13th WHITE HOUSE BRIDE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 41, 21 November 1913, Page 9

13th WHITE HOUSE BRIDE.

; DSFYtNO SUFERSTITJON, „ , NEW YORK, Ko'v. 16. I Mrs Daniels (the wife of the Secie- :! t*r v v for ,the Navy) gave a "hcodon" luncheon m. honor of Miss Jessie Wil- ■ son, -who is the 13th. White House bride. • There were 13 guests, -13 candles on the table, and 13 waiters. The party is awaiting the result. With the- utmost simplicity the 1k - trothal is announced of Jessie, scco-v] daughter of President Wilson, to Francis B. Sayres, a young graduate of i, tho ilKams College, , lVunisylvafiia, j\ho for some time past has been"gathering legal experierice_ in the office of Mr "Whitman, tho District Attorney, in New York (stated the New York correspondent of 'The Daily Mail' recently). , 'Die nation has received the announcement with much gratification, for i> loves weddings at the 'White' II u's. where 12 have been solo:n>u->;i iin c the establishment of the Republic. The . marriage of Miss Alice- Roosevelt and Mr Nicholas Longworth in 1906 was » very grand affair, but the wedding of "Princess" Jessie, in harmony with the simple tastes and unassuming family life of the Wilsons, will be a genuinely democratic social festivity. Miss Jessie Wilson is the beauty of the family of three daughters. Like her mother' she e is a blonde, with a Grecian profile, a delicate, rose-pink complexion, and large blue eyes. She is a very seriousminded girl of 24 summers, and is devoted to settlement work. Since the inauguration as President of her father, whom she frankly adores as the "finest i man in the world," she has earned

great popularity by her successful campaign in Delaware in favor of a 10-hour workday for women. Only the other day she was making a careful investigation of cases in the Children's Court m New York. But, though a scholar and an earnest social worker, she is anything but a bluestocking. "Bright, simple and frank, she plays tennis, rides horses, swims and dances 'with enthusiasm. The fact that she is betrothed in 1913 and will be the 13th White House ,\>niti recalls the President's often-expressed predilection for the number 13, which, lie says, is associated with the most auspicious events in his life.

An exhibitor from as far as Ireland must surely be a novelty for the Manairatu Agricultural and Pastoral Show, if not for any other association's show in Xew Zealand. Among the- exhibitors in the art needlework and homo industries at the show is Miss J. Keilly, Carrabiuny, Ireland.

"You tell all your boy friends that the next one who is brought before me for stone-throwing will not get off with only a warning. He will be taken to the police station and the most powerful constable to be found there will be requisitioned to give the culprit a thorough good hiding." These words were addressed by Mr F. V. Frazor, S.M.. at the Auckland S.M. Court to a very diminutive lad who was brought before him the other day for stone-throw-ing-

: Mr E. C. Gaisford, of Rangitikei, ;• srlio has been visiting the Old Country, told a Sydney interviewer that Australians and New Zealanders had not much to learn from the Scottish farmers; on contrary, the Scottish farmers could -learn a good deal from the Antipodean itillcrs of the soil. In Scotland, it takes ?three laeu to ran a double-furrow, and ftiro men to run a single-furrow plough ; pSkile in Australia or New Zealand one tfflan will manage a double-furrow Iplough and four horseiS. In Scotland :the farmers mostly sow broadcast, and •rarely open up a crop with a binder; i&ey nse the scythe first; but. it has to & remembered that their paddocks are smaller than in the colonies. ■Speaking 'generally, Mr Gsiisford eoujMcrs that Saotti&h farmers' methods ■ire antiquated. TVhat was good enough fortheir fathers and grandfathers they soosider good enough for themselves. the 'Scotchman who come out to Now lealand are ready enough to pick up jwr ideas, but the oldtype of Scottish Armor i<? averse to what he calls the ;"new fangled notions" of tilling the, Mt i