The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-01
SOCIAL AND
PERSONAL
Pussy Willows.

= z They Will pass With dylils oas
A,nyriaa Of white heads popping from, the
4 buds 5E. n, ss8
peep. little white heads. peep,
~ j. gentle rain is falling---openI wide your
hearts,
And forth from Your cradles creep.
rho willow trees aglisten, Will, dancing
\ pussies gay g
Yes, little pissies-glisten.
{ The world begins TO sparkle Win inc
glory OF early Spring
TO the music of her voice, dears---listen.
a million little pussies in coats Of silver
sS2a fur,
Up in the branches swinging.
L The naughty sun is peeping--a il--no~ ne
sEaS stole q kiss
And the pussy willows nll are singing.
agnes Lockhart Hughes, in April Recre.
alton.
Rumored Engagement.
Town Topics, a weekly New York
+ eocfety Journal has published the follow
ing story Of the engagement OF Miss Alice
Roosevelt. the daughter of the President,
which says:
Miss Alice Roosevelt has surrendered
her heart and promised her hand, and
4 jeweled token OF her marriage engage
ment. The successful wooer is the elo- !,
ii o,lent Boy Orator of the Wabash. Sena-
I Tor Albert j. Beveridge. of Indiana, and
1 The formal announcement of the betrothal
will be made at Easter.
THE news has just come from Wash
Il ingol, whence ! also learned that Presl-
f dent Roosevelt is more than pleased, and
has given the happy pair his paternal
7 benediction. l have noticed for some
months past a most agreeable change In
the department Of tho fair Princess Alice
y She has grown more wonanly, more dig
z nified and altogether more lovable. She
has put away her frivolity3 while still re-
tanning much Of her charm of uncon-
ventionality, and the reason Is now clear
4 She is in love. s, Fl
Senator Beveridgc Is a widower. His
a first wife was Miss Katharine Langsda!e.
of Greencastle, Ind, who died In 1900. The
y senatoris self-made. He attended high
school at Sullivan, Ill. Later. he read
II law, in the office Of Senator Mcdonald
y and after this, being admitted to the
Il bar, became associated with the law firm
81 Of Mcdonald and Butler, with whom he
remained until beginning practice for him
h self. s5 ,.5ts Z. 8i5.8$ /, * AZ
'"'As a Republican campaign speaker he
81 has for years been pre-eminent.
The Baltimore Herald adds:
Miss Roosevelt was twenty-one years
y old February 18th last She is the only
y child of the President and his first wife,
II who was Miss Alice Lee, of Boston. She
IS slender, a little below the medium in
Il height, has soft blue eyes. a fair COM
& plexion. and a wealth Of light brown hair
IN In manner Miss Roosevelt is frank and
y open, self-reiant and democratic She
& was educated at home by a governess,
who had also taught her mother She
received a thorough musical training al
though she had no taste for music. She
speaks. French and German thoroughly
X and has been known to carry on con-
yersation in Russian. In literature har
taste is for poetry rather than prose.
Y She seldom reads a novel. .4I
Her social debut was made at a CO.
4 tillon given in the White House on her
eighteenth birthday February II, 1902.
ISIS Roosevelts .engagementato various
(. Young statesmen and diplomats at WASH
ington has been rumored many times,
( and 1t was even reported once that En-
a peror William of Germany had sought
her hand for his eldest son. the Crown
q Prince, who Is now safely betro thed to
Fl "a German princess. Congressman Nicholas
4 Longworth, a young millionaire Of Ch,-
" cinnati, Is one Of the most devoted of
f her admirers, and 1t is generally believed
Z. that she could have been Mrs. Iongworth
Cutting, Of Boston,, is another young Croe-
) eus9 in her train, and several of the more
Il callow secretaries of legation at the capi-
tai have openly paid court to her. Others
whose names have been connected with
\ hers are:
Lieutenant John Greenway, of Roosc-
y velt's Rough Riders.
'Viscount Charles de Chambrun, OF the
French embassy. Il 4.
Crown Prince GGstaf"Auolphus, OF swe-
4 den and Norway. Fl
'viscount de Alte minister from Portu-
+ gal. fis
Count Conrad 1Iochberg, of Germany.
ii Congressman Frederick H. Gillett, OF
4 Massa husctts. 1 lig6 s8
Lieutenant Robert Sterling Clark.
United States navy.
.'Dr. Theodor Lewald, German imperial
commissioner to tho st. Louis Fair"
Fields-Baker. I'd
" Miss Elizabeth Baker and DR.. NJ G.
& Fields. OF Grnyson county Va, were
q married at p. NJ. March 23th, In the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Baker, OF
4 no. 627 Anderson Street. Bristol, Va. The
Z bride. who Is an accomplished graduate
s OF Martha Washington College, was;
charming In bridal attire. The groom is
& one Of the leading physicians of Grayson
A county. Mr.. and Mrs, Fields will have
E their home at Independence.
Art Afternoon at Club.
X Mrs. John c. Robertson, OF Forest Hill,
will be chairman of an afternoon devoted
.9 TO the consideration of art at the Wo-
mans Club, Mrs. Robertson has been
80 fortunate as 10 induce Miss IIarriotte
ss Lee Taliaferro to give an: informal leo
ture on student life In Munich" Spe-
Il cial guests OF the afternoon Will be Miss
+ Adele Williams, Miss Florence McRae.
AZ Admiral Webster, Miss Bessie Seden aud
Mrs. NJ. G. Patterson.
Stickley-Gregory.
The wedding Of Miss Carrie 3. Gregory
the daughter Of Mr.. John M. Gregory,
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