The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-02
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
ru.E PRESIDENTS DAUGHTER, AN
o.rurR "ALICE IN WONDERLAND"

,rbc white House Children Rema1n
sDofled-They Raise ''High
inks, in the Historical Old Man
s;on-The Trials of the Children
of Presidents-An Account of "a
BeautifuIIy Appointed Luncheon.
Great Reception and Some of
the Gowns which Attract Atten-
,ion-NIrs. Depew the Observed of
All Observers-The Knox Family
and some of the Members There
of-A Favorite Washington Belle.
other Matters of Interest.
washington, Jan. 31.-The Presi-
sents daughter must really feel like
.nother Alice in Wonderland, with
PLEASURES and honors springing around
her on every side, thick as the flowers
in the fairy path-to say nothing of the
,resent which the crown prince is to
hiring her across seas from the Kaiser,
who has chosen her from all the girls
in the world to christen the imperial
Yacht. Nothing happened to the other
Alice quite so wonderful as that! Were
# not for the sturdy Dutch blood and
Yankee common sense in the children
Of the White House, all their heads,
big and little, would have been turned
long before this, with the constant
adulation they receive, their pictures
every day in the papers and their
slightest doings chronicled as import
ant events. AS it is, even baby Quetin
remains about the same unspoiled,
fun-loving lad. The younger members
of the family seem to regard the eX-
ecutive mansion exactly like the home
at oyster GEOGRAPHICALLY as a place
to have good times in. They race like
wild Indians through the long CORR
doris and raise high links" in the
historic East parlor, bang rag-time
music out of the grand pianos and are
just as chummy with the servants
black pic1anannies as with the small
sons and daughters of the aristocrats.
All this speaks we'll for the rising
generation of Roosevelts and for the
spirit of Republicanism generally.
Few of the White House families
have been able to stand the strain so Z
well without occasional lapses into dis
agreeable exhibitions of self-conceit.
There is no denying that even Baby
&NrANcIs AllC dOOItUA IN his
Their, President Harrison, and the pet
Of Washington, became about as
spoiled a child as it is often ones mis- 4
fortune to find. He out-grew it speed
iy when retired to the healthier at
mosphere of private life and is now as
fine a little gentleman as the United
States can produce. Before the Cleve-
lands left the White House. both Ruth
and Marion were old enough to be
ftstr, ,f,al, i - Al
exaggerated attentions showered upon
them by the silly. When they went out
10 walk with their nurses they were
stopped at every step by the inquisi-
i've, usually (but not always) of the
feminine gender. who insisted upon
Kissing them amid such EXPLANATIONS
rs "Oh the sweet creatures" "Oh, the
beautiful darlingsi" and similar gush,
10 such harmful extent that their
organizations finally had to be con-
hned to the rear grounds of the White
House. under the supervision of police
men. 1t was one of the trials of Mrs
VIeVeland's life, and for the children's
sake she was doubly rejoiced to be-
VCme at last mere private citizen
never was there a Sweeter little girl
man Fannie Hayes; yet her wise and
sensible mother was more than once
constrained to punish her for exhibit
IONS OF vanity by forbidding her to
appear before guests for days to-
getner. The Garfield boys were a good
ueal like the Roosevelts-often reg1-
lar little terrors in their play, riding
Iough shod over everything savoring
~ conventionality. AS to the Grant
,puyS' the least said about them at this
!ale DAY the better. They were Just at
u'e age to feel their consequence, as
Dlooded colt feels it's oats.
una they felt it, you may
s W. sure Many are the tales that are
Gun extent about the obnoxious behav-
i ae,, OF those youthful autocrats when
%% sI,.cr with the disease known as
sWelled head"
But to return to Alice in Wonder
iii ,alu. That she is yet unsDoiIed is
puiYEeu DY the fact that she retains
In Ier scnool friends, and is generally
-, gG among other girls who would
aSS'eMy resent any vulgar assumption
90 superlority because of the accident
~. 'gr Iather's position. Her coming
Cl,oo. oan was the crucial test. To he
len rose in 1.-The rosebud garden of
Slfs' is in itself distinction calcu-
az" Utu to render the average girls lust
bor n't a bit dizzy, to say the least. At
IL, j" 81 appearances in the White
,bog lesuVlties she must lave known
~ M nan the men and women present
49,. telnng the other half that the
Nv girl with the pink rose fastened
tGoWn in her hair, was the Pres
of s laughter; but she gave no sign
,'it l,oiSclousness and went on chatting
as f. 'ue other girls as unconcernedly
Quo .V0ush she We're no more conspicu-
dtnre nan they. Every day luncheons,
fonn ~ teas and balls are three or
d.. ueeD IN her honor till one won
beap+,"' n l7h she finds time to get her
dent s,eep. Last night the Presi-
nar anu Mrs. Roosevelt gave a din
OH, ana musicale for her. There were
von, 'Wentv-three table guests. all
S.9a people; but to the concert. at
invt,oo5S iock, nearly three hundred were
stata w.; Dinner was served in the
win uullhg-room, which was fragrant
aoyo..o uses and decorated with exotic
parlo-S and foliage. The great East
roor, was transformed into a concert
Der u with grand piano near the up-
fovs ''Is and chairs arranged in close
man.. aims filed the window nitches.
forn US ana mirror-rests banked with
ibp oa,'u crotons. the color scheme be-
for NY rely IN green. The programme
White MUSICALE was printed on small
was I,rus' and another small card
BE- r,.e.'osed with the invitation, ITO
morilt'ielted az the door''-a rather
by Inc ,s measure, made necessary
'iatance OF the unlimited.
hrtt oi the most Beautifully annointed
faoaie.ns which Miss Roosevelt has
vic ~, was given last week by the
coyor. ,.l'epresentatiye Charles II. JOY.
and r,I' lald FOR Twenty-Five White |
On. puipie llnccs. with damodle ana