The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-11
\ RUMORED ENGAGEMENT
Miss Alice Roosevelt. it is Reported. to
Become the Bride of Senator Bev-
eridsc.

Town Topics, Il weekly New York
society journal, has published the fol-
lowing story of the engagement. of
Miss Alice Roosevelt, the daughter of
the president, which says:
Miss Alice Roosevelt has s%urren'er-
ed her heart and promised her hand,
and now wears upon her left third fin
ger b jeweled token of her marriage
engagement. The successful wooe is
the eloquent Boy Orator of the va
hash,' Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of
Indiana. and the formal announcement
o. the betrothal will be made at Eos
ter.
THE news has just come from
Washington, whence | also learned
that President Roosevelt is more t1an
pleased, and has given the happy pair
lis paternal benediction. | have no
ticed for some months past a most
agreeable change in the department of
the fair Princess Alice. She has grown
more WOmaniy, more dignified and al
together more lovable. She has cut
away her frivolity while still retaining
much of her charm of unconventional
ity, and the reason is now clear. Size
is in love.
Senator Beveridge is a widoWer. His
first wife was Miss Katharine Langs-
dale, of GreencaStle, Ind, who die in
1900. The senator is self-made. He at
tended high school at Sullivan, LIZ.
Later he read law in the Office of Sem
ator Mcdonald, and, after this, being
admitted to the bar, became associated
with the law firm of Mcdonald anG
Butler, with whom he remained until
beginning practice for himself.
A a Republican campaign speaker
he has for years been p~re-eminent."
The Baltimore Herald adds:
Miss Roosevelt was twenty-one
years old February 18th last. She is
the only child Of the President and his
first wife, who was Miss Alice Lee, Of
Boston. She is slender, a little below
the medium in height, has soft blue
eyes, a fair complexion, and a wealth
OF light brown hair.
I'm manner Miss Roosevelt is frank
and open, s~elf-reliant and democratic.
She was educated at home by a gov.
rness, who had also taught her
mother. h received a thorough mus
zeal training, although she had no
taste for music She speaks French
and German thoroughly and has been
known to carry on a conversation in
Russian. In literature her taste is for
poetry rather than prose. She seldom
reads a novel.
Her social debut was made at a CO.
tilion given in the White House on her
eighteenth birthday, February IL, 1902.
Miss ROosevelts engagement to va
rious young statesmen and diplomats
at Washington has been rumored
many times, and it was even reported
once that Emperor William of Ger
many had sought her hand for his cid
est son. the Crown Prince, who is now
safely betrothed to a German princess,
Congressman Nicholas L~Ongworth, a
young millionaire of Cincinnati, is-ore
of the most devoted of her admirers,
and it is generally believed that snr
could have been Mrs. Longworth be-
fore this had she so desired. Bayard
Cutting, of Boston, is another young
CrOeSuS in her train, and several of the
more callOw secretaries of legation at
the capital have openly paid court to
her. Others whose names have been
connected with hers are:
Lieutenant Job Greenway, of
Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
"Viscount Charles de Chambrun, of
the French embassy.
Grown Prince Gustaf Adolphus, of
Sweden and Norway.
"ViscoCnt de Alte, minister frou
Portugal.
Count Conrad Hochberg, of Ger
many.
Congressman Frederick FL. Giliett.
Of Massachusetts.
Lieutenant Robert Sterling Clark,
United States navy.
"Dr. Theodor Lewald. German impa-
rial commissioner to the st. Louis
Fair
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