Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-25

the homes seen about Warwick and Ches-
ter. and was the result of the influence
which a visit to the midlands of Eng
land had upon Mrs. Wilson, then occu-
pied with architecture in the London
School of Design. Mrs. Wilson planned
every detail OF the home in which she
and her husband spent SO many happy
and eventful years. 1t had broad. wide
entrance hall, and a library which was
sunny and cheerful, no matter what thc
weather. MaAy windows and "A wide
open fireplace, and hooks with lamps
swinging over reading tables. caused this.
and 1t was a favorite nook for Mrs. VIII
sons receptions during her husbands
days as a very hard-worked professor.
In this home the Wilson's dispensed a
hospitality. discriminating but so broad
in its scope as to be almost national. Ii
was with deep regret, at least on the
part of Mrs. Wilson and her daughters
that they left this home to take posses
sion of the stately turreted mansion re-
served for the president of Princeton. But
even in this somewhat hostile outward en-
yfronment Mrs. Wilson stamped her per
sonality and bestowed the artistic air
which seems her chief charm. She
complished great things with the flower
gardens about the mansion, and one of
the permanent improvements was to break
up the formal aspect into graceful beds.
and add the TALL nodding lilies TO the
stiffer-looking blooms long familiar on
the landscape.
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Mrs. Wilson says her friends have a
deep attachment for Princeton, and she
has often said that no spot on earth
seems to her so beautiful, not even the
more ancient seats Of learning in Great
Britain and the continent. She loved TO
paint the venerable catalpa trees which
were old when Washington and the Con-
tinental Congress OF 17S3 attended the
commencement. She has some exquisite
bits of the campus of old Nassau and IVY
covered building now adjoining her bou-
doir, and she painted set OF dessert
plates with landscapes about the college.
Mrs Wilson is pleasant though digni-
fled in manner. and has proven In every
position a tactful and highly successful
hostess. Her reputation Is that she mas
grasped every situation with force ana
solved every problem effectually. though
without after results. There are some
who aver that living for nearly six years
in Bryn MaWr must have converted Mrs
Wilson to the cause OF suffrage, since
that famous college Is considered the
stronghold of the cause. But Mrs. Wilson
has never committed herself on the sub
ject In her residence in Bryn Mawr the
college was called johanna Hopkins by
the frivolous because its faculty all repre-
scented the training of the illustrious Bal
timore institution, and Mrs. Wilson had
the benefit of the discussion Of the wom-
ans cause from the scholastic point OF
view Gov. Wilson is credited with q
toward giving women any rights
they want, and one of the daughters, Miss
Eleanor Randolph Wilson. Is active
member OF the cause. but Mrs. Wilson re-
mains in the doubtful column.
There are three daughters In the Will
son family, the eldest Miss Eleanor RAN
dOlph, then Miss Margaret. and the
In AnnFnnriafolv nanneA for
the cousin at whose house they entered
what Gov. Wilson calamity calls the
avenue which led him to storm the cita
del of fortune-Jessie Woodrow Wilson.
Washington knows none Of these charm
Ing women. now becoming very well
known, except casually through the par
ents of boys attending school at Prince
ton.