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one of their boys did well, they were all pleased. Al left school at eleven, but when he did well at St. Joseph's School, Johnny Gilchrist, who was in the same class with him, and the others were all pleased. They were glad when he got a prize, or a book, or got called out for doing well. When Johnny Gilchrist got called out, they were all happy. It shed glory and lustre on the whole group who were sort of clannish.

That was his experience and that does not make a reserved man. If he enters into that life, he isn't a reserved fellow. Whereas, Roosevelt grew up in an entirely different way and he had many reserves because there were many things to protect, many things to conceal. There were many pretenses. You had to keep up the pretense of being better than you really were. Your Papa and Mama would be distressed - and this shows in some of his early letters - if they heard of your doing something that was unworthy. At least, they would say they were. There were always pretenses to be kept up. His parents were keeping up pretenses - pretenses of being richer than they were, pretenses of being better, in the sense of being better citizens, better leaders of the community, than they really were, pretenses of being happier in their family and married life than they really were. In other words, it was a world in which you had to keep