The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-11-27
THIRTEENTH WHITE
HOUSE BRIDE IN
{ODAY'S CEREMONY
Miss Jessie Wilson Mar
Iied Before Notable
Gathering.
SAIL FOR EUROPE
Couple Win Spend Honey
moon There, Though .Des-
tination is Scclct.
SAIL FOR EUROPE
Tuesdays Daily

Washington, ID. C. Miss Wilson
visited the executive Offices this
morning with a party of guests. show
ed them the cabinet room, and the
presidents room aid walked througb
the south grounds.
Mary Tumulty, the nine year old
daughter of SECRETARY Tumultv, was
me youngest gdcst at the wedding.
N'ne cabinet children we're present.
1t became known the wedding
couple will spend The greater part of
'lleif honeymoon ~ Europe. They
VIII sail within a week though the
'lmc OF departure and destination
are a secret.
lhere is Indian summer weather
this afternoon for the Wilson-sayre
Simplicity the Keynote.
Washington. ID. C.-Simplicity
with diglity-the same ideal which
President Wilson has cherished for
his administration since its i%naugur-
atlon-Was the predominant note in
the arrangements for the marriage
late today OF Jessie Woodrow Wilson
second daughter of President and
Mrs. Wilson, and Francis Bowes
Sayre.
During the lib years that have
elapsed since the White House was
Guilt, twelve weddings have taken
place there and it falls TO the lot of
Miss Wilson to be the thirteenth, a
coincidence all the more remarkable
because the President often has
told his friends thai the number
thirteen has run through his life as a
harbinger of good luck. CAUTIOUSLY
enough the bridal party and minister
number Just thirteen.
The cermony was to be solem-
nized in the historic East Room.
ma jestically decorated in masses
OF flowers for the occasion,
at 1880 o'clock this afternoon. but
long before that hour the White
House grounds assumed a holiday APP
p~earance. The passing of auto
olles and carriages to and from the
north portico told the gathering
crowds outdoors that the bridal party
the usllers and attendant maids
had arrived and that all was in
readiness for the unusual event the
ewing in marriage of a daughter OF
the president of the United States.
Touch OF LONELINESS.
Notwithstanding its official brill
aancy, there was IL distinct touch OF
LONELINESS in the days affair. The
Rev. w. Beach, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church at Princeton.
n. j., where Miss Wilson long taught
Il Sunday Bible class and where the
Wilson family worshiped for a score
of years, had been selected as the
officiating clergyman. The maid OF
10000. . .l.- NJ -
the President. Miss Margaret Wilson.
The bridesmaids were the brides
younger sister. Miss Eleanor Ran
dolph Wilson, and Miss Mary G.
White, of Baltimore; Miss Adeline
Mis-; Marjorie Brown. of Atlanta,
the last IA relative, and the others
chums of girlhood days.
The best man was Dr.. Wilfred T.
Grenfell. with whom Sayre spent
many months ministering to the sick
and needy on the rock-bound Lab
groom's college mates Benjamin
b. Burton. of New York; DR.. De
Witt Scoville Clark, Jr., of Salem,
Mass; DR.. Gilbert HorraN, of Mont
clair. N. j., and Charles Evans
''''Si''P' ''.' ~ own VI ~ W
the Supreme Court.
The bride aud groom-both blonde
and of about the same height, she,
known as the White House beauty
because OF her classic Grecian fea-
lures, and he, a tall, 1.-the young
man athletic in appearance with
sharp features and "A fair complexion
were busily occupied during the
forepart of the day mingling in the
bridal party, their relatives and
house guests to whom alone the
White House was accessible before
the wedding hour.
Preferred Quiet Wedding.
The two young people who have
lived the hardships of the poverty
settlements in big cities and who
have inquired into life's social and
economic problems first hand. woul
have preferred a quiet wedding, linn
tied TO the family circle and close
friends-such as it might have been
had not the parents OF the rid
beer elevated to the foremost social
position i'm the gift Of h nation.
Reluctantly was it made an official
affair. The diplomatic corps. it was
realized. had never been omitted on
any important social occasion at the
White House, nor had the members
of the Cabinet and the Supreme
Court. To Washington society to-
days was the supreme event of the
season. yet the guests were hardly
drawn from official life but from the
vast circle of friends of the two fam
lilies throughout the land.
There were but four hundred in
vitations issued-6O0 less than at the
Roosevelt wedding seven years ago
but the Wilson's are newcomers in
Washington. whereas the Roosevelt
administration was then five years
old and Officials and their wives had
had a greater opportunity 10 estab-
fish intimate relations at the White
House.
Members of the cabinet and their
wives and families. as well as the
Justices of the Supreme Court of
the1tnited States and their families.
the Ambassadors and ministers, rep
%resenting kings and emperors