The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-02-21
GAY OLD LOR
GETS THE LOVE
MICROBE
MRS. GARDNER THE FIANCE
Secret Learned Through the
White House Wedding.

Washington, D. c., Feb. q. one great
funeral makes many others. they say.
and the snme, It seems. is truo Of great
weddings. for close on the marriage OF
the Presidents daughter comes the So
oially accepted report that two Of the
guests az that memorable afralr Mrs.
Jack Gardner OF Boston and Representa-
I tive W. Bourke Coc-an Of New York,
I win emulate the example set by Miss
Roosevelt and Representative Long
worth. An mking Of the second ro-
nance WAS visible In lhc White house
Saturday. but society was so busy bid
ding godspeed to the now Mrs. Long
worth and her happy husband that II
had no eyes for the Cochran Gardner
love story untl today.
II remained FOR Mrs. Hunt slater, one
" the hostosses OF the national capital,
to confirm IN the eyes OF the fashionable
world the gossip begun twenty-four
hours earlier. She gave a reception for
Mrs. Gardner at 8 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon IN her handsome home 1905
sixteenth street. az which Mr.. Cochran
was present The result Of IL was that
! before social Washington dinCd the
story Of the betrothal Of the brilliant
Boston woman and the silver tongued
bachelor was spread far and wide.
How long the New Yorker and the
Bostonian had been betrothed Is n mys-
terry but the prevailing impression Is
that the White house wedding precipi-
tnted either the proposal or the accc?-
tance. Tho favorite report-a pretty
one. too--was that Mrs. Gardner was
touched so deeply by the sight OF the
hew Mrs Longworth's happiness that
widowhood became unbcarabie TO her
and IN sight OF the lovely floral altar in
the East room she promised the Man
haitian orator to lay aside her weeds in
the interests OF his happiness and her
own. Less romantic. perhaps. was the
version that the two had been engaged
secretly for weeks and months, and that
Cochran's attentions to the wealthy wild
ow IN the course Of the Longworth-
Roosevelt ceremony became SO married
that friends charged him with being en-
gagged 10 her. and in an unguarded mo-
ment OF high spirits he acknowledged
his hopes.
Representative Cochran escorted Mrs.
Gardner from the first hour after Bishop
othAtltt Dhlulnt1 Hidlt MISS ANbOctNtiA
Mrs. Longworth. The Tammany sooth-
sayer was in attendance on the owner OF
Fenway palace throughout the after
noon. He escorted her and two OF her
women friends to the White house. but
the friends were lost and thenceforth
Mrs Gardner had the Manhattan rep.
resentative all to herself. Before the
congratulations were all uttered Mr..
Cochran again was by Mrs. Gardner's
side and when they entered the state
dining room for the buffet luncheon he
busted ilimsclf IA her service. Mrs.
Gardner had one Of the first bottles Of
champagne opened in the White house
after the wedding. She received one OF
the first cups OF bouillion served at the
bufret luncheon. Representative Cock
ran lowered about her in n way Wash
mgton women today referred to as
dancing attendance
Mrs Gardner Is the widow OF John /.
Gardner who was one Of Bostons null
tlmilionaires. She was IA Philadelphia
glrl who immtdiateiy upon her wedding
became leader Of Boston society. She
is not beautiful, nor is she young Cock
ran is 81 years old