Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1901 — PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

thor, civil service commissioner, police commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, soldier and Vice President. He brings the young man conspicuously into the White House, for he will not be 41 years old until Get. 27. The President’s family consists of his wife and six children. They have made their home for years at Oyster Bay, Long Island, a retreat much enjoyed by the President himself, as well as Uis family. The home life is a simple one. Fashion, social custom, conventions, have had little to do with it. It has been oldfashioned and delightful. Mrs. Roosevelt is essentially part of the President’s life. Husbaud and wife are heartily in accord with one another, and their purposes are one. The eldest child is a daughter. Miss Alice, aged 17, and the next eldest. Theodore, is a boy of 14. QUESTION OF SOLID FOOD. Replying to Criticism, Physicians Pay No Mistake Was Made. Severe adverse criticism has been advanced regarding the administration of solid food to President McKinley by the doctors before the relapse came. The President’s relapse is admittedly the result o$ the failure of his digestive organs to assimilate the solid food which he ate Thursday. Important bodily functions became impaired. When the bulletin was issued which said that the stomach had refused to assimilate the solid food the hearts of tile country paused. They were preparing for the worst news, which came. The food had generated a gas and the pressure had influenced the action of the heart. This was the startling message which was given to the world. Dr. Roswell Park said: “The President was not given solid food before he could

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stand it. He was perfectly able to assimilate the food given him, had it not been that the impoverished blood affected the heart. The heart refused to act properly without strong blood food, and that* was why the toast, soaked in hot beef juice, was given him. Everything known to medical science was done for him. and there was no mistake made.” Dr. Herman Mynter said: “At the time the solid food was given him ho was able to take if There eau be no mistake about that. I do not believe that the food in his stomach had much effect on the heart. It was believed from the first thafhis heart was weak and that wnp why ether was given him instead of chloroform when Dr. Mann performed the operation.”

MRS. M’KINLEY.