Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-04-11
BY ELLA McMUNN.

Preceded by weeks of beautiful
weather that brought an abundance of
rarest flowers into bloom, and littla
touch of the finincial depression that
is supposed to bring the most frivolous
into a little closer communion with
things spiritual, Easter promises to be
a memorable event this year. In all
the churches throughout the city special
music has been prepared, rOstrums are
being decorated today with banks OF
flowers for tomorrow's services, and
weather permitting, there will be a
splendid attendance. There have been
many social events to break up the mon.
ot0ny of the Lenten days for those who
fail to need this little withdrawing
from the things that appertain to the
lighter side of life, and the newer re.
ligion seems to make happiness more
popular than did the old, fashioned
gloomy sort. A wave of civic improve
ment seems to have had for its object
a special Frightening up for Easter
and there are few who have not imi-
tated Dame Nature in arranging some
bit of new finery for the occasion OF
NIii"S Si"hu OPShihS'
The approaching marriage of the
president S daughter IS being very
largely discussed, even in the far west
and the following gossipy letter from
a Washington correspondent will b.
read with interest:
The wedding of Miss Eleanor Wilson,
youngest daughter of the president and
Mrs. Wilson, and Secretary of the
Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo will
be the fourteenth to take place in the
White House. The fact of their en-
gagement is said to have leaked out az
Williamtown, the home of the Sayres.
The same rumor insists that the an.
nOuncement of the engagement OF
Miss Margaret Wilson and Boyd
Fisher Of New York and Princeton
will be made soon; that it has beea
planned to make public both engage
ments at the same time. Rumor also
has it that the plans were for a double
wedding in the spring.
When Miss Jessie Wilson and Fran
els Bowes Sayre were married last No.
vember an oval, flower-decked table,
with the bride g cake as the center
decoration, was set in the small break
fast room off the state dining room
at the White Hou6e. In this room,
reserved exclusively for the bridal
party and few intimate friends, ore
of the gayest of the guests was Mr..
McAdoo. The wedding cake was cut
and Miss Eleanor Wilson got the ring.
Later, when the bride threw her boa-
quet, Miss Margaret Wilson caught it.
Immediately after the reception Secrc.
tary McAdoO made his way into thu
east room and WAS the first Of those
to dance. After the dance he sat at
the foot of the altar. 1t was remarked
then that he was fated to become 2
bridegroom.
1t is the opinion of several of th2
cabinet hostess that this wedding will
be the largest ever neld in the White
House. That it will either be at Easte:
or early in June has been fully decided
upon by the general public. 1t is said
that the president has favored an out
door wedding with large al fresco re
ception. In that event it would bt
possible for practically all of Washing
ton society to attend the reception.
Another rumor is that the wedding
will be quiet affair at the summei
White House at Cornish, N. H.
1t is quite certain that Mrs. Sayrt
will be her sister s matron of homo,
and that Miss Margaret Wilson an,
Miss Mona McAdoo will be the brides