The National tribune., 1903-01-01

| ed ont for two hours While the clouds wer,
sobbing bucketsful every second. As i
| is not at all probable that either thu
| President or Mrs. Roosevelt care to invite
| pneumonia and kindred ills just at thi:
stage of the social season, and as Mrs
Roosevelt is rather a frail woman. there
is probably a tarrydiddle out somewhere
Neither of these distinguished people are
in the best of health. and they are not
likely to thus set at defiance all the laws
of health.
DisiIlusionment comes early in some in
stances. 1t is now said that Ouida, that
high priestess of off-color novels. is the
author or originator of the expression
Rough Rider" instead of Buffalo BIZ
Cody, as so many believe. 1t is at least
true that Ouida did make use of the ex,
preston many times in her book Idalia
and it was printed 80 years ago.
There is word that was brought in by
the Roosevelt reign, however, and it should
not be forgotten 1t was Mt the National
Republican Convention in Philadelphia
that the word strenuous as used now
came into active use. Senator Depew was
making a speech and was getting off a
Depew story. Now. Depew stories are
very seldom new ones. but they are told
with such an air of believing them himself,
and the language in which they are told
is SO choice. that the charm of new
story always hangs about them. This
time the story was about a woman who
bossed her husband in rather an athletic
way, and Senator Depew spoke of her as
"a woman of the strenuous kind" which
brought down the house. and he could not
proceed for some time. From that day to
this. the word strenuous has been
worked overtime. As the President once
wrote a piece" for print with the title
''1rhe Strenuous Life the word must GER
tainly bear the stamp of the Roosevelt era.
q. s. Grant Circle of the Ladies of the
G.. A. r.. of which Mrs. Emma Allyn
Hawkes. is President. laid upon Mrs.
Grants casket handsome wreath OF ros IS
and orchids. Mrs. Grant was one of the
valued members of the Circle, the obliga-
ton having been given at her own home,
by special dispensation.
The Agricultural Department is trying
the experiment of growing Egyptian cot
ton in the South. The cotton grown on
the Nile, as compared with the American
product, is silkier in texture and Of a yell
lOwiSh tint. and has a much longer fiber.
1t is question whether it will retain these
qualities after a few seasons in our soil,
and the differing climate.
Rear-Admiral Schley, like good many
other warriors. finds enemies that he can
not face, foes that he cannot conquer. He
is facing one of these right now. "Rheu-
matiz.' He has it good and hard, and
is confined to his bed, but is not in a
dangerous condition, SO his physicians as
sure US.
Christmas in the Capital Of the Nation
is passed very much as it is everywhere
else. Possibly there is little more noise
than in the Western part of Uncle Sans
domain. For some reason Washington
people and those Of the South seem to run
to fireworks at the Christmas season.
They make very little OF the Fourth of
July, but at Christmas they burn powder
to beat the band. Fire-crackers. sky
rockets, flower baskets. and all that sort
Of thing seem to make most acceptable
gifts to both boys and girls. and they
usher in Christmas Day with a blowing Of
gests the siege Of Sebastopol-or some
thing.
Most everybody supposed that there
would be Christmas tree at the White
House, but there wasn't. The children,
Archie, Kermit and Ethel, all hung up
their stockings by the little old mantes
upstairs where the few children who have
lived in the White House have always
hung theirs. Up to the time of Lincoln
only grandchildren Of Presidents were
young enough to hang their stockings. but
there have been troops Of these. John
Adams had q lot Of grandchildren, who
used to whoop around the great barns of
rooms in the Presidents Palace" and
make as merry as they could tie gloomy,
unfinished apartments. When Lincoln
came in he had Tad and little Willie. the
children Of his affection. In many
fatherly respects Roosevelt is like Lincoln.
Lincoln's childhood had NOT been made
mother whom he worshipped. and he knew
but few Of the pleasures of youth. With
the joylessness of his own childhood ever
before him. he seemed una BILE to DENY his
children anything.
tory of White Housa dove ;e storr n, 30
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a Cbr;ctma. Dor dnr;nn H. W. ~ 81
RahalI;nn Tad had heon Ioodad -
With nrec.nts Tbav bod hoan co,,;nn hr
tha ,raaon.,nnd e. .'.oa,, $780, r,h.;.ty
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