Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-05-06
SENATORS WIVES
AID IN SELECTION
OF WEDDING GIFT
Believe Gold Bracelet Was
Chosen from $3.50, 900 Jew
elry Display.
Especial to the Evening star.J


WASHINGTON, May 6.-not even
the formality of engraved invitations
Is to mark the fourteenth White
House wedding tomorrow evening at
6 O'clock. Miss Eleanor Randolph
Wilson, the bride-elect, extended in
yitations today to friends over the
Telephone, and for several days past
she has been engaged in this manner
The ladies of the cabinet are arrang-
ing the details of the wedding.
Many beautiful and expensive gifts
continued to arrive at the White
House today for the bride-to-be of
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo.
From high official sources only one
gift has been received, and that was
from the eSnate. That body, how
ever, has practically decided upon a
beautiful gold bracelet set with dia-
monds. 1t will be sent to the Presi-
dents daughter either late today or
early tomorrow.
Where Secretary McAdoo and his
young fiancee will spend their honey
moon is being kept a very close Sc
cret. 1t is practically certain, how
ever, that they will take a sea trip.
S25O,OOO Jewelry Display.
Senators and their wives spent con-
marvellous array of ornamental Jew
elry in the private office of the Senate
clerk. The exhibition was made by
the representatives of half dozen big
jewelry firms who had sent their most
expert statesmen with approximately
$250,000 worth of the pick of their
valuable stock of jewels for the Sem
ate committee to select a bridal gift
for Miss Wilson.
Senator James e. MARITIME, of New
Jersey, is the chairman of this gift
committee, just as he was of the~com-
mittee that selected the bridal gift
for the then Miss Jessie Wilson. In
this he is aided by Senator's Kenyon
and Salisbury. The other senators
dropped into the Office one by one and
gazed at the dazzling exhibition of
necklaces pendants, lavaliers, brace
let's, ropes of pearls and gold Jewel
mounted mesh bags No mere man
could decide what to select from that
dazzling array. Senator after sem
ator was sent for to help out in the
quandary, but not one would hazard
a selection bound to please.
1t was Senator MARITIME who solved
the problem. He remarked; 'It is
hopeless for any mere man to make
a proper selection in a matter of this
kind. We know how to decide on
prohibition, Panama tolls and cur
rency things, but when it comes to
ewels for a bride we are incom-
petent. Therefore l suggest that we
call in our wives"
Senators Get Help of Wives.
This suggestion was acted upon and
the telephone was called into play to
summon some ladies to help out the
men. Mrs. MARITIME, Mrs. Kenyon
and Mrs Salisbury responded to this
S, o. S. call. They roamed about this
display of diamonds, pearls, emeralds
and enjoyed feast of proxy shop
ping as only women can. There were
so many dainty designs, so many
highly artistic patterns in pendants
and lavaliers so many odd pieces of
cleaning jems set in platinum that
for more than an hour they went like
bees from jewel case to jewel case,
admiring, praising and pricing ar
ticles. There was not a single piece
on exhibition that did not call for
admiration. The ladies' admitted
that it was not easy matter. Each
knew what she would select If it was
for herself: each said so. But when
it came to selecting an appropriate
gift from the Senate of the United
States to the daughter of the Presl-
dent they We're not so certain.
The senators withdrew and left the
ladies to themselves and the jewelry
statesmen. After a protracted execu-
tive session the wives of the senators
said they would make public their
decision later Then they left.
Whether they went to confer with
some close friend of the bride-elect to
try and discover what she had or
what she would most likely approve.
it is not known. So the senatorial
committee had to go back to the
Senate chamber and attend to the
prosaic things while their wives set
tied the more important affair of a
bridal gift.