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BY J. W. BRAVION.
WHEN Mrs. Nicholas T
—it still items natural to
write it Misi Alice Roosevelt
returns tr this country
nbout the middle of next month, hers
will be the unusual distinction of having
met and been entertained by more occu
pant! of royal and imperial thrones,
memberi of their families, ud of the
world's nobility than any other Arcericaa
of her day and generation. Further
more, she is the only daughter of a
President wtio ». _ . , ciing
during her father's term.
As a delicate compliment to her—sh<>
was then Miss Roosevelt—our own Sul
tan of Sulu, on meeting her, offered the
President s daughter his hand so mar
riage, and loaded her with quaint Ori
ental baubles from his treasure supply.
That old ogre of the yellow East—the
Dowager Empress of Tsi-An— would
have it no other way than that Mis*
Roosevelt should pass a night or two un
der the roof of the Imperial Palace.
When she returned to her home in
Washington, Miss Roosevelt confided to
her friends that one of the most enjoy- "
able incidents in the trip to the Philip
pines and back wt.s her visit and friendly
chat wich the Great Old Woman of th»
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Of course, while at the Court of Pe
kin, lesser members of the Imperial
Family were made kr.owri to her.
In Japan princes imptnal and prin
cesses imperil *?. Ed with one another to
give hearty welcome to the young lady,
and, as a climax to the sojourn in Tolcio,
there was an audience with the grave
Mikado and his doll-like consort
Three years before she sailed for the
Philippines Miss Roosevelt, with the ge
nial Prince Henry of Prussia standing
by her side, christened the American
built yacht of the German War Lord.
Now, Miss Alice Roosevelt no longer,
but Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, she has
talked, within the last few weeks, with
His Poy.al Highness Edward VII, King
of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor
of India, etc.; Kaiser William 11, and
various members of his family, and the
leading nobility of both England and
Germany, to say nothing of Trench men
and women and others with noble and
princely handles to their names. And
President Fallieres, of France; renowned
statesmen, diplomats, generals, admirals,
indeed, most of the men big in the gov
erning of Great Britain, France and Ger
many—with all these, she has exchanged
greetings, and from all received the at
tentions that Europe generally t'seri'ta
for persons o f princely rank, Ot xurst,
no san«-t.'xdided American has ofljfccfced
to this i ht has bee;; secretly amused and
proud in turn, and by it all once wor*
learned that even enlightened Europtaa
minds are incapable of grasping the
principles of his democratic form ol gov-*
ernmcnt "Princess Alice/' indeed! In
truth, just plain Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Wash
ington, and most lovable and likeable as
suchl
HONEYMOONING EXTHAORDINAKY.
Looking back on it, Mrs, Longworth's
tour in the old world has partaken more
of the characteristic# of a triumphal pro-
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cession than a honeymoon trip. She rode
from Plymouth to the British capital in
the coy n carriage. At the dinner given
in her honor by Ambassador and Mrs.
Reid, King Edward set all precedent
aside and paid Mrs. Longworth the deli
cate compliment of requesting that she
be seated at the table in the place of
honor—that is, at b : left. Thus it came
about that one only title is that
ot >u:n, tverydsn Mrs., took rank over
the it LJt'Uin's proud nobility.
Whe* h' nnrer was over, and the la
diet -v it was King Edward
him*- « a. npaaied Mrs. Long
w< 1 w door, and as she passed
Itb *' « ved in the most courtly
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j jiv t-r, Ascct week, the King took
j pa;r»«A. »r pain: ti honor the Long
worth* further, .'nvitinfr them into the
royal enclosure and iiavr<ig them as his
guests of honor at xn.heon in the
King's pavilion. Tt is a cove'fd hoi or to
be invited into thi enclosure, and to be
asked to take lumheon with the King
in bis pavilion wouli serve to put a few
members of England's lobility in the sev
enth heaven.
How did Mrs. Longv >th take these
honors? Like a true American, as was
to be expected. The Engin newspaper
writers noted, with evident m- 1 ' wonder,
that she was thoroughly at >■; <e, una
bashed, and absolutely democrati in the
presence of their August monarch and
the proudest of his nobles. li'Bj re
corded that when she courtesied r. he
King on being introduced, she di> : to
without the least suggestion of servility;
and the ease with which she entered into
the conversatio» with His Majesty as
soon as they were seated at table is still
food for thought in Merrie England,
which holds more than one noble of an
cient lineage who shows the embarrass
ment of servility when it chances that it
is "up to him" to speak with his king.
London was undeniably favorably im
pressed with its young and charming
guest
2a tH# um; wholesome democratic
spirit Mrs. Longworth was presented to
tad paid a visit to the Kaiser at his very
en nest solicitation. This was at Kiel,
while the regatta, which lies close to the
War Lord'* heart, was at its height.
One of toe iirst things that Mrs. Long
worth did after the presentation was to
thank the Kaiser personally for the gold
bracelet set with diamonds and his por
trait which he had presented to her
through his brother, Prince Henry, at the
time the yacht Meteor was launched.
For ive days the Loagworths were
guests of the Kaiser, talking with him
daily. He pointed out to Mrs. Long
worth the yacht that he had named
"Alice Roosevelt," sometime after the
christening of the Meteor. When Miss
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Alice Roosevelt sent a cablegram to the
Kaiser thanking him for the bracelet and
portrait, a certain influential London
newspaper criticized her for not framing
the despatch in terms of servility. It
goes without saying that during the
whole of her stay at Kiel she displayed
none other than the unaffected demo
cratic spirit that is inborn in every repre
sentative American man and woman.
With certain things known, it is pretty
safe to state that of all the great folk
with whom she became acquainted m
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: Europe Mrs. Longworth enjoyed meet-
I ing ant diking with the Kaiser the most,
i The iisi person of royal or imperial
; Llooc ha ;he ever met was Prince
t Henry j. Prussia. The Raiser had paid
: her th. ligk compliment or asking her
I to break hi jottlc y champagne on the
• bow of his American built yacht To
• show hii appreciation of her acquiescence
and sturdy performance of the deed, he
' presented her witl v costly bauble. Since
: her father became President, she has
i heard him *nd the Kaiser compared
'.ime? without number. The Kaiser had
named a yacht in her honor. Rumoi
once had it that the Kaiser and Kaiserin,
looking over the list oi eligible prin
cesses and finding none suitable as wife
for the Crown Prince, were keen to
marry their son to the eldest daughter
of the President of the United States.
Of course, it was said, the Kaiser would
see to it that some friendly ruler con
ferred a title upon Miss Roosevelt.
So what more natural than for Mrs.
Longworth to enjoy her visit with the
Kaiser, even more than her meeting with
King Edward at Ambassador Reid's,
where she made His Majesty laugh
heartily over a recital of her attempts to
outwit pursuing kodak fiends?
Before the Longworths left England
for the Continent and after their return
there from the Kiel regatta, they were
entertained at a number of fashionable
English country houses, and in and out
of London there were small dinners and
some dances in their honor. American
women who have married into British
nobility and high society were among the
hostesses. Every moment -ha.' they were
in old England, the I.ongworths were be
ing entertained, and the list of Lords
and Ladies, Dukes and Duchesses, Earls
and Countesses, Sirs and what not in
• the title line that they met —is it not to
be found in toto in that right tight little
island's social blue book?
HER YANKEE DAY ABROAD.
But there was one day at least that
Mrs Longworth and her husband spent
exclusively with fellow Americans. That
was America's natal day And how the
celebrating Yankees cheered the daugh
ter of the President, and with what pa
triotic enthusiasm did she salute the
Stars ana Stripes and applaud the healthy
Yankee sentiments of the speakers! The
royal dinner give* by Ambassador Reid
was a truly gorgeous affair, and cost
I him, the gossips say, his ambassadorial
salary for a year. But which was more
1 to the inward satisfaction of Mrs. Nicho-,
1 las Longworth—this feast spread for her
and a crowned head, or the far simpler
affair at which the birth of her native
land was fittingly celebrated?
' The reason for the Longworths" visit
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