The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-11

Alice Roosevelt the charming daugh-
! ter of the President.
At least two yong men, says the
Philadelphia Press, have shown un-
mistakable signs of devotion to the
highly eligible, the situation is exceed
ingly interesting, especially as Miss
| Roosevelt has shown no open prefer
| ence for either. The woOers are
Charles c. Wauters, counsellor to the
Belgian legation, and charge daffaires
when the minister is absent, and Graf
| ton Dulany Cushing, a wealthy and
aristoCratic Boston lawyer.
Mr.. Wauters met Miss Roosevelt at
the Charity Ball here in January. His
admiration developed so suddenly into
fondness that he followed her to Cuba,
when, chaperoned by Mrs. Harriet
Blaine Beale, the daughter of the late
! Secretary of State, James G. Blaine,
Miss Alice was allowed to make an
excursion to the scenes of her fathers
glories, to atone for her natural dis
appointment in not being permitted to
attend the coronation of King Ed
ward. Young Wauters, like the daugh-
ter of the President, was delightfully."-
entertained in Cuba-entertained and
shown over all the wonders of the ISL
and Together he and Miss Alice went
Since that they have been much to-
gether in Washington.
Mr.. Cushing and Miss Roosevelt be-
came acquainted during young Theo-
dore's illness at Groton, Mass. He
| drove with her and walked with her,
and Whiled away many of her dreary
hours in the cold, bleak place. From
this comradeship a rare and delightful
| friendship. if not something deeper,
| has sprung up. Mr.. Gushing since
then has visited Washington, been
guest at the White House and re-
newed the charm of Miss Roosevelt's
propinquity and his acquaintance be-
| gun in the SHOWS of new England.
Both young men are college gradu-
ates and highly cultivated.
Miss Elmer Griffing, says the New
| York Times, whose sphere of usefulness
( is in the Bureau of Licenses and who
is the only woman employed in the
building, has the storytelling habit.
Here is one of her latest:
A New York professor had wife
and family, but, professorlike, his
thoughts were mostly with his books
and his dynamos. One evening his wife
| returned from late afternoon visits to
find the house strangely quiet. No
where were the children to be seen. She
demanded of the man of books what he
had done with the youngsters. The
professor explained that they had be-
come rather noisy, and so, even without
calling the maid, he had stuffed them
| into bed.
II hope they haven't given you much
trouble" Mrs. Professor said.
"Oh, no." said the professor. With
! the exception of the one in the cot over
there, perhaps. He objected a good
deal to my undressing him and put
ting him to bed"
Mrs. Professor went to inspect the
cot.
why" she cried, that's little Fred
DIV Smith, from next door"
He was very small boy, says the
| New York Times, and mamma was get
ting him ready for bed. She had taken
off all his clothes, even to the last lit
tie shirt, when the little boy, delighting
in his freedom, escaped and, dressed
only in the little flesh colored suit with
which nature had provided him, ran
| laughing around the room.
Come right back to mamma, dear"
said the mother reprovingly. God will
not like you to do that"
LES He WILL" replied the urchin,
with a glance at big picture upon the
wall which had served as the text for
| many small sermons delivered to him
by his careful parents, 'he does it His
| self" And the mother, following the
| child's glance, had nothing to say, for
there was that famous picture of the
| Holy Family and the infant Jesus ap-
bearing in that absence of clothing in
| which children in warm climates revel.
Lately, says the San Francisco Ar
| gonaut, the vigorous efforts beauty
| has made to stand off old age must
|
is no shock about it now. At thirty
| one does not throw up the sponge. In
| fact ladies of fifty are still firmly
| clutching it with one hand and rub
! bling out wrinkles and rubbing on hair
! dye with the other. Nobody grows old
| gracefully, for no lady grows old at
| all There does not come a day in the
| life of the modern beauty as there did
in that of the Riccardi's bride, loved
by the Medici duke. who. looking in
her glass, saw her glory gone
the lips red charm.
The heaven of hair, the pride of the
brow,
And the blood that blues the inside
arm.
The preservation of youth-or its at
tempted preservation-is said to be an
art borrowed from the French. The
women of other lands became eXas-
peTdlcu at TIE SlOIles IIOll Il IdHCc VA
charmers of mature years, like Ninon
de rEnclos and Nine. Recamier. Now
some miserable journalist of an inquis-
tive turn has undertaken to put all
the French actresses famous for youth
or beauty in the witness-boX and make
each one tell what is her recipe for
preserving both. And to everybodys
horror the French actresses. almost to
a woman refute the theories they have
been living for, have not word to
say of new recipes for creams, do not
allude to the old ones. and even are
inclined to give the go-by to such re-