The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-04
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Secretary Taft and Mrs. Taft enter
tanned last week the engagement
party, = as the participants in last sum
mer S Philippine trip are designated.
Miss Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth
received congratulations anew, but the
second engaged couple, Miss Mignon
Critten Of Staten Island,s New York,
and Representative Swager Sherley of
Kentucky also received a full share of
attention. The secretary of, war aroused
curiosity by: limiting that the Philippine
iunket had produced a third romance,
Of which details would be furnished
later. There was much quizzing of SEN
ator Warren Of Wyoming, with the inn
preston that he. is the third victim Of
Cupid.
The entertainment consisted Of dim
ner and reception. Miss Roosevelt and
Mr.. Longworth were the guests of honor
at dinner, and Miss Critten and Repre-
sentative sherley were next in favor.
Only small company was asked to the
dinner, the remaining members Of the
Philippine party being invited to the
reception at 9 o'clock.
When the new Japanese ambassador
makes his bow at the White House he
will be accompanied by woman who
will appeal strongly to the American
lover Of romance. She belongs to an
aristocratic German family and has
been his wife for more than thirty
wears. She suffered social orstracism in
4 her own country for being married to
an oriental. Her father was a minor
court official in Berlin when the young
Viscount Aoki was an under secretary
! Of the Japanese legation. The mar
!: rage was the result Of love, but the
iron chancellor refused to let her be re
ceived at court and the viscount wa'
recalled. to Toxic. He is now close tx
the emperor and one Of his most influ
entail statesmen in the kingdom. II
the American capital the viscountes
need have no anxiety about the name
of her reception. But 1t will be inter
esting to note the attitudefof the Ger
man embassy staff. @s=.555 ..S..5
When Mrs. Charles j. Bonapart
stood with Mrs. Roosevelt to receiv
. guests at the New Year S reception il
the White House she wore historic dia
monds and pearls: They were not tn
, Jewels which. had formed the dover o
Martha Patterson, of Baltimore, swhe
she became the wife Of the tickle Je
e rome Bonaparte. These diamonds wer
: sent to the mother Of the secretary Q
: the navy by Napoleon Ill, and the
:: were part Of the private fortune lei
l by the king Of :Westphalia.h Jerome ha
q intended them for his American wifi
but when he yielded to the. command
b of the emperor and, discarded her, the
+ were placed in the care Of Londo
bankers. They remained undisturbe
until the third Napoleon assembled tn
) throne Of France and made restitutio
Y in the name of his dead uncle. I'll
= Jewels were equally. divided betwee
9 the brothers, Charles jerome Bonapar1
q and Louis Jerome Bonaparte, now dea
r The wife of the secretary Of the nav
. had much of the lace, silk and line
y which Martha Patterson used in h
. trousseau. = ... y -:
Q Beyond oil question Miss Anna Coo
y rell, daughter Of the staid old intersta
e commerce commissioner and form
-, senator from Missouri, Francis Marie
# Cockrell, is the most " sought after
/ young woman in Washington societ
:, She IS asked everywhersy aand, lin fax
It when society events ared*coincfde
), there is always a rivalry among he
RI tesses to secure Miss Cockrell's pre-
t. ence, for this Missouri girl has much
le. the personality Of her father, wi
e-sI counts all men friends. ~. It.
dil Miss Cockren is a striking girl and
le* fond Of gowns Of striking colors, viii