South Bend news-times., 1913-11-15
WEDDING PLANS
NOW COMPLETE
Pen Picture of White House
NuptiaIS Drawn by NixoIa
GreeIey-Smith Now in
Washington.
BY NIxoLA GREELEY-sNITH.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-There is
going to be a wedding at the white
house Nov. 25th. Four hundred per-
sons, senator's and representatives
the mem bers of the diplomatic corps
and the personal friends and rela-
tives of the bride and groom will be
actual witnesses to the simple cere-
mony in the east room which will
make Jessie Woodrow Wilson, sec
ond daughter of the president, the
wife of Francis Bowes Sayre of New
York.
But so widespread is the interest
in the 18th wedding in the white
house that eighty million men and
women will attend ii in spirit and
will offer their good wishes and con-
gratulations to the presidents daugh-
ter and his first son-in-law.
What will this 18th wedding al the
white house be like?
Imagine that you have passed
under the colonial doorway of the
white house, that you have given
your card of admission TO the smiling
negro butler who guards its portals.
that you have nodded a pleasant
greeting to the portraits of Theodore
Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
that face each other in painted
andperpetual friendliness across the
wide entrance hall. and that you
stand with many others in the great
east room, which has been cleared,
for the wedding ceremony, of all the
priceless tpestry and gorgeous vases
which the governments OF the world
have presented 10 the United States,
and that you are waiting. for the
magic moment when q triumphant
burst of music will proclaim the
coming Of the white house bride.
You will, perhaps, have glanced at
the clergyman. the Rev. Sylvester w.
Beach, pastor OF the church at
Princeton which Mr.. wilson's family
attended while he was president of
the college and whom the bride her
self chose TO perform the ceremony
which will make her a wife.
You may have given a casual in
spection TO the slender, earnest.
young man whose interest in social
service first drew him to the notice
OF Jessie Wilson.
You may have said to yourself
that Francis Bowes Sayre is a clean
cut. we'll bred young fellow who
looks as though he cherished high
aims and worthy ideals. But, after
all. he is only the bridegroom and
when the bride, clad in ivory white
satin. very severely cut and with a
tremendously long train, sweeps into
the east room. YOU will not have
eyes for anybody else-not even for
her two sisters. Margaret and Elnor,
who are members of the bridal
party.
Margaret Wilson, eldest o. le Will
son girls. will be her sisters maid of
honor. She is not so tall as the
bride. Her hair is darker, as are her
eyes. The younger sister. Elinor,
Miss Adeline Mitchell Scott. daughter
of Prof. VIM. Il. Scott of Princeton,
Miss Mary G. White OF Baltimore
and Miss Marjorie Brown, daughter
OF Mrs. Wilson'S cousin, Col Z. 7.
Brown Of Atlanta, will be brides
maids.
DIR. wilfred T. Grenfen. with
whom the bridegroom worked in
Labrador. will be the best man, and
the ushers will be Benjamin b. Bur-
ton of New York, a graduate Of Will
liams college, 1912; DR.. Scoville
Clark OF Salem, Mass. whom Mr..
Sayre knew in Labrador and with
whom he trailed northern New
foundland; DR.. Gilbert H. Horax of
Montclair, y. J.. classmate Of the
bridegroom at Williams, class OF
1909. now at Johns Hopkins Medical
school. and Charles +. Hughes. jr.
son OF Justice Hughes Of the United
States supreme court. who was a
classmate of Mr.. Sayre at Harvard
law school.
The Wilson wedding takes place at
half-past four. AT o'clock Of the
same afternoon a benefit perform
ance for one OF Mrs. Wilson's favorite
charities is 10 be held, and Mrs. Will
son has promised 10 attend and sit
in a box. They say in Washington
that the presidents wife Will keep
both engagements and that she will
not cut the benefit and that she Will
not be late for Jessie's wedding,
either!
on the same day. Nov. %, a very
important debut viii be made in
Washington new beauty that has
been whispered about for months,
bat has been kept 50 thoroughly
awa1 from the eyes Of the curious