New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-08
NEW FIRST LADY OF LAND
Washington Specializing Over
the Next Social Regime.
MRS. WILSON LITTLE KNOWN
Art and Literary World Will
Welcome President Elects
Family to White House.
From The Tribune Bureau. J

IRON Inc lTiDuhc
Washington. Nov. much Speculation
is rife in Washington over the propaOi'
result OF the advent Of the President
elects family in the society life or the
national capital While the three daugh-
ters Of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are known
10 many prominent society men Of Wash
ington who have graduated from Prince
ton, Mrs. Wilson is known to compare
lively few women, including Mrs. james
F.. MARITIME. wife OF Senator MARITIME OF
New Jersey; Mrs. Thomas p. Gore wite
OF Senator Gore, OF Oklahoma, VINO re-
Gently paid Mrs. Wilson visit, ana mrs'
Albert S. Burleson, of Texas.
An entire new social regime will follow
the tradition from Republican to Demo-
cratic administration, and the leading
question IS who will be the leaders!
There is no question in the minds OF So
ciety people in Washington but that the
Democratic trend toward simplicity ana
social refreshment will be most marked
With educational people surrounding
them, the President-elect and his family
will assume the ceremony Of a Presi-
Dental household only when official
etiquette demands. and will maintain the
simplicity which has always surrounded
them.
Mrs. Norman E. Mack, who gave a
toast at the Dolly Madison breakfast here
last spring, on Women Of the White
House, BE to Her Virtues Very Kind. y
is likely to take a prominent place social
~, as will also Mrs. OGorman, wife OF
Senator O'Gorman, Of New York, and
Mrs. John Sharp Williams, whose tastes
are similar to those OF Mrs. Wilson; Mrs.
William Ellicott, OF Baltimore, whom Mrs.
Wilson recently visited. will probably fig
ure prominently on the Blue Room list
during the coming years.
Art World Will Welcome Mrs. Wilson.
As the musical world welcomed Mrs.
William Howard Taft into the White
House as its mistress so the art world
will welcome Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. AT
a tea Il the Chevy Chase Club a society
woman, who knows the initiative of Mrs.
Wilson in all things pertaining TO art,
predicted a Presidential gallery for the
White House--a gallery where would be
hung the portraits OF Presidents Of the
past with those OF their wives and other
members Of their families; pictures Of
their birthplaces. and here and there a
choice relic from some Presidential home
like Mount Vernon or Monticello.
Three girls In the White House at once
three gowns to describe, three sturdy in
teresting girls to follow and dine and en-
terrain Well. II is something unknown
before to Washington society. and that IS
what makes the incoming Presidents fam
lily OF untold interest. There will be a
constant exchange OF visits between col
1ege men and college women. Miss Jessica
Wilson may take up her settlement work
here She may be to the settlement house
movement in Washington what Miss Tat
has been to the girl scouts, the various
sewing and cooking classes and other feat
ures OF charity work. Miss Margaret
Wilson Is expected TO create new interest
IN the musical world, while on Miss
Eleanor Wilson, the youngest Of the three
girls, Washington society pins much hope.
IT is expected that Miss Eleanor will &C
cept all Of the innumerable invitations OF
the younger set and will give some of the
dances which have made the White House
famous
Other Children of White House.
President Taylor was probably the last
President to have three grown daughters
10 entertain and be entertained In the
White House all at once. The first Presi-
dent Harrison had four daughters, but
they were not all young ladies in evidence
during his administration. Up 10 few
years ago there lived in Washington an
old woman who used to go 10 the White
House to teach the two grown daughters
Of President Johnson TO sew, and they
made all OF their gowns worn at White
House entertainments. Since then Nelly
Grant, Molly" Garfield, little Nelly"
Arthur. the Cleveland babies, Mrs. Mary
Scott Mckee, who. with her famous ba-
bies lived in the White House during the
Harrison administration; the two Roose-
welt girls, both OF whom made their debut
In the White House, and Miss Helen Taft.
who yet rsigns as social queen, have
left much behind them to lend itself 70
history and the hearts OF the people.
Mrs. Wilson brings TO the White House
and social life in general the same vigor-
Gus ideas for which Mrs. Taft stands, and
Il is not expected that there will be any
startling features when the change OF
takes place on March 4.