The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-26

ETHEL.
 The following from the pen of brilfi- ant Daisy Fitzhuph's Ayers in a letter
 From Washington will be Of interest to the debutantes.
 sStrenuousness of demeanor. activity and gesticulation was the fashionable pose when Alice Roosevelt was a girl. She set the pace herself. Once watched her. fascinated. across the length of . room, going through strange pantom-
 lines. sometimes saving the air to demonstrate a point, sometimes show ing the muscular motious of scrubb- ing washboard Mrs. Longworth has toned down of late.
 Ethel always was possessed of more repose than her sister. She was more gentle and demure even from her baby hood--more like her mother than her sire. Hence. gentleness and demure- ness are the aim of all the other de- bufanting damseis.. One must do as Ethel does. Neither presidential daugh- ter approximates a beauty It's so much healthier and more normal not to be. Ethel is an artist-she gets that from her aunt. Miss CarowT-a painiste, and equestrian, good whip and . tennis champion. She Is a sweet girl of pious tendencies. who has. for . number of years. taught class of young negroes at St. Mary's Chepel In | Washington. while at Oyster Bay, she l is won't to play the hymns in the little Sunday school. Chopin's funeral march is favorlte composition of Miss
 Roosevelt's. Like her sister Alice. during the girlhood of the latter. Miss Roosevelt
 empuoys no maid for her personal 1 tai1ette. She does her blonde cendrea
 locks all herself, and attends to the
 details of her wardrobe unassisted. ex-
 cept fer the counsels of her devoted fchum of a mother. Her apartments.
 those formerly occupied by Mrs. Long,
 worth. are on the second floor, north
 west corner, facing the avenue. They
 consist of bedroom, sitting room and
 bath!
 The dominant debutante of the sea-
 son was up betimes on the day of days
 Nine o'clock In the morning saw her
 in the presidential coupe, her face dimpling with excitement. her hands
 full of memoranda. She wore her
 favorite brown tailor suit.
 Symbolically arrayed for her com
 ingout ball that night. the reigning
 young girl of the nation was like a
 fair flower with the morning dew upon
 it. in 6 soft, clingy white satin frock, cut in empire lines, with crystal eni- |
 morning mist, about low corsage and
 shoulders. Her pale brown hair, wress-
 ed by her own delft hands, was tn-
 nocent of ornament. She was q type
 Of gentle girlhood
 Happy, indeed, were the dear i've hundred friends On the royal list of the
 most distinguished social event of the
 seoson and fearful the heart burnings of those who awaited Hor the bid that never came alas!
 Well. the old years out and Ethel's out and Teddyll soon be. out-and there you are. There's sadness about last times. however felicitous the
 occasion. however gladsome the en-
 vironment Even young Ethel the nations debutante-in -in-chief, must ,have
 known the tenniest- t-weeniest pang
 even amidst the glory of her coming
 out ball, to feel that her reign was
 on the wane before 1t scarely had be-
 gun. And although his majesty-her
 papa--greeted his surging. squirming
 subjects as gaiiy as Is his wont on
 five caliber laugh rang out through all
 the reception houFs as insistsntiy- as of yOre, deep down in the back of his heart, a stlll, small voice persisted through the clamor doubtless "Tt's the
 last time. old boy-It's the very last
 New Years fling like this you'll ever
 have. Brace up and bluif it out and act as if you didn't care a hang"
 | The social landscape. nowadays, Is essentially Ethelesque. The Presidents buxom lassie Is the focus, the vital point of all the smart festivities of the younger set. The chief Execu- tive and his wife, may not, in accord ance with the ethics of the court, &C., cept hospitality under any roof except that of the Vice President and the Cabinet officers. No such restrictions are imposed upon Executive offspring princes and princesses of the blood royal may break or break records or break anything else whereso'er they | list. Hence, sweet Ethel has more Invitations for each day than there are houses in the twenty-four. She accepts of course, discriminatory.
 Besides the coming out affair this
 week, Mrs. Roosevelt will give three other dances for her young lady daughter before the 4th O. March, and Iiights out. on Jan. 8 and 22 and 1 Feb s. These celebrations. like the debut balls of both the Misses Roose- welt partake nowlse of the nature of
 state or oflcial functions in which the government and its opponents must be l reco9nized, ex-ofEiclal. At family af- fairs, naturally, the R0osevelts bid beneath their roof-tree. only their per sonal and private friends. whether official or unonicial Is of no consequ- ence. Rank and precedence have no meaning at the coming out of White House girl-who, of course. is but plain American lass after all. with no part in statecraft. The presidential daughters never figure officially. et state affairs.
 T.iothed in brief authority Is Ethel.
 who must needs make the most of her short shining day. And she quite knows how. She has, perhaps, un- willingly, established a mode In girls that all the debutantes of the moment are quick to pattern after. The Ethel Roosevelt girl Is already type.