Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-01

- another wedding in the White House.
It's awfuly human and nice and under
standing In the President to have his niece
= married there, don't you think?
Even IL 1t is to be very quiet, owing to
wartimes, 1t shows the big.hearted side
Of the man that he can realize what 1t
will mean to his niece to be able to say
Il was married at the White House." and
Il seems to me it's very generous of the
Z President and Mrs. Wilson to do 1t, for 1t
entails a certain amount of trouble, you
know
Alice Wilson is the niece in question.
She is daughter of Joseph r. Wilson.
. the brother of the Presideot, and lives in
Baltimore. And the bridegroom is the
Rev. Isaac Stewart McElroy, Jr., of White
Sulphur Springs. w. Va.
The President and Mrs. Wilson and
Margaret Wilson went on to Baltimore
from Washington by motor last Sunday
sand spent part of the day with the Joseph
Wilson's and the arrangements for the
wedding were made then.\
1t is to be very quiet, with only the i'm.
mediate families present, but it will be
q very pretty, and Alice Wilson will have
the distinction of being a white House
L.
the Presbyterian Church of Columbus. Ca,
and father of the bridegroom. will perform
the ceremony, and the wedding will take
place on August Z.
E,RlENDs of the Burts and Rileys we're
very much shocked at the news of the
death of Jean Burt. No one had heard
she was i'll. and as she was in excellent
health when last heard from, it was, as
say, a great blow to her friends. And I
am afraid the details l have to tell of her
death will not be any less shock to them,
Z as she suffered terribly before she died.
You know she and her sister, Alice Burt
Riley, and the Riley children have been
for some time out on Struthers Burts
ranch. Bar r. c.. Teton. Wyo., and have
been having wonderful life here. too.
1t appears one of the men on the ranch
had nasty accident to his hand about
ten days ago and another man was dis
patched post-haste to the nearest town,
thirty miles away. for bichloride tablets.
He brought them back and Miss Burt dis
solved one and herself washed the injured
hand, which had been badly cut
About two days later than that she
awoke in the very early morning, about
$3.50, with frightful headache, and getting
out of bed felt for an aspirin tablet which
she kept on her bNeau in tablet box.
She took the tablet and realized there was
something wrong after she had swallowed
it. She managed to get a light and saw
that she had taken bchloride instead Of
aspirin. or course, she reused the family,
and impossible though it seems in such a
mi t,v,tr tIaS hol nd
nurse there in an hours time and they
worked like mad over her, but could do
nothing, and after untold agony for two
days she died.
Her family are simply heartbroken, but
they did everything on earth for her. Mr..
Riley is here in STAFFORD. you know and
the details were written to him. ,
WHENEVER we hear of these dreadful
w accidents we wonder why people are
not more careful, but you know, I think
it's a case of feeling 'Others must be
careful but l won't make mistakes" You
feel that way yourself don't you?
1 remember a young doctors wife I
knew who remarked at the time that Mr..
Richard Tilghman died from the same
mistake (only he drank n glass of water
in which the bichloride had been dissolved
in mistake for plain water just before
going to bed: II suppose I am careless
about it, but it is so convenient If the
children fall or cut themselves l like to
wash the place in it at once, so I keep
some dissolved in a tumbler OH the bath
room shelf" She really did get scare
, then, however, and stopped doing it,
Another young mother had bad scare
from having given one of her children
something poisonous, for which, however,
there was an infalble antidote il It IS
used in time, and in this case it was and
, the baby was saved. She told me that her
doctor had told her to run black -headed
! or round-headed steel pin through the
cork of a bottle the top of a box cen
tanning poison, and then there would never
be the risk of picking up the wrong bottle
liz the dark.
It's safer, however, pin or no pin. to
| look before you take, isn't it? Miss Burt
Was wonderfully brave and never lost her
ssoogve. they tell me. But oh, what terris
death! l am SO sorry for her family
= friends. She was lovely woman
bed.
3HEN you're fifteen and have just
started working at the only job you
eHr had there are good many things
d II get you worried. For instance, making
tle right train in the morning instead of
tYe one after 1t and coming back to the
dfiice after lunch instead of-well, for in
stance. going to the movies SO far the
working man" I have in mind hasn't
missed his train once and has been getting
back In awfully good time after lunch,
and although he hasn't said much about it.
think he really quite likes being busy oil
the time. However, it's awfully nice when
$3.50 comes and he can close the door and
shoot across the Public Buildings to Broad
street and ride out to home and a COO!
bathtub in Chestnut Hill So the other
day, before this blessed rain. when he ives
20 hot he could hardly wait until closing
time. 1t finally came and he hustled over