The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-12

make an appreciable difference in the
/, White House, where, from her debut
to her marriage, Alice Roosevelt reign
ed enc of the really great bellies in
! American history. Miss Ethel Roose-
welt the only remaining daughter of
the president, is just fifteen, and not
withstanding the occasional use of her
name on the top line Of the debutante
roll, she returns to school Monday.
Miss Ethel who possesses many of
the attractive qualities of her elder
sister, and the same marked resem-
blance to their father, is not likely
to be reckOned upon In any social hap
pening more important that birthday
or Christmas party. Mrs. Roosevelt
belonging to that wise but all too
small class Of mothers holding the old
fashioned idea that a fifteen-year-old
girl should find her chief interest IN
life In her books and her home.
The Vice President and Mrs. Fair
banks, whose home on K street, op-
posite Farragut Square, was second
only to the White House last season
in the number and brilliancy of its
entertainments, unless called TO
Washington bv an extra session of
congress. will pass the next six weeks
at their Indiana home. All the cabi-
net families are already in their Wash
ingtcn homes with the exception of
the Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
Shaw, who are in Iowa.
The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Root are now occupying their sixth
Washington residence, having lust
taken the large house on Rhode Is
land avenue owned by former Vice
President Levi P. Merton. but more
recently occupied by the former Rus
sian Ambassador, Count Cassini, and
under the reign CT his daughter, tine
brilliant Countess Marguerite, the
| merriest house in Washington. Since
the Cassini occupancy, the house has
been completely refurnished, so that
Mrs. Root will be the mistress of
practically a new home. luxury she
has heretofore not enjoyed in Wash
ington, although the house she had
last year en- Sixteenth street had been
put in excellent order by its owner.
Hon. Bcurke Cockrahn, whose life
like portrait over the drawing room
mantel lent rather an unusual air to
the conservative atmosphere of the
Root home. In fact, Mrs. Root has
been cvershadowed by family portraits
in most of her Washington houses,
the first residence she occupied. when
her hubsand was Secretary Of War,
being that Of Mrs. Albert Clifford Bar
ney, known in the art world as Alice
Barney one of the greatest amateur
artists of America, portrait painter
CT national fame, who had no less than
fifteen pictures of herself and daugh-
tiers about her artistic rooms. Later
on, the Secretary and Mrs. Rect moy-
ed tc the residence OF Paymaster
General and Mrs. Bates. where Bates
portraits were not SO much in evil
dence. only to finish their first cabinet
residence in another ready-furnished
home on Lafayette Square. where the
ancestors and descendants of the
owner lined the walls of all the liy-
ing rooms.
The Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. Shaw do not expect to keep house
this winter, but will remain for as
much of the season as they spend in
town at the Arlington hotel. The Sec
rotary of War and Mrs. Taft, the Sec
rotary of the Interior and Mrs. Hitch
cock. and Attorney General Moody are
all close to each other on the most
fashionable part of X. STREET, near the
vice presidents, while the Postmaster
General and Mrs. Cortelyou and the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
and Mrs. Metcalf are living far to the
northwest, one on Bancroft place and
other en- New Hampshire avenue.
Few OF the foreign embassies and