The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
HOUSE OF WILSON.
The Governors Family Consists Of
Wife and Three Daughters.

Mrs. Wilson. wife of the Democrat
nominee for president, was Miss Ellen
Louise Arson when she was married
to Mr.. Wilson She was born at Sa-
vannah, Ga. She traces her ancestry
back to the cavaliers. A visitor to
her home recently described her as a
little above the average height, slen-
der, almost girlish, yet rounded and
graceful; her eyes soft, yet sparkling
with animation; a complexion that
would make a boarding school miss
envious, and hair brown and wavy.
The Wilson family consists of three
daughters, Margaret, Jessie woodrow
and Eleanor Randolph. Margaret,
which is being cultivated Mrs. Will
son declares Margaret inherited her
voice from her father.
Jessie woodrow Wilson, the second
girl, is named for her Scotch grand
mother and her father. She is an
artist of ability, but her whole ambi-
ton lies in sociological work.
81 must confess" Mrs. Wilson said,
Jessie took up this work. For, you
see, it is all so different to the way of
life of the girls of the south and my
youth. But I appreciate the change in
the views of young women that has
taken place and am not so old fash
toned as to believe that girls must be
bound by tradition"
Jessie is, perhaps, the most brilliant
of the three daughters, though all are
clever. She was graduated from the
Woman's college in Baltimore, and on
her graduation day DR.. Wilson deliv-
cred the baccalaureate.
The third daughter, Eleanor Ran
dolph, is studying at the Academy of
Fine Arts in Philadelphia. If Mar
garet inherited her voice from her
father, Eleanor inherited her artistic
ability from her mother, for Mrs. Will
son paints landscapes in oil that have
been honored with approval by many
of the best painters and art critics in
America. Every year the Wilson's
form a portion of the art colony at
Lyme, on the Connecticut river.
TT is the most delightful retreat,
this art colony at Lyme" Mrs Wilson
said with enthusiasm TT is apart
from the highways, and the members
OF it form one happy family. At first, a
few years ago, we all boarded at a
splendid old mansion; then different
members bought up old farm-houses
and remodeled them. or erected their
OWE their own places. Every year the
colony holds an exhibition and painters
and critics from all over New England,
from New York. Philadelphia, Boston
and other centers. come to see it,
Originally Mrs. Wilson devoted her
self to portrait painting, but in recent
years she has taken up landscape work.
Reads Classics to Children.
Mrs. Wilson told how in bringing up
her girls she had followed her own
theories.
up to the time they were II years
old they were educated entirely at
home" she said. 81 am a strong be-
lever in the family influence, and so I
took personal charge of their early edu-
cation. Even when they were only 5
and 1 used to read to them every
Odyssey and translations of the older
classics. I felt that if they We're to ac-
Quire a proper appreciation of literature
they could not begin too early.
Il was always a great reader and
would pass whole days in my fathers
and grandfather's libraries. Until COM
paratively recently I never read any
thing of a later period than Dickens.
But I must confess that. do like de-
tective stories.''
Mrs. Wilson Gardener.
Beside her taste for literature and
art, Mrs. Wilson is devoted to garden
ing. Not making things grow" as she
explained, but in laying out and plan