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Rh can truthfully be said that her departure from the White House was much regretted.

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was born at Norwich, Connecticut, August 6, 1861. She was the daughter of Charles and Gertrude Elizabeth Carow. She was educated at Cornstock School, New York. Married Theodore Roosevelt at St. George's Church, London, December 2, 1886. She is the mother of four sons and one daughter.

The wife of the President of the United States was born in Cincinnati, June 2, 1861, and is the daughter of John Williamson and Harriet Collins Herron. She was educated at private schools in Cincinnati, and at her home there was married June 19, 1886, to William Howard Taft. Mrs. Taft is a woman of strong character and an equal degree of intensity in her aims; she is sympathetic, straightforward, sincere, with a wholesome contempt for artificial veneers, social shams and the glitter that has no gold behind it. But for impaired health, which beset her shortly after her occupancy of the White House, she would doubtless have made one of the most forceful and brilliant mistresses of the national executive mansion. Mrs. Taft is well and broadly educated, a trained musician and has had every advantage which culture anl travel can give. She has journeyed much, and lived in many lands. She is the mother of three children—two sons, Robert, a student at Yale, and Charles, a schoolboy at Groton, Massachusetts, and of one daughter, Miss Helen Taft, an accomplished graduate of Bryn Mawr, and now her mother's right hand in all social matters.

The ideas which Mrs. Otis applied with such charming results in Boston were also applied by Mrs. James Rush, of Philadelphia, to the social life of that city.