The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-10-22
THIRTEEN HER
LUCKY NUMBER
Miss Jessie Wilson Will Be Thir.
teenth White House Bride

She is ID be- Miss Jessie Woodrow
Wilson, second daughter of the pres
!dent and Mrs. Wilson-the charming
girl accounted the beauty of the three
sisters. From now on one may cN-
poet all sorts of speculation. all sorts
of rumors as to gifts, as to rousseau,
anu as TO tEe thousands and one 9TH
er things that concern the young lady
who follows bravoly i'm her fathers
footsteps anu says:
Well thirteen always was my
lucky number"
Mr. Francis Bowes Sayrc, who Is TO
share all this agreeable publicity with
Miss Wilson, is Pennsylvania and
was born IN South Bethlehem In
1857. He probably knew little aud
cared less fer the fact that his mar
riagc viii be the thirteenth one celc-
brated in the most romantic of all the
historical old colonial mansions I'm
Washington-the white house For IL
Is romantic old house. some of the
elder cOlorCd people of the capital
even saying the portico has n ghost.
But if it has "spook." he or she must
be beneficial old soul, for from this
house of dreams the way to happi-
ness has led for at least twelve other
couples.
Great Event for Washington.
AZ the first sign or hint of on an
nuuncement from Harlakenden the
resident Of Winston Churchill, the nov
elist. at Cornish, New IIampshlre.
which has been leased as the sum
mer white house" and where the
presidents family is now located one
may expect TO see troops ana troops
of WaShnutcns nocking back To town
early, IN oraer TO be sure to be here
If the wedding is to be i'm the fall
When the president and Mrs. Wilson
announced the engagement In the ear
l. part OF July, no date Tor the wed
ding was set, but every one who went
tc the last white house wedding. that
OF Miss Alice Roosevelt--as she was
then--to Mr. Nicholas Longworth. of
Ohio wants 10 go to the coming eel
cbration.
4 white house wedding is an event
To sti, ones blood In Washington.
Even Che hardened old correspondents
believe that such an event is really
worth writing about. and try their
hands at IL. knowing that millions ana
millions of Americans will read their
accounts. When Mrs. LongwOrth was
married It, the White house, in the
east room, in February. 1906, pages
and pages aud pages Of accounts were
written ABOUT the event in the news
papers and magazines. For days be-
fore and days after 1t was the only
matter of interest 10 the American
people.
And why should such Il wedding not
be. the white house being the house
of the people, and it's occupants put
there by the people? Many historic
weddings have taken place there
twelve, i'm fact. the first in 1911. when
Lucy Payne Washington. sister of
Mrs. James Madison. the wife of the
then president, married Judge Todd Of
Kentucky.
Other White House Weddings.
The others who have pledged their
troth in the famous old mansion were:
1Si2--Anna Todd, cousin OF Mrs.
Madison, married Representative John
q. Jackson of Virginia.
1926 John Adams. son Of President
John Quincy odams. married his cous.
III. Helen Jackson.
From 1929 TO 1897. during the Jack
son administrator, there were three
weddings. Della Lewis, "a friend ui
President Jackson's was married 90
Alphonse Joseph Yver Pageot, an at
tachc of the French legation; Mary
Easton. niece OF President Jackson.
was married TO Lucion Il. Polk, and
Emily Martin, Il connection Of the
jackson family. WAS married to Lewis
Randolph.
In 1878. Emily Plat. niece of Pres
idunt Hayes. and General Russell
Hastings were married
In 1886. President Grover Cleve-
land aud Frances olson were mar
iicd.
THE daughters of the presidents
who have been married in the white
house are as follows:
Maria Monroe. who married her
cousin. Samuel Gouvcneur: Elizabeth
Tyler. who married William Waller;
Nellie Grant, who married Algernon
Sartoris. and Alice Roosevelt, who
married Nicholas Longworth.
So Miss Wilson, n she is married
in the white house, and 1t Is presumed
she will be, will he the fifth daughter