The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1906, Page 12

i i iow Sula’s Sultan Proposed Plarriage to Pliss Rovsevelt. Q NB of the most amusing incidents ot Miss Roosevelt's trip with’ the Tatt party was the propos! of martiage she received from the Sul- tan of Sula. It appears that he made the pro- posal in order to outdo a rival who has aspirations to the throne. When Miss Roosevelt was recelved at the Sulu court the Sultan pre- sented her with some silks and cheap trinkets, Up stepped his rival, Joka- nin, with a largs‘and beautiful pearl of immeasurably more value than the gifts of the sovereign. There was great commotion at this. but the Sultan was game. Drawing from his finger a set pearl, oddly cut he tendered it to the Presi dent's daughter with his offer of lis heart, Jokanin, outgeneralled ant abashed, slunk jaway. And Alice Roosevelt smiled. Cee 2 made that Roosevelt was a worid power: that the United States had come to Bé such a factor in international affairs that only a short while would see her a menace to the world’n peace. “Therefore would it not be a good thing for one of the European houses to win Miss Roosevelt and thereby secure the friendship of tlie United States lastingly?” Amusing as all chis was, there Were not a few quarters in which the Femina’s suggestion was _ taken seriously. Never, however, it would seem, by Mr. Longworth, accord- ing to what Archie Roosevelt told the school teacher. »Miss Roosevelt herself was not the kind that sighed for titles. Many a ' title in the diplomatic corps, it fe said, offered itself at her feet during the past four years only to get the gléve, without any more words about it than Met the Sultan of Sulu’s offer to make her Sultana of the Sulu Islands. Like father, like son, is a saying as old as the hills, but should be in this instanee like sire, like daughter, for the eldest child of the President has been as he himself has always been, independent. What she would do she does. Rebelled af Church on a Day When All Nate-é Was a’ Smiling: There was that little Philadelphia excursion only a year ago: Mise Allee and her stepmother were in the Quaker City and Mrs. Roosevelt ‘would go to church because it was a Sunday and listen to a sermon, Did ‘Migs Alice go? Not a bit of it! The day was fair, all nature was glad, and the President's daughter went a coaching, tooling the four-in-hand of her host with all the grace of the good whip that she is. When the coaching Was done somebody suggested that it would be a fine thing to take a water trip. There was no steam yacht with fancy brass finishings, nor a speedy Taunch at hand—only one of the city’s fireboats, an ordinary every-day tug, and away on it went Miss Roosevelt a3 gay as the gayest of her party. It was not long after this incident that, tiring of the joys of coaching, the future Mrs, Longworth swore her loyalty to automobiling. Her father, At is said, objected to her taking up this sport of imminent risks. Simul- sly with the report of the President's disapprobation of autoing for his daughter Miss Rocsevelt appéared in the streets of Washington and in the:suburbs of the capitai at the wheel of a big machine, into whose mys- ieFies of handling and mechanism an expert chauffeur was directing her Initiation. In a little while the chauffeur was a forgotten personage, and fora long time Miss Roosevelt has had the ability to run the biggest and most complicated motor car. She has proved this on more than one occa- sion, but particularly in a race along the road that stretches between the Yennings raee course and the capital, To avoid a collision she hurdled the machine over a ditch under the impetus of a sixty or seventy horse-power engine, A devotee of the sport of kings, Miss Roosevelt has never thought of using amount which would satisfy most women. Her father purchased for her a year ago the famous Kentucky mare Jessielyn, and the thoroughbred's young mistréss has had to show her heels to challengers in many a daring run, Her Determination Won Ober Taft, the Man of Iron Will, in Far-Off China. That Mrs. Longworth bas a will of her own the Ohio Congressman had occasion to tearn when the Taft party reached Hongkong. The Chinese Woyeott against American manufactures-had taken a vicious turn in Can- ton. Rioting had become the order of the day, and it was feared that the American colony there would be besieged. Miss Roosevelt had heard that {he metropolis of Gouchern China was a most interesting place, and she ~Metermined to see it. Secretary Taft and others tried to persuade the young _ Woman that she would better not go to Canton, but the Roosevelt deter- girl of tne White House saw a side of her character that surprised them. “Now, Mr. Taft,” she said, “perhaps things are a little awry at Canton. There is no American warship there? No? Well, if we could get just the _ littlest kind of an American gunboat we could go over on that, and I think it would make a very good impression upom the Cantonese.” That was wisdom, and Secretary Taft evidently considered it in that wise. Miss Roosevelt and her friends went to Camton—went on an American gut- baat. The Cantonese proved themselves to be wise also, for they were “just as lovely as they could possibly be” to the American visitors, The art of this distinguished young woman in the matter of dressing has developed since the day she wore the white mousseline gown at her father's first public levee. Her style is quiet, and she has learned what so few women never discover—what is becoming and what is hot. she ktows how well she looks in @ slaty shade of blue, and this is hor favorite color. It is the color that has come to be known as “Alice blue.” Where Auntie Succeeded inHabing * Her Own Way Just This Once. There was a time, however, when Mrs. Cowles knew what was more becoming to her niece than that young woman did herself,, and it goes to show how important a matter what one wears is in one's life. It's @ story about the white mousseline dress. No genuine girl could have looked forward with greater engerness to the part she was to play in the Blue Room of the White House on New Year's Day, 1902, than did Alice Roosevelt. Of course, what she was to wear was her principal thought. Her plans were big for th occasion, and she could think of nothing finer than to make her debut If @ heavy white brocaded satin that had been her mother’s. She would have worn her mother’s diamonds, too. Just in time Mrs. Cowles appeared upon the scene, and with misgfvings heard her niece’s plans. She protested at once. “Gh, Alice, dear, such a gown would fever do for a young Woman's debut,” Mrs. Cowles told her. “Really, can't you see how old it would make you look, and so heavy, too, with all those diamonds?” “Now, Auntie, you don’t know just how lovely I will look, and”—hera the Rooseveltian will came to the fore—“and I'm going to wear just the gown I have described.” Mrs, Cowles, being a Roosevelt too, but more diplomatic than her brother, didn’t say ‘Alice, you will not!” but she told her nieee that even the princesses of England wheh they made their debut had ever worn anything richer than a simple gown of white swiss. Queen Victoria had never permitted her daughters to have their own way in this fespect, Mrs. Cowles added that the whole world of fashion approved Victoria's artistic sense and considered her not only a wise queen, but a very wise mother, Alice promised to think of all this, and of course we all know now that Mrs. Cowles’s counsel prevailed. Only Time-that Miss Roosevelt Is Known to Habe Changed Her Mind: But there is scarcely another instance recorded where the high-spirited young woman is known to have changed her determination on any matter vn Which she had already formed an opinion. LL Was @ great victory for “Auntie” Cowles, who prided herself upon it for many a long day. Impetuous Alice Roosevelt has always been adventurous, too, but these elements haye only contributed to the lovableness to which all who have gome within the sphere of her acquaintance have surrendered, With all the Success that nas been hers soci: lly, with all the distinction that has come to her, those who know her intimately say that her young head has not been turned. This has been the impression made wpon those who have met her only casually, and notably newspaper men, who can scent a bit of snobbish- ness or superiority a mile away. The reporters who have talked with the White House daughter in the course of their work sum up their opinion of her in “An amaiable, well-bred American girl, who hasn't any time for airs.” The Episcopal Chureh has been Alice Roosevelt's, as it was her mother’s and her mother's people, although her father is a member of the Dutch Re- formed, St. John's in Washington has known her as @ communicant since the family moved there, and it will be St. John's rector, the Rev. Roland Cot- lon Smith, who assists Mishop Satterlee to-day in the wedding ceremony. ~ thd bard od s==‘Romantic Story=== F (> GJ GD) Photo Copper: ht <i aE —OF THE— —: Wooing of Alice Roosevelt : OUR winters ago a slight young girl in white mousseline stood in the blue toom of the White House, beside the first citizen in the land ig and laid siege with her langhing blue eyes and her mouth of roguish smiles to the nation’s affection. Fresh as a woodland dew was she and gracefully simple, vet patrician withal to the very tip of her saucy, retrousse nose. Nicholas Longworth, of Cin.t..uati, son of the wealthiest house in the Ohio Valley, a lawyer, a clubman and social leader, who had served his State for two terms in both branches of her Legislature, was in Washing- ton on Jan. 1, 1902, when Theodore Roosevelt held his first public levee as President of the United States. He was one of a delegation of prominent Ohioans. He met the President and he met the President's daughter in the White House before the doors of the Executive Mansion were thrown open for the public reception. He met her again in the Blue Room, surrounded by the beauty and fashion of most of the civilized nations which foregather in Washington on such occasions, but it was a dainty figure, clad simply in white mousseline, that filled the young Ohioan’s gaze. The laughing blue eyeq and the saucy little nose of this maid lured him on. Never had “Nick” Longworth seen anywhere a vision like this. Alice Lee Roosevelt was not unused to an official atmosphere. Had she not lived in Albany when her father was Governor, and had not she, a dainty slip of girlhood barely sixteen, danced at the, Assembly Ball the year her father was inaugurated? And had not she met ever so many statesmen and folk of great affairs? “Nick” Longworth learned from her that the men who counted highest in her regard were such men as these—men of government. He had many occasions to learn this in those January days he lingered in Washington. He came to know, too, that this maid could ride like an Arab and be as much at ease in the outdoor world, where games Me, as she had been in her simple gown of white in the Blue Room. When Mr. Nicholas Longworth finally decided that he must get back to his affairs in Cincinnati, one purpose obsessed him—he would become a Representative of his State in Congress; a factor in national interests. As the story of that time runs, the first opportunity that presented itself found “Nick” Longworth closejed with George Cox, the then Hepub- lican boss af Hamilton County it had been Cox who had sent Longworth to the Ohio Legislature. He sent him to Congress, But from that New Year's day to the election was nearly # year, and ick" Longworth proved no laggard in bis wooing of the daughter of the ORR ~ Glimpses at ‘Rookwood,’’ Whieh Is to Be the Future jtome of Fliee Roosevelt. LEOCCQLTO2 TANT fiir a seers HEE 9 tow Piss Roosevelt Won the Admiration of a Western Father, OX dey Mr. Longworth had Mise Rageevelt for his guest of jonor at a luncheon party im the House restaurant and naturally the table at which they sat was the object of much attention, ‘Toward the end of the meal Miss Roosevelt was seen to lean over und | | whisper to the Ohloan, Ghe was most earnest in what she said. “Why certainly, you may have tty Mr. Longworth was heard to @x* claim, as he turned and beckoned a walter. ‘There was a whispered instruction to the serving mun, who hurried Off and returned a moment laser, ciife ting a, large and noble cut of pumpé kin ple, which he set before (he President's daughter, “Wall, there's no airs about nde an’ that’s shore,” a the father a {rete the West “s “ | |