"THE SAME OLD – TEDDY."

Grey River Argus, 25 May 1910, Page 1

"THE SAME OLD - TEDDY."

Mr Roosevelt reached Kurope from his "holiday in Africa, bursting with energy. "The same old Teddy, only ten years younger," remarked an American wHd feaw^Mmdiseitfbai-k at Nap- j les. The Daily Express's special correspondent reports that the' year spent in the wilds Has worked wonders in the ex-President. "When he-4eft Here, exactly a -year ago> >he was. a flabbybodied, haggard-faced man, who looked tired as he said He felt. Now, to use his own expression, v he is as hard as nails. He is muscular, Ids eye is clear, his step is springy, and He is fairly bubbling over > with , vitality." Mr Roosevet is evidently not impressive at first sight. The crowd of Neapolitan? and foreigners who came to see f him land dismissed the " rather stout rather untidy gentleman oi middle age," who presented a "some wJiat ungainly, unattractive figure" as ■a typical German tourist. He walked ashore with a heavy tr«ad that shook the gangway, and was whirled away in a 'motor car, leaving a vivid impression of tremendous energy and enthusiasm, ,at which some ( of the Neapolitans shudderd instinctively. Mr Roosevelt has all his own capacity for work. He picked up a secretary at Kh&rtoum and two more at Cairo, and a fourth was expected to join him shortly after his arrival at Naples. On the run across from Egypt he worked at high pressure. He and his'secretarles rose at 6 o'clock and put in two hours before breakfast. Their work continued steadily throughout the day, without^ lunch and without leaving 'the captain's cabin, which they occupied, save for occasional brief strolls on the dec kor cliaits with friends in the smoke room after dinner. Clearly there will be "wigs on the green" when Mr Roosevelt stands once more on his native Heath. J ,