Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-06-12
Our Washington Letter.
(From our Regular Correspondent

Miss Alice Rooseveltis an early riser
these days Before most of the slow
going residents of Washington are
out of bed she is several miles from
town taking hard lessons in hurdle
jumping and rough cross-the-country
horseback riding under an expert,
and frequently her father is along
and shows her how easy "Bleistein, "
his thoroughbred high jumper, can
take a seven or eight foot hurdle.
Miss Alice has ridden horseback since
she was a child, but having joined
Hunt Club and intending to partici-
pate in the hunts of next season she
wishes to become an expert, hence
the daily morning lessons. She is
also taking regular course in gym
nasium, which includes fencing, all
of which is highly pleasing to her
father who believes in the athletic
woman as well as the athletic man.
Mrs. Roosevelt has been unwell-for
several days serious complications
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get out, and is preparing to take the
family to OYSTER Bay, where they
will spend the early summer. The
President will not 90 with the family,
but will join them as early as his
duties will permit.
Mrs. Root and her daughter sailed
for Europe this week. The two sons
OF the family will join them at Carls-
bad, Germany, early next month, and
in August the Secretary will go to
the same place, and will bring his
family back home.
Mr.. Cockburn, rich Englishman
who lives in London when at home,
is in Washington. He says that aside
from the accent, which seldom fails
to spot an American, he has test
that has never failed. He says he has
never met an American who did not
with more or less frequency make use
of the phrase lis that SOP" when con-
versing. And he says further, at is
surely an Americanism, for though |
have travelled widely in other parts of
the world where the English language
dominates, | never heard it used by
any one not an American, and in
England it is an unknown expression.
Senator and Mrs. Depew will spend
the summer in Europe, but they can
not select a date for sailing until
Congress has selected date for adj
journment, and that is yet very much
up in the air, so to speak.
Lady Pauncefote and her daughters
still accupy the British EN- bassy, but
they are preparing to return to their
English home. They will leave many
warm friends in Washington as no
diplomatic family has ever been more
popular.
Hon. N. o. Murphy, who has re-
signed the governorship of the Terri
tory of Arizona to take effect July 1,
is in Washington, where he has many
friends. Asked why he resigned, Gov.
Murphy replied: ''Simply because
the pecuniary loss and the strife at
tached to holding the Office do not
Justify, unless man wants to make
his life political, which 1 do not"
Senator Foraker thinks he has the
finest saddle horse in Washington.
He got him from Kentucky, and the
man who sold him claims he was the
best of his kind in that state, having
taken first prize in every exhibition
he has been entered in. His name is
Duke" and he has pedigree yard
long. He is Is hands and p inches
high, and bright bay in color, and it
is claimed that he can do mile in
three minutes without being at all
pushed. Senator Foraker's fad is
horseback riding.
Representative Barney, of Wiscon-
sin, who was one of the Thompson
Congressional party, who recently
made southern trip, tells an exper-
fence which he says left him in doubt
as to whether the mems sbirt-waist
fad has reached Tuskegee or the ru-
raj Alabamaian is shrewder than he is
usually credited with being. Mr..
BarneY's stock of clean shirts was
exhausted by the unexpected warm
weather when they reached Tuskegee,
and he went into store there to buy
some. He wears 49, collar, and
W han hn told tho o1ork that inHivid II al
said: Il am sorry, sir, we haven't
that size, but perhaps | can find fat
lady's shirt waist thatwould fit you"
Mr.. Barney declared with some as
constituent that fat lady's shirt
waist would not do, and the clerk re-
p led: "Well, the gentlemen here in
Tuskegee often get fitted that way
very nicely"