MISS ROOSEVELT'S MARRIAGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7967, 19 February 1906, Page 5

MISS ROOSEVELT'S MARRIAGE.

A GREAT CEREMONY. THE BRJDE'S POPULARITY. Received February 19, 3.2 a.m. NEW YORK, February 18. Miss Alice Rousevelt was married, to-day, to Mr Nicholas Lougivortb, a member of Congress. There were nine hundred and fifty guests, including General Grant's daughter. The ceremony wps perforated in the Blue Room at the White House. The bride received *. thousand seats, including gifts from the Mikado of Japan, the EniDie93 of China, and the Pope of Kuj'b Immense popular interest was displayed in America. Excursion trains brougut 15,000 people to Washington to watch the bride's departure.

Referring to the then approaching marriage a magazine remarks: "In her own country Miss Koosvelt is known a the' American Princess,' and her doings occupy more space in the New York papers than iB needed in England to reoord the doings of the whole Royal family. Since she performed ber first public function—that of christening the yacht of the German Emperor when she was 17—she has been a public charaoter, and many extraordinary sayings and doings have been attributed to her, which, she bai repudiated indignantly. , She is of medium height, her figure is slight, and sh9 has masses of fair hair. Her hands and feet are beautiful. She walks "magnificently''' as bo many American girls do, and the poise of her head is said to be remarkable. , That strenuoasness runs in the iamily inhere can be no doubt. In one year, on account of her "official" nosition, she attended 408 dinners, 608 teas, 271 receptions, and 170 danoes; she made over 1,600 calls and shook hands with more than 30,000 people. She owns a motor car which she drives herself, in a white oostume, and she was the first American woman take a trip in a submarine, whioh is au experience that many a woman would shrink from indulging in." In these days America takes an important place in the Council of Nations, and President Roosevelt, the present Chief Magistrate, has won golden opinions as an arbitrator in the peace of '.he world, and lasting fame, no doubt, for what he did to end the war in the Far East. His daughter—a daughter by ihe way, by a .former wife—has on two or three occasions been the object of European State hospitality, and. in thiß relation, many have been the rumours of her likely union with the heir to a Crown or to some Prince in close affinity with the throneof a flrst-olaBS Power. But whatever the possiblities were in this way, they were sturdily opposed by the Amerioan people, who went so far on the occasion of the Coronation of King Edward to veto the young lady's desire to aooept an invitation to what, in her eyes, must have bee n an entranoingly attractive function. Instead, she wis given a trip to the Philippines, via Japan, as the chief guest of a diplomatic mission headed by the Secretary of War. During this trip she received regal honours on all sides, especially from the Mikado, and on returning to America, she had practically accepted the hand of Mr Longworth, who- is considered to be a rising politician, and is very wealthy.