Connecticut western news., 1915-12-23
PRESIDENT WEDS
 MRS. EDITH GALT
Honeymoon Is Being Enjoyed :. at Hot Springs, Va.
BRIDES GOWN DESCRIBED.
Mrs. Boiling Gives Away Her Daugh- fer at Ceremony Which Occurs In Latter's Home and Is Witnessed by Less Than Thirty Persons - Details of the Wedding Gifts Are Given.

Less Than Thirty Persons - Details
 of the Wedding Gifts Are Given.
 President Wilson and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait were married at S:30 on Dec. IS ill Washington and left after ward to spend their honeymoon at Hot Springs, Va. The president arranged to keep in touch with the White House over special wires
 All arrangements for the wedding ceremony were carried out perfectly. the president arriving at his brides home soon after o'clock and the re- nainder of the wedding party. which numbered less than thirty, following soon after. The ceremony was begun SIS had been arranged at S:3O O'clock and was followed by buffet luncheon Mrs. Wilson was married in the travelling gown which she wore to the train.
 Just at the hour set for the cere- mony the president and his bride ap- peared at the head of the staircase which was decorated with ferns. as- paragus vines and American Beauty roses. They descended to the lower Roor, where the guests were grouped.
 Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rector of St. Margaret's Protestant Episcopal church, of which the bride is a commit nicant, was waiting beneath the cano- py to perform the ceremony, and with him to assist was the presidents pas tor, Rev. James H. Taylor of the Central Presbyterian church.
 s Mother Gives Bride Away.
 Mrs. William H. Boiling. the brides mother, gave her away. The president stood on the right of the clergymen and the bride stood on their left. At once Dr. Smith began the words of the Episcopal marriage service, the 6resident making his responses first and then the bride making hers. Aft CT the bride promised to Hove, cherish md obey" the president placed the wedding ring upon her finger. and then, after a prayer and while the couple clasped their right hands to- gether, Dr. Smith declared them man and wife.
 The entire party then turned to the filming room, where buffet supper was served. The decorations there were of pink, and on the buffets were punched growing ferns and pink roses.
 During the ceremony and at the luncheon afterward, during which a string orchestra played, the bride wore her travelling dress, black silk velvet gown, with a picture hat of black bea- yer with no trimmings whatever ex fept one feather slightly upturned on khe left side. At her throat she wore the presidents wedding gift, a mag nificent diamond brooch.
 The skirt of her gown was f walk Ing length and cut on full lines. The waist had silken embroidery of blue. shading from the deep tones of royal blue to delicate shades of pastel. and was threaded with silver.
 Dainty Design In Lilies.
 The lower part of the waist was em- broidered on black net over a band of uflver in the design of lilies. below which was a girdle of black velvet The sleeves of the gown were of black net fashioned in tiny tucks. with long sell shaped cuffs of embroidered vel vet which came well down over the
 
 upstandiug was of black lace. When she left on her honeymoon journey Mrs. Wilson wore over her gown a fur coat of .broadtail with bands of Yukon and huff to match. She wore a chin chin collar.
 Upstairs in the brides house one room was set aside for the wedding gifts, which, despite intimations from the White House that nothing should be sent by others than relatives and close friends, ran into the hundreds.
 In deference to their wishes the houses of congress sent no gifts off, eially, but many members sent per sonal remembrances. The Virginia del egation, representing the native state of the couple, sent a loving cup. WytheviIle. the brides home town. sent a miniature of MT. and Mrs. Boil ing. her parents.
 Reminder of Pocahontas Descent.
 The Pocahontas Memorial associa- tfon i'll recognition of Mrs. Wilson's de, scent from the Indian princess of that name sent a bronze statuette of Poca. hOntas. The Menominee Indians oi Wisconsin sent a handsome bead belt The former queen of Hawaii sent q scarf. Minnesota women sent a wed ding cake. Every member of the cab net sent a gift.
 Ir addition to the presidents dia nond brooch. there were other gifts o jewelry, among them a diamond broocl set with sapphires and gold sapphir, bracelet. There were so many fan that it is said Mrs. Wilson will have ; different one for each evening durin: the social season. Candlesticks all, eompotes were there in a large quan tity, among the most distinctive in thu latter being one from the speaker ant Mrs. Champ Clark. Included in tn, gifts were many vases, ancient ana modern; quantities of glass, potter. and silver, books and pictures, an an 9lent Chinese box and large mahog