absence I 1 found there mr Roosevel ts card on which was written 1 I have read your y our book and I 1 have come to help belp that was all from that time on theodore roosevelt eilt and I 1 have been fast friends hie his thoughtfulness tor forD other ther people and his kindness were shown on 0 one e occasion when I 1 was dining with him and mrs airs roosevelt at the white houe house in the ther course of conversation I 1 mentioned that mycother my mother nother was very ill at her er home in denmark mr air roosevelt pro proposed posea to his wife that they senda condl a telegram of cheer tomy to my mother and I 1 without getting up from he table le he penned a message telling my mother that her son wag dining at the whitehouse white house oure of course every mother feels proud when her children archon ored ind and it waa was exceedingly thoughtful th D ugilt I 1 considered to jave mr roosevelt thus cable my mother the message had a strange fate however it arrived on the other aide I 1 was informed by my mother afterwards signed slimed merely ft theodore eodore and edith for borne time the folks in the little town know who theodore and edith were but it downed on them that there wao only ono one theodore ot of much importance in the united and upon inquiry found that tha message e was from the president |