, 1902-02-14
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
CHRONICLE OF EVENTS At THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Rough Riders" visit tho President N
Droves-senntor Morgan Of Aisba ma
Mrs. Roosevelt - Described by =
Friend.
Especial letter.

Especial letter.
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~ HE Presidents old rough
1 rider comrades are a
source OF keen delight to
him. They have in
creased in numbers since
last September. like Aus
tralian rabbits or coun-
try mushrooms, and
they spring up Unexpectedly from
every hole and corner in the Union.
The President is always awfully glad
to see them. asks them to lunch and
gets a great deal OF fun out OF talking
over old times. He rarely gets impa-
tient. no matter how pressing the de-
mands OF his old comrades are, and he
ture. even though 1t is impossible often
to act upon them favorably. Some Of
these gallant fellows. as the President
often explains to his friends, are. to
say the least. rough diamonds" but
he will not admit that any OF them
are really bad and always presents
them TO the public in the very best
light possible.
The strained re-
Senatorial la%tions between
Senator Vest Of
Missouri and Sena-
tor Morgan of Alabama are we'll I'M
derstood in Washington. The other
day Senator Clapp. who is a newcomer
and consequently not well informed re-
garding the feuds and ~animosities ex-
listing between the members of that
body, approached Senator Vest just
after a third senator had stirred
Clapp's ire. The Minnesota statesman
said to Vest:
isn't Jones the worst ASS that ever
broke into public life?"
Well" said the frail and withered
statesman from Missouri, II can't say.
You know I am pretty thoroughly COM
mitted on that prcDosition to Morgan"
rirs. Roosevelt IL
Pr.... Mrs. =, delightful con-
-. =. .sationalist. but
she Is not a great
talker. She sees and hears everything
that passes around her. being very OBJ
serving and nothing Of q dreamer. Her
will is strong and her reason and in
telligence are we'll poised. She is cool,
calm. intellectual. One cannot by any
freak Of fancy imagine Mrs. Roosevelt
losing her head" or having Mysteries.
She Is a born manager. II Mrs. Roose-
welt were q poor woman she would
manage somehow to keep out Of debt
and educate her children, and both they
and she would be neatly dressed. She
is not sentimental or emotional. but
she would die for her children none
the less because she is their wise train
er and the director Of their education.
while so far rs her W personal ambi-
tons are concerned she has simply
blotted herself out and merged her ex-
istence into that of her husband. She
k a linguist. a musician and a woman
Of literary tastes. She has = s%ingularly
graceful and dignifed carriage and q
low, cultivated voice. She has two Pc
culiarities-a sense Of humor and no
fads.
Senator Perkins
Thought He Wouidof California
nj. thought he was go
ing to die the other
night. He had q twinge Of intercostal
rheumatism which caught him in the
vicinity Of the heart. and. as he says,
he thought the time had come to pass
in his chips. He was telling a friend
about it: II got up" said he, and
prepared a telegram to the governor in
regard to appointing a successor to fill
out my u%nexpired term. thought II l
were going to have to quit in this sum
mary fashion, the least favor the gov
.ernor could do me would be to let me
make an Endorsement of the man to
carry on the work. But when the doc
tor came he said the telegram would
be premature"
Mrs. Kearns, the wife Of the senator