| Show gossip from new york at oyster bay mr roosevelt relaxes happy as a boy but need guard to keep out intruders two miss ethels the city preacher off for badly needed rest gives countryman a chanas ocean may be popular in truy sene NEW YORK he presidents return to oyster has een accomplished without ex sensation in many respects the transition Is remarkable certainly the contrast Is remarkable theodore roosevelt Is as much the president at oyster gay as he was at wash ington but nevertheless he passes from an am posing home a palace it would be called at one of the older seats of government to a very modest conr the presidency allows the man but for the months he Is at aster the dent to an extent unexampled elsewhere la the world combines the dignities of office with the privileges of a private person at oyster bay mr roosevelt relaxes he Is not acau ed ot being very formal at the white house but at oyster bay he is less so at his simple country home he does pretty much as he pleases walks hunts fishes swims chopa down hiees all in a rough end ready garb but of cours the president cannot do he pleases without chance ot interruption thousands Thou ands of delegation visitors foreign and native call on him here and thousands more of curiosity seekers try to do so or try to intrude on his reasonable privacy they bunt the president in local rigs in automobiles and on toot they hunt him with autograph albums and with cameras often they are very annoying often they are more impolite with the president of the united states than they would be with their own neigh bor fortunately mr roosevelt who has with him a secretary an assistant secretary an exec uthe clerk a telegrapher and three stenographers has some secret service protection that Is pretty efficient and in general reason ably gentle with the erring the system of guarding the executive I 1 not precisely like that of guarding the czar hut simple as it Is the crank and intruder are kept away As for the president he Is as happy as a boy in these first days 0 his strenuous vacation A PEW WORDS ABOUT THE NEXT ROOSEVELT DEBUTANTE while the president s daughter alice 1 ing nice things to the royalty of europe and hearing some nice things in return most of them of course about her father mr roosevelt Is about to assume the responsibilities of another debutante in the family and other matrimonial anticipations of course miss ethel Is too young to be talked about as a bride but she Is not too young be talked about as a debutante though she is younger than debutantes usually are miss ethel Is likely to be the bright particular debu tante in washington early next winter and then he gossips and match makers may get to work miss ethel who Is the daughter of the pres nt mrs roosevelt is greatly different from her famous sister alice she has a vivacity of her own but she Is without the remarkable energy and animation of mrs Ung worth probably Pio bably some people would say that she was less original also it Is probable that some foreign observers might say that she is less american she la just a charming girl cheerful pretty friendly well balanced highly intelligent quid to see a point graceful clever in dressing rather conservative without being formal in her ways a good daughter much doted upon by both her father and mother miss ethel has a number of roosevelt cousins in new york society and Is easy and successful in the society circle already one of her friends will also be a next winter s washington debutante Is miss cecilla may now at oyster bay miss may Is a sister of miss isabel may now abroad with mr and mrs reginald young as she Is miss ethel has a real popularity at washington and at oyster bay and her coming out will be watched with more than 0 binary interest VOYAGING TO AND EUROPE I 1 saw another ethel the other day miss ethel croker daughter 0 the old tammany chief who hag just come from england with her mother and her brother howard the croker group that came over on the big ika had been visiting the old chieftain at want age england ethel croker Is a thin ambitiously dressed carefully tollet ted girl with a supercilious look she came off the steamer with her pet dogs and gave much attention to her back hair and her veil I 1 could not help thinking bow different her social prospects might be it her father were still owner of new york I 1 say different without meaning better tor the crokers are surely very comfortably situated as to those elements upon which society marriages are reported to be founded howard croker still in mourning fr his two brothers Is being tutored tor entrance at princeton next tall he la an honest faced sturdy looking lad curiously although the season Is young the ships from europe are almost as crowded a those that are going over there are tremendous crowds at the steamship piers every sailing day these are the sort of throngs that are said to indicate prosperity and the probable continuance of the same it may be true that the europe habit 1 increasing that as a habit going to europe has become more prevalent certainly every inducement that Is calculated to lure Is now being offered by the steamship companies the new ships are more like the astoria than any that have gone before only cheap rates remain to be added to present inducements to make ocean crossing popular in the true sense THE SUMMER PREACHER BRINGS A MESSAGE this Is the time of year when the society declares that everybody has left town a cheerful irony when one comes to look over the four millions or so who are really here it Is to be admitted however that the people in the rubber neck wagons really do see good many boarded up windows also the sum mer visitor finds other definite of the fact that new york is in the midst of its hot season particularly will he find this true on a sunday and yet the fashionable churches are not all shut it Is the fashion for the preachers to go away about the fourth of july but it Is also the fashion for them to fill their pulpits with lesser talent and so many a country preacher is getting his long coveted chance to preach in the metropolis on many a church portal Is a notice like this the rev abner will preach here at 10 30 next sunday the pastor ie in europe or maine recovering from the strain of the astren bous fashionable or popular preachers metropolitan labors A humble sub statute different from week to week raises his voice in the almost empty church but let it not go unsaid that the almost empty church sometimes hears a better sermon than it has heard in a long time young men from out of town and old men from out of town men who have not succeeded in getting big churches but who have the fire and the power and the conviction some times raise a strong clear voice in the metropolitan pulpits that deserve the hearing of a big audience many a chance auditor in a big church has listened to one of these un mown men and found occasion to say to himself it not to another this s the sort of preaching this metropolis really needs HE PASSING OP THE PLUG HAT once more the edict has gone forth that the plug hat must go it has gone forth before and nothing has happened various reasons were given for former prophesies this time it 1 quoted as it it were an edict from king edward VII it appears that the kins did not according to his custom wear a chimney pot hat at the epsom races as he always has hitherto and this is taken as a final indication that the king means it when he says that the chimney pot must go it Is given out in new york that next win ter will see at least a modification of the silk hat habit the soft hat taking its place save for the most austere occasions one hatter Is ad vo cating a special style of soft hat but to go with the tuxedo coat this Is to be the enter ing wedge sooner or later says this hatter the soft hat will displace the silk hat even rith the full evening dress americans may even decide the silk hat ques ion if it is true we have recently been told that in the united states ien s fashions either fall or succeed albert has just been saying in a aels kapci that american men are the best dressed in the world even a london tailor of repute has just admitted that american men are neater in appearance than any in europe london not excepted neater Is as tar as london will go but london hesitates to give up her precedence EIS the ID alier of men s fashions the respect paid to the king s whims by american men is pointed out as in beyond caell where men a ab hiona in this country really come from but U 1 not a question to lose sleep over LANGDOM |
