The National tribune., 1909-03-25

! ington most of the time. but Miss Cam
eron has lived pretty much all her life
abroad, and is more foreign, than Amer.
! lean, anyhow The wedding will bs
small and plain, and will take place
here in Washington. ;ss ar
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The President has approved the
change of the name or the monitor
Arkansas to Ozark, 'and shat Of the
monitor Nevada to iTonopah. These
names were selected because the state
names have been given to two new bat
tleships now under construction.
President Taft has been elected a
member of the Washington Country
Club. This club owns the largest and
most approved golf links in this neck
of woods. and President Taft is goli
crank. He acknowledges that he is
He plays a fair game. but only fair to
middlin'. He desired to be made 8
member of the club in the regular way
rather than as having an honor con-
ferred on the club by being made an
honorary member because of his being
President of the United states. So he
was proposed and elected in the regular
way. He promises to play golf great
deal.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her three chill
dren, Ethel, Quentin and Archie, will
start for Italy about the 1st of June or
a little earlier, and spend the Summer
in Naples with her sister. Miss Carow,
in her villa there. Mrs. Roosevelt Will
take the children on a tour of Europe,
and wind up at Khartaum, where they
will meet ex-President Roosevelt about
April /, 1910. 1t is said that Mr.. hoose-
welt will spend nearly another year OIL
the continent. where he has engage
ments to deliver addresses in Paris,
Berlin and London. The prospect is
now that all the unmarried Roosevelt;
children, excepting Theodore. will have
a year in foreign schools, Mrs. Roose,
welt is quite partial to foreign schools,
and got most of her education there.
Mr.. Knox, ex-senator Knox, who is
now Secretary of State. wants to be
called "Mr. Knox" He objects vigor-
ously to being called Mr.. Secretary,
which is his proper title, or at ieas
that which has been styled the proper
title for g member of the Cabinet. This
has been considered the proper desig-
nation for a Cabinet officer from the
beginning.
All sorts and conditions of people &C
to make up a world. Elmer Thompson
former football star Of the Cornell team
has applied to President Taft to be ap'
pointed on the Secret Service force as
his special bodyguard. Thompson Is
one of the largest men who ever played
college football. He stands over six
pounds. For three years he was 6
power in the Cornell line, and was
chosen for the All-America team sew
eral times. Before coming to Cornell
he captained the Andover team. In col
lege he was popular. He Is a member
of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, to which
President Taft belongs. His home is in
Brooklyn. It is said that he may have
his dearest wish gratified. He has been
an insurance agent since leaving school.
Among the few genuine love mar
riages which have been made between
American girls and foreigners, that of
the charming Matte Mitchell, daughter
of Senator Mitchell, of oregon. Is con-
spicuous. Miss Mitchell had no for
tune, and her husband, the Duke de la
Rochefoucauld, had little besides his
great name to lay at the feet of his
lovely bride. The present Duke is the
head OF ore Of the Oldest and greatest
of the French families, dating back to
the 11th century, but his branch has not
much money, as his father incurred the
displeasure of the family by misalli-
ance, and the estates were diverted from
the succession. It is said he married a
pretty vivandiere Of q ,reyiment while
in Anglers. The marriage of the pres
ent Duke and Miss Mitchell is believed
to be a very happy one; certainly 1t is
that no hint to the contrary has ever
In print. A great sorrow has
recently come to them, however, in the
death of their only child and son. The
little fellow. beautiful boy of four
years, after an illness of six weeks Of
finally expired in the arms
of his grief-stricken mother. The Ouch
ess, who nursed her child. just as any
good American woman would have
done, is worn out by fatigue as well as
heart-broken over her loss. She has
the sincere and tender sympathy of all
her countrymen.
Theodore Roosevelt hanging to the
strap of a New York street car! We
cannot help wondering how he felt.
After seven years of private cars. of
bowling and scraping. of the very best
of everything and that not good enough,
of having people scheming to get a
glimpse of you. and feeling that they
had not lived in vain II they succeeded,
or belng treated IKE a frlend ana DrOtn-
er by the potentates of the earth, Kings
and Queens on thrones. and people do
ing big things of life. and after all this
to quietly take ones place in the great
crowd, of no more Importance than any
one else in that crowd, and hang on to
a strap IL the car taken happened to be
full--well, this is a democratic country,
and the country of lightning changes,
and this change from the Nations Chief
Executive back to that of private citi-
zen Is the biggest one ofsall.
Over 100 members of the District
Guard are Ill of pneumonia contracted
while on duty in the inaugural cere-
monies.
Thomas Pendel Dead.
Tom Pendel is dead. Tom Pendel
was the Oldest living White House en-
ploye. He had been in the White House
As years, having been appointed by
President Lincoln. He was nearly 85
years old, and had scarcely a gray
thread in his very abundant dark, curly
hair He was ia vow, ro iuh an1