Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-16
Of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt

and those of Miss Alice.
| Society has never ceased to feel dis
appointed that season after season
went by without at least one ball for
i young people at the White House.
Miss Roosevelt will be the first
presidents daughter TO be married
from the executive mansion since Nell
lie Grant. and the first bride since
Frances Folsom came to Washington
to become Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
The marriage ceremony will un-
doubtedly be performed in the blue
room This is the state aparm ent of
the White House All formal enter
tainments have their center here and
it has come to be known as the diplo-
matte room, inasmuch as it is here
that members of the diplomatic corps
present their credentials to the Presi-
dent, and is the room to which special
guests of the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt are asked during state re-
ceptions
/ Wedding to Be Conspicuous Event.
1t is much too early to predict the
personnel of the wedding party, but
there is no doubt that it will combine
every feature toward making it the
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President Roosevelt's administration.
Miss Roosevelt's particular friend at
the present time is Miss. Josephine
Boardman, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
/ William J. Boardman, who was one of
her companions on the trip to the
Philippines. Miss Boardman manifest
| ly shared the confidence Of Miss Roose-
welt and Mr. Longworth on that trip
and will probably be one of the group
of girls from which the Presidents
daughter will select her maid of honor.
Interest in Miss Roosevelt's party
has not been confined to her maids.
There are just as many men to be
! provided, but those who know Mr..
Longworth we'll can easily put their
/ finger on his best man. His oldest
and most intimate friend is Represen-
tative Frederick Hunting Gillett of
Massachusetts. Mr.. Longworth and
Mr.. Gillett are inseparable while in
/ Washington and both in their official
and social duties are seen in the same
! places. Both are in constant demand
for dinner and theatre parties
and there is hardly any question as to
Mr.. Gillett's service as best man for
Mr.. Longworth.
Viscount May Act as Usher.
Another old friend of the Ohio rep
resentative who will, of course officiate
i'll some capacity at the wedding Is
Representative Butler Ames of Massa-
chusetts. Mr. Ames is conspicuous
/ figure in social affairs at the capital
and is special favorite with Miss
Roosevelt The Viscount de Cham
brun secretary of the French embas-
sy, through virtue of his friendship for
both Miss Roosevelt and Mr.. Long
worth, probably will be numbered
among the ushers. The viscount is
now in Paris on short visit, but will
Z; turn to Washington in few weeks.
/ There is long list of army and nav
al officers from which some of the ush-
ers will be selected. The Presidents
aides, past and present, have been well
them may serve.
Feminine interest attaches to Miss
Roosevelt's wedding gown, which it is
said, was one of the mysterious boxes
which came from the Philippines and
Japan. Among the gorgeous silks and
crepes which were showered on Miss
Roosevelt in the east there is one par
ticular package which will probably be
shown for the first time to the public
eye as the wedding gown.
! Miss Roosevelt attends st. Johns
Episcopal church here. and it is pre-
sumed that the ceremony will be per-
formed by the rector of that church.
Lonsworth's Biography by Himself.
This is the biography of Represen-
tative Longworth, furnished to the
Congressional Directory by HIMSELF
the first district of Cincinnati, was
born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1869.
! His preliminary education was at
! Franklin school, in Cincinnati; grad
uated A. b., from Harvard university
+ 1891; spent one year at Harvard law
/ school and graduated at the Cincin-
\ natl law school, 1894. Was admitted
to the bar 1894; was a member of the
school board of Cincinnati, 1893, was
elected to the Ohio house of represen-
tatives 1899, and to the Ohio senate,
1901; was elected to the fifty-eighth
congress and reelected to the fifty
/ ninth congress, receiving 32,105 votes
/ to 1851 for B. w. Campbell, demo-
crat, 231 for John Robertson, prohibi-
/ zionist, and 2,737 for B. w. Mason, So
cialist."
Is Somewhat of an Athlete.
! Longworth is somewhat Of an ath-
! lete. He used to be a champion golfer
/ in the Cincinnati district. He has also
! had his fun. Once, on a wager, he
4 drove a golf ball from the front door
I of the st. Nicholas hotel TO Covington
in a certain number of strokes,
! through the city streets. He won his
bet, but had to pay for several broken
windows. On this exhibition of his
| DrOweSS he WAS followed through the
streets by a large crowd
'Longworth is generally spoken of by
! those who know him as a good fell
low" He is polite. amiable, reconciled
TO his own limitation, which lead him
in the direction of society rather than