The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
Long.uorths viii Begin
Their Housekeeping
in Washington Home
and Await the .Ad-
.journraent of Con-
gress.
BY w. w. Jermane.

worth of Cincinnati, the couple will be.
gin housekeeping in the Washington
home of the Longworths, S31 Eight
zenith street NV, where the bride
groom to-be has lived for several years
with his mother. Next June he will
take his bride abroad, for the London
season, one of the few social delights
not yet enjoyed by that young woman,
who has twice been disappointed in a
European trip. While abroad they will
visit Mr.. Longworth IS sister, Countess
de Chambrun, in France, and her hus-
band.
Miss Roosevelt, who Is the only child
of the president IS first marriage, will
be % years old in February, and is
named for her mother, Alice Lee, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. George G. Lee Of
Boston, to whom Mr.. Roosevelt became
engaged during his college days at Har-
yard, and whom he married in 1883.
On the death Of her mother, Miss
Alice Roosevelt became the charge OF
her aunt, Mrs. William S. Cowles, who
I then was Miss Anna Roosevelt, and to
the present day is as much the child OF
Mrs. Cowles' affection as tho she were
o daughter instead of niece. She has
resided with her father and stepmother
in, later years, but even since their COM
ing to the White House has spent long
periods elsewhere, either with her ma
ternal grandmother or with the numer-
Gus relatives in New York.
Miss Roosevelt made her debut at a
ball given in the great east room early
in January, 1902, since which date she
has enjoyed a succession Of attentions
never before offered any American girl
The Bridegroom.
Mr.. Longworth is the only son Of the
late Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati,
one Of the wealthy men Of the Ohio me-
:tropolis a generation ago, but is not,
as has been reported, a man of great
wealth. He is SO years Of age, tall
with broad shoulders, and has most
pleasing manners. He is desirable
dinner guest, good singer, can make a
clever speech and be as attractive as a
wealthy and cultured young bachelor
can make himself. Withal he is modest
and unassuming, and can adapt himself
to the plainest Of his acquaintance as
well as to the smartest members Of So
s ciety. He was graduated from Harvard
in the class of 1891 and admitted to
the bar of Cincinnati in 1894. He is
now serving his second term as repre-
sentative from the first Ohio district
He is a member Of the Metropolitan
Alibi and Chevy Chase clubs in this
city, and is we'll known in New York
and Boston. -l'
His mother has for several years had a
summer home on the coast Of Massachu
sets, where Miss Roosevelt was he1
guest in the summer of 1904. Early ii
the past summer she made visit tc
Cincinnati, where she was entertained
BY her future sister-in-law, Mrs. Wal
lingford, at the Longworth home, sc
that she is already well known to he1
afuture relatives. -....-
The Longworth fortune was left to thu
mother Of the family, who does with i
as she pleases until her death. On
daughter married the Count de Cham
brun, eldest brother Of Vicomte- d
Chambrun of the French embassy here
who, when he first came, was one O
Miss Roosevelt's intimate friends. L
j fact society remarked two winters ag
upon the close Friendship between Mis-
Roosevelt, Countess Marguerite Cassin:
daughter of the former Russian ambas
sador, Representative Longworth an
Vicomte de Chambrun. The four wer
always together, and each Of the me
seemed impartially devoted to tn
young women.
Last winter the Russian Japanese wa
threw the young countess into officis
mourning, and she dropped out of tn
quartet. And then it was that M
Longworth and Miss Roosevelt began t
show a decided preference for each otl
er's society. They met constantly, an
when not together in society they wer
enjoying automobile rides over tn
thorofares Of the capital or it's suburb
White House Weddings.
The wedding of Mr.. Longworth an
Miss Roosevelt will be the first to tax
place in the white House since the ma
rage Of President Cleveland to Mis-
Frances Folsom, in 1885. That was til
first time that president was Marie
in the executive mansion, and the o.
casion was celebrated in manner
make it memorable. III
The first White House wedding wa
that of Miss Maria Monroe, younges
daughter Of President Monroe, who wa
married in March, 1920, to Samuel ]
Gouverneur, Of New York. Only tn
relatives, and most intimate friends {
the bride and bridegroom were aske
to this wedding, but just one wee
later large reception was held in tt
White House for them, when the bride
maids and groomsmen were all prese1
in state. The bridal festivities WEI
cut short by the death of Commodo1
Decatur, who had, with his wife, give
the newly welded pair a brilliant ba
just after the White House reception.
Miss Elizabeth Tyler, daughter
President and Mrs. John Tyler, W;
married in the east room Jan. 81, 1874
to William Waller Of Williamsburg, V
She was in her nineteenth year. Th
was a brilliant affair, attended, as tt
records say, by 'tMrs. Madison, Il
members Of the cabinet, with the
wives and daughters, the foreign mi
listers near the government, and pc
sonal friends outside the family an
their relatives
Nellie Grants Wedding.
The next elaborate wedding in Il
east room was that Of Nellie Graz
daughter Of President and Mrs. Graz
who was married May 81, 1874,
Algernon Sartoris of England. The
are many people today who rememb
this function. The bride was 10 al
the groom %. About 200 guests we
present, including officials Of the go
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