The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-07
WHITE HOUSE READY FOR ITS
 HATH WEDDING CELEBRATION

| Miss Wilson will be the first daughter of a President of the United States to be Joined in. marriage to 8 member of 1 the Cabinet. | Both of the contracting parties to the wedding have become well known, here during the present adnlinistra- ton. The future Mrs. McAdoo is the brunette of the Wilson daughters, 1 twenty-three years old, with a most expressive face. She is tall and slender, her eyes are blue, and her
 hair is shade darker than her moth- ersssss sss - ss
 town, Conn.,, where her father was a professor at Wesleyan University. At fifteen she went to Raleigh, N. C., to boarding school. Later on, while her sister Margaret event in seriously for vocal study, and another sister was engaged in social settlement work in the Kensington, Pa, mill district, the bride began her art studies in Phil adeIphia,S inheriting her ability and taste in that direction from her mother.
 FOND OF ATHLETICS. | Life at the capital opened up a pro
 gram of events which the bride-to-be
 has enjoyed to the fullest. Most Of the White House weekend guests have been former associates of the Wilson girls and have joined in their social activities here.
 MISS <61A0E7nOE, p1ayS a G0Od game or tennis, though equally devoted to horseback riding. She is also fond of walks, often joining the President in his jaunts. although. her walking part ner the past spring has been her fu- ture husband. Secretary McAdoo has tramped with her many afternoons af- i ter his office hours through the up- 1 town streets and suburbs.
 l Secretary William G. McAdoo, was
 born in Marietta. Georgia. 51 years ago. He was only 21 when admit l ted to the bar, after his studies at the University of Tennessee He practic- ed his profession in Chattanooga for eight years, then moved to New York. There he conceived the project with which his name is identified - the New York and Jersey City MT. Mo
 Adoo was president of the system from 1902 to 1913.
 ORIGINAL WILSON MAN. MT. McAdoo was one of the .sorig- l inaI Wilson men,, and as vice chair man of the Democratic National com rnittee and as acting chairman during much of the 1912 campaign, the ac- quaintance between tl1e two, fated to be bound together later by family | ties. has had no breaks from dts in- oeption.
 MT. McAdoe's first wife died about two years ago. She was Sarah Hous- | {, his six children. three sons and three daughters, the two oldest are married. They are Mrs. Charles Martin, who lives in Arizona, and Francis H. Mc-. Adoo of this city. The other cI1iI- dren are William c. McAdoo, jr.. stu dent at Princeton, Robert McAdoo, at school at St. Pauis, Miss Mona Mo Adoo, who took part in Washington social life for the past year for the first time, and Salfie McAdoo, the Iit- l tie girl of the family
 Secretary McAdoo is both young in
 appearance and in temperament. He goes in for all the sports He rides plays tennis. and his manner with his sons and daughters is quite like that 1 of a big brother. When he began the past winter to go out with his daugh-
 ter, Miss Mona, his attentions to her
 and to Miss Eleanor Wilson seemed ! just the same to the casual obsery-
 CT. His dancing has been seen in
 many bathrooms showing proficiency l in the art and especially in it's newer I forms.
 When Secretary McAdoo took res
 idence here last fall, he selected 1709
 Massachusetts avenue. His house I daughters. Until coming here. MT.
 McAdoo and his family spent much
 time each year in his commodious
 residence at Irvington- -on-the-H Hudson.
 CABINET wONIEN'S GOWNS.
 The wedding will bring together
 many handsome gowns and toiIettes l of the bridal party and the limited
 number of guests who are to attend,
 chiefly the wives of the vice presi- dent and cabinet officers
 Mrs. Marshall, wife of the Vice | President, has selected a costume Of white net and lace. made in the pre-