The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-02
DOLLY FINDS MISS MARGARET WILSON, PRESIDENTSDA DAUGHTER MOST ATTRACTIVE AND VERY
 MUCH IN LOVE WITH HER ART
Ry DOLLY nALRYMpLE

1 llS0 Margaret Wilson. the charming bachelor girl' of the White House can tell it better than I; but before we go into it want word or two of my own, if you please:
 1 It really was a shame to ask her ques- tions; perhaps I should have been con- tent just to sit and listen. but then that isn't my style, you know; there were some things I had to find out for my self, and how can that be done except by the asking?
 And you know that this is a right up- to-the minute story with "the first young lady of the land" and has much to do with the relative values of good taste, great deal of charm, and a serious mis- sion in life, and this lovely young woman has them all
 Admitted; so we don't have to resort to any incidental music to create atmos- phere; merely add to these attributes "a graciousness that Is most appealing; the top rung of the ladder already reached In concert work with never sign of dig ziness in the head-the well poised head with Its wealth of golden hair, and it's look from out the gentiest, tenderest, loveliest pair of blue eyes you ever saw, straight and direct and you have an &C., curate picture of the Presidents eldest daughter.
 It would be hard to transcribe on white paper record of her words yesterday afternoon, when Miss Wilson received me shortly after her arrival. because, first of all, her beautiful, soft voice, that passing sweet enchantment of a charming woman cannot be reproduced; by means of an especially excellent photograph it might be possible to render adequately an 1n- terview with this clever young woman, but the mellifluousness of her tones the delicate and significant intonations, her charm and her grace must only be ar- rived at through the medium of my humble pen.
 If you've pictured Miss Margaret Wood- row Wilson as "hgh browish" and too dignified, angular, and like her pictures q just hate the pictures the newspapers use of her because they are such a dread ful injustice) you have to guess all over again.
 T know" Miss Wilson smiled attrac- lively as I made this observation, they always mako me look like fathers aunt
 That little sentence gives you a keen insight into Miss Margaret Wilson's character: her sense of humor and her fun loving nature; I asked her even be- fore she had made this remark if these qualities were as highly developed in her makeup" as they are with her distin- guished father, and she laughingly told me that I must find that out for my self; but she admitted that it was 1n- herited, because "her father could even see fun ih having three daughters" Any way. Miss Wilson is a splendid, whole some, fun-loving, natural, young woman entirely unspoiled by all the admiration and aduation she has had showered upon her both because she is the Pres- ident's daughter and because she is al wonderfully talented and successful mu- sician.
 Naturally as the belle of the White House, Miss Wilson has more social de- mands made upon her than any young woman in the entire country, but not withstandng this, she is devoting her life to two most notable ambitions her music and 8 tremendous desire to pro- mote the civic center movement, along the line of the development of public schools for political and social education.
 My idea of going into civic center york; Miss Wilson said, "came about some years ago. The work of the utili- zation of the school buildings as educa- tional neighborhood clubs interested me through my acquaintance with MT J. B. Ward of Rochester, who started the civic movement. Just stop and think how much do average citizens know about city and state government? What do they know of their own rights and privileges? I think we should all learn what the government offers, what it de- nies, and how to take advantage of the one, and how to get the other.'
 ''The civic center plan seems to be the only way to teach the mass of the people the principles of democratic gov ernment and show them their own power"
 I asked if this was an inherited mis- sion with her, to which she replied
 "The greatest speech that was ever made concerning civic centers was made by my father in Madison, Wis, some years ago." Miss Wilson replied, "but I had really become interested in the work before that"
 DO you discuss with the President subjects of that sort to any extent?" I asked.
 ''In general way, yes; but we en-
 
 him. because he has so much of that sort of thing to worry him and harass him." she replied
 The first serious part of our conversa- tion passed with these remarks and then I frivolously asked Miss Wilson how she had succeeded in escaping matrimony when there had been so much of it in the White House, which she gracefully par- ried, and fencing cleverly with me turned interviewer instead of 'interview-ee," and asked me why the word, escaped" which I promptly explained to our mu- tual satisfaction.
 Miss Margaret Wilson isn't even "en- gagged" in spite of the newspapers She doesn't say she never will be, but in very womanly, sweet manner declares that maybe it's because the right man. hasn't yet appeared.
 Then we grew serious again, for I was anxious to ask her about her career as concert singer and felt intutively that she would be interested in telling me, and I was right.
 Miss Wilson loves her work, and is most ambitious to become great singer T can't ever study for opera. Of the