The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-11-03
WILSON'S MARRIED LIFE
Response To SANDERS Being Circu.
lated Against Min

The New York Times secured for
publication an intimate personal
sketch of Woodrow Wilson, the man,
written by Professor Stockton Arson,
whose sister, Ellen Louise Arson,
was the Presidents first wife. Pro-
fessor Arson not only had close per-
sonal relations with the President for
thirty-five years, but served under
him. when Mr.. Wilson was president
of the Princeton University. Follow
ing are few extracts from Profess
sor Axson's article relating to the
home and marriage life:
''It is hard for me to speak in mod
crate terms of the beauty of the Will
sons married life-that married life
which l saw so intimately for more
than twenty-five years **In the long
years of his and my sisters life to-
gether, they were more completely
one than any two people with whom
/ have been thrown into intimate con-
tact. ***We often hear it said of
married pair-so often that it has
become a sort of 'bromide'-A cross
word never passed between that
couple. l have been honestly trying
to think if l ever heard anything APP
preaching an alteration between Mr..
and Mrs. Wilson, and l can not re-
call even a shadow of such. And yet
these were no weaklings; but two
spirited people, each with a power
| of conviction possible only to very
strong characters. They would some
| times differ in their opinions, but
| heir relationship was so rooted in mu-
tual love and loyalty that their diff
ferences were casual and superb
cial, never fundamental. 1881 have
some times wondered how a family
composed of varying and very posi-
tive elements ever contrived to live
| in such absolute and undisturbed
harmony as did the Wilson family,
and l come to the conclusion that
such a result can be attained only in
one way, by any prescription, or plan
or domestic scheme of action, but
only enthralling love supernatural
where love is master, every day and
every hour, there must be harmony
In the Wilson household love is al
ways law 1913
"Cnly a few of us know what
Woodrow Wilson was really undergo
"
1914, when the world was catching |
fire from war, and the foundations |
of his own life were crumbling under |
him. Just as the war opened my sis
ter died, Il can not help thinking he |
said, that perhaps she was taken SO
that she might be spared the specta-
Gle of some awful calamity
81 was at the White House a great |
Hoo1 hot L. L
is no exaggerated use of words to say
that he was the loneliest man in all
the world. ***I can see the lonely |
figure of the President now, walking
down the long hallway, the hair so
much whitened in the few months. |
His intimate friends often expressed
to me the wish that the President |
could marry again as he was so utter
ly desolate
eve who know him feel that God
himself must have directed the cir
cumstances which brought Mrs. Gait
into the White House circle. But for
her we can only surmise what might
have happened, for not even the
strongest man in the world could bear
up Indefinitely under that dumb
grief. Sunlight and grace radiate
from Mrs. Gait. Her nature is big
and generous and health-giving, and
In that presence the President found |
new life, found that love without |
which he can not live. Their love for
each other is perfect, and we all love
her, both for what she has done for
him and for herself, for to know her
is to love her.
''She has entered this great career
as simply, as unaffectedly, as I'M
selfishly as Ellen Arson entered into
the obscure career of a young lawyer
who was abandoning law for a new
and untried life of scholarship and
teaching. To neither woman has con-
dition, high or low, meant anything;
to Woodrow Wilson has meant ALL"