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r 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- Make This and Try It for Coughs This Home-Made Remedy Has No Equal for Prompt Results. Mix one pint of granulated sugar ' with h pint of warm water, and stir < for 2 "minutes. Put 2^> ounces or ; Pinex (fifty cents’ worth) in a pint bottle; then add the Sugar Syrup. ( Take a teaspoonful every one, two or three hours. f n > This simple remedy takes hold of a £ cough more quickly than anything . else you ever used. Usual’y conquers > an ordinary cough inside of 24 hours. Splendid, too, for whooping cough, spasmodic croup and bronchitis. It stimulates the appetite and is slight- J ly laxative, which helps end a cough This makes more and better cough ^ svrup than you could buy ready j made for $2.50. It keeps perfectly and tastes pleasant. Pinex is a most valuable concen- , traied compound of Norway white \ pine extract, and is rich in guaiacol . and other natural pin* S which are so healing to t \ branes. Other preparation: ( work in this plan. . > Making cough syrup with Pinex and sugar syrup (or strained honey) has proven so popular throughout the United States and Canada that it is often imitated successful mixture equalled. elements tnem- rill not But the old. has never been A guaranty of absolute satisfac tion. or money promptly refunded, goes with this preparation YoUr druggist has Pinex of^wdl^get it^for you. If not, send t< Ft. Wayne, Ind. 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 The raw, sore feeling high up in the chest with that hacking and COUGH SYRUP arklng cough from bronchial tubes, is quickly soothed and promptly checked by Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Use no other. Price, 25 cts. No Morphine or Chloroform “One and a half bottles Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup re moved entirely a cough that alarmed greatly.” Frank Kohylim 176 Graham Ave., Brookly: N. Y. ba risk!, Ry k,yn - iua Sample Free Write A. C. MEYER & CO. Mention paper Baltlmure, Md. mysteriously disappeared. He returned the other day and brought a wife. Girls, Dos’! Sc Pimply and Sallow Your liver Is wrong, that’s ati; Hot Springs Liver But tons will put the right kind of action into it. 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