Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-10-17

feet, and while she was abroad she re-
fused many times to have her portrait |
painted so that this line might be
shown.
There is in existence a single photo
graph made Of her about eight years
, ago in which a classically disposed
drapery of tulle about the shoulders
| gives both the lines which make Mrs.
| Roosevelt so notable in evening gowns.
Her arms and hands are shapely and
are seldom jewelled. The rings she
usually wears are her wedding ring
! and her diamond betrothal ring.
/ Her manner harmonizes with the
way she looks. She has a soft voice,
with distinct enunciation, and her face
lights with expression when she talks.
She makes few gestures. She smiles
| frequently while she talks, and
especially when she is with her
children. Her laugh is frequent, too.
Ideal Wife and Mother.
1t is not wonderful that woman
with sweet, quiet personality like
| this should be a wonderful mothe"
When she was Edith Kermit Carow, at
the height of her social popularity IN
! New York, it used to be said of her
that she would probably never marry
| just because she was the one girl in
her set who would make an ideal wife
and mother.
She did not marry until she had
been bridesmaid for most of her girl
friends, and the fifteen years of her
married life have been singularly
happy and successful ones, bearing
out her friends estimate of her.
When Mr.. and MRS Roosevelt re-
turned from their wedding journey on
the continent after their marriage IN
London. they found waiting for them
at the station in Oyster Bay little
blue-eyed, fair-haired child name1 i
Alice-Mr. Roosevelt's little daughte:
by his first wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt.
This child the new Mrs. Roosevelt
took in her arms as they drove to their
home, and she has figuratively kept
her there ever since. Her own children
have had no warmer care or love than
this little girl whose own personality
was so winning.
The child was then three years OLD. |
and for two years Mrs. Roosevelt as
sumed almost the whole responsibility
of her bringing up. 1t was the theory
of this foster mother that so long as a
| mother and her daughter are friends |
as we'll as relatives, so long the danger
of outside influence is kept away from
the child.
This relationship of absolute cont
dence she soon established with her lit
tie stepdsughter. and the two became
devoted companions. Alice Roosevelt.
who cannot remember her own mother.
has yet never known what it is to be
motherless.
In two years this peculiarly sweet &c
lationship was rather cemented THAI
married at the birth Of Teddy Roose-
welt, jr., who is now 13 years old and
in school at Groton. With the other
children, Ethel, Archibald. Kermit and
Quentin, the family became big
circle of playfellows. inordinate,y
proud of the father and wonderfully
fond of the mother. And when one
hears how Mrs. Roosevelt has brought
up her children one does not wonder
that this fondness is not to be account
ed for by the mere accident of re-
latiGnship.
Plays with Her Children.
Everybody down at Oyster Bay.
where the Roosevelts always spend Z
part of each year. knows what 1t is 20
come upon little group Of three or
four or five settled cozily under the
big beeches in the wild grounds