The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05
400 INVITATIONS.
List for White House Wedding Has
Grown Greatly.

Washington, Feb 5.-The original
number of invitations ordered for the
wedding of Miss Roosevelt and Mr.
Longworth was $500. The number has
grown in small additions to 4,70O, this
number including, of course, the invita-
tons which have gone around the
world.
Only about 1000 Of these invitations
were sent to people in Washington. In
striking contrast is the number of
guests who were hidden to the wedding
of Nellie Grant and Mr.. Sartoris May
81. 1874. Three hundred of these were
| issued. all told, and not more than 200
guests were present at the wedding
The ceremony took place in the East
room. The bride was only 19 years old.
She was. like the bride of this month.
the daughter of the youngest president,
for General Grant was, up to his time,
the youngest, as Theodore Roosevelt is
now the youngest.
In the case of Nellie Grant, the bride
and bridegroom sailed Immediately for
| their future home in England while the
bride and bridegroom of February II,
1906, viii take only short bridal trip,
/ probabl SOUTH and return to their
winter home in this city for the spring
| season. Mr.. Sartoris and his bride were
| accompanied to New York by the presi-
dent and Mrs Grant and all Of their
other children, who wished the couple
| God speed on their sea voyage as we'll
as the matrimonial voyage. Represen-
tative Longworth will leave Washing
/ ton with his bride alone, their destina-
ton to be kept. as far as possible and
as long as possible, "a secret.
Miss Roosevelt returned from her
strenuous trip tc New York with half a
/ carload of trunks and boxes. The con-
! tents of these are guarded as if they
were diamonds, only one or two mem
bers of the family having been taken
/ into the secrets of the gowns, lingerie
and hats of the bride-elect. The long
lists of garments In dozens and two
| dozens which have been published are
entirely wrong. Miss Roosevelt herself
4 is authority for the statement, through
an intimate friend, that her trOusseau
! would be extremely simple and entirely
/ sensible, for she expected to spend the
! summer abroad and would then add to
4 her garments such things as she most
wanted and could better buy in her
i travels She has had much money to
spend upon these interesting clothes
from her father, her maternal grand
mother, Mrs. Lee in Boston, and her
/ own fortune but she will not use this,
/ by any means.
/ Much Of the lingerie has been made
I here in Washington by nuns who DO the
! French hand work quite a s beautifully as
/ it is done in Paris. All that was not done
/ here was brought to Miss Roosevelt by
/ her sister-in-laW elect. the Countess de
/ Chambrun. who is now the guest of her
1 mother and brother in Washington. A
handsome collection of silk hose, gloves
and laces were also brought over by the
/ countess for Miss Roosevelt.
The wedding gown will be what was
/ first announced, court train effect OF
! brocaded satin. manufactured in Pater-
| son, N J., with a petticOat of the rich
/ est and heaviest white satin that ever
bride was adorned with. That it will be
1 trimmed with the old rose point lace
which her mother wore at her wedding
1 is known beyond dispute.
Between now and the wedding day
there are still many hostesses who will
claim the privilege of entertaining Miss
Roosevelt and Mr.. Longworth Miss Nc
MILAN. daughter of the senator from
| Michigan, will be their hostess one even
ing next week as will Mrs. Longworth
I the mother of the bridegroom elect. Mrs
| LongWorth will also entertain Miss
/ Roosevelt and the Countess de Chambrur
at a luncheon February s, and in facf
almost every day during the next tWr
weeks will have its function of specia
Importance for the daughter of the presi-
! dent. She is taking these hospitalities
and tributes most graeiously.