Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-26
SIMPLICITY IN The
MIDST Of SPLENDOR

tContinued from age One.)
was Kept secret, but in a few days
they will go to Europe to return ear
ly in January to Williamstown, Mass
where Sayre win be assistant to
President Garfield, of Williams col
lege.
The wedding ceremony began
promptly at 4:30 and was concluded
at 4:40. The service was a unique
combination OF the E%piscopalian and
Presbyterian forms. In the LATER,
the word "obey" is not included in
the promise ito love honor and obey
but upon the brides request 1t was
inserted.
Washington, Nov. 25.-Simplicity
with dignity-the same ideal which
President Wilson has cherished for
his administration since its Inaugural
ton vas the predominant note in
the arrangements for the marriage,
late today, of Jessie Woodrow Will
son, second daughter OF President and
Mrs. Wilson, and Francis Doves
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, a
coincidence all the more remarkable
because the president often has told
his friends that the number, thir-
teen, has run through his life as a
larbinger Of good luck. Curiously
enough the bridal party and minister
number just thirteen.
The ceremony was to be solemniz-
ed in the historic East Room, ma
jestically decorated in masses of flow
ers for the occasion, at 4;30 o'clock
this afternoon, but long before that
hour the White House grounds as
sumed a holiday appearance. The
passing Of automobiles and car
riages 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 readiness for the I'M
usual event-the giving in marriage
Of a daughter Of the president of the
United States.
Notwithstanding it's official brillian-
cy, there was a distinct touch Of
LONELINESS in the days affair. The
Rev. Sylvester w. Beach, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church at
Princeton, N. j., where Miss Wilson
long taught a Sunday Bible class and
where the Wilson family worshiped
for a score of years, had been select
ed as the officiating clergyman. The
maid of honor was the eldest daugh-
ter of the president, Miss Margaret
Wilson. The bridesmaids were the
brides younger sister, Miss Eleanor
Randolph Wilson, and Miss Mary G.
White of Baltimore, Miss Adeline
Mitchell Scott of Princeton, and Miss
Marjorie Brown of Atlanta, the last
a relative, and the Others chums of
girlhood days.
The best man was DR.. Wilfred T.
Grenfell, with whom Sayre spent
many months ministering to the sick.
and needy on the r0cK!b0und Labra-
dor coast. The ushers were the
groom's college mates, Benjamin B.
Burton of New York, DR.. De Witt
Scoville Clark, Jr., of Salem, Mass,
DR.. Gilbert Horrax of Montclair, N.
j., and Charles Evan Hughes, Jr., a
son Of the justice of the supreme
court.
The bride and groom-both blonde
and of about the same height, she,
known as the White House beauty,
because of her classic Grecian fea-
lures, and he, a tall, 1.-THE young man,
athletic in appearance with sharp fea-
lures and a fair cOmplexion-were
busily occupied during the f0repart
of the day mingling in the bridal par
ty, their relatives and house guests,
to whom alone the White House was
accessible before the wedding hour.
The two young people, who have
lived the %hardships Of the poverty
settlements in big citiesI and who
have inquired into life's social and
economic problems first hand, would
have preferred a quiet wedding, limit
ed to the family circle and close
friends-such as it might have been
had not the parents of the bride been
elevated to the foremost social posi-
ton in the gift eof the nation. Re
luctantly was it made an official at
fair. The diplomatic corps, it was
realized, had never been omitted on
any important social occasion at the
White House, nor had the members
of the cabinet and the supreme court.
To Washington society tOday's was
the supreme event of the season, yet
the guests were hardly drawn from
official life, but from the vast circle
of friends Of the two families through
out the land.
There were nut 400 invitations is
sued-60O less than at the Roosevelt
wedding, seven y ars ago-but the
Wilson's are newcomers in Washing
ton, whereas the Roosevelt admins
tration was then five years old and
officials and their wives had had a
greater opportunity to establish in
innate relations at the White House.
Members OF the cabinet and their
wives and families, as well ass the
Justices of the supreme court of the
United States, and their families, the
ambassadors and ministers, represent
ing kings and emperors throughout
the civilized world, the vice presi-
dent and Mrs. Marshall, the Speaker
Of the House and Mrs. Champ Clark,
senator Kern and Representative Os-
car Underwood, the Democratic lead
ers;; and Senator Gallinger and p
resentative Mann, the minority lead
ers az congress-. and their WiyeS-