The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1906-02-22
FROM CRADLE TO ALTAR.
Dorm Under sad circumstances, the
Drfde's Girlho0d Was Happy.

ed upon the old-fashioned, roomy home at
|6 West Fifty-seventh street, New York,
to which he had but n short while before
brought his bride. Alice Hathaway Lee OF
Boston, and where the young couple had
dwelt in happiness with his mother, Mar
| tha Bullock Roosevelt. He was then
member of the Legislature, but had been
required to spend much of his time at
home, on account of his mothers illness
and because. Feb. IL, of the same year,
little girl had been born into the family
whom he named Alice Lee. 1t was n
pathetic entrance into life-that of this
word-loved bride of to-day. When she
was three days old the crepe on the door
was the symbol that death had claimed
both the lovely young mother from the
North and the soft-voiced grandmother
from the South. On the 10th of Febru-
ary the two bodies were carried from the
same church to the same cemetery and
laid side by side in the same lot. Fight
| ing against the despair which seized upon
his soul, Assemblyman Roosevelt returned
to his cheerless home. The motherless
babe he conlided to the care of n sister,
now the wife of Commander w. s.
Cowles of the United States navy, and
he fed from the scene Of his heart-break-
| ing experiences to the ranch of the Nal
tese Cross, in Dakota. Every American
who can read knows the history of the
Roosevelts from that time on.
| After three years, the widowed father
married Miss Edith Carew, n friend OF
| his childhood. Her attachment to the
child instantly followed the first acquaint-
ance and as the years have ripened this,
the relationship has become as close. the
sympathy and affection as tender and sim
cere as that between natural mother
and her child, and the pride of the mis-
tress Of the White House in the fair.
slender girl with whom tIv whole world
is in love could not be greater had the
love-light which first greeted the baby
Alice shone in her own eyes. She helped
the father to make the girls childhood
an ideally happy one.
The girlhood days Of Miss Alice were
divided between Oyster Bay, New York
City, Washington and Albany. She was
IA when her father went to the Spanish
war. She was not quite 10 when the fam
lily took possession of the executive man.
sion Mt Albany and but little past II
when her father became Vice President.
She was preparing to make her debut in
the Bellamy Storer mansion at Washing
ton, when the assassination of President
Mckinley changed all the, family plans.
1t was several months after entering the
White House that the eyes of the country
began to catch glimpses of this charming
young occupant of the presidential home.
Hitherto she had attracted no attention,
: but as the daughter Of an exceptionally
, popular President she soon became an OBJ
, iopt nf fhop nrJiu iua arv inf Enrlv
!, in January, 1902, she made her debut to
society at ball in the East room,
where she stood Saturday as n bride.
Four years have transformed the slim,
unconventional debutante into the self
possessed, self-reliant and well-poised
bride at whose marriage altar the ma
. tions of the earth have laid their gifts.
| The great series of events of Miss
| Roosevelt's life came in the tour of the
Orient last summer, with Secretary Taft
and his party and chapeIoned by some of
the foremost matrons of he country. The
, trumphal pageant began at San Fran
cisco, where Representative Longworth
Joined the party. At Manila she received
royal welcome and clad IN viceregal
, gown was hailed as Princess Alice. She
had private audience with the Dowager
| T1IuDTcSS Ol SlllIu lht Ptopic u
; Japan called her the American princess
: and printed postal cards in her honor.
, The Sultan of Sulu, lineal descendant OF
, Mohammed, asked her to marry him.. An
other asked the same privilege-whether
, upon the moonlit deck Of the Manchuria
, or upon the beautiful inland sea of Japan,
5 or amid the palms of the Moro country,
/. or as they sat among the cherry blossoms
0 and lotus buds of the Mikado's gardens
, only they know. The answer to the pro
r posal of the young man from Cincinnati
who was the son Of her fathers friend
Q was an aye. The formal announcement
: of the engagement was withheld until the
e President made it at the White Houst
Q Besides the tours above outlined, Miss
r Roosevelt has visited Cuba and Porto
t Rico and there, as elsewhere, the people
. | thrOnCed to meet her,