The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-05


 The present winter has been perhapS sn ,,xast and most brilliant Washiils 'oi .,,. ,cou,n This is due In no smah . ins .a, :, Nrs- Roosevelt. who mas e~et .Su ,s,f to hold up her end of the auhir.l .s,,a+ uor which is the social eno. ihe .,-,,s. s,a,as have seconded her eitor.s ,otalv Mrs. Knox. who has aloeu Su aa ausly that she. as well as MS ,.,,1-oa velt herself just before Lent "as e,. lo sin out temporarily ironi u' hurden of reception and dinner anu m the rnatrons has fallen the suain .. managing this extraordinarliy Diiii.aiis ,ocial season; the younger set h@Ne "au The fun, so to speak. It Is not oniS III Waahincton that the strenuous lire or lhe society woman is becoming hea'ier than average feminine flesh and blood ran bear. The same complaint of over burden and breaking down under social duties is heard in New York and in Lon hen, Keeping up with society is harder on the female frame than doing neld weFh on a farm, which some reformers consider the acme of cruelty and eppres- sion as imposed on the so called weaker sex:
 Ii is told, for instance, of Miss Alice Roosevelt that she attended four social Functions in one day, Mrs. Knox, IL Is said, maintains her strength by resting all the forenoon before an especially fa- figuing afternoon and evening, besides bracing herself up by the aid of mas sause and liha tiens of consomme; All the social matrons of tine capital must have been glad when Lent came,
 Several circumstances have combined to make the present winter one tq be re- tnembered in Washingt0n's social history. Among those socially prominent are the A If the highest diplomatic representatives of England, France ana Germany, Lady Her bert Mne. Jnsserand and Frelherrip von Eternburg, brilliant women, all. and en- dowed with high social and intellecauti But the younger set--the g!r'si Here t is safe to say old Washington has nev- br before looked down on so many beau married women in society during win ter. At the head of the foreign diplomatic young lady element is, of course: Count kss Cassini. niece and adopted daughter nf the Russian Ambassador. lady whe won renown by telegraphtng. so it Is said kp order to New York dressmaker to but 100 women if necessary to work or gown ske wished to wear shortly to a wedding.
 .asaass hsaas t4s f9 sst assss8a & SH is lsSs's sss Blonde daughter, the first young lady to make her debut in the White House since Ehe days of Nellie Grant. It is rare that he White House is frightened by the presence of the young lady daughter of a President. and in this respect the Roose- Felt administration is fortunate indeed. The Presidents daughters life has been
 h ovation from that February day more than year ago when. wearing white shiffon gown and carrying bunch of white roses, she made her girlish debut m the noble east room of the White House down to her visit with Miss Edith Boot to the New Orleans Mardi Gras fes- hyites.
 Soon after her first appearance in so- njety she was invited to attend King Ed wards coronation, she would have re teivea the honors usually bestowed on royal princesses. But her papa's poiitical kdvisers feared the visit of this innocent ktrl still tn her teens might have some boiiticaA significance pitched to it, partIc- k1arly If tfIe pretty girl accepted the in ktts ton of the Emperor and Empress oi Germany to pay visit to them, and theiI MDitaJ also. So ahS could Ett go. and,