The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22

all his work. They have not sprung suddenly from
quiet. scholarly atmosphere. far removed from the
world of realities. into the busy whirl OF politics
They have been working politics together for
ty"one years.
'EIt is twenty-one years since Mr.. Wilson went to
Princeton Mrs. Wilson said His subject was
politics then Politics has been his subject we
the word in the college vernacuar, SINCE
Mrs. Wilson works with her husband. But she
does not believe that should lose her in
dividuality,
1T to that serve hus-
bands work in better ways than by becoming merely
his under-s er-secretary,'' she explained
81 help Mr.. Wilson all l can But he tells me
something that / help him most by keeping alive his
interest in the beautiful things of life and making
impossible for him to get cut and dried and too much
the politician and economist, she on, with
little laugh
Personally. my tastes have always lain
the direction of poetry art nature. 1 love poetry,
And Mr. Wilson and I read together, you see, and
talk things over
The beautiful things of life have always claimed
Mrs. Wilson their own, leal subject of their
kingdom. The daughter of n Presbyterian minister
in Savannah, Ga, she grew up among books and flow
and pictures in the traditions of the beautyov
ing, unsuccessful impoverished south, Even if she
ha wished. it would have been impossible for her to
prosperity 1t would have been impossible for her
not to know that home the sweetest thing in the
years ago fail to understand the needs outside the
home gates. fail to be interested in the struggling
world whose echoes reached her in her fathers H.
brary. Every one was poor in the south then. And
yet. she smiles, they had such good time, They
made their clothes-such pretty clothes And
they went boating and played tennis aud found the
lovely jolly things of life that cost little money
after all
Much she loved books, it art that the south
girl chose her life work, and that took her
away finally from the south But long before that in
Georgia she and young Woodrow Wilson had become
friends and used to stalk things over" just exactly
they do She iourneyed to New York to study
at the Art Students League, and Woodrow Wilson
time. Aud then the ynung art student decided that
she had been mistaken in the choice of profession
after ALL she would not be artist, she would marry
Woodrow Wilson instead
During the years of her daughters childhood Mrs
Wilson made no effort to keep up her painting But
now that the girls are grown up their mother goes
every and then to the artists colony at Lyme
VT where she has friends, and where she works
at her art again.
But of while the children little
Just stayed at home and took caro- Of them and The
house. she remarked in matter-ofcourse way.
When the Wilson's first went to Princeton the
Young professor 8 wife wished to join the women
clubs and take her place tho active life OF the
campus community. But Mrs McCosh, whose hus-
her not to enroll herself in the Women IS Aid league
while her children babies There was danger of
contagious diseases. the older explained,
that sort Of work. There plenty of other
who did not have little children There other
work that Mrs Wilson could do,
''And j have always remembered tile good
of that. the governor S wife said. ''rhere is
for one but it must be the sort of work that
suits that is sane