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Page 15 LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY MAGAZINE May 17, 1931 PRINCESS ALICE granddaughter is demonstrating this. Her mother is permitting this small being, the most adored in her life, the same independence she enjoyed. Paulina takes her nurse and does her own shopping. Red-letter days were those when she attended the Capitol and watched her father preside. Like her mother, she always took off her hat.

During exciting moments, when the gavel came down with undue force, the child screwed a curl tightly around one finger. The Speaker got an awful thrill seeing his little daughter sitting up there in the gallery or on the floor, and was the usual fatuous father when he showed Paulina off in the Republican cloakroom. He reciprocated the child's interest in drama. Once, he hastily left a committee meeting with the apology: "My daughter is in a play this afternoon. I must be there." When Paulina was a wee baby, she traveled around Washington in a plain market basket in the back of her mother's car.

Thus was she carried to call on President Coolidge. She has been making Informal official calls ever since. Her quaint, outspoken bon mots equal her mother's. Paulina Longworth is a chip off the old block. She is the only "career" In which Alice Roosevelt Longworth is Nick and Alice remained pals, always, who played jokes on each other.

Next to her father and Nick, her intimates say that the only two human beings Alice Roosevelt has loved deeply are her brother Theodore and daughter Paulina. This young lady made her appearance nineteen years after marriage when a new interest is paramount. Paulina Longworth Becoming a mother is the only real womanish thing Alice Roosevelt ever did. In her make-up she has little of the eternal feminine. When one 5f he.r intimates sounded a teasing warning that she would have to "come down to it now, and to allow herself to be tended," Alice nearly had a fit, and stuck her tongue out at her! The baby's father, who had waited so long to be one, did not permit his joy to be alloyed by any disappointment that it wa3 not an heir to carry on the Longworth name.

Declaring it to be as fine a baby as was ever dreamed of, he merely indulged in a whimsical criticism that she favored the Roosevelt's rather than the Long-worths. It would be rather surprising if this had not been the case. Such an amazingly vital lot of people as the Roose-velts possess a quality which cannot be run out in one generation or two, or more. At a tender age, Theodore Roosevelt's (Continued from Page Tu)o) ting qualities. Her physical energy was equal to his.

Roosevelt once proudly boasted of her. "Alice is a girl who does not stay in the house and sit in a rocking chair. She can walk as far as I can, and often takes a tramp of seven miles at the pace I set her." Inheriting the Roosevelt courage and love of adventure, before her father took his trip in a submarine boat Alice already had the feat. She once climbed a twenty-five foot rope ladder to the deck of the Kaiser Wilhelm de Grosse to meet her prospective sister-in-law, Countess de Chamrum. There was the time, too, when she smoked cigarettes at Sherry's in New York the first time a "nice" woman ever had done so in public, creating such a sensation that the New York Herald brought out an extra.

She set the fashion for sailor hats and for her favorite color "Alice blue." The White House belle became the most talked-of girl in America. Her drolleries and witticisms, her independence and daring deeds, became by-words. Shortly after her coming out, in 1905, she christened the Kaiser's yacht Meteor. She made a triumphal trip to Cuba as guest of Gov. and Mrs.

Leonard Wood. She took Porto Rico by storm while visiting Gov. and Mrs. Hunt. She visited world fairs and State fetes and went on tour of the Orient with the Secretary of War and Mrs.

Taft. In the party was Nicholas Longworth, wealthy bachelor of Cincinnati, serving his first term in Congress. He was fascinated by the President's daughter and began immediate siege. She, however, was too much occupied to pay serious attention to his court. Everywhere she went she was treated like a princess, showered with honors and gifts.

When she traveled in Japan, a postal card was issued bearing her picture and underneath the inscription, "An American Princess." Henceforth the press dubbed her "Princess Alice." When it was rumored she was to travel through Europe, leading papers abroad began to discuss titled foreigners 'she most likely would marry, publishing her picture surrounded by such young princes as Eitel Fritz Adalbert of Prussia, Prince George of Greece, the Czar's brothers, and various DO YOU KNOW other sprigs of royalty, as if to say she could take her choice. Her taste, however, was not for title. When she changed one of the most hon- -ored names in history it was for one equally well known in America. The Longworth men always had married brilliant women. When young Longworth's engagement to Alice Roosevelt was announced December 13, 1905, there was no great surprise.

To court a young girl with seven million or more people looking on was embarrassing to say the least. The clever, talented politician must have heaved a great sigh-of relief when the wedding day finally dawned February 17, 1906, despite the inevitable ceremony attendant theron. The night before, the bridegroom gave his bachelor dinner the most notable of the kind ever given in America. It was attended by the President who broke an iron-clad rule not to dine out of the White House except at Cabinet dinners; by the Secretary of War; Speaker Cannon and others of equal import. On the same night, the White House aides entertained at supper for Miss Roosevelt at the Alibi Club.

Never was anything seen like the wedding presents befitting a princess received from all over the world. The basement of the White House looked like a vast packing house. The procession of express wagons and messenger boys was of intriguing interest to tourists and visitors to the White House contlnously lined up to view the excitement. When the gifts finally were unpacked and placed on display, special detectives were sent down from New York to guard them. Among them was a tribute from every crowned head in Europe and the Orient, as well as personal gifts from foreign representatives stationed in Washington.

The Emperor of Germany sent a jeweled bracelet and set of Saxony china; the Emperor of Austria, a diamond and pearl pendant; the President of France, a gilt clock with face set in diamonds; the French Republic a handsome Gobelin tapestry valued at $50,000 which was copied by M. Michael from the original "Middle Ages" In the French National Gallery. King Alfonso of Spain sent antique jewelry; the Mikado of Japan a chest containing sliver punch bowl and silver vases; the Empress of Japan sent silk and crepe obis, the Empress of China a dower chest of carved wood containing rich embroideries, silk and perfumes. The women of Ireland sent rare specimens of Irish lace, the Republic of Cuba a string of pearls worth Pope Pius mosaic work, a copy of a painting of the Vatican collection. Secretary of State Elihu Root sent a string of turquoises rivaling in beauty the diamond necklace, weighing three-fourths of a carat each, which was the gift of the bridegroom.

The wedding eclipsed in brilliance and significance any state function of any character ever given the White House. The gowns worn by the women outrivaled in richness anything seen in Washington at a daytime affair. The bride's gown, in which she was said to look radiantly beautiful, was a Paris creation of white satin made princess with court train of silver brocade. It was trimmed in point lace. Her bridal bouquet of roses and lilies was brought by the groom In a cab, Incased in a box the size of a small wardrobe trunk.

After marriage, the Longworths pursued their social lives as before. Their political activities, too. Nick Longworth never permitted the handicap of being the President's son-ln-lawf nor "Alice Roosevelt's husband" to cramp his personality or career. It has been said that Alice could have put him in the White House if she had wanted to. She helped Nick, but she didn't hamper him by dictating or pulling wires.

A man never forgives a woman recognized as the power behind the throne. is it Metatarsalgia? and a pair of saddlebags which is seldom. The whole "charro" outfit high-crowned, broad-brimmed sombrero, short jacket, sash, tight trousers and high-heeled boots is not just a fancy masquerade costume Invented by gaudy-minded Mexicans. It is very logical, necessary national dress, developed through meeting the requirements of a certain phase of Mexican life. The fierce sun of the Mexican ranges demands a wide-brim hat.

The hard, high crown came into being because it was the best protection for the head when a horseman was thrown which seems incredible in a Mexican horseman, but It must sometimes The sash is a descendant of the Spanish sword belt and serves to carry the hunting knife and other tools of the chase or the field. The coat must be short, to give convenient access to the sash. The1 charro's pants must of necessity be tight, as anybody can tell you who has ever hidden through chaparral with roomy trousers on. And the high heels on the boots serve two purposes to keep the horseman's feet from sliding through the stirrups, and to brace him when he pulls or holds against a roped steer. Saddle making has long been a fine art in Mexico and leather working has spread to handbags, billfolds, cigarette boxes and other articles of much more general use among us than saddles.

I am surprised that more Mexican leather work Is not to be seen on El Paseo. I can vouch that the work is all hand done, for no machine could equal the speed and skill of the Mexican leather worker. I will never forget a humble paisano In the big market in Mexico City, who in a very few minutes, using Just a couple of iron punches and a mallet, turned me out a beautifully delicate little cigarette box, with my monogram, the Aztec calendar-stone, and a wealth of Maya border design stamped into it. Anything that a Mexican makes has in it the genius of Mexico new, vibrant, unfinished Mexico, hard and crude sometimes, but underlaid with a gentleness that tempers its brilliance and energy. In one single "tecomate de Tonala" such as you see on El Pasco there is something of the wide chaparrales of Sonora, of the austerity of El 6f the swampy lowlands of Tehuantepec.

And as long as one jarro de Guadalajara remains on El Paseo, as long as there 4s one plate of mpnudo to be had, I will spend delightful afternoons fingering these pots and blankets of the palsanos, despite the scoffing of my more erudite but nearsighted friends. (Continued from Page Seven) pans. In them is the sweetness of the air of Mexico, and in them is also the spicy tang that is in the smell of horses and sweaty leather. The "canclones del Bajlo" are as much a part of the paisano's life as is his serape or his sombrero. The serape is a universal drape.

In the daytime, the peon wears it for warmth, or spreads it on the ground to display his wares at the market, or stretches it over his head for shade. At night, it is bedclothes. In the interior of Mexico there are many villages whose "hotel" boasts no bed linen; each voyager must cover himself with his own serape and saddle blankets. The brilliant red and green serapes that we see on the Paseo are most of them "serapes de SalUllo," made in Salttllo, capitol of Coahufla. They are not so much for wear as for ornaments.

The designs are said to be conventionalized sunsets, intermingled with liturgical designs descended from Aztec days. Many of these serapes de Saltillo are made to order, with the name of the owner woven in, surrounded with patriotic symbols in red, green and white, the Mexican tricolor. Sometimes you see very quaint-looking eagles and serpents in serapes de Saltillo. But the best serapes for dally wear come from Oaxaca, in Southern Mexico. They are coarse-woven blankets of various sizes, made from genuine wool raised on the slopes of Oaxaca.

The designs are rude, vigorous, sometimes worked in somber grays and blacks, sometimes with a brilliant figure introduced somewhere that is a dart of color piercing the gray gloom of the field. Occasionally Oaxaca turns out a serape depicting a rampant lion with wings, or some other fabulous monster descended from the ancient Zapoteca hierarchy. Every serape has a slit down the center, through which the wearer thrusts his head, set that the serape hangs fore and aft over the shoulders. Serapes are made in other parts of Mexico, but the weavers of Puebla and Sar.tana Chautempan work under sentence of death. The woolly dust that fills their dark, unventllated workshops gets into their lungs and produces tuberculosis and phthisis, and workers who begin their career as robust men become gasping wrecks In two or three years.

The sombrero is more than just a hat. The peon uses It many times as a knap-sack, to carry food In, on the march. The wide, stiff brims of certain kinds of wicker sombreros make very handy haversacks, especially since the peon has no pockets in his cotton clothes and no place to carry supplies unless he possesses a burro 1 mugful I laeali 1 AM -A ovac SHDI U1 K.NItU Do you tuffer from Intense pains perhaps calloaie across the ball of the foot Undoubtedly, then, your trouble mete-tarsalgia which means dropplnc of the delicate metatarsal bones which torm the short arch Just In back of the toe. Suffering from thlf. condition is Intense, walklni Is a painful trialbut permanent relief Is certain now It Is for just such foot Ills that Dr.

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