Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-11-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Gossip About the Roosevelts; Irish Call
ers at the White House.
CFrom Our Regular Correspondent

The Roosevelts have revived the
fashion Of horseback riding, and the
liverymen and horsedealers are taxed
to meet the demand for saddle horses.
Fifty ladies and gentlemen are now
being seen on horseback on the many
beautiful subuI ban roads around
Washington where one was seen be-
fore the advent of the kooseyelts, and
it adds as much to the picturesque
ness of those roads as it does to the
pleasure OF the riders-on second
thought | am quite sure that it is
not pleasure to some of the riders,
who are new to the fashion. but will
be after they learn how to do the
trick.
Miss Alice Roosevelt has been
bundled off to Boston to spend few
weeks with her grandmother, Mrs.
Lee. because Mrs. Roosevelt was
afraid the toadies would break her
down with social attentions before
the social season opened. Miss Alice
will not be formally presented to So
ciety until January, but from the day
that she accepted an invitation to
lunch at the home OF girl friend she
has been so importuned by others
who wished her to come to their
houses that she has had little time to
call her own as she did not wish TO
seem to be playing favorites. She is
out of it now for a while.
Irish wit and humor were on tap
in the White House this week, when
three Irish mem bers of Parliament,
accompanied by five ladies, called on
the president. The gentlemen were
j. f. Redmond, leader of the Irish
parliamentary party in the house Of
Commons; P. A. MacHugh. memb Der
for Sligo. and Thomas O'Donnell,
mem Der for Kerry. Mr.. McHugh,
who is also an editor. was only re-
leased from prison, after serving six
months for contempt OF court-he
dared to expose the notorious jury
packing system three days before
he sailed for America. The ladies
were Mrs. Redmond, Miss Dalton,
Mrs. MacHugh, Mrs. Gaffner and Miss
Humphrv. Mr.. Roosevelt, who had
previous acquaintance with two of
the gentlemen, enjoyed the visit so
much, that after showing them
through tho private part OF the White
House, which is not open to visitors,
he SAINT for Mrs. Roosevelt and intro
duced the party to her, in the Red
Parlor. Each of these Irishmen are
calamity howlers from Calamityville
when talking on the woes OF Ireland,
but in talking about everything else
they are rollicking Irishmen, and it
was plain that Mr.. and Mrs. Roose-
welt enjoyed their call. They are 60
ing to Montreal, where they are to de-
liver addresses. Mr.. O'Donnell,
whose fad is the restoration of the
Gaelic language, will make a speech
in Gaelic-He once made Gaelic
speech in the House of Commons, or
rather tried to, but the speaker rdled
him out of order, although Welsh
mem bers had been allowed to speak
in their native dialect, and he in
variably writes his name on hotel
registers in Gaelic.
Washington is being treated to
visit by unique wcman-a countess
who isn't willing to be toadied to by
society. Her name is Countess Ara
bell Haugnnan. sometimes called the
pilgrim traveller" and this is her
first visit to this country. She is the
real thing, and is besides a religious
enthusiast. Instead of going to a
hotel during her stay in Washington,
she is the guest of the sisters of Mercy
at St. GATHERINGS home. She is re-
lated to the royal family of Bavaria,
the Kings of Ireland, the royal house
of Scotland, and to the ex-Empress
Eugene. These families are not crit
ting much ice in the twentieth cen
fury, but they were pretty near the
whole thing in their day. The Coun
tess called at the White House to pay
her respects to the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, but she declined to visit
society people
There are several educated Flip
mos who have been living in Wash
ington for several months to study
our customs, they say, and at least
one of them has been so apt that he
has got on Uncle Sans pay roll. His
name is Jose c. Abreu. Not long
ago he changed his boarding place
without giving his landlady any rea-
son. When a man acquaintance asked
him why he did it, he replied: Every
one asks me how | like American
girls! A married lady, very big, very
fat, very old. ask me how l like
American girls. | tell her | like very
much American girls. Then she say,