The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-14
A Very Desirable WidOwer Throws Himself
Away by Promising to Marry Girl WhoIs
Already Sufficiently Endowed Socially.
Mrs. James Brown Potter Goes Abroad
andGives the Public a Chance to Rest.
A Prize Belle from MexcO-Dreadful Disturb
ance in SOrOsis-A Street-Car Study
Women Who Have MuStaches
specia, 10 the Indlana.olis Journal.

Special 10 the ndianapolis Journal.
New YORK, Nov. l3-He has sailed away
Whol The most desirable widower in all New
York-Theodore Roosevelt. The girls of our
fashionable world deplore his loss exceedingly
He was under thirty, he was handsome, he was
distinguished in public life he belonged to
highly approved family and he owned two or
three millions of dollars. He had been widow
only two years. and had not yet shown symp-
toms of remarriage. Need it be said that the
eyes of managing mothers and eligible daughters
were fixed on himl But he has escaped across
the Atlantic, and we are stunned by the news
that he has gone to wed Miss Edith Carro-to
throw himself away! Is she not good girl'
None better. Is she not pretty! Yes. Before
me lies private letter from mutual friend In
which she is portrayed with pen and ink as hav-
ing bewitchingly youthful face and an air of
captivating sweetness Then why. otherwise
than as an expression Of envy, does anybody say
that widower Roosevelt is wasted on his chosen
bride2 Simply because she is o daughter of
Governor Carroll, of Maryland, and already pos
sessed of family exaltatioD, great wealth, and
everything else, socially, that Roosevelt could
confer on poor, uninfuential maiden. But We
shall have to let him have his own way.
Mrs. James Brown Potter has gone off to
Europe, too She said that she needed rest and
SO does the public The wonder in society is
how the other Potters like the semi theatrical
fame which she has acquired. AS assistant
Bishop Potter was in her party abroad, il is fair
to presume that his conservatism is not greatly
shocked Meanwhile, let the fair creature re-
pose on her laurels. She is mentally and phys
icaly worn out She declared that the strain of
getting up that book of rectations had ex-
haustei her "And very likely So" said news
paper man, to whom spoke abont it; she is o
sensitive organization. Every time her shears
got stiff on the pivot, or nicked themselves on
the edge, or broke off point, it was distraction
to an exquisitivey poetic clipper. Then, the
best muci!aee will become sour, the finest paste
| will grow rancid, and the awful cockroach will
crawl into the most exclusive receptacle Think
| how those hard experiences of q literary enter
| prise must have depressed Mrs. Potter. l can
easily believe that she is broken down"
A prize belle from Mexico is on view here.
She is on exhibit in the Aztec fair. Fashionable
| girls go in troops to see her, for they have
heard of the tropical beauty of equatorial
maidens and they wish to compare her with
| themselves. She makes chocolate for the visit
ors. She has clear complexion and compare
lively regular features. Her big black eyes are
| half concealed by dropping lids, and they glow
with the languorous light the poets rave about.
An expression of sadness, or it may be dscon
tent, about her mouth, invests her with mag
mary romantic interest. She has small, deli
cate hands, and figure in which the promise of
future fatness is rot so obvious as in the other
greaser maidens. A swarthy young man. who
plays guitar, and looks as though he might
have ready stietto somewhere about his per-
son, hovers around in an ominous way, and by
his dark looks dscourages any demonstrations
on the part OF the New York dandies who mani.
fest unusual interest in chocolate making What
Mexican girls are apt to grow into is shown in
the older of the collection. They are
fat, unaainly and wrinkled The swarthy skin
looks leathery, and the dark sonora of upcer.
tain age is about as romantic in appearance as
an old bootleg.
The beauty on exhibition is forgotten in the
presence of a senorita seen occasionally among
the visitors. She has the dark skin and coal
black hair OF the Mexican but the oval face and
delicate regular features are Spanish, with no
trace of the Indian. Her black eyee are spark
ling and brilliant Her figure is 1.-THE and grace.
full, and all her mavements are easy and com.
posed. In dress she is American large
Gainsborough hat sets off her shapely head
artstcally, and her wavy hair is dressed low
upon her forehead. The fair Spaniard strols
about the booths, stopping TO talk with the Mex
isan exhibitors now and then, and unconsciouslv
attracting the admiring attention of the visitors
When she is present the nose Of the ereaser
beauty is out of joint The Spanish Mexican
beauty is relative of the Mexican consul here
and we are to receive her. understand, into our
exclusive society.
There is dreadful disturbance in Sorosis.
You wouldn't suppose, if you were to see
meeting. thai the society was anything but the
downiest doVe-cote imaginable. 1t was formed
on tho principle of perfect harmony, and is con-
tinued by the adhesive power of the never fail
ing feminine kiss. 1t has the ciliest, kissiest
deariest outside possible. and its members are
determined that the harmony of Sorosis shall
be nvioable, if it takes all the lips salve in New
York city. But on the inside, known only to
themselves, and as a profound secret by their
dearest friends who don'thappen to be members,
and TO all their friends friends. there are cracks
and splits, and yawning chasms Onc that
even the determ ination to be harmonious cannot
quite bridge over. is about the suffrage question.
Some of the members arc strong sufragists, and,
with the usual zeal Of that party to reform the
world, yearn to Sorosis a suffrage institu-
ton. The other party will resist to the death
any such movement, and will even sacrifice the
harmony of the sisterhood before they will al
low Soross to be made political club. SO the
suffragists can do nothing but yearn Another
chasm, that has just yawned itself through the