Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-08
COMMENT ON MISS ROOSEVELT
Coming Marriage of Presidents
Daughter of Interest in Great
Britain.

! he Bee line t1lenuS OF congressman
| Nicholas Longworth have received letters
| informing them that he does not expect to
visit Europe Immediately after his marriage
| to Miss Alice Roosevelt. In fact he hardly
thinks 1t likely that he will cross the water
with his bride until after the adjourn
ment of congress
A great deal of interest is being taken
/ on this side OF the water in the approach
/ ing marriage Of the presidents daughter
! ana her congressional husband. AS may
/ readily be imagined neither the people nor
the newspapers are able at times to quite
make out the exact status of this "Ameri-
can princess" This is shown i'm a signif-
! cant manner by the fact that while Nor
way was hesitating as to the occupant of
! It's throne it was gravely suggested that
Miss Roosevelt should be elected the Nor
/ wegian queen.
! AS an indication OF the interest taken in
the approaching wedding a writer in the
London Daily Express says:
Strenuousness runs in the Roosevelt fam
/ lily. The president of the United States
/ might have taken as his motto "NVhatso-
eyer thy hand findeth thee to do, do it with
az my might and Miss Alice Roosevelt.
whose engagement is just announced is
! nElhs up to the family tradition. In 1901
Mhen her father first went to the White
rouse she was IL years old. In the fol-
lowing spring she performed her first public
JUNCTION In christening the kaiser's yacht,
! me Meteor-a suggestive enough fact CON
sldcIlng the many qualities kaiser and
/ president have in common. Since then Alice
I honseSeit mas been a public character.
: indeed the American newspapers habitually
! devote FAR more space to her doings than
any European paper thinks IL necessary to
DEVOTE to any royal princess.
Miss Roosevelt walks magnifcently with
me assured Il own the earth" manner
GhEaracteristic OF the American girl, Of
mlrable type. She is self reliant, energetic.
4niLectionate, humorous; Indeed. Miss
I Roosevelt is the American woman. that
new GIT of the fates who moved Paul
Bourget to admiration Miss Roosevelt is
a worker. In one year on account OF her
$50 teas, 27l receptions and 10 dances; made
over 500 calls and shook hands with more
than 10000 people. Truly an awesome rec
But the tea parties and receptions do not
exhaust Miss Roosevelt's activities She
owns motor car. which she drives herself
the first American woman to go down in
submarine, taking a trip to the bottom
Belle of New York; in the Moccasn in
September. 1903. and enjoying the trip very
much. She is reported to have dived fully
dressed. into the canvas bathing tank on
the dock OF the NagasaR during her tour
In the far east This exploit was abso-
lutely what English school boys call doing
days" Miss Roosevelt challenged Mr.. Con-
gresham Longworth, WHO she Is now going
TO marry, to take the plunge. but he de-
at the time he was, according to the re-
ports; styiishly arrayed In a blue coat
d de n had 5 But MISS roosevelt
| congressman in his brave array. And IL
would not be surprising i his heroism won
welt could hardly be her fathers daughter
without studying Carlyle and "Sartor Re-
sartus' had doubtless taught her the real
value or stylish array.
This tour I'm the Pacific made in COM
pany with Mr. Secretary Taft brought Miss
sEs a st %ore sa into the RGbc
all of the honors OF princess 1t was
stated that she had received many offers
costly presents. But Miss Roosevelt re-
turned quite unspoed-it takes so much to
spoil or even astonish genuine American
but I am glad to get back" was her sum
mary of the trip. Possibly her semi-regal
honors annoy her, more probably they just
1t is by no means only in Asia that Miss
Roosevelt Is Princess Alice" In her own
plain clothes Officers to protect her from
mobbing by her ELUSIVE countrywomen.
And in theaters and even in churches the
audiences and congregations hahitually
stand until Miss Roosevelt is seated and
again when she leaves the building
Naturally stern republicans strongly dis
approve OF the position OF Miss Roosevelt
and the Difference shown to her. Indeed
one fervent French writer has used her
career to point the moral that man
should be elected president of the republic
who has daughter. But after all, no peo-
pie love "A monarch quite much as re-
publicans. And the American devotion to
so charming an American girl is quite
pretty and quite harmless since she is
soon to retire from the glare Of publicity
into the quiet of domcstlCty.
1t has been said that the Princess Alice
has humor. The following story may be
quoted as proof: Miss Roosevelt was at a
luncheon where there was an American
woman who had lived much abroad. The
latter was telling of an Italian cabmau
who boosted that he had been married
! twenty-five years and that his wife had
! presented him with twenty children in
that time. Mindful of the president
| speeches on race suicide Miss Alice replied
without hesitation, How father would love
that man
T II is said that nowhere more than in
England are the wishes for the future
happiness of this unconventional, keen girl
. with her buDbliug Joy Of life" more sin
Cere and more universal.