Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23
FROM CRADLE TO Atlas.
born Under Sad circumstances. the
Brides GirIhood Was Hanny


st. Valentines day, in 1884, was the
saddest day in the life of Theodore Roose-
velt. That day the death angel descend
ed upon the old-fashioned, roomy home at
west Flfty-seventh street, New York.
TO winch he had but short while before
brought his bride, Alice Hathaway Lee of
Boston, and where the young couple had
dWelt IN happiness with his mother Mar
tina Bullock Roosevelt. He was then a
member of the Legislature, but had been
required to spend much of his time at
nome, 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. It was a
palmetto entrance into life-that of this
World-loved bride of to-day. When she
was three days old the crepe on the door
was the symbol that death had claimed
ooth the lovely young mother from the
North and the soft-voiced grandmother
from the South. On the 10th of Febru-
airy 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
uOLloTlGSS
babe be confded to the care of a sister.
now the wife of Commander w. S.
Cowles of the United States navy, and
he fled from the scene of his heart-break-
ing experiences to the ranch of the NAL
tese Gross, 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, 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 sin
cere as that between a natural mother
and her child, and the price of the mis-
tress of the White House in the fair,
slender girl with whom t11v 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
lily took possession of the executive man
sion at Albany and but a 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
ject of more than ordinary interest. Early
in January, 1902, she made her debut to
society at a ball in the East room,
where she stood Saturday as a 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
Rooseyelts life came in the tour of the
Orient last summer, with Secretary Taft
and his party and chaperoned by some OF
the foremost matrons of the country. The
triumphal pageant began at San Fran
cisco, where Representative Longworth
joined the party. At Manila she received
royal welcome and clad IN a viceregal
gown was hailed as Princess Alice. She
had a private audience with the Dowager
Empress of China and the people of
Japan called her the American princess
and printed postal cards in her honor.
The Sultan of Sulu, lineal descendant OF
a.1-oI TO h n
other asked the same privilege whether
upon the moonlit deck of the Manchurla
or upon the beautiful inland sea of Japan,
or amid the palms of the Moro country,
or as they sat among the cherry blossoms
and lotus buds of the Mikado's gardens,
only they know. The answer to the pro-
posal of the young man from CINCINNATI,
who was the son Of her fathers friend,
was an aye. The formal announcement
of the engagement was withheld until the
President made it at the White House
Resides the tours above outlined, Miss
Roosevelt has visited Cuba and Porto
Rico and there, as elsewhere, the people
thronged to meet her..
WEALTH, BRAINS, CHARACTER.
ConoreSssnan LOngWOrth an ADAe
and Fortunate Man.
Nicholas Longworth, Representative IN
Congress of the First Ohio District, Is
fifteen years Miss Roosevelt's senior. lie
is the great-grandson of that Nicholas
Longworth who, landing in Cincinnati IN
1904. when it was little river town.
opened a law office and for defending
man accused of stealing horse received
two copper whisky stills which ne ex-
changed for 33 acres of land which ac-
onired a value of 100000. Later ne
Maid $1,000 for a COW pasture which &C
puired a value of $1,500,0O0 within his