The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-01-07
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.

Washington, ID. c., Jan. s, / ooo.
The debut of Miss Ethel Roose-
welt, the second daughter of the
President took place at the White
House Tuesday evening. The form
OF entertainment selected by Mrs.
Roosevelt for The coming out of
her young daughter was the same
as that for Alice, now Mrs. Long.
worth, Small dance for which
five hundred invitations had heen
issued, and for every invitation
there were probably more than five
heart breaks amo1g the girls who
had longed in vain for the covete d
piece of card board. The younger
smart set is made and limited for
the winter by the debut of Miss
Roosevelt since an invitation to the
dance is the hall mark by which
those who are within the magic cir
Gle are marked off from those who
are without. The dance was a
brilliant affair, beautiful setting,
pretty girls in the most gorgeous
of directoire gowns and young Of
ficers i'll gay uniforms combining
to make the picture. The East
room so we'll known to tourists
from all over the country was used
for dancing and the supper was
served i'll the lower corridor. which
was one of the additions to the
breathing space of the White House
when the alterations were made
few years ago Miss Ethel, who is
far from being a beauty was never.
theless engaging in girlish,
wholesome way and the President
who must by this time have become
accustomed to being only a side is
sue at many o. the White House
affairs was properly retiring in
his offices III a far end Of the build
ing he reigns supreme, whether it
be'a Cabinet meeting or a gather
ing OF Senator's or foreign diplo-
mats but he las so often had to |
play a secondary part in the East |
Room where Mrs. Longworth made |
her debut and was later married, |
and where his younger daughter |
has now made her bow to the world |
Of fashion, and i'll the many musi-
cal affairs of Mrs Roosevelt that
he has all air of feeling himself
Of supernumerary
when he appears there. Mrs
Roosevelt is looking worn and tir-
ed this winter and her close friends
are saying that she does not regret
that she is soon to retire. A few
years ago she said quite frankly
hat she liked her job but it is be-
lieved now that she is looking for
ward to her proposed trip to Eu-
rope this spring where she will
spend year before returning to
this country. When Alice Long
worth was Etheps age she was con-
sldered too much of a hoyden to be
trusted with trip to Europe and
presentation at the courts there but
her younger sister has a quieier
and has had the advan-
tage of longer period before the
public and at the home at the
White House. She will be presen-
ted at several European courts and
is to have all the advantages and
delights of contact with the high
est society in the Capitals. Mrs.
Roosevelt has not been abroad since
her marriage which occurred in
London and she must be something
more than human if the contrast
between her position at that time
when she had gone abroad to take
a place as governess in family
with that in which she will find
herself when she will become the
guest of kings does not give her
some thrills.
H.kT
AS the calandar year closes it is
brought home to the Treasury De-
partment and to Congress that
there has been a serious shrinkage
of the national purse. Since the
fiscal year began on the first of |
July the nation has spent sixty-five
millions dollars more than it has |
collected and this is the showing
for only six months of the year.
The Secretary of the Treasury esti-
mates that the deficiency will be
one hundred and fourteen millions
for the entire fiscal year. Last
year this deficit amounted to only
fifty-eight millions and the preced-
ing year there was a surplus of
forty millions. But from a finan-
cial point of view the worst is not
told in these deficits. Congress is
nerved to an expensive program.
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