The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-11-25
SIMPLICITY WITH DIGNITY paE-
DOMINANT NOTE IN ARRANGE
MEMrs FOR EVENT.
WILL Be THIRTEENTH
WHITE HOUSE BRIDE
Remarkable Coincidence Because Pres
ident Considers Number Harbinper
of Good Luck-ceremony to be Per-
formed Late This Afternoon.
(By Associated Press }

Washington, Nov. 25.--Simplicity
with dignity-the same ideal which
President Wilson has cherished for his
since its Inauguration
was the predominant note in the
for the marriage late
today of Jessie Woodrow Wilson, Sec
ond daughter of President and Mrs.
Wilson, and Francis Bowes Sayre.
During the 113 years that have
elapsed since the White House was
built, twelve weddings have taken
place there and it falls to the lot of
Miss Wilson to be the thirteenth, q
coincidence all the more remarkable
because the President often has told
his friends that the number thirteen
has run through his life as har-
binger of good luck. Curiously enough
the bridal party and minister number
just thirteen.
The ceremony was to be solemnized
in the historic East Room, majestically
decorated in masses cf flowers for the
occasion, at 4:30 o'clock this after
noon, but long before that hour the
White Houe grounds assumed holi-
day appearance. The passing of au-
tomobiles and carriages to and from
the north portico told the gathering
crowds outdoors that the bridal party
THE ushers and attendant maids
! had arrived and that all was In readi-
ness for the unusual event-the giving
in marriage of daughter of the Pres
ident of the United States.
Notwithstanding it's official bril-
liancy, there was a distinct touch OF
LONELINESS in the days affair. The
Rev. Sylvester w. Beach, pastor Of the
: First Presbyterian Church at Prince
E ton, N. j., where Miss Wilson long
5 taught Sunday Bible class and where
the Wilson family worshipped for a
; score of years, had been selected as
e the officiating clergyman. The maid
% of honor was the eldest daughter OF
the President, Miss Margaret Wilson.
The bridesmaids we're the BRIDES
E younger sister, Miss Eleanor Randolph
'e Wilson, and Miss Mary G. White, OF
t. Baltimore; Miss Adeline Mitchell
ID Scott, of Princeton, and Miss Marjorie
'i- Brown, of Atlanta, the last a relstive
&c and the other chums of girlhood days
Ill The best man was DR.. Wilfred T
Greenfield, with whom Sayre spen
nc many months ministering to the sicl
All and needy on the rock-bound Labrado
IL Coast. The ushers were the groom
'o college mates-Benjamin B. Burton. @
" New York; DR.. De Witt Scovili
Clark, Jr., of Salem, Mass; DR.. Gi
bert Horrax, of Montclair, N. j., an
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr.. son
the Justice of the Supreme Court
There were but four hundred inv
tations issued-600 less than at tn
} r Roosevelt wedding seven years ago.
- Members of the Cabinet and the
wives and families. as we'll as the Ju
tices of the Supreme Court Of the Ur
ing .u,., .ha A,
4. | ted states anu Lneif IanilioS, tnc a
bassadors and Ministers, representa-
kings and emperors throughout Il
civilized world, the vice-President al
Mrs. Marshall, the Speaker of Z
H. House and Mrs. Champ Clark, Senat
., Kern and Representative Oscar Und
Nc wood, the Democratic leaders; a
Senator Gallinger and Representa-
and Mann, the minority leaders OF @
r Of gress, and their wives-these were
and. persons invited because of their
,s at fetal position, though among tn
,unc- were many close friends of the wills
rson- familv
Senators and members of the Ho
Mic generally were not invited lit
" on had been. the East Room could
ge in have held them.
0 Eu- The program had been mapped
,cent- to the final detail. the White Ho
fixing each part Of 1t with the ex