The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-02-22

Nicholas Longworth and Alice Rooec~
Welt were married nt thc home of the
brides parents in Washington at noon
Saturday. several thousand columns OF
sush were wri ton about the event by
the Washington correspondents. but the
real facts Of the matter were not touched
upon. For that mntter the rtal facts
about wedding are seldom touched up
ON by the newspapers unless 1T hap-
pens TO be military IN its nature. The
bride about whom SO much fuss was
made is somewhat wilful and head
strong girl and has broken into the
foolish columns a good many times since
She made her debut four or five years
ago. We all do foolish things. however,
and Miss Roosevelt was probably not
greatly different from the common run.
She wasn't very popular In society cir
cles either in Washington or elsewhere,
although her position gave her a great
deal OF prominence. The correspondents
tried TO create the impression that the
bride i3 beautiful but as a matter OF
fact she Is plain OF feature ANA not es-
peciany attractive. An o. the Roose-
welt children are homciy trait OF feat
ure they Inherited honestly Miss
Roosevelt was e2 ANA 100 young 10 mar
~ anybody. The groom gave his age
as 81. but Topeka man who played
with him as "a boy says hc is either a
or A.. SIN e you were n or ~ ana were
marrying girl as young 49, Alice you
would probably shave three or four
years on your age Thp sroOm seems
10 Doe a good deal OF plug. Although
he has had every advantage money aud
leisure could give he never did anything
worth mentioning. lie inherited several
million dollars. has never had TO hustle
| for himself and II left to his own de-
/ vices would probably do Wen to get q
joA of SIS week. lie got into congress
! through George H. Cox, the notorious
/ Cincinnati boss, ana probably put ur
| literally tn the campaign fund. In con
gress he has been "a good deal Of "a figure
head. The groom conducted himself
4 tiouahout the ante-nupual ordeal
fairly We'll making only two usinine
/ breaks. one was his aftcrdinner speach
in Philadelphia The other WIS his
promise 90 Bishop satterloe 10 go o.
church Every sunday. The man who g.
sincere IN hls religious views goes IA
churon as matter Of cholce He doesn't
need 20 be- caioled or buulcd into going
/ THE Satterlce iocidpnt proves uat Sick
I hc viii never amount no anything And
80 there Is nothing very good on very
bad about either OF the contracting par
I Ties. They seem 90 be about average
/ young people and had 70 not becn fof
his money ana her prominence hey
would have gotten no more than tan
line wedding notice in the papers of the
town In which they lived The Amsn-
can people acted like "ninnies" about
the wedding but as the American pco-
pie always act mo "nlnny' when occas-
ion oners That tact should create no sur
prise.
Mr and Mrs. }. E Piclsard were her
wednesday from Perry.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Cockrum win re-
move this week into "a comfortable resi-
dence az ozs East Noble avenue.
Miss corrinc stevens arrived ia The
city this afternoon from Alva and viii
be here the remainder Of the week
spending a Few days % vacauoa with
home folks ar. and Mrs. J. L. Stevens.
on East Cleveland avenue.
Mrs. r. W. Ramsay returned homo
"Wednesday afternoon from an extended
eastern trip on which she accompanied
Mr. Ramsay Together they visited 80
Washington ana were received By Presi-
dent Roosevelt Mfs. Ramsay states
that the president himself assured them
that statehood would not be- denied the
territory an the present session ~ con-
gress. Mr. Ramsay is stin in she East
and is expected home the last Of the
week seiia6
Rev. A. b. Nicholas returned this
morning from ~ Reno where he went
Wednesday 10 perform marriage