The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-25
SIMILAR IN TASTES.
Some of the Characteristics OF tn
Bride and Bridegroom.

Washington, Nov. z5.-Slmliar taStes'
a devotion to the same ideals. and a
desire to dedicate their lives to work
Of Christian usefulness and social SER
vice is the characteristic quality of Miss
Jessie Woodrow Wilson. daughter OF
the president, and Francis Bowes Sayre
Both have won laurels at college for
their studies in political economy and
sociological subjects, and each has
worked among the poor in the settle
ments of the big cities. familiarizing
themselves with LIES problems.
A fondness for outdoor sports, de-
sire to spend more time in the work
OF social welfare and service rather
than in the comforts Of the drawing
rooms, and an ambition to live simply
AMI quietly and without ostentation.
have developed a mutually 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 fami-
lies have become intimate as well. The
Sayre family is an old Pennsylvania in
stftution with q collegiate and theo-
logical trend quite similar to the an
cestry of Miss Wilson.
Sayre Is a 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 Boring Strait in 15-ton schoon-
er. 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 DR.. wilfred T. Grenfell, who
each year ministers to the sick and
needy fishermen there. DR.. Grenfell il
to be best man at the wedding today.
The couple has selected a modest little
| house in Wiilfamstown. Mass, where
| Sayre is to be assistant to the presi-
| dent Of Williams college, Professor
Harry A. Garfield, son of the mar
tyred president, and once a member Of
| the Princeton faculty,
| Miss Wilson, the White House bride
OF today, was born in Gainesville, Ga.
rs 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 "a years
connected with Princeton university.
After being educated by a German
governess until the age of twelve she
attended Princeton's schools and then
specialized in political economy at
| Goucher college, Baltimore, where she
graduated with Phi Beta Kappa key,
q symbol of high scholarship which
Sayre also won at Williams.
Miss Wilson spent two years living
four days week in settlement
|
Of Philadelphia She shared the hum
BILE fare of the settlement restaurant
and became affectionately devoted to
| her charges She taught mothers'
clubs, preaching industry, economy
and household concerns. 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. C. A., Of whose
national board she is an active mem
Der. She is an ardent believer in
| observations OF social problems She
has not taken q prominent part In
advancing the cause, however, because
| of her fathers official position, but
she sympathizes heartily with the eff
forts of women to get the ballot as an
instrument for the correction of the
| evils Of child labor and the institution
of other social reforms.
The bridal party selected by both
personnel the intimate feeling Of the
couple for those who have been assoc
ciated with them in their recreations
and serious pursuits.
DR.. Wilfred r. Grenfell, the best
man, has worldwide fame as q mis-
sionary physician in the bleak land Of
Labrador. His wife, who was among
the guests at the White House today.
was Miss Anna Mechanism of Chi
with Francis Bowes Sayre. today's
bridegroom, as an usher DR.. Gren-
fells second return from his humble
} home in an isolated land, to be best
man at a White House wedding, adds
another chapter to "a career already
full of unusual experiences.
DR.. De Witt Scoville Clark. Jr.. an