The Washington times., 1925-03-09
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n only there could have been
IN his He some sllanty Irish
critic with . pcnchant Tor s.
suit and battery some l0Me
minded friend 70 fasten upon MN g
.inm brutal attention 60 his spec.
lnclesD what . world We sh0uia
have toaayg
Tae south was the only civiIiza
ton Tommy Wilson knew. VI
North. where he went IN his late
teens, he became. woodrow or NJ
own motion. But Tommy Wilson
leaving his boyhood In Augusta
when he was Just turning fourteen
went % Columbia. South Carolina
late In ls7o.
The Arson and Wilson families
xere upon visiting terms in An
eusta And e Is family tradition
that, iia he heyday Of his youth
my &c eight or ten years-young
Tommy was fond Of the Arson
baby, who was several years young
- than he. and often asked to hold
Ellen Lou when the Arson family
came 70 visit.
Probably this is a big sister
legend, as any self-respecting boy
would Be ashamed Of it and con.
ociousiy forget 1t.
But let Wilson's brother-in-law
and friend take up the story. Stock.
ton Arson, in an article which ap.
psared IN the New York Times,
Wrote:
TT was in 1883 that woodrow
Wilson and Ellen Arson became en-
eaged. She was visiting friends in
the North Carolina mountains when
my father fell seriously i'll. He
had me- summon her home by tele-
granny mother had died two
the RESPONSIBLE member Of the fami-
~. She went 10 AsheviIIe to catch
4 train, but, as she had 70 wait
several hours Tor It, she went 70 q
hotel and whiIed away the time
reading by q window.
As fate W01ld have Il, Wood
row WILSON, who WIS driving IN
TIE mountains. passed the hotel,
Glanced 20 look mp, and saw her
mf0ffle &C the window. The two
HAD been together In Rome the
nzSeious summer and Il needed
lust the unexpected encounter In
the North Carolina mountains 70
show them what life meant for
each and for both OF them.
This love affair was destined TO
BE- the greatest episode that ever
came into the life Of Woodrow VII
aDn. From Il came twenty nine
years OF happiness. three splendid
daughters, and the cheerful, whole
some. domestic background Of =
useful life.
The engagement lasted two years
lev - rNf7
went to Johns Hopkins to get his
doctors degree; the young woman
went TO New York TO study paint
ins They met often and were
Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Az
son, his bride, came to Bryn Mawr.
q college for women. q few miles
cut q Philadelphia, in the autumn
CT 1885
a classroom Of dropping. yawning
giflsthese were not for the SON Of
his father. Never could he be q
squire 81 DANES So he left Bryu
Mnwr and went to Wesleyan Uni
versfkg. IN Connecticut.
There were men there and there
was 3 mans jObl
Ellen Arson was q young wife
then, barely out Of her honeymoon,
carrying her first child.
Ellen Arson q Lady.
No intelligent consideration Of
the life Of Wilson can omit the in
1luetice OF Ellen Arson.
OF course, she was Southern. and
had that exterior languor and soft
ness which seemed, at the time, 70
~ - sS~S nGk ~
bred Southern lady. The word
sswoman'' was not used politely in
her Rirlhood days. And always
ellen Arson was a lady. Beautiful
she was, with an exquisite sweet
ness which belied q rather stern
and sonber soul beneath her gentle
manners.
She kept her interest in painting
while the babies came and the
family duties widened. Beauty al
wavs enthralied her. But it didn't
enffce her to gayety. The blithe-
ness. the eternal fun making of
her husband never aroused in her
q frivolous mood. But she was
wise. She surrounded him with
those who would feed her husband 3
hunger for gayety.
Ten years after he left Princeton
as 9 senior he came back there as
q teachef-professor Of jurisprud-
ence, teaching political1 science. It
was q triumph, q triumph OF vir-
tue. For we must never forget
what kind Of boy, youth and man
woodrow Wilson was-a "mischiev.
Gus bundle Of nerves." but good
"a perfect and upright man.
barring q had temper
All his life Woodrow Wilson's
major delusiOn was that he had
3 first class mind. What he had
was = clear, clean, strong brain
inst was inadequately supported
by frafl body.
He wrote well. But he was not
In the worlds first or second
class OF thinkers or writer's.
woodrow Wilson became presi
dent Of Princeton University IN
1902. His administration there
opened In a blaze Of virtue. II
was decided that too many young
men were coming to Princeton
who considered II little more than 9
Junior League Club. "I'll not be
president Of a country club" quoth
the new president. So academic
requirements were raised and stiff
eTled, and q hundred and more OF
the thirteen hundred students were
sent home for failure in theiI
studies.
Naturally, many OF the hundred
would come from homes where thu
superiority of mere wealth as 4
means Of social salvation was mos
blatantly emphasized. So troubl'
camped at the front gates OF Prince