Something doing every day!
This cartoon depicts President Roosevelt every day of the week. Monday “Writes a message to Congress,” Tuesday, “Another message,” Wednesday, “A message,” Thursday, “A message,” Friday, “Again, a message,” Saturday, “Still another message,” Sunday, “At rest” as he sits in a rocking chair reading the message.
Comments and Context
That many political cartoonists drew observational drawings of Theodore Roosevelt: hard at work; a fount of energy; a polymath with varieties of interests; exemplar of the Strenuous Life; doing an average person’s allotment of work before breakfast; engaged in physical, mental, athletic, and recreational activity; is because that is, virtually, how Roosevelt’s days went. The president, as a thematic preoccupation by himself, was irresistible to cartoonists on deadlines.