Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-10-11
A HAPPY TRIANGLE
HIT BY DAN CUPID
A Trio of Presidential Benedicts
Who Have Been Targets for
Loves Winged Messenger.
ROMANCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Presidents Tyler, Cleveland and Now,
Wilson, Takes White House Bride
Third in Happy Triangle
OF Love.

For the third time in the history of
he country a President. while in Of
ice, has become the target of Dan
Cupid. Presidents Tyler and Cleve-
land were the fortunate predecessors
of our present aspirant for the honors
Of Benedict in high place, and judg-
ing by the happiness that came 10 both,
there is on such success in the Pres
idential lucky bag as that concerning
affairs of the heart
1t is "a safe bet" on the part of
those who know Mrs. Gait to affirm
that the third President in the happy
triangle will be equally happy with
them as he walks along the highway OF
love. Many pretty stories linger in
the memory of those who knew of the
romance of President Cleveland and
the pretty school girl who became his
bride. but the story of how the grounds
in front of the White House suddenly
blossomed out with beds of pansies
where there had only been grass be-
fore, | do not think, has been pub
lished. II was but an indication of the
sympathetic affection of the President
for charming girl half his age-he
knew she loved pansies, for he had
known her most of her life. so Mr..
Cleveland ordered the gardeners who
had never before planted anything on
the front lawn of the White House. to
cut stars and hearts in the turf and fill
the designs with the favorite flower of
his sweetheart. This was the pretty
way he announced the story of his
good luck.
Mrs Tyler the second of that name.
came into the life of the President she
afterward we'd through a tragedy. Her
father, Mr.. Gardner, of Gardner's ISL
and. and she were guests at the trial
of a great gun, THE Peacemaker," on
board the Princeton. where social and
political Washington were assembled
TO see the first firing of a gun larger
than any cast up to that date, the early
forties. Miss Julia was a beauty and
full of fun. ! knew her well when I
was little girl in Richmond, and
though there was about sixty-fve years
difference in our ages, | thought her
perfectly charming. For prank, Miss
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low deck where the company had been
banqueted, and the small delay while
he searched for it, saved his life. The
gun went off in a premature explos-
ion, and almost everyone on deck was
killed. The father of the pretty pranks-
Ter was among the slain and his body
lay in state in the White House, with
those OF the secretaries of War and
Navy.
Very soon after this tragedy the
President announced his engagement
to Miss Gardner, who became a pop
ular heroine as it was generally be-
lived she was directly responsible for
the safety of the President at the time
of the explosion. II was a good thing
for the country that Tyler was not kill
ed, apart from the fact that he was a
successful Executive. he had reached
his position from that of the vice
presidency and there would have been
no elective officer to succeed him, at
least i'm the senes of one elected by the
people with reference TO the presi-
dency. Both Tyler and Cleveland were
particularly happy in their White
House brides, and, in fact, fourteen
times have gone forth from the Exec
utive Mansion to happy successful
lives, so it is to be hoped that Mrs.
Gait will overcome her natural hesi-
fancy to be married in the house of the
bridegroom for it is the peoples house.
not Mr. Wilson's house, and therefore,
all the people who love lover" and
to the old saw. wish that he happiness
and that of her popular husband will
begin in the East Room, scene of Sc
much laughter and tears in the hum
dred years it has been the theatre OF
the nations favorite children.-Jean
Cabell O'Neill.