The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25

many ways the most brilliant in the
social annals Of the capital, will soon
be over, too. The chaperons freely
confess that they are tired, the de-
butantes begin to look little tagged,
and even the men show signs Of ia
I>tigue. The Lenten season will be well
come, and for awhile, at least, there
will be q cessation Of festivities.
Family friends and guests Of the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, who were
present at the, Longworth- Roosevelt
wed ding, took their departure from the
White House last Monday. MI. and
Mrs. Lee Of Boston, the. grandparents
of the bride, her uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. Douglas Robinson Of New
York, and the schoolboy friends Of
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., left in the
morning for their respective homes.
After the departure Of the house guests
the White House resumed it's ordinary
quietude. l-
During the early hours Of Monday
scores Of visitors called at the White
House to visit the east room, where the
ceremony Of Saturday took place. and
the lower apartments Of the mansion.
Most Of the decorations had been al
lowed to stand as they were on Satur-
day and they were the subject of lively
and interested comment on the part of
the visitors ~.-..,.sss ~ u ,~ 4.
For the first time in many days the
White House is now without guests, and
the next few weeks will be spent in
getting used to doing without the
rollicking, good-natured, CHEEKY compan.
ionship of it's former young tenant
who, as Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, is
now making her wedding journey.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Kermit, and
the big bunch Of school boy friends
some Of them cousins, who came on fol
the wedding, went down the Potomac
Sunday on the Sylph, had their dinners
there, and enjoyed right merry wind
1 up Of their famous visit to the White
House. They were all nice-lookine
fellows, these school boys, ranging il
age from Is to 20 years, and attracted
They came over from Groton, Harvard
and other schools to be with the Roose
| welt boys, and formed a happy elemen
for several. days, sleeping six in room
in the private part Of the residence.
They were not in the east room
= where the ceremony was performed, bu
stood out in the red corridor with thu
members Of the press, Senator and Mrs
u Wetmore, and few others, for a goot
view of the bridal procession as i
| passed down the hall, and later TO
, positions at the big double-door ieadin,
into the east room, from which a per
! fectly unobstructed view of the cere
: mony was had. ..
3 Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Sr., and he
daughter, Countess de Chambrun, lef
: Washington Monday afternoon for Gin
Z cinnati, where they will remain 70
7 some time visiting Mrs. Wallingford
!; the elder daughter Of Mrs. Longwortl
: It has been said Of the Bel ian lega
!, ton that the door of its headquarters
5 the residence of Baron and Baroness
: Moncheur, is never closed. The lega
J, ton is on II street, near Seventeenth
!. one Of the most fashionable neighbol
t hoods in Washington. The Baroness
Charlotte Moncheur .-entertains almos
] constantly, the interims in gayety .du1
: ing the season being only the after
Moons or the evenings when she is Gale
: upon to be a. guest instead of hostess
= Baron Moncheur is the envoy extr;
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