The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-02-09

many letters and one Of whose violins
he owned. Later he traded this instru-
ment and another almost equally OK
pensive for $4,000 Stradivarius. pay
ing $1,000 Ito boot" He attends all the
best musical concerts and is an en-
thusiaSt ON the divine art
In appearance the prospective son-in-
law Of the president is rather above
medium height. OF an athletic build
and an easy. quick and graceful car
riag2. His face seems rather long,
which effect is heightened by an alb
normally high forehead, partially due
to badness. This gives an intellectual
cast to a countcnance whose features,
while regular and handsome, are not
especially distinctive. In manner he is
not eflusiyc, but CHEEKY ana cordial
He is Il good story teller and a hail
fellow with every body. He is cautious
about going into new enterprises, but
once in lie lends the whole energy Of
his character to whatever he has to do
Mr.. Longworths Cincinnati home is
a square, old fashioned mansion. half
hidden in vines and called Rock
wood. 1t is situated on the Grandin
road and is surrounded by ample
grounds beautilied by the highest art
of a landscape gardener. The house
itself of which Alice Roosevelt is to
be the future mistress contains rare
paintings and art collections. the music
room being especially notable.
1t is in Mr.. Longworth's Washington
house, however. that the newly married
couple will spend most of their time
for at least the next two years owing
to his congressional duties. This man
sion, situated at Eighteenth and Q
streets, only two or three blocks from
the White House. Is already pointed
ont to those seeing Washington" The
house is spacious, but unpretentious in
appearance, and already contains near
ly as notable collection of tapestries,
paintings and other works of art as
the Cincinnati home. To these will be
added the presents given to the bride
on her trip TO the far east, where Japs,
Chinese and Filipinos wed with each
other in bestowing costly souvenirs on
the white princess" as they persisted
in calling the daughter of the American
executive. The tariff duties alone on
these articles is said to have amounted
to $1,000.
AS to the bride herself. she has been
in the public eye so much for the past
four years that it is hardly worth
while to recount here her triumphs, So
cial and otherwise. To say that during
this time she has been easily the most
conspicuous young woman in the world
is but to repeat what has been said
often before, both in her own land and
abroad. From the day in 1902 when
she christened the kaiser's yacht Me-
teOr to the present few weeks have
passed that her name has not been in
the papers This has not been alone
due to the fact that she is her fathers
daughter, but in no small degree has
been owing to her own piquant, indie
pendent and vivacious personality. She
is in love with life and gets the joy out
Of everything. That initial public event
in which she stood with Prince Henry
and her father and broke the bottle Of
champagne over the prov of the Ger
man emperor's yacht occurred in Feb
ruary, by the way. The short month is
red letter one in her career, il
seems, as it is to see her marriage, as
it saw her birth. which occurred TWEEN
ty-two years ago.
Her mother, formerly a Miss Lee of
Boston, died three days after the birth
of Alice, but the second Mrs. Roose-
welt, whom the president married three
years later, has been more than q
mother to the girl Miss Roosevelt
was educated in private schools till
she was eighteen, when she made her
debut in Washington society. Before
that event not little of her time was
spent with her mothers people in Bos.
ton. In the vicinity of their Brook.