The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-17
WHITE HOUSES NEW MISTRESS.
Mrs. Roosevelt second wife of the
President.
From the New York Press.


sympathy and affection that touched
the heart of every American, sue
ceeded the brilliant social life of the
White House Under the leadership of
Mrs. Cleveland when william McKin-
ley becatie President Mrs. McKin-
ley's health was too frail for her to
assume the onerous duties of enter
tanning, although in her devotion to
her husband and his interests she was
ready always to 10 beyond her
strength in the performance of her
public duties,
With the occupancy of the Exect-
tive Mansion by the family of Theo-
dore Roosevelt there necessarily will
be many changes in the Social con-
ditions, of official life. Mrs. Roosevelt
never has courted social prominence,
but she has been equal to every de-
ma1d which the rapidly changing con-
ditions of her husbands career have
made upon her. BY birth, education
and cultivation she is fitted TO stand
by her husband in the high place
which Fate has assigned to him, and
she possesses the ready tact ana sym
pathy which are SO essential to the
successful hostess, especially in public
life.
VIII BE Charming Hostess.
D., The days of mourning which are
upon the land will cast their shadow
for long time over the White House,
but when the, time comes for the doors
to be opened in hospitality the wo-
manly sweetness, simplicity, gentle
dignity and fine Intelligence of Mrs
Roosevelt are sure to win the admi-
ration of the American people.
>, As Theodore Roosevelt stands for the
type of energetic, healthy American
manhood, SO his wife represents a high
type of American womanhood. She
was Miss Edith Kermit Carow and was
born in this city, of a .well-to-do fam
lily. As a girl she knew young Theo-
dore Roosevelt. It has been said that
a boy and girl sentiment existed be-
tween them before he went to college:
but soon after his graduation from
Harvard he married Alice Lee of Bos-
ton. Miss Carow went abroad to sup
plement her education by d course of
study and travel
When Roosevelt had lost his girl wife
and was seeking solace in a European
trip, he met Miss Carow. When he re,
turned TO America they began g cor
respondehce. Their engagement fol-
lowed and they We're married in 1886.
Truly n Happy Family.
betWeeH AuCe ttOOSeVeiI-tne only
child of the first marriage
and her fathers second wife
there has been always the
warmest affection; and her husbands
sisters have been Mrs. Roosevelt's
most intimate friends.
Like her husband, Mrs. Roosevelt has
a pronounced literary bent. She is an
omniyerous reader, an accomplished
linguist and a keen student Several
49, &
verses, intended for circulation among
her friends. She is posted in politics
and keeps up with the newspapers and
periodicals dealing with matters of
current public interest as we'll as her
husband does. She is not athletic, al
though she rides horse we'll.
She has little taste for club life and
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton besought her in vain to be a
candidate for president general of
their order.
Mrs. Roosevelt is not handsome, but
she is attractive Her manner is unaf-
fectedly cordial and winning She has
nice brown eyes, and she wears her
brown hair parted and carried back
loosely from her temples. She dresses
with simplicity that is becoming
Her street frocks especially border on
the severe. For evening entertainment
SLOWLY
she manages the AFFAIRS OF her own
large household to the small details.
Little In society.
The Roosevelts have gone into society
little in New York city. In Washing
ton, when Mr.. Roosevelt was Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, they took part
in the. social life, and when he was
Governor they entertained in the. ex-
ecutive mansion in Albany. In their
Oyster Bay country house there have
been many guests for different periods
of time, but little formal entertainments.
Mrs. Roosevelt will have the assist
ance of a charming girl, Miss Alice
Roosevelt, when she takes up her So
cial duties. Miss Roosevelt is about IS
years old. She has been bridesmaid at
the wedding of a Boston cousin, and on
several other occasions has been seen in
society, but she has not been intro
duced formally. That probably will be
a White House affair.
She has been educated by govern
esses, and has fought the proposal to
send her to school with something of
her fathers doggedness. Until recently
she has been Something of d tomboy,
and preferred sharing her fathers
rides and tramps and her brothers
sports to anything else Now, however,
She has put on long skirts and her
pretty light hair is done up according
to the fashionable mode for young wo-
men.
sisters Will shnre In Duties.
President Roosevelt has two sisters
who will be prominent In the new adj
ministration circle. The older one,
Mrs. Cowles, lives in Washington She
was Miss Anna Roosevelt, widely
known for her charitable work. 1t was
when on visit to her cousin, ]. r..
Roosevelt, secretary of the American
embassy in London, that she met Com
mander w. s. Cowles of the American
navy, to whom she was married In that
city.
Mrs. Cowles is strongly opposed to
woman suffrage, and her public express