Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1914 — ‘HOW I TANGOED WITH TEDDY’ [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

‘HOW I TANGOED WITH TEDDY’

Chicago Girl Tells of Good Time on Steamer That Roosevelt to \?M South America. 1 Chicago.—Here are a few facta about Colonel Roosevelt which the jpdblic might never have known had hot a .pretty Chicago girl divulged them:. • The colonel, is an expert dancer, and a ready pupil in the mystic mazes oi the tango. He is really a handsome man, if you view Ijlm from the proper angle. He Ib supreme in the gentle art of small talk.

He is "just simply the greatest man that ever . lived.” . Miss Sfabel Shaw is authority for these statements concerning the colonel’s attributes. Miss Shaw arrived at Rio Janeiro “after a trip on the steamer Van Dyke, which carried Roosevelt and his party on their South American voyage. Im letter to her mother, Mrs. Helen Shaw of 1133 Granville avenue. North Edgewater, Miss Shaw waxed enthusiastic over the virtues and graces of the former president. . “I’m just wild to meet him, mother,” she wrote before the Van Dyke sailed. “We’re so lucky to be on the same boat with him. Do you think he will notice me?” ■ ... ... And then later: “Well, mother, dear, it’s happened, and he’s just wonderful. The other night we were all dancing in the salon and Colonel Roosevelt, just like a high school boy, came up and bowed to me, and asked if be mightn’t have the next dance. Of /course, I was flushed to death, but 1 tried my best not to let him see it. "Mr: Roosevelt is a dandy dancer. He told me lots of things about his while we were gliding over "the floor, and really, mother, it was too marvelous for words. Then he asked me tb tell him about myself, and I told him of my ambitions to be-

come an opera singer, and he was so kind. Sajd he was sure there was no one who deserved success more than I did, and encouraged me so much. He’s a perfect dear. "Later in the evening I sang before the whole ship’s company at Colonel Roosevelt’s request, and the men got together and gave me a lovely bouquet of flowers."