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II KARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, (LA. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1913.
MRS. BURLESON WRITES OF EVOLUTION OF WHITE HOUSE WEDDINGS
The White House Bridal Party, Photographed for The Sunday American a Few Minutes After the Ceremony
"D AUK row, left to right: B. R. Burton. C. E. Hughes, ,lr„ and Gilbert Horax, President Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, F. B. Sayre (the bridegroom), Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, Rev. John Evans Sayre and Dr Scoville Clark. Front row, left to right: Miss Mary White,
-LA Miss Adeline Scott, Miss Margaret Wilson, Miss Jessie Wilson,(the bride), Miss Eleanor Wilson and Miss Marjorie Brown.
Postinastertxeneral’s Wife Recalls the Four-Line
N otice of Maria Monroe’s Marriage and Pon-|
tiers on Modern Newspaper Activity.
By MRS. A. S. BURLESON.
(Wife of the Postmaster-General)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—While
everybody promptly contradicts the
woman who said that “Cirover Cleve
land was the only man ever married
in the White House,” yet one feels
a thrill of sympathy for her. We
might easily have said it ourselves.
For it is the bride who is the shining
figure in a White House wedding. She
wins the eyes of the world, the friend-
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liness of all nations, tne hearts of
her own people.
Jessie Woodrow Wilson, who be
came the wife of Frances • Bowes
Sayre, is no exception to the rule, and
just now is drawing upon herself a
lifetime of cheer. Her wedding was i ■
more fully chronicled, however, than <
those of earlier times. The mar- {}
riage of Maria Monroe, the first <
daughter of a President to marry in i ?
the White House, received a notice of
four fines in The National Intelli
gencer, which with The National Re
publican, were the only two news
papers then published at Washing
ton. It read as follows:
“Washington, March 11, 1820.—Mar
ried, Thursday evening last, by the
Rev. Dr. Hawley. Samuel Ha u re nee
Gouveneur. of New York, to Maria
Hester Monroe, youngest daughter of
James Monroe, President of the
United States.”
How Different To-Day.
To-day no smallest detail escaped
the army of trained men and women
employed by t h^pewspapers to look
after the enormously interesting
event of November 25.
And although the modern system
of publicity is often harassing and i
embarrassing, we find ourselves wish
ing for it just now in our industrious
search of any scrap of information
M those former weddings at the
White House. Old books, long out of
print, are dragged from library
shelves and returned with a sigh be- j
cause they contain such meag
statements of those
events.
The most careful research will
probably never disclose the particular
kind of turban worn by Dolly Madi
son frhen her sister, Lucy Payne
Washington, the first bride of the
White House, married Judge Todd, of
Kentucky, nor the dress she wore
when her cousin a little later be
came the wife of Representative
John H. Jackson, of Virginia; yet
everyone would like to know these
things; nearly' every' woman is hon
est enough to say' so.
Only Two Rooms Used.
Only two rooms in the White House
i have ever been used for these mar-
Notable Absentees
From Guest List of
Wiison Wedding
FORMER WHITE HOUSE
BRIDES NOW LIVING.
Mrs. Thomas J. Preston (Mrs.
Grover Cleveland).
Mrs. Frank P. Jones (Mrs. A.
Sartor!s—Nellie Grant).
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (Alice
Roosevelt).
FORMER PRESIDENTS.
William Howard Taft.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.
SONS OF PRESIDENTS.
Colonel Webb Hayes (son
President Hayes).
James A. Garfield, former Sec
retary of the Interior (son of
President Garfield).
Russell A. Harrison (son of
President Harrison).
Robert Lincoln (son of Abraham
Lincoln).
Robert and Charles Taft (sons
of President Taft).
Theodore, Kermit, Archibald
and Quentin Roosevelt (sons of
President Roosevelt).
DAUGHTERS OF PRESIDENTS.
Mrs. James Robert McKee
(daughter of President Harrison).
Esther Cleveland (daughter of
President Cleveland).
Mrs. Richard Derby (Ethel
Roosevelt—daughter of President
Roosevelt).
Miss Helen Taft (daughter of
President Taft).
riage ceremonies, and it is fairly cer
tain that those in Dolly Madison’s
time did not take place ip the spa-
unreported ciou s East Room, which was used by
Mrs. John Adams for drying clothes
and served as a playroom for the
children during the two succeeding
administrations.
It was not until James Monroe be
came President that the East Room
received its handsome furnishings
from Paris, and thereafter was used
for most of the formal and state
functions.
Marla Mojiroe used the Blue Room
as the scene of her marriage, and
during the ceremony’ this third bride
of the White House stood with her
patriotic little feet on a figure of the
American eagle, which was woven
into the carpet. Officialdom was not
T*j TE/R mT X 0*0My
RETURNS AFTER 42 YEARS.
WILKESBARRE, PA., Nov. 29 -
Forty-two years ago Dennis Shevlin
^teVTAERNERS
NATIONAL CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.
Mrs. Albert L, Mills, wife of Briga
dier General Mills, U. S. A., will not
be at home Monday, but will receive
after that as usual.
General and Mrs. Mills left Wed
nesday for New York.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Disse. of Rich
mond, Va., arrived in Washington on
Monday', and are at the Hotel Pow
hatan.
* * *
Miss Fredia Well, who lias been
spending the past two months vi>
ing in New York, Philadelphia and
Washington, left here Tuesday for
her home i:. Jacksonville, Fla.
* * *
Miss Anna Portner. whose marriage
to Representative Flood, of Virginia,
will take place next month, enter
tained at a rose luncheon Monday at
the Highlands, in honor of her sis
ter-in-law. Mrs. Oscar Portner. There
were twenty-four guests.
Mrs. T. F. Maloy, of Asheville. N.
C., has been visiting her aunt, Mrs.
L. Fagg Morgan, in Nineteenth street,
on her way to New York. On her
return she will make a more ex
tended stay'.
* * *,
Miss Nellie Clair Howard, daughter
of Mrs. S. H. Howard, entertained at
a theater party at B. F. Keith’s Thea
ter in compliment to Miss Nell
Fletcher, daughter of Senator and
Mrs. Fletcher, of Florida, who is to
be married early next month to Lionel
Smith-Gordon, of Ireland. After the
theater party Miss Howard took her
guests to the Shoreham, where they
joined some extra guests for tea.
represented at this wedding The
guests were restricted to relatives
and friends, but details found in old
letters show the occasion to have been
a brilliant one.
The Dride was gowned in white
Georgian silk and long tulle veil.
Washington a Small Town.
Eight thousand persons composed
the population of Washington at that
period, and it is described by a vis
itor as “possessing the inconveniences
of both a village and a city without
the advantages of either."
The observer is exceedingly severe
on its life. * * * “There are elements
here to form good society,” she is
quoted as saying, but disposed on so
large a space that people are seldom
brought together, except in immense
ly crowded assemblies, where it mat
ters little whether a man is a fool
or not, provided he can light his
way' through.”
This sounds very like a criticism of
modern conditions; but it dates back
almost one hundred years!
The marriage of John Adams, son
of John Quincy Adams, and his cous
in, Helen Jackson, the fourtli White
House wedding, took place in 1826.
During the Jackson administration
three weddings were celebrated, the
fifth, sixth and seventh. The partici
pants were Delia Lewis, whose father
was the President’s friend, and M.
Alphonse de Pagot, secretary of the
French legation; Mary Easton, the
President’s niece, and Lucien B. Polk,
and Emily Martin and Lewis Ran
dolph.
Where Were These Held?
Did these weddings take place in
the East Room, where during this
period thAwomen of the President’s
household, oftentimes joined by the
wives of Cabinet Ministers, sat by
the open fire and sewed, while the
President received important foreign
dispatches at the hands of his Secre
tary of State, and the Donelson chil
dren whooped and raced up and down
its spacious length’.’
Following this group comes Letitia
Tyler’s marriage to William Walter,
the eighth in the White House. It was
said that she looked “surpassingly
lovely in her wedding gown and long,
blonde, lace veil” (a delicate old lace
completely out of fashion).
Nearly 40 years later the ninth
wedding took place, and Nellie Grant,
in the East Room, was married to
Mr. Algernon Sartoris, of England.
This brings us to the period of ac
tive newspaper reporting, and noth
ing was left undescribed\ that possi
bly could interest an eagdt public.
Then Cleveland’s Wedding.
The tenth bride, Emily Platt, niece
of President Hayes, was married to
General Russell Hastings in the Blue
Room. In this same charming room
ten years later, amidst a wealth of
flowers, Frances Folsom, the eleventh
bride, married President Grover
Cleveland.
in February, 1906, the twelfth mar
riage took place, when Alice Roose
velt married Representative Nicholas
Longworth in tlie East Room. The
plan of floral decoration on this occa
sion was simplified, owing to Miss
Roosevelt’s emphatic objection to
being married in a Jungle.
This historic list is brought down
to date by the marriage of Jessie
Woodrow Wilson to Francis Bowes
Sayre. She is the thirteenth White
House bride. Who will be the
fourteenth, the future is yet to dis
close.
Half of White Slaves
Recruited in Kitchen
DETROIT, Nov. 29.—“Most of the
girls recruited for white slavery come
I from the homes, not from the shop
j and factories.” said Mrs. Kate Waller
Barrett, president of the National
Florence Prittenton Mission “Watch
your own daughter, you women.
Watch the servant girls employed in
your kitchen. Nearly 50 per cent of
women of the underworld were once
kitchen servants.”
Three Seek Job; Toss
Of Coin Awards It
SAVANNAH Nov. 29.—The toss of a
coin gave It. M. Aldrich, a yoiuig Sa
vannah man, the position of seefrtary to
the new Drainage Commission, that will
handle a mi 11 ion-dollar project hi Savan
nah.
The commission was organized at the
same time the bids for the work w r ere
opened yesterday afternoon. Opposing
Mr. Aldrich were- -Vwo young im-ri with
the same backing. When the commis
sion deadlocked it was decided to flip
coins to see who would win the posi
tion. Mr. Aldrich won.
30 Convicts Pursue
Studies by Mail
LINCOLN, NEBR., Nov. 29.— A cor
respondence course for ambitious con
victs is to be opened bv the University
of Nebraska, confined to those at the j
State penitentiary. Already 30 men
have applied to have their names en
rolled as students. Four of the 30 are
"lifers.’’ Every lifer expects to be par
doned some time.
The course will include arithmetic.
American history, grammar and litera
ture. bookkeeping and agriculture.
Chaplain Johnson will be the principal.
S' VFJPX.A
Baby, in Mail Sack,
Transshipped at Sea
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29. “Hold on
with that mail sack!” shouted Captain
W. W. Greene, of the Chiyo Marti, as
they were about to throw it into the
pilot tender Californik off the lightship
yesterday afternoon. “We. want to put
a baby in it.”
So they opened the sack, and two-
year-old Htya San was slipped into a
bed of picture post-cards. A freight
boom was swung outboard, ttie sack
fastened to the fail of a rope and down
it went safely Into the boat.
When the Chiyo reached open water
on her way to the Orient yesterday it
was found that a Japanese woman and ,
her baby had failed to leave the ship
The woman was assisted down the
Jacob’s ladder.
Or, Beil’s
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mysteriously disappeared. He returned
the other day and brought a wife.
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