WEDDING AT WHITE HOUSE.
MARRIAGE OF THK PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Washington, November 23. j Miss Jessie Wilson and Mr. Francis Sayre were married at the White House, It was a simple, yet dignified, ceremony. Tlio Rev. Sylvester Beach, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Princeton, New .Jersey, performed the ceremony in the East Room. The maid of honour was Miss Margaret Wilson, oldest daughter of tho President. Tho Corps Diplomatiquo attended in full uniform. Dr. Wilfrid Gronfell, a Labrador missionary, was groomsman. Factory workers of New York sent the bride, a handsomo present, acknowledging her interest in tho amelioration of the conditions of tho workers in largo cities in which sho had lived for some yours as a settlement worker. The bride's gown was of white satin, trimmed with ' point lace, embroidery, and orange'blossoms. It had a court train, Tho bridesmaids wore pink eharniouso and silver lace tunics and moiro hats.
Miss Jessie Wilson is one of three daughters, and all three are said to bo effective auxiliaries in tho White House. They arc said to bo free from self-con-sciousness, quick to see and undersand, each with a nimble wit and accustomed to meeting men and women of note. Says a writer in tho New York "Sua": —"Clever, talented, each with somo vocation.in life, fond of entertaining and of entertainments, without being absorbed in society, they will add another four years of rational hospitality to that which will havo ended then. There will bo plenty of good humour, plenty of fun, and those who w~ll have the privilege_ of' attending a White House reception will havo to burnish up their wits if they would keep up with tho party." Miss Margaret-Wilson is devoted to anisic, and has a very promising voice (soprano), which has been under training .all winter in New York City. J\liss Jessie Wilson, the beauty of the family, and now tho bride, is a Phi Beta Kappa, and wanted to become a foreign missionary. Instead, sho compromised on social work, and became a, member of tho national board of the Young Women's Christian Association. As well as her sister Margaret, sho is fond of tennis, .riding, swimming, and dancing, Eleanor, tho youiigost of tho three, is an art student, and lias'bcen studying at the Fine Arts Academy in Philadelphia. All - three j followed the political campaign with alert interest, in a way that would have douo credit to a skilled politician. Tho youngest girl is more or less 'an adher- J cnt of the women suffrage movement."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1917, 27 November 1913, Page 2
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422WEDDING AT WHITE HOUSE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1917, 27 November 1913, Page 2
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