Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-14
THE SOCIAL WORLD.
Miss Roosevelt and Mr..
Longworth to Marry.
A FEBRUARY WEDDING
MISS SUE BRITTON AND ME.
GUILD MARRIED.
Only a Family Party and Personal
Friends Present-Other
Notes.

One of the most interesting announce
ments from the White House in long
time from personal point of view was
the news bulletin sent broadcast late yes
terday afternoon which read:
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt an
nounce the engagement of their daughter,
Miss Alice Lee Roosevelt, to Mr.. Nicholas
Longworth The wedding will take place
In the middle of February.
OF course, nobody is surprised, but ev-
erybody is pleased. The story which the
announcement embodles has been told and
retold with various embellishments for the
past year denied with the greatest regu-
larity by those supposed to know all about
it. and yet today it stands with the sane
ton of the White House. Since the COM
ing Of Mr.. Longworth to Congress he has
been conspicuous in the particular set fav
ored by the Presidents daughter. After
her visit to Mr. Nicholas Longworth's
home last spring In Cine matt, when Mrs.
Buckner Wallingford. sister of Representa-
tive Longworth, was her hostess, there was
another strong evidence in the popular idea
that the Presidents daughter would soon
be a bride. The subsequent oriental tour
ing of both in Secretary Taft's party still
further connected their names. Yesterday
the news went cut first to their personal
friends and late in the day the word was
taken into confidence
Miss Roosevelt will be twenty-five years
old i'll February. Her mother, the first
wife of the President, was Alice Lee
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George c. Lee
of Boston, who still survive. Al her moth
er's death baby Alice taken in charge
by her aunt, now Mrs. William S. Cowles
There is a marked resemblance between
aunt and niece. AS the big sister among
the Roosevelt children the affection for her
is marked, any one may know who has
ever seen them together. Miss Roosevelt
is the best chum her brothers have. as she
is just much interes led in the pleas
ures of her sister Ethel.
Her debut in society, regarded as a ma
tonal event, was made az ball during the
winter of 1902. The company present was
not entirely an official one but brought To-
gether the personal friends of the President
and Mrs. Roosevelt made here during their
previous residences and the intimates of
the formers eldest born.
Since then the world has been at the
feet of the Presidents daughter Two
lives would have been necessary if a 1.-THE
OF the invitations extended had been ac-
cepted. Between frequent visits to New
York Newport, Boston and other cities
and being here for all official functions she
has tasted the sweets of life, served in
their most attractive form. Her first for
eign travels were on the trip TO the orient,
from which she returned with numberless
boxes of eastern gorseousness and the loss
Of her heart. The possibility of her going
to England to witness the coronation of
King Edward and Queen Alexandra was
much discussed several years ago. but
decided against by the President She was
to have gone next spring to visit the
Whitelaw Reids-that much was decided
upon last winter-and now a bride 1t
Is more than probable that she will go
anyway.
Miss Roosevelt while a born New Yorker
is very much of Washingtonian, for most
of her young life has been spent in this
city. and her closest friends are living here
door life. a good comrade. and. in fact. has
many OF the qualities of mind and tempera-
ment which the world admires In the Presi-
dent, all modified naturally by the feminine
point of view. Last year she looked better
than at any time sincR the White House
has been her home. Her toilets were no.
ticaably more elegant, and in her gown at
the inaugural ball she made the appearance
of her life! Just at present she is hardly
rested from her eventful and triumphant
across seas and lands and her stays
with her grandmother in the quiet of her
suburban home. and subsequently at Farm
ington, Conn, with her aunt. have been in !
the nature of rests for the gay season
ahead
Representative Longworth, of whom all
the world is talking today, has had every
advantage that birth. education, travel and
wealth can give. He is in his thirty-sixth
year. He is the only son of the late Nicho-
las Longworth of Cincinnati who in his life
time was considered very wealthy man,
but not. perhaps, up to the figure held in
these modern days. He graduated from
Harvard in 1891 and was admitted to the
Cincinnati bar three years later. He is now
serving his second term as representative
from the first Ohio district. His Washing
ton residence has been and is still presided
over by his mother. and is the Jones house,
at 18th and | streets. He Is a member of
the Metropolitan, Chevy Chase and Aiibl
clubs OF this city, the Myopia Hunt of Bev-
erly, the Somerset of Boston and the Queen
City of Cincinnati He has two sisters. Mrs.
Buckner Wallingford of Cincinnati and tina
Countess de Chanlbrun. wife of Count de
Chambrun, in the diplomatic service of
France.
That the bishop of Washington. Right