The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-18

Sister of the Bridegroom.
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returned to Oyster Bay. She came back
to Washington again when she was ID,
her father having been appointed as.
sistant secretary of the navy. At this |
time she was enrolled in a private |
academy, but in few months resumed |
her education under private tutors. |
Among the accomplishments acquired
at that time were fine knowledge of
French, painting in water colors and
music. She rode horseback and took 4
long country rambles with her father,
romped with her brother, Theodore, Jr.,
and visited Aunt Anna, then and now
the wife of Lieutenant Commander
Cowles Of the navy. She was a miss
Of IA wher she kissed her father good
bye and saw him start for the Spanish
war, and she was hardly Is when she
was taken to Albany to live for two
years in the executive mansion there.
When her father returned to Washing
ton as vicepresident, she was H.. 80.
First Known to Fame.
Until this time the nation-beyond
her own little .cirele-did not know that
there was such a young lady, as Alice
Roosevelt. Even as the vicepresident s
daughter she was little heralded, for
vicepresidents are of little consequence
at best. Her father remained IN Wash.
ington only, long enough for the senate
| to confirm the president g nominations.
| Then, from March until September the
family was united again at Oyster. Bay.
Miss Alice, was making various and
sundry plans. for debut the follow,
i ing winter, when she would live In
Washington, in the great Bellamy
Storer mansion, now the embassy OF
France. But these visions were inter
rupted by the death of President Nc.
| Kinley, and the succession of. Vice
President Roosevelt to that Office Miss
Alice was then II years and month:
old. and she quickly found that the-eye'
Of the ~country were upon her. z---.~
She was then slender blue-eyed girl
a little below the average stature, will
a face which was the feminine repro
duction of her. father 's-a face broat
at the temples, with. eyes far, apart
nose short and broad, brow full, but o.
medium height, and crowned with i
wealth Of light brown hair. 1t was
good, stolid, sincere Dutch face, blu
while the mold Of the Teuton pre-
! vailed, there was some Of the bluntnes
of the Celt-of those Irish ancestors o
her fathers, who in colonial days sci
! tied in Pennsylvania. ...- :
The gossips hurried to. the Whit
House, expecting to behold a very val
and naughty young miss, self-consclous
conceited and ready to. snub all say
the titled and. the rich, for they coul
r.. only base their Judgment upon past e2
: periences. =. But the gossips came ava
with mouth agape and complaining tina
Miss Alice. was sincere to the point o
, brusqueness, that she was not prir
, enough, considering her station; ha
: too much of the tomboy left in hel
: In other words, it was discovered tina
J she was "chip off the old block
-" Debut in Society.
: Six weeks : before her ~eighteent
3 birthday, Alice Roosevelt made her o.
fetal bow to society and became Mi'
| Roosevelt. Her debut was marked b
6 a grand ball in the east room, the mos
: imposing event seen in the White Hous
r since the days of Dolly Madison
Gowned in white silk, the young woma
y made her bow to 700 guests, inclu'
: ing all the high officials Of the govern
y ment and the representatives OF all tt
nations Of the world. The next day 81
4 sent wagon loads of flowers, left fro
the ball, to the hospitals of the city.
: Gossip now began to figure on tt
question Of a beau. The previous sun
mer the young woman had told h
grandmother Lee not to introduce HI
to any men out Of college, for 81
wanted to make the most of this la
girlhood vacation. '!In Washington,
She sighed, ''I shall be compelled to S
: with old men in their thirties al
more. - - ID, =. 80 :
A few weeks after her debut Prin
Henry sailed over from Germany al
invited her to christen the kaiser
nickel Ratchet she cut the ropes al
I / broke a bottle of champagne over
!. bow. The prince, on behalf of the Ell
+ peror, then presented her with a go
/. bracelet set with diamonds other ger
and small picture of his royal brothe
After she had replied to the emperor
telegram thanking her for christenil
the yacht, London newspaper crit
cised her for not framing the dispat
in terms of greater servility. Short
afterwafd William II. named anoth
/ of his naval yachts the Alice Roo:
welt, and therefrom came from Berl
| story that the presidents daught
was to be a guest at the royal pala'
Berlin; that the emperor and empire
had looked over the list of marrial
able Protestant princesses and fou
them all unavailable; that they We
keen to marry the crown prince to M
Roosevelt; that the kaiser would fl
/ see to it that some friendly monar
would confer upon the president
daughter title. Next, Paris new
paper said that Miss Roosevelt mig
1 take her pick of titled European eli
| bles, and printed her picture In
center of page, surrounded by
pictures of many of these princes a
lords.
Gossips and Romance.
Some of these stories found more
less favor at home, and it was W
difficulty that the family convinced
public that it WASH t hunting ii
for this young woman. The goss
mentioned her name most frequently
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