Bisbee daily review., 1912-11-24
GOVERNOR WOODROW WILSON
HAS INTERESTING FAMILY

father. Eleanor Inherited her artis.
tic ability from her mother. for Mrs.
Wilson 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 part OF the art col.
ony at Lyme, on the Connection,
river
Originally Mrs. Wilson devoted her.
self 90 portrait painting. but in recent
years she has taken up landscape
work
Reaa Classics to Her Children.
Mrs. Wilson told how in bringing
mp her girls she had followed her owr
theories.
Up TO the time they were II years
old they We're educated entirely AZ
home, she said Il am a strong be
liver in the family influence and so
took personal charge OF their early
education Even when they were only
: aud = I used 10 read to them the
Odyssey aud TRANSACTIONS of the older
classics. I felt that il they we're TO
acquire proper appreciation of lit
eIature they could not begin too
early.
Il was always a great reader and
would pass whole days in my fathers
and Crandlather's libraries. Until CON-
paratiyely recently ! never read any
thing OF a later period that Dickens.
But ! must confess that | do like
detective stories
Essentially Home Maker.
he haF
added Mrs Wilson. smiling happily,
contains three Clements husband
. with whose tastes you sympathize
your home and your children. I've
often said-and I'm sure my husband.
practical theorist that he is, agrees
with me-that husbands and wives
reach their truest AMI noblest dcvel
npment when they are Complementary
10 each other. That's the way ! feel
about my husband. l want him 70
feel that ! am always at his side"
When she speaks of her husband
I Mrs Wilson's fine eyes light with en-
/ Jhusiasm and her conversation proves
her splendid grasp of big social and
political topics.
Il want others 10 know my hus
band as l know him. You know my
! husbands ideals and mine have al
ways been supplementary 10 each 9th
or. ! have the greatest confidence
in his ability to render practical the
theoretical ideals which he holds.
/ have such great confidence in tn,
| clearness Of his vision that I have
! Frequently accepted his ideas on sub
jects which ] mad no opportunity o
/ personally jHquiring into"
Besides her taste for literature an,
! art, Mrs. Wilson is devoted TO gaI
deniHg. Not making things grow.
! as she explained, but in laying on
! and planning gardens" While shi
/ was mistress OF Prospect. the officia
/ resideTce OF the president Of Prince
{ ton University, the gardens attaches
I 10 it were made over aud improve
under her direction until they be
/ came mass Of boweTy glory that at
/ tracted visitors from far ana neal
pect was that she had no longer
guiding nand in the care Of its ga
dens.
Didn't Want to Teach.
OF her first meeting with Mr.. VII
son, then q student at Johns Hopkins
Mrs. Wilson SAID little. She was mar
RED to the young iawyer-he had a,
ready practiced one yeaT-at the oil
house in which she was bern.
Doctor Wilson never had any tast
for the practice OF law" Mrs. Wilso
said, and he early determined TO BIZ
come a teacher. But his ambition
we're political. However, be foun
that he could not 90 into politics an
he a free agent. owing 70 his lack Q
, means at that time, and rather tina
have his hands TIED in any name
be respectfully gave up his ambition
Neither did he want TO become an e
4 ucator. and he has Often laughingl
/ told me how when he was a stuien
at Princeton he would look out tn
window. and seeing one Of the y7ole'
soTs pass would declare that he neye
would become one of them.
/ President-elect Wilson has PAL
mucn attention 10 outdoor SPORTS. II
usually goes abroad during the sun
| mer and IN mis- return passes the II
4 mainder OF the vacation season at hi
| sumner home in Connecticut. Will
i abroad Mr. Wilson has usually pssse
his time in the lake district, England
playing golf. walking and bryce rid
, ing.