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Carow, whom he had known since childhood. She bore him four sons—Theodore Jr., Kermit, Archi-
M, and Quentin, and a daughter, Ethel (Mrs. ..ichard Derby). Roosevelt declared that he had the happiest home life of any man he knew; his secretary of state, John Hay, in a poetic tribute, called heaven "a home not all unlike your home on earth."
From 1889 to 1895 Roosevelt was civil service mmissioner, from 1895 to 1897, president of the Police Commission of the City of New York. His vigorous, often picturesque and sensational, assault on vice and corruption in the city and on laziness and inefficiency in the force itself, culminating in the enforcement of the Sunday closing law for saloons, attracted national attention. He resigned in 1897 to become assistant secretary of the Navy, where he labored enthusiastically to ™t ready for the war with Spain, which he vored long before President William Mc-..inley did.A day at the beach always affords plenty of chances for unposed pictures of both the children and the grown-ups.Don't put away your Camera when winter comes or you'll miss many fine shots, because youngsters are at their happiest when playing in the snow. Besides the children, the rest of the family should be well represented in the household picture album, and in general you can follow the same procedures as in picturing the youngsters. Along with informal portraits made amid the home atmosphere you will want, and you'll have no difficulty in finding, lots of story-telling situations.
There should be a recorder, and possibly an observer who briefly analyzes the group process at the end of each meeting. At the meetings during the first year a parent may report his observation of a single child—the child's relationship with other children of his own age, with older and younger children, and with adults; variations in the child's behavior at home and at school; when the child seems happiest, and when he seems unhappy or annoyed. In the discussion, members pool their observations of similar behavior in other children. They note that apparently similar behavior may arise from different causes.
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