The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-12-24
THE BRIDE AND GROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

their Journeys and ate il by the road
side.
In the White House circle the bride
quickly found her place. She plays
the piano. sings and loves poetry and
when I'm the intimacy of the family,
the president often has read aloud his
favorite poems, as is his custom, she
Is said to have been one of his most
interested hearers.
Miss Margaret Wilson the presi-
dents eldest daughter and Miss Helen
/ Woodrow Bones, his cousin. are said
! to have drawn her into the Waite
! House circle i'm the early autumn of
| 1914. From that time. she was fire.
quent guest at the executive mansion
and last summer spent a month as
| the guest of Margaret Wilson at the
summer White House at Cornish, y.
II. The engagement was announced
| on October 6. not long after the presi-
dental party returned to Washington
, for the winter.
Both the president and his bride
agreed not to have their wedding in
| the White House but in her home
near Dupont circle which sometimes
: is called the social hub of the capital
She lives there I'm a tastefully ar
ranged house. somewhat small by
| comparison with the mansions which
surround il. Ii is not large enough
| for entertaining Oh an extended scale
and for that reason large company
was not invited to the wedding. AR.
McAdoo, the presidents SON. in law.
was the only member of the cabinet
included i'm the party. The rest were
all relatives.
The repeatedly expressed wish OF
! the couple for a quiet wedding unat-
tended by any great amount of pub
licity is responsible for the general lack
of common knowledge of so many Of
the details which attend such a Cere-
mony. No public announcements have
been made of the gifts received and
likewise there has been no announce
ment of the gowns and decorations.
New York dressmakers have been fire.
quently at the White House during
the last few weeks and at the brides
home and she has made one or two
shopping trips out of the city TO COM
plete her trousseau.
New Mistress Of White House.
Washington. D. c., December Is
The new mistress of the White House
is quite the Wilson type, plus the
Virginia manner and Southern love
of life. She was formerly Miss Edith
Boiling, daughter of the late William
II. Boiling of Wythville. Va. She was
one Of thirteen children, nine of
whom are still living.
In 1896, Edith Boiling, a beautiful
girl, met Norman Gait. A short time
later they were married. This hap
pehed while she was visiting her Sis
ter, Mrs. Alexander Hunter Gait He
was a vestryman in St Thomas's
church in Washington and was gem
erous with his wealth and personal
activities in the church until his death
eight years ago. After his death Mrs.
Gait continued an active member OF
the same church. occupying the pew
her husband had possessed ever since
the church was built. Just after the
announcement of her engagement to
the president, however, Mrs. Gait
transferred her membership to st.
| MargGrets Episcopal church.
The presidents bride is not known
as college girl, though she con-
cluded her education at Powell's col
| lege in Richmond, Va, after attending
Martha Washington college at Abing-
ton, Va, for some time
She is fond of music. flowers. eco
Monies and light literature. Like all
good Virginians, she is a good horse
woman and splendid driver. She likes
golf, and since her engagement to
the president he has attempted to
teach her some OF the fine points of
the game.
On baseball and horses she Is
fan, as much so as the president him
self. She does not play tennis but is
great walker, enjoying long tramps,
sometimes for two or three hours
about town or along country road.
She is not strenuous, however, and
could not be called athletic: Is rather
one who enjoys good health and hv-
ing, reasonable hours and prefers
| healthful fun to late suppers.
Indication of her love of the omen
is found i'm the frequent jaunts Mrs.
Gait and the president took into the
| country after the announcement of
their engagement On several occa-
sions hampers OF picnic lunch were
loaded into the presidents big limou-
sine, to be investigated during the
long ride over the rolling highways of
Virginia and Maryland.
Mrs. Gait is not suffragist. II Is
not because she opposes suffrage. II Is
because she never has gone deeply
into the issue. Mrs. Gait Is of com
mercially successful family. Two of
her brothers, Richard w. and Julian
b. Boiling, are now associated In the
Gait jewelry firm, the oldest in the
city, established by Norman Cats
grandfather and now owned by Mrs.
Wilson herself.
Mrs. Calls other brothers are John
. Randolph Boiling of this city and