Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 45, DeMotte, Jasper County, 23 March 1933 — WHITE HOUSE AGAIN SEES KIDS AT PLAY [ARTICLE]

WHITE HOUSE AGAIN SEES KIDS AT PLAY

Grandchildren of Roosevelt Make Things Lively. Washington.--The ring of child laughter through the White House, heard but seldom since the departure of the family of Theodore Roosevelt many years ago, again will resound as another Roosevelt settles down to residence there for four years. Although the Franklin D. Roosevelt are grown, the youngest bejlng nearly eighteen, grandsons and granddaughters can be counted on to furnish much “copy” of the kind that convulsed the nation when their distant cousins occupied the limelight. Three of President and Mrs. Roosevelt’s children are married. All of them are rearing families. Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall, the blond daughter, who will spend a great deal of' her time at the White House, has two children, a girl and a boy. James Roosevelt, who married Betsy Cushing of Boston, is the father of Sara Delano Roosevelt Elliott Roosevelt, whose wife was Elizabeth Donner of Philadelphia, is the father of William Donner Roosevelt, better known to the family as “Young Bill.” Two Still Infants. The Dall children will be the only ones who will be able to romp and play for some time to come as the other two are still in the baby stage. Of the former, there is Anna Eleanor, known to everyone as ’‘sistie." The boy, Curtis Roosevelt Dall, is best known as “Buzzie.” They are nicknames that grew out of the pronunciation of each others names by the little sister and brother. Sistie and Buzzie are frequent visitors at Hyde Park and to the Roose'velt home in New York city,. Little Anna Eleanor, who resembles her mother, already is showing a fondness for outdoor sports so characteristic of the Roosevelts. At five and a half she rides a saddle pony very well. She also is showing great aptitude for swimming. Sara Delano Roosevelt, the daugh-

ter of James and Betsy, was named for her great-grandmother, the mother of the President. William Donner Roosevelt is two months old. Two of the children of President and Mrs. Roosevelt will make the White House their permanent home. They are John and Franklin. Jr., both of them students at Groton school In Massachusetts where the latter, like

his father, played on the football team. He will enter college in the fall. Only occasionally did childish laugh-ter--and sob's--reverberate through the White House during the regime of President Hoover. The infrequent visits of his three grandchildren, sons of Herbert Hoover, Jr., were all too infrequent as far as the President was concerned. Other Roosevelts Recalled. The White House was a particularly lively spot during the regime of President Theodore Roosevelt and the six youngsters who moved in with him. Alice, Theodore, and Kermit were beginning to feel grown up when their father took office. His other children, Archie and Quentin, however, were young enough to embarrass their father, frighten their mother, and lead White House servants a merry chase. Thomas Lincoln, eight-year-old “Tad” when his martyred father became President, ran them a close second. “Tad” wore an army uniform, drilled the White House servants, and waxed wrathy when they didn’t do quads right to suit him. Other White House children who have stood out in the nation’s memory include: Mary Donelson. the grandchild whom Andrew Jackson called “the sunshine of the White House.” Esther Cleveland, one of the few children born in the White House. Susanna Adams, the first to play in the executive mansion. Charlie Taft, who took a copy of “Treasure Island” to his father’s inauguration so he would not be bored if the President's first speech happened to be dull.