Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-17
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The year Woodrow Wilson became Pres
idcnt | was coming away from Princeton
one Monday morning after week. end visit
and at the junction the Philadelphia train
was late. While we waited more or less
impNtiently I saw the Wilson's strolling up
and down the platform. Governor Wilson
was waiting for the same train for Trenton
and his wfG-not the present one. but his
first wife-and Jessie Wilson, now Mrs
Sayr". were with him.
Mrs Wilson greeted me and we fell TO
talking about various late happenings. while
~" governor and her daughter stroled on.
She said they were due to 20 to Washington
IN another two weeks and made rather an
amusing story of how unwilling her girls
were to take up the role of ladies Of the
White House, all of them BEING very much
interested in quite other pursuits. She
admitted that as n girl she would have
jumped AT the chance. but she agreed that
southern girls were different and that, any
way. girls OF her generation were less given
to pursuits and more to society.
~ was a little vague ne to what part OF the
South she came from. and when | asked her
sh" named n town in Georgia that | had
never heard of until three days before. Just
before | had left Philadclnhia for Princeton
! had been called up by Miss Martha Berry,
Of Georgia, who asked il she might come
and see me. She spoke Of returning home
and mentioned her home, in the course of
our phone Talk. l could not SEQ her because
was going to Princeton. She was leaving
Philadelphia before my return.
Just to make conversation with Mrs. vii.
son spoke of Miss Berry and asked her If
Shc knew about her school. She had known
MISS berry rs Young and gay girl, but
Sho had never seen her school and she was
Thought, rather vague about It, though so
ptr 81 rIn
remembered that I talked to her until the
train came up about the work Miss Berry
was doing for the mountain whitCs
AS parting shot rs We separated on the
train | heard myself saying:
L will tell Miss Martha Berry 7 hive
seen You, shall see her tonight. She
dimes with us.
when settled myself In my scat rascd
at myself with aston>hmcnt and horror.
had toII wholly unnecessary lo sturid
ll"' and n kind Of gallery act lie. And
nero vas no practical way to take il back,
III" I.SonS were shut m in the drawing
room OF I'll" chair car and. anyway, what
was tH"r" To say
II let i 90, so far av they were concerned,
put did try fnrl"rm hope when I got
na,i n town on Miss Berry herself who
had every reason to think was on her
way - Wilmington. DEL. that very minute
! phon"d to the hotel Mt which sho had hrcr
I'"I'hS rev days before aAd asked for her
H..
immediately invited her to dinner She said
81" would IOve 10 come. as her train did nor
I"Av" until . o'clock that night. owing 70
q Far,"tv Of delays and bitches in her nians
Wen, she came and we had pleasant
evening. We dis'ussc. Mrs. Wilson a Tt.
tie. She said eh, would be 60 tbonk"f,ii t' " III ir
NhH could bc got 10 take IN interest in thc
S,H"o,, but that She hated running oftnr
that interest. knowing how fast and hnrd
~" tF"''d'nt'S VII" would h" pursued bv
u, H. ana Nundry ott"Gr money ana influence.
Snr 'a'd 81" would gladly 20 10 sec NIrS
WI'>"n in Princeton before they left for rho
tr'~""nts inauguration. If it conld he
Rrr'ng"d NOT to seem too pressing. We
talked over tho pros and cons until II vsa
hrr train time and Sh" went oT in her cnb.
Sh" had not ho"n gone hnIt nm hour beforo
was 'nI."d to III" phone by long distance
IFr'"lh. .l voice said that Mrs Wilson
"''.H "a" 70 speak Ia mr. And I raroo
niZ"L Mrs. Woodrow Wilson's Voice
-, ,H"% SAID Sh" had been thinking all day
din" vita me. had called me Mn in or[or -
get in t"UNh with her. She said whjio sho
had been in Philadelphia that doy ,ftor
seeing. III" -" had got lot of her oil s,,otrbos
"l' ct >'oroG" and it had been suggested 70
nor {" SOL thom for til" benefit Of some cbor
,iT. llId | think Miss Berry worlJ lilo -
nav" them sol for th" benefit Of her school I;
ana, II g., how could She Sar Miss Po-rr
oriur' E".nE down to the inauguration md
d. ~ confusion 50 rs 10 arrange for IT,
or course, it was plain sailing pfter tbo+,
MiSs Berry and she worn got info ",o comr'mai 1nai
5HIlh "'tIH a day or 50 and Miss Berry
Wh"H Mrs, Wilson died The mcmorio,
'HAd '.2' was started by the country a.
toES", ".''h proved the most popular because
l'' ""'"I' vas known 10 hn very nom m tbn
H''r' ~ The Presidents wife. vo. ror tIo
SS.l""' for 'aoIntniu whites. KNOWN ns Nis.
Hc"ry school in Georgia.