Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-31

already been marked with countless
attentions. homage of young and old
and notable courtesies from the heads
of al nations. 1t was Miss Alice here
and Miss Alice there, and the news
papers and magazines from all parts
of the world WED with one another in
relating just what Miss Alice did at
every hour of the day
In all of the pictures Mr.. Longworth
was seen playing the devoted. In all
OF the dispatches he was discovered as
the hero in escapades and on every oc-
casion where the presidents daughter
took part. In all of the letters which
correspondents sent home it was Con-
gresham LOngworth and Miss Roose-
welt who received the bulk of atten-
ton. while the staid old diplomats and
statesmen received attention eQuiva-
lent to 'Others present were"
When the party returned to the
United States it was generally sup
posed that the engagement surely
would be announced. But Miss Roose-
welt visited in New York and Mr..
Longworth visited in New York, and
still 1t seemed accidental.
When President Roosevelt gave
forth the news from the White House
that it was really so the queries as to
an engagement developed in the
twinkling of an eye into a marvellous
wondering as to plans for the wedding.
The Bridegroom.
And who, prithee, might be this
young Lochinvar who came out of Gin
cinnati and stole the heart and hand
OF the most important young woman
in the United States?
He is Nicholas Longworth and de-
scendant of one of the pioneer citi-
zenS of Cincinnati, says the CONNER
clal Tribune, of that city. His people
have always been prominent. not only
in the lines which go to make up a
long fortune, but in the gentler arts.
His forbears have been patrons of art,
OF literature and of music. The wom-
en- Of his family have all made bril-
liam marriages, and it seemed but a
matter of tradition that the only son
anil heir should do likewise
But it is not alone on account of
his ancestors that the present Mich
Olas is known, for he is quite an i'm
portant man as an individual He
was graduated from Harvard in 81,
and is man about sc years old. While
a thorough man of the world, he is yet
devoted, as all true Longworths should
be, to the muses.. He is lover Of
music, and is skillful performer on
the violin. When he is in Cincinnati
he is constant attendant at the SYM
phony concerts and at all times is a
| liberal donor to musical interests. He
is a great club man, belonging nat
uraily to all of the important Cincin-
| natl clubs and to eastern clubs, espe-
cialll in New York city.
! Everyone expected Nicholas Long
worth to do something brilliant, just
| because he has been doing these things
all his life. He has been a man about
whom women have always speculated,
| especially because he has been so
seemingly Indifferent to them. In all
of the Is years since he left college,
Mr.. Longworth has been the particu-
lar object of matchmaking mammas
His social position, his wealth. his
standing as a man of brains-all these
| have been added to fascinating per-
sonality, and the combination has been
| irresistible to the match-makers.
| But if he has cared at any time, he
has certainly worn his heart elsewhere
than upon his sleeve 1t was generally
reckoned, as time flew by, that he had
no heart, but the daughter of the
Roosevelts has proven this conclusion
! to be false.
Mr.. Longworth has two sisters,
the countess of Chambrun and Mrs
Buckner Wallingford.
The Longworth Home.
The Longworth home, in Grandin
road, Cincinnati, is one of the first
of the old residences which graced
that now famous part of Cincinnati.
| 1t is barely possible to see the house
from the road, for it stands in a great
grove of trees, and is approached by
road which goes over hill and vale
before it makes its bow at the front
veranda
| The house is a brick one. and not
particularly imposing. but it has a
substantial and home-like look A
broad piazza crosses the front and the
rooms are rather small, but coy, hav-
| ing that undeHiable ARA home where
| time has mellowed the combination of
good things with rare taste There
are orchards and arbors and gardens
to the rear, and flower gardens galore.
The trees are old and guard the house
on all sides. In fact, there is nothing
new about the place. Everything has
been we'll seasoned with the passing
of the years, and there is an old
fashioned grace about the place which
bespeaks of generations in the plural.
Calls Fireman to Aid Stork.
Richmond. Ind.-When the stork
was about to visit the home of George
Oblinger one midnight recently ne