The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-25
PERSONALITIES ARE SIMILAR.
Mr.. Sayre and Miss Wilson Are Devoted
to Same Ideals.

| Washington, d. c., Nov. 25.-Similar
tastes, devotion to the same ideals, and
a desire to dedicate their lives to work
of Christian usefulness and social serv-
ice is the characteristic quality of Miss
Jessie Woodrow Wilson, daughter OF the
president, and Francis Bowes Sayre, who
to-day are to be married at the White
| House.
| Both have won laurels at college for
their studies in political economy and
sociological subjects, and each has work
ed among the poor in the settlements of
the big cities, familiarizing themselves
with life's problems.
A fondness for outdoor sports, desire
to spend more time in the work Of social
welfare and service rather than in the
comforts of the drawing room, and an
ambition TO live simply and quietly and
without ostentntion; have developed a
mutuality of interest in the young
couple aside from their congeniality of
disposition. They have known each
other about two and a half years, during
which time the two families have become
intimate as we'll The Sayre family is
an old Pennsylvania institution with a
collegiate and theological trend quite
similar to the ancestry of Miss Will
son.
Sayre is graduate of Williams col
lege and Harvard Law school. He has
spent his vacations in the sheep ranches
of Wyoming, hunting in the Rockies or
exploring in Alaska. He counts among
his thrilling adventures a hazardous trip
across Bering strait in l5-ton schooner,
and has tramped the Canadian woods
for days at a time, living the hardships
of the forest. He has spent some of his
summers on the Labrador coast with DIR.
Wilfred T. Grenfell, who each year min
listers to the sick and needy fishermen
there. DIR. Grenfell is to be best man at
the wedding to-day The couple have
selected modest little house in Will
Jamestown, Mass, where Sayre is to be
assistant to the president of Williams
college, Professor Harry A. Garfield, a
son of the martyred president, and once
member of the Princeton faculty.
Miss Wilson, the White House bride
OF to-day, was born in Gainesville, Ca,
26 years ago, being two years younger
than her future husband. But she has
lived most of her life in Princeton, where
her father was for 27 years connected
with Princeton university. After being
educated by German governess until
the age of twelve, she attended Prince
toms schools, and then specialized in
political economy at Goucher college,
Baltimore, where she graduated with a
Phi Beta Kappa key, a symbol of high
scholarship which Sayre also won at
Williams.
Miss Wilson spent two years living
four days week in settlement house
in the kensington mill district of Phila-
delphia. She shared the humble fare of
the settlement restaurant and became
affectionately devoted to her charges
She taught mothers clubs, preaching in
dustry, economy and household concern.
She was not seen often at the afternoon
teas at the White House last spring,
being away most of the time speaking
in behalf of the Y. w. G. A., of whose
board she is an active member.
She is an ardent believer in woman
suffrage-the result of her observations
of social problems. She has not taken
a prominent part in advancing the cause,
however because of her fathers official
position, but she sympathizes heartily
with the efforts of women to get the bal
lot as an instrument for the correction of
the evils of child labor and the institu-
tion of other social reforms.