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Show Mrs. Hoosedelt's Church. by birth and training. She has always contributed liberally to the church of that faith in New York,' Washington and Albany. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt are not at all apart in their general religious views, and they frequently fre-quently attend church together. As the result of early training they have retained their original church membership. II Mrs. Roosevelt's determination to attend at-tend St John's Episcopal Church while the President Is faithful to the little chapel of the Dutch Reform Church has given rise to some misconception, and people who do not understand the tacts have assumed there was some radical difference of opinion in relig-t relig-t attora between the President and his wife. They do belong to dif-' dif-' ferent churches, but that is a mattei of hereditary association, writes a Washington correspondent. The President Pres-ident belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church, as his ancestors had done, and he has kept up the connection as a matter of course. Mrs. Roosevelt was a Carew, and she is an Episcopalian |