The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-15
TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 15 1908

Monday evening, December %, for
Miss Roosevelt, did not contain tho
information that this is TO be the debut
ball or the presidents IS daughter, yet
society is accepting this date as the
| probable time. An affair of this char
| acter ut the executive mansion does
not mean entirely what the term 'small
dance ordinarily implies. The guest
list includes several hundred and il is
well understood that Miss Roosevelt
will have the entire younger set Of
Washington, with q number OF out-of
town visitors from New York and 9th
er cities. The ball viii be given in
tho east room. The Marine Band or.
chestra will furnish music. The event
will be followed by n series Of smart
functions, dinners, other dances, lunch
cons, and everything of the kind that
contributes to the happiness of debu-
tante's first season.
Washington will long remember the
brilliant social achievements Of Miss
Alice Roosevelt, beginning with her
debut during the first term of her
fathers administration and reaching
the climax with her marriage to Mich
olas Longworth-an event of interna-
tional interest. Few, if any, of the
daughters Of our presidents have en-
joyed social career of such promi-
nence and brilliancy. Indeed, it may
will hold n place in the history of the
social life of the executive mansion,
which has been so far without prece-
dent.
OF course. Miss Roosevelt will be by
no means n total stranger to the social
world For the last two years she has
been present at many of the state re-
ceptions in the White House, and she
was conspicuous rs one of the attrac-
tive young girls at the wedding of her
older half sister, Mrs. Longworth. Yet
the contrast between Miss Ethel and
Mrs. Longworth is most striking. even
to the cursory observer. Modest and
retiring to the verge of bashfulness, of
the simplest tastes and enjoying keeniiy
the most innocent pastimes-a really
go old-fashioncd girl' in the good sense
Miss Roosevelt has as yet developed
no real penchant for the white light Of
social prominence. Like all young
women, though. who arc TO experience
the first delights and conquests of their
initial season, she is anticipating with
pleasureable excitement the events Of
the coming months at the White House.
Becoming at once, as she will. a promi-
uent and interesting figure in the eyes
OF the American public IN general, she
is regarded without doubt as the most
charming recent acquisition to Wash
ington's younger set, for her sweet per
sonality.
For Miss Roosevelt is in many ways
quite an extraordinary girl. In per.
sonal appearance she is attractive be-
cause of that winsome, vivacious spon-
taneity which is so evidently natural
and ever magnetic. OF medium height,
with charmingly rounded figure, bean
tifully fair complexion aud soft pink
cheeks, she possesses wealth Of silky
blond hair, and deep blue eyes, whose
fascinating brilliancY is made more
charming by graceful, long lashes.
Indeed, declared one of her teachers,
in commenting on the personality of the
girl, ''to me the most wonderful thing
about Miss Roosevelt is her great blue
eyes. To be sure, she has way OF
squirting at times, like the President;
in some other particulars her tempera.
ment resembles his; but as recall her
years of school life and the outstanding
impressions made. those eyes and that
merry smile of hers are the fascinating,
characteristic feature Of her SELF
And her home life has tended to the
development of all that is simple, sweet
and healthfuL Even to the present day,
her frocks nre girlish and inexpensive,