Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-23

in graphic form in The Rough Riders
published in 1899.
! Mrs. Roosevelt is most lovable
woman. OF Mr.. Roosevelt's indebt
ledness to the genius of his wife there
/ an be no doubt You will not find
that the rough rider has ever much to
ay about women in general. The
subjects which inspire him have usual
ly to do with the gun and sword-bear
ling sex.
But there is one woman-Mrs
Roosevelt, his friend, sweetheart and
lwife for seventeen years-upon whom
lhe has layished his entire store OF
reverence and devotion, and who may
lbe considered responsible for in
Ifiuences which have tended to soften
land tone down the American man OF
blood and iron" and keep him human
To the new president matrimony
has been no dull commonplace, his
wife no mere supervisor of home and
tender Of children. There is hardly
one among American statesmen of to
day whose life has been so charming
a love story, whose domestic relations
have been more purely ideal than
those of the hard-headed apostle OF
1.-The strenuous life. Probably nothing
better can be said of Theodore Roose
cit than that he is even more of a
hero at home than he is abroad, and
above all, hero to SO wisely critical
woman as his wife.
1t has never been suggested that
Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit
ICarow were bethrothed in their early
youth, at the time when the Roose-
velts and the Carows were the two
| oremost families in New York and on
erms of strong intimacy with each
iother.
Edith Carow, lovely and brilliant
girl, was a constant guest at the
lRooseyelts' Her father was Charles
Carow, her grandfather Isaac Carow,
a wealthy shipping merchant, and her
mother, Miss Gertrude Tyler, daugh-
tier of Gen. Tyler of Norwich The
girl was born at the old Carow man
sion at Fourteenth street and Union
Square, on the spot where the Domes-
ltic Building now stands. Later the
family moved to hurry Hill, and
Edith Carow when a young girl was a
pupil at Miss Comstock's school on
West Fortieth street.
There was hardly a week during
this boyhood and girlhood stage that
Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Carow
did not meet They were the best OF
comrades, the most loyal Of friends.
And the situation was so eminently
agreeable and satisfying that it is not
likely that this busy, lively young pair
Idwelt overmuch on it's possible roman
tic outcome. Then came separation.
Young Theodore, with a mind made
Iup to startle the world, chose one of
1.-The most conservative spots on earth
to accomplish it and entered Harvard
university
The Lees were one Of the good old
families to whom Roosevelt's own ex-
cellent social connections served as
introduction. Miss Alice Lee was one
of the bellies of Boston. The two often
met, fell in love and shortly after
IRoosevelt's graduation were married
All this, however, was to prove but a
tragic incident Young Mrs. Roose-
welt lived but year or two, and died
leaving baby girl, her namesake.
Griefstricken, the young man went
back to his own home There was I,
consolation in the heartiness with
which old friends greeted him, ard a
Especial solace in the warm friendli-
ness of his boyhood's comrade, Edith
ICarow. Miss Carow had all this time
been on the most cordial terms with
the Roosevelts and a constant friend
LOT Theodore Roosevelt's sister, now
Mrs Douglas Robinson. When she
was introduced to society in 1884, at a
reception given by her mother, Mr..
lRoosevelt's sister received with them
IShe continued to be socially promin-
ent, travelled a good deal and lived
the ordinary life of the daughter Of a
wealthy and well-established family
One day in the spring of 1886, some
VERY exciting news was spread over
New York. Edith Carow was engaged
to marry Theodore Roosevelt. A few
months previous to the announcement
Iof the engagement Miss Carow had