Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1913 — The Next Mistress of the White House. [ARTICLE]

The Next Mistress of the White House.

With the outgoing of Mrs. William Howard Taft, whom the country has loved and honored, there will go into the White House four most attractive women, the president's wife and his three charming daughters. It has been said that no more refined, unassuming and considerate leaders of the social set have entered Washington in many days than will be these four. Mrs. Wilson has never essayed to social leadership. She has been much in social life, both as the wife of a university president and mistress of a gubernatorial mansion, but her home is her life. The social glamour of the White House has no appeal for Mrs. Wilson and her daughters, although they are admirably fitted for the high social position. Mrs. Wilson is democratic in manner and life as well as in politics. Her daughters, it has been said, are not only like their mother, but also resemble their distinguished father. Simple tastes, simple demands, simple living without frills or pretenses, Will be their part.- Mrs. Wilson was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, and she has never departed from her “raising.” * Her Ideals of life are high and religious. She is a wide reader and an entertaining talker and an artist of considerable ability. The charms the three daughters will readily make for them a place in the hearts of Washington society and of the nation. Margaret Wilson, the eldest, is twen-ty-six. She is probably the plainest of the three sisters. She is a short, slender, blond girl, wiry and vivacious. She loves golfing, fishing or a dashing game of tennis or baseball. Shedances gracefully, rides horseback, swims, plays basketball and tells stories and converses as delightfully as her father. Miss Margaret is the musician of the family, with ambitions to make her career on the concert stage. The White House will probably not alter her plans, as she is devoted to her art Miss Jessie, the second sister, is the beauty of the trio and also the more serious. She is a social settlement worker and the youngest member of the nation board of the Young Women’s Christian association. Eleanor, the “baby.” is the only one who bears a nickname. To her family and to her Intimates she is “Nell.” Tall, dark and attractive, she is often taken for the oldest 6t the Wilson sisters. For the last two years she has been studying art at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. Miss Eleanor is as lively as her eldest sister and brimful of fun. The next second lady of the land, Mrs. Thomas Riley Marshall, wife of the vice president elect, la not a suffragette, but she is probably one of the cleverest women politicians in the country. She and her busband have never been separated a night through their fifteen years of married life. Mrs. Marshall also enjoys the distinction of being the only woman to accompany her husband as a gubernatorial candidate from one end of Indiana to the other on a speecbmaklng tour. She Is a woman of keen literary appreciation, and the executive mansion at Philadelphia is full of books, but devoid of bookishness. Somebody has said of her home that it is the kind to make you “just want to sit down and stay to supper.”