White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-23
HAS NO FEAR OF
THIRTEEN H0D00
SUPERSTITION OF OMENED NUM-
BIER PLAYS NO PART IN WILL
SON-SAYRE NUPTIALS, AT
WHITE HOUSE.

tory Oh the White House, which has
now been occupied 113 years. These
thirteen began with the demure little
Quakeress. Anna Todd, who was mar
ried there nearly a century ago, and
will end with Jessie Woodrow Will
son, who on next Tuesday afternoon
November 25th, will become the bride
of Francis B. Sayre of New York.
This presidents daughter with the
wonderful coloring may be remem-
bering that or maybe she, the
athletic, s~portloving. literally educat-
ed social worker that she is, in mere
ly shifting at such childishness as be-
lief in Ill omens and daring the an
Gent bugaboo of the number thirteen
to come out into the disconcealing
open of intelligent disbelief and do
its worst, says the San Francisco
Sunday Chronicle.
Dolly Madison was responsible for
the first two White House marriages
remembering her never wearying
love of matchmaking any other
chronicle would be disappointing.
The first of these marriages was
that of Anna Todd, a niece of Mrs.
Madison's first husband, and John G..
Jackson, member of the House from
Virginia. 1t has been said that Dolly
persuaded the quiet little Quakeress
to be married in the White House be-
cause she saw in a wedding an op-
portunity for a social sensation.
Dolly's reasons. probably were more
unselfsh. 1t was in a Quaker meet
ing-house, with all its dizziness and
solemnity, that Dolly Madison mar
ried her first husband, John Todd,
and in later years. having learned to
love all the brightness and color and
music life had to offer, she felt that
a White House wedding and all its at
tendant excitement would be a far
happier way for Anna Todd to be
married.
The second marriage was that of
Mrs. Madison's sister, Lucy. who was
the widow of George Steptoe Wash
ington, nephew of the first president.
Lucy married Judge Todd of Ken
lucky, member of the supreme court
of the United States. The marriage
brought to the White House all Of
fcialdom, all the prominent and all
the socially elected ones of the then
very small capital and the frills and
vanities for Lucy's trousseau were
sent over from France by Mrs. Madi-
sons friend, Mrs. Barlow. wife of the
American minister.
The next wedding, that of Maria
Monroe. daughter of President Mon
roe, and Samuel Lawrence Gouver-
neur. on March 9, 1920. marked the
first social use of the East Room
where all subsequent marriages oil
presidents daughters have taken
place.
Maria, who was born in Paris while
her father was American Minister
there, was only II at the time of heI
marriage. The wedding was extreme
ly quiet, Mrs. Hay. the elder daugh.
ter of the president was the oficiaI
hostess of the White House, Mrs
Monroe being an invalid.
The death of the beloved Commo-
dore Stephen Decatur shed gloom
over the Monroe nuptials. When the
engagement was announced Commo'
dore Decatur and Mrs. Decatur gave
a big dinner and ball for the young
people and two days later the Com
modore left for Bladensburg, Md, tc
meet Commodore Barron in a duel
That night he was brought home
MORALLY wounded and died before
daybreak. All cards for dinner and
dances in honor of Maria and young
! Gouyerneur we're recalled and the
! marriage was attended by only rela'
tives and close friends.
John, the second son of Presiden'
John Quincy Adams, was the first sor
of a president to marry during his
fathers term of Office, and he. mar
ried his cousin. Mary Helen, in the
Blue Room in February, 1928. The
story of the Hellen-Adams marriage
is one of the interesting romances Of
the White House. John and his
elder brother, George Washington
Adams, were rivals for the hand o.
Mary. George was the more brilliant
and evidently the more amiable ane
affable. but George was practicint
law under Daniel Webster in Boston
while his handsomer brother was hi
fathers secretary, and hence always
at the White House, where prett!
Mary HELEN was often a guest of he
aunt, Louisa Adams. So twas JohI