The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-24

the one woman visitor expected on
New Years day. In3nthis her last
maiden season her presence will be
particularly acceptable and give added
charm to each event of the afternoon.
Miss Roosevelt has no regret in alb
dicating a greater position as maid to
accept less exalted place as matron,
for the reason that SIZE is genuinely
in love, and in following the dictates
Of her own heart viii find the truest
and best happiness. Mr.. :Longworth
is just starting on his second term in
congress, so that Washington will be
their home for two seasons at least
altho it will be in Cincinnati they will
make their permanent residence.
| On the subject Of her honeymoon
Journey, which is to be Of short dura-
tion, Miss Roosevelt is very practical,
and within week after her wedding
day will probably assume the RESPONSE
bilities of her new home on Eight
,eenth street, which Mr.. Longworth is
now occupying, and where he and his
bride expect to spend the spring, or as
long period as the bridegroom s
duties will keep him in Washington.
| This future residence Of the presi-
dent IS daughter is a comparatively
new house, on Eighteenth and / streets.
Being downtown, as the fashionable
quarter is measured, it is near the
White House; in fact, only two short
blocks away from the west gate. 1t
was built ten or twelve years ago by
DR.. and Mrs. John Davies Jones; the
latter is now widow and lives abroad
Of red brick, on Che English basement
plan, fronting on Eighteenth street, it
is. not especially attractive from an
architectural viewpoint, but is commo
dious, well-furnished, and perfectly
adapted to the wants of small fam
lily, even with the hospitable instincts
to be expected from the most con
spicuous bride and bridegroom Of then
generation.
From the well-known views SO fire.
quently expressed in Mrs. Roosevelt :
personal entertaining, it is likely the
wedding will be more of a family rath
er than an official ceremony, follow
ing the lines laid down at the time Of
the debut of the bride, when two
thirds Of the 700 guests were the per
sonal friends Of the hosts in New York
Boston and Washington, and oficia
position did not insure an invitation
to that first White House dance O.
many years. j.
i A summer trip to England and tn
continent, probably in June, has al
ready been decided upon, with a visi
to London and presentation at court
also a series of visits in France
where Mr.. Longworth has a sister an
cousin, each married to a Count d
Chambrun. With this tour OF Europ
the president IS daughter will have bee
pretty nearly around the world an
received the homage Of every natio,
and degree Of mankind, from the saw
ages of Zamboango to the courtiers o
Buckingham palace. Her travels of tn
past three years began with a trip t
j Cuba even before her formal debut i
1902, when she was the guest OF tn
. governor of the island and Mrs. Leon
ard Wood at the palace in Havana. TIL
next year she visited New Orleans dun
: ing the Mardi Gras season, when sh
| was practically the guest of the city
She was entertained in seml-otflcla
, manner at the st. Louis exposition b
President Francis and most of the fol
eign commissioners, altho visiting tn
daughter of private citizen, while i
the now famous trip to the Philippine
she was received with little less after
5 ton than the secretary of war, who's
progress thru the islands was OF
: distinctly official character.
81 AS the sponsor OF the Meteor, tn
! German emperor's American-buil
yacht, she achieved an internations
= reputation three years ago, dividin
$ honors with Prince Henry of Prussi
on the occasion Of the various fe'
9 tivities incidental to the visit Of til
emperor s brother. Should she go t