The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-11-28

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| Washington, November 25.-Sim-
| liar tastes, a devotion to the same
ideals, and a desire to dedicate their
| lives to work of Christian usefulness
and social service is the character
| istic quality of Miss Jessie Woodrow
! Wilson, daughter of the president,
and Francis Bowes Sayre who today
are to be married at the White
House.
Both have won laurels at college
for their studies in political economy
and sociological subjects, and each
has worked among the poor in the
settlements of the big cities, ia
miliarizing themselves with life's
problems,
a fOndness for outdoor sports, a
desire to spend more time in the
work of social welfare and service
rather than in the comforts of the
drawing room, and an ambition to
live simply and quietly and without
ostentatiOn, have developed mu.
tuality of interest in the young
couple aside from their congeniality
of disposition. They have known
each other about two and a half
years, during which time the two
families have become intimate as
well. The Sayre family is an old
Pennsylvania institution with d col
legiate and theological trend quite
similar to the ancestry of Miss Will
son.
Graduate of Williams College.
Sayre is graduate of Williams
college and Harvard Law School,
He has spent his vacations in the
sheep ranches OF Wyoming, hunting
in the Rockies or exploring in Alaska.
He, counts among his thrilling adj
ventures hazardous trip across
Boring Strait in fifteen-ton
schooner, and has tramped the Ca
madam woods for days at a time
living the hardships of the forest.
He has spent some OF his summers
on the ia brador coast with DR.. Will
fred T. Grenfell, Who each year
ministers to the sick and needy fish
ermen there. Dr. Grenfell is to be
best man at the wedding today. The
couple has selected d modest little
house in Williamstown, Mass, where
Sayre is to be assistant to the presi.
dent of Williams college, Professor
Harry A. Garfield, a son of the
martyred president, and once a men,
Der of the/Princeton faculty
Miss Wilson, the White House
bride of today, was born in Gaines
vile, Ga, twenty-six years ago, be-
ing two years Younger than her flu.
ture husband. But she has lived
most of her life in Princeton, where
her father was for twenty-seven
years connected with Princeton uni
versity. After being educatN' by a
| German governess until the age of
twelve, she attended Princeton's
| schools and then specialized in politi-
cal economy at Goucher college, Bal
timore, where she graduated with a
Phi Beta Kappa key, symbol of
high scholarship which Sayre also
won at Williams.
Lived in Settlement House.
Miss Wilson spent two years living
four days q week in settlement
| house in the Kensington mill dis
| trict of Philadelphia. She shared the
! humble fare of the settlement res
! tauyant and became affectionately
| devoted to her charges. She taught
mothers clubs, preaching industry,
| economy and household concerns.
| She was not seen often at the afte--
noon teas at the White House last
spring, being away most of the time
! speaking in behalf OF the Y. w G..
| A., of whose national board she is
an active member. She is an ardent
believer in woman suffrage-the re
suit of her observations Of sociaI
problems. She has not taken d
prominent part in advancing ths
cause, however, because of hel
fathers onlcial position, but She sym
pauizes heartily with the efforts OF
NoIhCil w ScI Tic OdIfOt do an III
strument for the correction of The
evils of child labor and the institu
ton of other social reforms.
The bridal party selected by botl
the bride and the groom reflects il
its personnel the intimate feeling o
the couple for those who have beer
associated with them in their recrea
|, tons and serious pursuits.
: Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, the bes
; man, has worldwide fame as a mis-
: sionary physician in the bleak lam
: OF Labrador His wife, Tho wa
, among the guests at the Whit
: House today, was Miss Anna M
| Clanahan of Chicago, where thei
/ marriage took place with Franci
, Doves Sayre, todays bridegroom a
r an usher DR.. Grenfell's second +,
turn from his humble home in a
isolated land, to be best man at
e White House wedding, adds anothe
: chapter to a career already full {
/ unusual experiences
5 Made Trips to Labrador Also.
t DR.. De Witt Scoville Clark, Jr
t another member of the bridal part,
c is an old friend of Dr., Grenfell. H