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JUST WHAT THE THIRTEENTH WHITE HOUSE
WEDDING WILL BE LIKE!
BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH
(Copyright, 1913, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)
Washington, Nov. 17. There is
going to be a wedding at the White
House Nov. 25. Four hundred per
sons, senators and representatives,
the members of the diplomatic corps
and the personal friends and relatives
of the bride and groom 'will be actual
witnesses of the simple ceremony in
the East Room which will make Jes
sie Woodrow Wilson, second daugh
ter of the president, the wife of Fran
cis Bowes Sayre of New York.
But so widespread is the interest
in the thirteenth wedding in the
White House that eighty million men
and women will attend it in spirit and
will offer their good wishes and con
gratulations to the president's daugh
ter and his first son-in-law.
What will this thirteenth wedding
at the White House be like?
Imagine that you have passed un
der the Colonial doorway of the
White House, that you have given
your card of admission to the smiling
negro butler who guards its portals,
that you have nodded a pleasant
greeting to the portraits of Theodore
Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
that face each other in a painted and
perpetual friendliness across the
wide entrance hall, and that you
stand with many others in the great
East Room, which has been cleared,
for the wedding ceremony, of all the
priceless tapestry and gorgeous vases
which the governments of the world
have presented to the United States,
and that you are waiting for the
magic moment when a triumphant
burst of music will proclaim the com
ing of the White House bride.
You will, perhaps, have glanced at
the clergyman, the Reverend Sylves
ter W. Beach, pastor of rthe church
at Princeton which Mr. Wilson's fam
ily attended while he was president
of the college and whom the bride
herself chose to perform the cere
mony which will make her a wife.
You may have given a casual in
spection to the slender, earnest,
young man whose interest in social
service first drew him to the notice
of Jessie Wilson.
You may have said to yourself that
Francis Bowes Sayre is a clean-cut,
well-bred young-fellow who looks as
though he cherished aims and worthy
ideals. But, after all, he is only the"
bridegroom and when the bride, clad
in ivory white satin, very severely cut
and with a tremendously long train,
sweeps into the East Room, you will
not have eyes for anyboBy else not
even for her two sisters, Margaret
and Elinor, who are members of the
bridal party.
Margaret Wilson, eldest of the Wil
son girls, will be her sister's maid of
honor. She is not so tall as the bride.
Her hair is darker, as are her eyes.
The younger sister, Elinor, Miss Ade
line Mitchell Scott, daughter of Pro
fessor Wm. B. Scott of Princeton,
Miss May G. White of Baltimore and
Miss Marjorie Brown, daughter of
Mrs. Wilson's cousin, Colonel E. T.N
Brown of Atlanta, will be brides
maids. Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, with whom
the bridegroom worked in Labrador,
will be the best man, and the ushers
will be Benjamin B. Burton of New
York, a graduate of Williams College,
1912; Dr. Scoville Clark of Salem,
Mass., whom Mr. Sayre knew in La
brador and with whom he trailed
northern Newfoundland; Dr. Gilbert
H. Horax of Montclair, N. J., class
mate of the bridegroom at Williams,
class of 1909, now at John Hopkins
Medical School, and Charles E.
Hughes, Jr., son of Justice Hughes
of the United States Supreme Court,
who was a classmate of Mr. Sayre at
Harvard law school.
The Wilson wedding takes place at
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