The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-07
ANOTHER WEDDING
At WHITE HOUSE
YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF PRESI.
DENT WEOS SECRETARY OF
TREASURY, WIN. G. McADOO.

occurred today, when Miss Eleanor
Randolph Wilson, youngest daughter
of the President, was united in mar
riage to William Gibbs McAdoo Sec
retary of the Treasury in the Wilson
cabinet. Miss Wilson is the four
teenth bride of the White House and
the first daughter of president to
be united to a cabinet officer.
The wedding ceremony had been
awaited with eager interest by the
social and official intimates of the
Wilson circle. But compared with
some of the brilliant wedding func-
tions of the past, it was comparative
ly quiet, participated in mainly by the
mediate family and relatives, and
,'esidents' official family made
up u he vice president and members
of the cabinet, with their wives This
is in accordance with the tastes and
wishes of the parties, and the White
House circle and also to some extent
due to the absorbing attention which
the president and his cabinet have
been giving of late to the Mexican and
other public matters.
The ceremony was held in one of
the historic rooms, the scene of so
many gala events, with its handsome
furnishings, and the profusions of
flowers which the White House con-
seryatory yields. President Wilson
gave away the bride and the groom
was attended by some of his near
friends as groomsmen and best man.
Both of the contracting parties to
the wedding have become well known
here during the present administra
ton. The bride, Mrs. McAdoo, is the
brunette of the Wilson daughters, 90
years old, with such an expressive
face that most people call her hand
FIVE-Von
some. She is tall and slender, her
head is well shaped, her eyes are
blue, and when she smiles-or better
still, when she laughs, which is Of
ten-she shows her fine teeth. Her
hair is a shade darker than her moth
er's and she wears it in a coil wound
round her head She follows the
modes of dress, without eXaggeration.
Miss Wilson was born in Middleton,
Connecticut where her father was
professor at Wesleyan University. AT
fifteen she went to Raleigh, y. c., to
boarding school, Later on while her
sister Margaret went in seriously for
vocal study, and another sister was
engaged in social settlement work in
the Kensington Pa, mill district, the
bride of today began her art studies
in Philadelphia, inheriting her ability
and taste in that direction from her
mother.
Life at the capital opened up a
program OF events which the bride
has enjoyed to the fullest. Most of
the White House weekend guests
have been former associates OF the
Wilson girls and have joined in theiI
social activities here. The White
House tennis court, famous during
the Roosevelt regime, fitted in per-
fectly in the Wilson girls home pleas
ephnrnnG Mice EN1aonnp n1ayre
good game of tennis, though equally
devoted to horseback riding. She is
also fond of walks, often joining the
president in his jaunts, although her
walking partner the past spring has
been Mr.. McAdoo. Secretary McAdoo
has tramped with her many after
Moons after his office hours through
the uptown streets and suburbs.
Miss Wilson's gowns of the past
season have been especially well Sc
lected, and are part of her trousseau.
One of her most becoming ball gowns
was white satin, both skirt and waist
draped, the distinctive feature being
the broad girdle of black velvet rib
bon with long sash ends Simplicity
still rules the gowning of Mrs. Wilson
and her daughters for the street and
home wearing. One of Miss Eleanor's
favorite hats this spring has been a
shining black sailor faced with rose
pink, with a full-blown rose and a bit
of foliage perched on the left front of
the brim.
Mr.. McAdoo was one of the orig
inal Wilson men" and as vice chair
man of the Democratic National COM
mittee, and as acting chairman dur
ing much of the 1912 campaign, the
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