The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-30
Woodrow
Wilson
By William Allen White
The Second Mrs. Wilson.
A Complete Change.


dramatic and cogorful story 81
the life Of Woodrow Wilson.
Another instGllment rviH appear
exclusfDeIy ia The Washington
Times nest Mondoy.
OF course, Woodrow Will
SON did not try to replace
his first wife in his second
marriage. No man ever can
restore a LIES companion
ship which goes. Wilson
was a tremendously uxorious
man. He needed a woman
around. The love of his kind
which he lavished upon men,
he could not withhold from
some woman when his life
was broken.
In Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait,
Woodrow Wilson found de-
votion, high spirits, an in
finite capacity for sprightli-
ness, play, joy, and lightness
Of contact. She gave him
these, together with an ull-
firing, beautiful, self-merg-
ING common-sense that sus-
tanned him for nine years.
The wife Of a man like
Woodrow Wilson is neces-
sariIy as much a part of him
as any attribute of his mind
or heart. Marriage with a
domestic man is more than
q sacrament, more than a
partnership, closer than
Fellowship it is q deep
union. So that when Edith
Boiling Gait came into his
life, she also became a part
of him; became one with
him; became an essence of
the Wilson story.
In. the years that passed
after March 8, 1913, the
house of Wilson had been
completely changed. The
wife of his youth was gone,
and the children Of the home
he had been building for
nearly thirty years were.
married or out in the world
upon their own resources.
Made Bright Home.
Mrs. Edith Boiling Wilson had
come into bis life. She made q
bright home for him, and COM
Portable 1.-THE only home in which
he could have found strength to
endure the stress of I'd days
that were bringing their crush
ing burden upon him. He had,
m addition to his work as legis-
lative leader, his national pre-
miership, if one may so say, the
work Of administration that there
he could not ignore.
It required him to open new
areas Of his mind, to develop
latent talents, to let new man
rise in him who had giants
task. The exalted schoolmaster
at Trenton was becoming an in
ternational figure-the teacher
turned preacher, his rostrum set
high above the world; his pupils
and congregation, civilized hu-
lnanity.
Amid all this change, why
should not the man sometimes
seem unnatural, inpatient, pre-
occupied, remote from the COM
nnonality of men? Maybe he
was puzzled at himself. Per-
haps in his hearts heart he saw
little Tommy and the aniable
professor of Jurisprudence at
Princeton standing apart asking
each other who is this strange
man in this strange house, in
this strange life that has crowd
ed in upon us?
A Golden Philosophy.
In May, 1915, the Lusitania
was sunk without warning and
one hundred and twenty-four
Americans lives were lost.
President Wilson. was stirred to
his depths. Otuwardly to the
public he seemed calm. But
the torpedo that sank the Lusi-
tania seems to have hit Wood
row Wilson's whole foreign pol
Icy and all his visions of peace.
Few persons knew how terribly
he was agitated.
However deeply he was shaken
and unsettled by the Lusitania
incident he seems to have right
ed himself quickly, for, three
days after the sinking Of the
LuStania. we find the President
in Philadelphia addressing an
audience of newly naturalized
citizens. There he was preach
ing the pacifist doctrine which
had engaged him for over two
years. 1t was at Philadelphia
that he used the famous phrase
which astounded his countrymen
There is such thing as a
man being too proud to fight"
Tried To Retract II.
Tumulty and House tried to get
the sentence out of the address
They realized what the President
could not, being obsessed with his
idea OF the power of reason, see
that the sentence following. which
qualified that phrase, too proud
TO fight, would not be read into