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

taught class Of young negroes at st.
Mary's chapel in Washington. and at
Oyster Bay for years has played the
! hymns in tho little Sunday. school. This
spirit of democracy is evident, too. in
the consideration shown those who arc
beneath her in social position. She is
quito adorcd by the employees and the
servants at the White House, whose in
terests che does not hesitate to make
her own On one occasion, because the
/ coachman was kept waiting some time
beyond the usual lunch hour, she was
much upset and promptly insisted that
it was "quite unfair to john who
was forthwith excused for his noon.
day rcfreshment. Indeed, one could not
help noting, in n study Of her individu-
ality. how strikingly independent Miss
Roosevelt is in handling her personal
affairs. She has no maid, for instance,
but prefers rather 10 attend to all the
assisted, only consulting her mother in
the selection of her gowns and hats.
And this suggests the comment, that
between Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel
there has always existed the most COM
plete sympathy and beautiful affection;
and as the years of maturity have come
they are really more like two sisters in
French call it camaraderie than
they are like mother and daughter.
Flowers arc the particular delight Of
this charming young debutante, and the
sweet old-fashioned Moss rose is the one
she loves best. The soft pink of this
favorite flower Is to her the color par
often selected for her gowns. Her little
boudoir is decorated entirely in rose
color. In this room there is also her
grand piano, and opening into it is her
bedroom, a girl IS dainty taste exhibit
ing itself in all the appointments. But
the one interesting and altogether i'm
pressive object in this room is an ex-
quisite painting of her mother and her
self as a child. The big blue eyes, the
golden hair. and withal tho strongly
magnetic spirit, are here portrayed pro
phetic Of the unfolded 1ower of later
years.
And so it has come to pass that Ethel
Carow Roosevelt, modest, bashful, re-
istlc-commanding when emergency
calls for command, daring even, when
deeds Of bravery and strength are to
be done-a girl of simple tastes, of
democratic ideals and of highly indie
pendent spirits at the age of seven
teen TO be formally presented to the
world OF society and the gaiety of
Washington. 1t is such an opportunity
as few American girls may hope to en-
joy. Yet it is equally delight to con
template a genuine American girl, the
embodiment Of the best American
ideals, in the midst of the social eclat
And may it not be that nation S in.
terest in American girlhood with Miss
Roosevelt a type, shall quite equal or
surpass society q concern in the social
debutante7
The President and Mrs Roosevelt
have been much averse to anything that
would deprive Miss Ethel of genuine
girlhood. In spite of persistent effort
and clamor for her picture, they had
stedfastly refused to publish anything
while she was yet school girl Quite
recently. however, the accompanying
portrait by Miss Prall of asbinetou
was made in the East room OF the
White House, and is the only one for
which Miss Roosevelt has sat since her
childhood. 1t is now given to the pub.
lie for the first time, with the consent
and approval Of her parents.
Oyster Bay, the Presidents % summer