The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-24
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Wilson as Seen in the Home BY Prof.
Stockton Arson.

Stockton Arson.
Bethel, VT, Oct 90, 1916.
Editor OF the Barre Times,
Barre, VT
Dear Sir;-Among the former instrue'
tors of the University of Vermont there
probably was none more popular or re-
Ispected than Professor Stockton Arson
and shall be particularly pleased II
space IN your paper might be given to
the enclosed report of an interview with
him.
J. Wesley Miller.
?. $. Professor Arson filled the chair
OF English at Z. V. NJ. prior to Professor
Upper. j. w. M.
Mr.. Wilson as soen by One of Family
Circle.
| The New York Times secured for pub
LEGATION an intimate personal sketch OF
/ Woodrow Wilson, the man, written by
Professor Stockton Arson, whose sister,
Ellen Louise Arson, was the presidents
| first wife. Professor Arson not only had
close personal relations with the presi-
| dent for 35 years, but served under him,
when Mr.. Wilson was president OF
Princeton university. Following are a
few extracts from Professor Axson's ar
ticle relating to the presidents home and
married life:
ut is hard for me to speak in moder
ate terms of the beauty of the Wilson's
married life-that married life which
saw so intimately for more than %
years. In the lang years OF his
and my sisters life together, they were
more completely one than any two people
with whom | have been thrown into In
innate contact. We often hear
it said OF married pair--so often that
it has become a sort o. bromide "A
cross word never passed between that
couple | have been honestly trying TO
think if ever heard anything approach
ing an alteration between Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilson, and | cannot recall even a shad-
ow such. And vet these were no weak
lings; but two spirited people each with
power of conviction possible only to
very strong characters. They would
sometimes dieer in their opinions, but
their relationship was so rooted in mu
tual love and loyalty chat their differ
ences were casual and superficial, never
fundamental. | have some
tlNucS MbHutlFu HOW n dalillN AiillF O9Fd
of varying and very positive elements
ever contrived to liv, in such absolute
and undisturbed harmony as did the vii
son family, and | have come to the con
clusion that such a result can be attained
only in one way, not by any prescription,
or plan or domestic scheme OF action,
but only by enthroning love supreme
that where love is always master, every
day and every hour, there must be har
mony. In the Wilson lousehold love is
always law.
"Only few OF US know what Wood |
row Wilson was really undergoing in the |
summer and autumn OF 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 sister died. i cannot help |
thinking he said, that perhaps she was
taken so that she might be spared the
spectacle of some awful calamity
81 was at the White House great
deal that autumn and | know that it is
no exaggerated use of the words to say
that he was the loneiest man in all the
world. can see the lonely figure
If the president now, walking down the
ong hallway the hair SO much whitened
n the few months His intimate friends
often expressed to me the wish that the
president could marry again, as 1e was
Utterly desolate.
eve who love him feel that God him
self must have directed the circum
stances which brought Mrs, Gait into
he White House circle. But for her we
an only surmise what might have hap
,ened, for not even the strongest man in
he world could bear up indefinitely I'M
Ter that dumb grief. Sunlight and grace
adiate from Mrs. Gait. Her nature is
zig and generous and health giving and
n that presence the president found new
life, found that love without which he
annot live. Their love for each other is
ierfect, and we all love her, both for
What she has done for him and for her :
elf. for to know her IS to love her.
"She has entered this great career as
imply, as unaffectedly, as unselfishly as
,llen Arson entered into the obscure ca |
eer of the young lawyer who was sban
oning law for a new and untried life of
and teaching. To neither !,
roman has condition, high or low, meant !
nything; to both Woodrow Wilson has
leant ALL