The San Francisco call., 1901-10-06

at any entertainment and Is invariably
the first guest to leave after a dinner.
No matter how busy and how full her
life may be some portion Of the day Is
always put apart for absolute quiet, and
certain hours are devoted exclusively to
her children, who receive probably the
tenderest care and attention that have
ever been lavished upon children in their
position in life. Their interests are hers
and she IS more like an elder sister than
a mother tc them. while IN time Of Ill
ness, 10 matter how good a trained
nurse she may have, the greater part OF
the nursing falls upon her.
An ideal wife and mother she was often
called. and rightly. at the time Of the
Spanish war She never made any COM
plant, never showed any signs Of anxiety
excepting that those who knew her In
timately saw her grow visibly paler and
thinner. but she never broke down until
after her husband had returned from the
war, and during that time she was en-
tirely with her children, her one endeav0r
seeming to be to prevent any sadness
coming to them
Of Modest Means.
As Is well known, President and Mrs
Roosevelt have not been people Of large
means. and have certainly never lived be-
yond those means. Last winter when his
term of Governor was over and before
the Inauguration in March they kept the
house open at Oyster Bay, although all
their neighbors had long since gone into
town. The children attended school then
and the governess was retained. but the
home life went on exactly as though 1t
was from choice that they stayed there,
and to-day the verdict of the children IS
that there never was pleasanter winter
The Roosevelt turnout is most demo-
cratic one The eoachman is certainly
49,. cto do c.fa arT4o ~
society for he has n1ustache, and there
is no foot1nan or second man. It has al
ways pleased both Mr.. and Mrs. Roese-
velt to live their lives independent OF any
changes of fashion or Of popular feeling,
and the home has been from time tmrne-
mortal the typical American home. in the
best sense of the word, and yet there Is
no doubt that when at the White House,
with the necessary formality that the po-
sitton must needs bring, the President
and Mrs Roosevelt Will carry out In
every detail the social as well as the poll
ticaI demands made upon them.
Always a Social Favorite.
The first lady of the land comes from .
long line Of ancestors well accustomed to
social life, and as a young girl she was a
great favorite in society not only In this
country but abroad. She is thoroughly
we'll posted as to social etiquette, and
there will never be a mistake made as to
the order of precedence, but the formaIity
that must needs rule will be much mitt-
gated by the indescribable charm Of the
home life which will dominate every
thing. as it always has done.
When it was first planned to INTRODUCES
Miss Roosevelt in Washington this win
ter all the details of her debut were most
carefully planned. These will Of neces-
sity be somewhat changed, but an effort
will be made as far as possible to follow
ToiA 1Ovrr1 nd Cra
NAV be sure that Mrs. Roosevelt intends
to fulfill to the letter her duties as chap
eron and mother.
Miss Roosevelt's Introduction
OF course there is no time set as to
when the formal Introduction Of Miss
Roosevelt will take place, but it may
safely be assumed that she Will have an
unusually brilliant winter for a deou-
tante. and Mrs. Roosevelt has most care
fully planned her trousseau, which now
will simply need some additions. Already
what Miss Roosevelt is to be is being
talked over, showing that the personal
interest is not to be lost sight Of in the
sudden accession of public interest thaG
must needs come in such a. tremendous
change Of circumstances.
The world ut large will have little op-
portunity to cavil now at American social
life There has come to an end with the
recent tragedy a most wonderful eSh1-
bition of a husbands love and tenderness,
a devotion rarely if ever eqUaled, but
now as leading lord and lady of the land
are a married couple whose devotion to
one another and to their children has been
to every one who knew them an example
of the happiest possible married life and
of how a woman can sink herself in her
husband s aims without at the same time
losing her own individuality.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt are the
he,yra
the White House, and they, with their
children, will unquestiOnably transform it
in many ways. But as nation ne can
not fail to be glad that the Office has
fallen to man and woman whose aims
are high and whose earnest love for one
another has been known to all their
friends.
No Sweeping Innovations.
Mrs. Roosevelt will not, so say her
friends, advocate any sweeping innoya-
tions at the White House, but there will
be just as much TO learn from the way in
which she performs her duties leading
lady as in the very recent times when, as
hostess at Albany or at the summer house
at Oyster Bay, she lived her own life,
quite unmoved by criticism or by the ex-
ample of those around her whose incomes
permitted more show and more luxury OF
life.
1t is too early yet to speak of how and
what entertainments are TO be g1Vens but
with the first lifting Of the cloud that
hangs over the country, and especially
the White House, the irrepressible young
life of so happy a household is bound to
work it's way, and that way viii never be
one with which fault can be found.
Mrs. Roosevelt was Miss Edith Kermit
Carow, and her family has been friendly
with the Roosevelts for generations Her
Ia father was Charles Carow, son Of Isaac
Q. Carow, a wealthy New York shipping
= merchant. Her mother was Miss Gertrude