The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-24


IT liar fitness for do
ing at least one
thing remarkably we'll.
The eldest, Miss Margaret Woodrow
Wilson. is twenty-six years old, while
! Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson is only q
year younger, making her three years
older than Miss Eleanor Randolph
Wilson, who was born twenty-five
years ago at Middletown, Conn., when
her father was a professor at Wesley
an university.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was born In
georgia and passed the first part OF
her life there. She early showed a
great talent for painting, and many
critics have said she probably would
nave had great future as an artist
II she had not, given up most Of hef
WORK IN this line after her marriage to
Prof. Wilson when he was strug.
Cling collegiate instructor at Bryn
Mawr.
While still engaged to Mr. Wilson
she was member OF the Art Stu.
dents league in New York, but from
ner wedding day until few years ago
Mrs. Wilson did little work with the
brush. After her daughters had crowd
up and gone off to school, however,
she decided to do little more artistic
work, making landscapes her special.
ty Several OF her recent sketches
hang on the walls of the fanlilvs sum.
mer home at Seagirt, N J. Friends
nave often advised her to exhibit
some of these, but she has continually
declined to do so. Mrs. Wilson has
also made quite a name for herself
as landscape gardener.
The principles of education which
Woodrow Wilson advocated while
president of Princeton university were
put INTO practice in his own family.
None of the girls went to school until
after ten years old. The natural in
cllnations of each were allowed to de-
Veiop to the full extent and the mar
ents made almost unfelt their guiding
hands. A German governess gave
them instruction in French and Ger
man. and today all three young wo
men are very proficient in both Ian.
suages. They fitted for college at a
private school in Princeton. which was
presided over by sister of Dean
Fines of the university.
Miss Margaret entered the woman's
college at Baltimore in the class of
1907. At the completion of her sonho.
more year she discovered that she had
a soprano voice of great possibilities
and, acting under Amusement, she left
the college for musical training. She
studied music at the Peabody insti.
tute in Baltimore under Miss Sylvana.
then returned to Princeton and stud-
led under Miss Vivian Edwards, and
later came to New York, where Mrs.
Lillian Gillespie was her teacher.
Miss Margaret Wilson is an expert
athlete. She plays golf, tennis and
basket ball very we'll indeed. is an OK.
pert horsewoman, swims in the rough
est water in the most fearless fashion
and dances with much grace.
The most serious Of the TITO is Miss
Jessie Woodrow Wilson, much Of
whose time is given to educational,
philanthropic and religious work She
is a member of the national board Of
Y. w. G. A. and is identified with the
! educational branch. She was an hon.
| or member in the class of 1908 of the
! woman's college at Baltimore, gaining
| the golden key Of Phi Beta Kama
| The first two years of her post graf1u-
ate life she passed in ph1lanthropic
| work at kensington. Philadelphia.
While here she decided to 20 into for
eign missionary work, but was in.
| formed by the head of the Presbyter.>
Ian board of foreign missions that she
was not robust enough for the exact.
ing duties of that station. She is very
busy the year round, going to New
York once month, and has to dispose
daily of voluminous correspond
| ence
| Miss Eleanor Wilson, known as
Nell in the family circle and among
her intimate friends, inherited her
mothers artistic ability and has al
ready made quite a reputation for her.
self by her productions. She Is not q
college graduate. having gained her
education in a private school at
Princeton and In st. Mary's school at
Raleigh, N. c. Much of her artistic
training was received at the Academy
Of Fine Arts In Philadelphia.
There are not many members of
the families Of Governor and Mrs. Will
eon. The governor has one brother
living. Joseph r. Wilson, city editor OF
the Nashville Banner, and one sister,
Mrs.. George Howe Of Raleigh, N. c..
Mrs. Wilson also has one brother and
one sister living, the former Professor
Stockton Arson. professor of English
ut Princeton, and the latter Mrs. Ed
ward Elliott, wife of the professor OF
JURISPRUDENCE and political economy