Roosevelt High School - Bwana Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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BVJZHH a boat to row ln perhaps It won t be so bad after all what w1th rowmg box mv and Chrxstmas and playmg 1n between lessons and the rums Roo evelt s love for huntmg showed early ln llfe In Egypt he and h father would Cro out and shoot game Much to hrs delight h1s father gaxe h1m a breech loader for Chrlstmas He was now so full of energy that he would even rather exhaust hrs energeuc father by gomg farther and farther seek ng more game Teed1e wrxtes to h1S Aunt Anna I have had great enjoyment 1n the shoo 1n here as I have procured between one and two hundred skxns I expect to procure some more m Syrxa As you are probably aware Fathe presented me on Chrlstmas Wlth a double barrelled breech loadlng shotgun whxch I never move on shore w1thout exceptmg on Sundays The largest b1rd I hare vet k1lled 15 a Crane whlch I shot as It rose from a lagoon near Thebes On the homeward trlp from Egypt the sa1lors were qulte enthused over l1ttle Teed1e and caught numerous spec1mens for h1m whlch he stuffed on deck to the amusement and mterest of a large aud1ence Although a phys1cally weak ch1ld Theodore Roosevelt showed the strength of character to work hard even though It caused h1m much pam to overcome h1s weakne s and he garned the strong body Wh1Ch he 1S known to have had 1n later l1fe It was character1st1c of Roosex elt to strlve for a th1ng and not stop unt1l he had reached hls goal EMILY BAUSCH V Q 'wr f' 5 1 -If Q I . . ' ' ' l .- . , , 5, . . r . . . . ,, U. . , - , . . . .A S . 1: b . , . . .' l . . AA ' 71 ' ' sk ' ' , 1 +. . , t g , . . , I' - y - D 1 , . . 7 . . Q . . 7! 7 ' an I ' vw ' ' ' ' a , . . A 1 , , . S , l . . . . 7 . ,wvfg X X v- , R ' x I . y 1 Q 1 - - W g' Q 5 - - , 5 xx- Q

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EUJEINE were ordered by the blrthday chlld to appear 1n full dress for the dmner party after whlch the presents were brought ln to each ch1ld was grven a wrxtmg desk wlth hls name on It Then Teedle was grven h1s presents Thls lllustrates how strong the famlly was 1n then' devotlon to each other The father and mother both were the closest compan1ons of thexr chxldren and always commanded thelr respect One beautxful day durlng the1r sojourn 1n Rome the chrldren were play mg leap frog on the Pmcxan H111 when word was bemg passed that the Pope was coming Teedle whlspered to the llttle group of American chlldren that he dldn t beheve 1n popes that no real Amer1can would and they all felt lt was due to the stars and strlpes that they should share hrs attltude of d1s tant dlsapproval Then the crowd parted and the lxttle chlldren cranmg thexr necks to catch a ghmpse of this queer person saw the Pope who was carrled m a sedan chaxr He seemg the eager faces of the chlldren leaned over hold1ng out hrs hand to them and Teedle who couldn t reslst the frlendly smlle of the k1ndly gray halred old gentleman came over knelt and k1SQ6d hrs hand Whlle spendlng a few weeks ln the Swlss Mountalns 1'eed1e showed hls pluck and endurance whlch was such a Stflklllg part of h1s character One day he had a severe attack of asthma and all nlght h1s mother sat by he was hlkmg wrth hrs brother H1s mother wr1tes Teedle and Elhe have walked today thxrteen mlles and are very proud of then' performance In deed Teedle has been further several txmes Although th1s year abroad was one filled W1th del1ghtfu1 memories happler chxldren could scarcely be found than those of the Roosevelt famlly when they arrrved home 1n the Sprmg of 1870 One day the mother called her eleven year old son to her s1de and sald Theodore you have the mmd but you have not the body and wlthout the help of the body the mmd cannot go as far as lt should You must make your body It IS hard drudgery to make ones body but I know you w1l1 do lt At thls the boy threw back h1s head and rephed I11 make my body From thls tlme on Theodore made a most lmportant promlse to hlmself whxch he carrled out and finally fulfilled so that when he was a man he had overcome the dreadful asthma The father ever ready w1th rdeas beneficial to the health and happ1ness of h1s chlldren changed one of the second story rooms of thexr home xnto an open air gymnasrum 1n whlch he mstalled every xmagmable swmg bar and seesaw Here It was that Teedxe started to strengthen hrs body In the Autumn of 1872 the Roosevelt fam1ly made another trlp to Europe agam to the regret of the chlldren After spendlng some tlrne 1n England they spent three months on the N11e where a great part of the txme was spent ln v1s1t1ng the pyramlds Elhot Teedxes younger brother writes Teedxe and I won t mmd the N1le very much now that we have Nil ' ' ' L! 1 I! ' . 1 , i , U. ' 1 . . . . . M . ,, . . Y 9 ' . H . ,, . . . . , . . I . . , 5 1 Y ' 7 9 . . A . ,, , . ' h - 9 ' l 1 v 1 1 . Q . . . . . ,, 7 , . his side telling him stories of when she was a girl. Yet two days later . . . i . . 1 ,, K , . 1 - ' 6 ' 0 ' Y! ' 7 - - . . ' G6 ' ' Y 7 , . . , . ' 77 ' ' ' ss 9 ' 9 7 9 ,, . . . . . , . 7 Y , . 5 A U - . L. . . . . . . V y . ,L . ,, . I , . . . . . . . . . . . . M . , ,, ' Y Y ' AA n ' ' Y ' ' , .

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138.75136 ROOSEVELT IN THE BAD LANDS HE tram came to a stop and a slender young man of average height Rf! is wxth a moustache and glasses descended the steps Then the tram limi went on havmg accomplnshed nts mlsslon whxch was to deposit a New York dude pol1t1c1an and would be hunter named Theodore Roosevelt xn the Bad Lands of Dakota He had just recovered from an attack of cholera morbus and though he had wrltten hrs mother from Chicago that he was already feelmg hke a fightmg cock the marks of hns lllness were stlll on his face Besldes he wore glasses whrch were consldered nn the Bad Lands as a slgn of defectrve moral character He was not however a sxght to awaken plty m the eyes of the mhabltants of Lrttle Mlssourl Roosevelt had wanted to shoot buffalo whlle there were stlll some left and at the suggestlon of a frnend came to Little M1ssour1 Thrs gateway to the Bad Lands was the headquarters for guldes and hunters who took portsmen mto the heart of the savage country The regxon was very noted for game The gurde Roosevelt found for hrs buffalo hunt was oe Ferns a short stocky young fellow of about Roosevelt s age wlth a droopmg mous tache He declded that the camp of Gregor Lang fifty mlles up the rlver was the best headquarters for the hunt So they nmmedlately set out and were greeted heartily by Lang at thelr arrival Lang was well educated and he and Roosevelt found many mterests rn common They talked txll mrdmght but next mormnfr Roosevelt was as resh as joe who had gone to bed after supper It ramed contlnuously for a week and every mormng Joe would suggest staymg m but Roosevelt would overrule htm and they hunted but wlth no success The weather cleared but st1ll thelr luck dxd not change More than once joe looked at Roosevelt wondermg when the pleasant four eyed tenderfoot would begm to worry about gettxng a cold and admxt at last that the game was too much for hxm But the tenderfoot had a dogged streak and would not qult Thelr persrstence was finally rewarded and Roosevelt kllled a buffalo accomplxsh 1ng hls mlsslon Roosevelt had become mterested m Western lxfe and decxded to buy a ranch He hired Sylvanus Ferrls Joes brother and B111 Merrifield two of hrs new acquaintances to take charge of the cattle He went back East at thus tnme to a campalgn for a thxrd term nn the New York Leg1slature Hrs famlly thought his cattle venture foolhardy but Roosevelt was un daunted He was re elected to this offxce but just at this ttme a great sor row came mto his lxfe Hls mother and wlfe dxed wlthm sxx hours of each other He was stunned wlth grlef and at a letter asking hlm to come to Dakota to mspect hrs cattle Roosevelt returned west Roosevelt was well llked on the ranch by all of hls men but he stood for no dlshonesty or laziness He could rlde as well as most of hls men ll! F 241 .' ' ' gxf L . - , . If ' .Wy . . . . . . . r 1,4 X y Q Q s ' 9 9 1 1 U . . . ,, . . . Y - 9 s ' as ' r as - - v 9 . . . . U . . . ,, 1 . . H . . . ,, . 9 n ' S . . . . J , , . . v 1 ' . G . . - 1 1 . , b I . . f 1 , . Y . . 1 9 ' , . - .l vy - 1 s 4 ' . . , . . ' 1 V Y , . , - ' ' s 1 s ' ' V U . . - 1 fl 1, I