The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
WILSON FAMILY
ARE NO SNOBS
just Like Home Folks and the People
Of Washington Think Well
Of Them.

just Like Home Folks and the People
Of Washington Think Well
Of Them.
by Burton X. standish, written for
the United Press,]
u WASHINGTON, May a. The con-
viction is growing on .olks at the ma.
ticnal capital that the Wilson family
which recently moved into the house
at 1000 Pennsylvania avenue, north
west, are pretty good sort Mr.. VIII
son may be president, Mrs. Wilson
may be the first lady Of the land
and the Misses Wilson may be social
favorites but taken individually and
as whole the Wilson family is aston,
ishingly like any other real United
States family.
In the first place the Wilson family
is very home folky." Since March
4, when the family moved in, Presi-
dent Wilson has been at his own fire.
side almost every night that he has
MT been to the theatre with Mrs. Will
son or one OF the girls" Mrs. VIII.
son has done some entertaining In a
quiet way. She has given several
little musicals and has had several
small garden parties on the spacious
white house lawn. The Misses Wilson
have been doing the social end for
the family, and Miss Jessie Wilson
has continued her hobby OF socialogi-
| cal work and investigation.
| Mrs. Wilson has done the unusuai
several times. She visited the slum
| district of Washington one day to see
how the other half" lives in the ma
tional capital and she has spent sew
eral afternoons sight seeing in the
! government departments and build.
ings, On these occasions less than
half a dozen persons knew who she
was. She shares her husbands strong
dislike for display.
The Wilson family has not yet def
nitely selected a church home simply
because Of the crowds of curious Wis
/ itors and residents who would be sure
to crowd pews and aisles for a
! glimpse OF the president and hts fam
/ lily at worship. None of the white
house attaches have known until the
4 last minute on Sunday where the
president and Mrs. Wilson would at
4 tend services. Moreover, the churches
that the president has attended have
been the small, inconspicuous Presby'
{ terrain churches far from their own
neighborhood.
But 1t Is when the president takes
his exercise that the Jeffersonian sin.
plicity comes out strongest When
Taft was in the white house an after.
noon stroll partook OF the nature OF
a ceremonial. First came the presl
dent walking slowly and sedately az
became one Of his portliness. On eitn
er side Of the president were Score
tary Hilles and Major Rhodes. chic
military aide. Like as no. Rhodes
Twas diked out In full dress uniform
Behind these three and forming I
rear rank were three solemn facet
isecret service men plodding slowly
along and thinking of the Gays wher
d Roosevelt was president and there
was real strenuosity In their Jobs.
i When President Wilson goes walk
ing he generally slips out the back
door much to the worry of the secret
\ service guards. He seldom takes HIS
\ military aide with him. The president
recently has acquired the Jimmy
Sloan habit Sloan is one of the sec
ret service men and there is no othel
like Jimmy" II Sloan has any enc
mies-which is doubtful-they would
admit to their closest friends tina,
4 they like Sloan 1t was first sight
friendship between Sloan and Presi
dent Wilson, and when the latter
walks about the capital nowadays
4 Jimmy Sloan is with him and the
two are chatting away and Laughing
like two college boys out on lark
There are always other secret service
men bringing up the rear but you'c
never know they were members o.
the presidential walking party.
The president walks with a swing
Ing "get-there" sort of gait, He al
ways carries cane and he smiles
boyishly over things that Interest
him. He prefers to walk through tn.
streets rather than in the many beau
tiful public parks OF Washington.
The president made an ineffectua
effort to abolish the custom Of hae
4 ing a khaki uniformed MOTORCYCLE
policeman trail along behind the whit,
house automobile when he takes mo,
or trips. but he didn't have a chance
James Sloan explained away all hls
objections.
Portland's Police.