The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-10
SIMPLICITY KEYNOTE
OF WILSON WEDDING
PRESIDENT AND MRS. GAULT TO
BE MARRIED DECEMBER IS.
Only Members of Immediate Families
Will Be Present-Plans for Honey
Moon Trip Kept Secret.

Washington, Dec. 4-EXtreme sim
plicity will be observed at the wedding
of President Wilson and Mrs. Norman
Gait, which the white house announced
will be solemnized December 18, two
weeks from today, at the home Of Mrs
Gait here. The arrangements virtual
ly have been completed. The president
will nave no best man at the wedding
and Mrs. Gait will not formally select
maid of honor, although one of her
sisters, probably Miss Bertha Boiling
of this city, will escort her during the
ceremony.
The announcement at the white
house that only members of the two
families and the presidents immediate
household would attend the wedding
and that no formal invitations would
be issued surprised official Washing
ton. 1t had eben expected that at least
a few of the presidents friends would
be invited
The Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rec
tor of st. MargaretIs Protestant Epis-
copal church here, which Mrs. Gait
has attended in recent months, has
tentatively been selected as the Off
cial clergyman, although it is possible
that the Rev. Sylvester Beach of the
presidents church in Princeton may
act.
The president and Mrs. Gait spent
practically the entire day together to-
day discussing final arrangements for
the wedding. They played golf to-
gether this morning and went for an
automobile ride this afternoon.
At Mrs. GaIt's Home.
The wedding ceremony will be per-
formed in the drawing room of Mrs.
Galt's home, where temporary altar
will be erected. The ceremony will
be in the evening. There will be no
large reception afterwards, but Off
cial Washington will have an oppor-
tunity to extend personal congratula-
tions at the Pan-American reception,
the first of the formal social affairs of
the white house season, January 7.
Plans for the honeymoon trip are be-
ing kept secret, but it is known the
couple plan to leave Washington short
ly after the ceremony. The May
flower, the presidents yacht, is being
kept here and it has been reported that
at least part of the trip may be made
on water.
In spite of intimations that the pres
ident and Mrs Gait did not expect
many wedding presents, number of
officials and close friends are plan
ming to send them gifts.
The formal announcement of the
wedding plans was written out by the
president himself this morning. I'm
mediately afterward he left the white
house to visit Mrs. Gait Both have
agreed that all the details shall be as
simple as possible.
Guests for Wedding.
Joseph R. Wilson of Baltimore, the
presidents brother; Mrs Anne Howe,
his sister, and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre,
the presidents daughter, will be guests
at the white house when they come to
attend the wedding. Miss Margaret
Wilson and Mrs. w. G. McAdoo, the
other two daughters of the president,
already are here
The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Gait
VINO will be present are Rolfe E. Boil
ing of Panama, Mrs. NJ. H. Maury, An
niston, Ala, and Mrs. Alexander H.
Gait, John Randolph Boiling, Miss Ber-
tha Boiling, Richard W. Boiling and
Julian B. Boiling. all of Washington.
DR.. wv. Boiling of Louisville, KY,
another brother of Mrs Gait, will be
unable to attend the wedding because
of the serious illness of his wife.
The duty Of obtaining marriage
license will fall to I. H. Hoover, chief
usher at the white house, who per-
formed similar services for the we'd
dings of Mrs. McAdoo and Mrs. Sayre.
Mrs. Thomas Hill Adams.
The State.