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iwwe ■•■ HAT has become of the White ik House brides? There have been twelve of them. Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson will b e ® ut g be feel® n 0 superstitious alarm on that ecore, 13 being the luckiest of numbers in the Wilson family. It is interesting to consider the fact that three of the round dozdn of White House brides, including the first one, Lucy Payne, and the last one, Alice Roosevelt, married congressmen. Also that two, Della Lewis and Nellie Grant, became the wives of foreigners. Only one president, . Mr. Cleveland, was niarrled in the White House, although another, Mr. Tyler, took to himself a spouse during his term of office. In earlier days White House weddings were always celebrated in the circular room, the state department, oval in shape, which is now called the blue room. But of late years Washington society has expanded to such an extent, numerically speaking, that, with perhaps 1,000, guests to be Invited, the east room is none too large for the staging of so Important a spectacle as a marriage in the White House. —At the wedding of Alice Roosevelt, which occurred Feb. *l7, 1906, the east room was almost uncomfortably crowded. The bridal pair were wed on a raised platform before an extemporized altar. The ceremony was performed by the Rt. Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee, bishop of Washington, and breakfast for sixty persons was served in the state dining room, a buffet lunch for the other guests being furnished in the green room. Nick Longworth, at that time a member of congress from Cincinnati, is exceedingly popular. He can do amusing things with the piano, is a firstclass baseball player and has other accomplishments. At the date of his marriage he was nearly forty. Though not rich, he will eventually inherit a considerable fortune from his mother. His wife has spent ipost of her time since ‘her marriage in Washington, where she is a leader of the young married women’s set. She has no children. There was a gap of nearly twenty years between the Roosevelt wedding and that of Frances Folsom, who was married in the White House June 2, 1886, to President Cleveland. She was only twenty years old at the time and was the daughter of Mr. Cleveland’s former law partner. On this occasion the ceremony was semi-private and the blue room was plenty big enough for the bridal party and a small number of invited guests. When her husband died, five years ago, Mrs. Cleveland was left very well off. la addition, congress voted her the customary $5,000 a year as the pension of a president’s widow. A few months ago she was married to Thomas J. Preston. When Rutherford B. Hayes was colonel of the Third Ohio Volunteers the lieutenant-colonel of the regiment was Russell Hastings. Whence it •came about that Colonel Hastings, In later years, made the acquaintance of Emily Platt, a niece of President Hayes. Miss Platt was a member of the White House family through the Hayes administration, being regarded almost as a daughter. When she became engaged to Colonel Hastings it was arranged that she should be married in the White House, and the ceremony was performed there on June 19, 1878, at 7 o’clock in the evening. It was wholly a family affair. v Four years earlier took place the wedding of Nellie Grant, the' third daughter of a president to be married in the White House. On this occasion the spectacle was staged tn the east room, then used for the purpose for the first time. The date was Muy 21, 1874, and the bridegroom was Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris, an Englishman. Ellen Wrenshall Grant was a handsome girl of eighteen, with brown hair and eyes, rosy cheeks and a plump figure. Sartoris, who was the son of a member of parliament and was said to have an Income of $60,000 a year, met her for the first time on a steamer coming back from Europe. The wooing was rapid, but General Grant disapproved Of the match and did not give his Consent for more than a year. Theis are plenty of peopl* living today who

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well remember the popular excitement caused by this international marriage. It was estimated that the wedding presents represented * a value of more than SIOO,OOO. Certainly no marriage ever started out with a fairer outlook. But unfortunately the prospect was not realized. Sartoris, who was an Idler, like many Englishmen of his class, did not make a satisfactory husband, and Mrs. Sartoris was eventually compelled to divorce him. Her son. named Algernon after his father, recently married a French girl, Cecile Mouffiard, and is now residing in France. Two daughters are married. A little over a ago—Mr. Sartoris having meanwhile died—Mrs. Sartoris took* a second husband, Frank Hatch Jones, being married to him on July 4, 1912, at Cobourg, Canada. On the evening of Jan. 31, 1842, Elizabeth Tyler, third daughter of President Tyler, then a girl of eighteen, was married in the blue room of the White House to William Waller, a member of congress from Williamsbrug, Va. It is not possible in all Instances to trace the subsequent history of the White House brides, some of whom, indeed, suph as those of the Jackson administration, were persons of no prominence apart from the fact that they were married in the White House. Soon after this marriage Mrs. Tyler died, and within a short time the widowed president took to himself a second wife, whose name was Julia Gardiner. She was a New York girt Returning from abroad with her father, Miss Gardiner visited Washington and met President Tyler. Soon afterward President Tyler became engaged to Miss Gardiner, and they were married in New York, the bridal party return’ng Immediately to the White House, where the wedding reception was held. Mr. Tyler was fifty-six and hts bride only twenty. John Quincy Adams, *hen in congress and a bitter enemy of the president, spoke of the marriage as a “union of Januar* and May." Young Mrs. Tyler did the honors of the White House for eight months, until the close of the administration, Then she and her Jiusband went to their Virginia home, where they lived seventeen years. When Mr. Tyler died his widow took her children to her mother’s home at Carleton Hill, Staten Island, and there spent the rest of her life; When Van Buren was presidtfit Dolly Madison was still the leader of Washington society, and it was she who introduced to him'the beautiful Angelica Singleton, daughter of. a distinguished South Carolina family. Miss R'ngleton became a frequent guest at the White House, and the president’s son, Major Abram Van Buren, fell in love with her. He married her in November. 1833, at her home in South Carolina, but the wedding reception was held at the White House, where young Mrs. Van Buren immediately took charge of affairs as mistress of the establishment, the president being a widower. Andrew .Jackson was remarkably devoid of relatives. Perhaps It was on this acount and because he was fond of young people that he made so much of his wife’s relations. Two of the latter were married In the White House et his request during his administration. A third young woman who enjoyed the same distinction was Delia Lewis of Nashville, the daughter of an intimate friend of the president. The second marriage at the White House during the Jackson regime was that of Mary Fasten, another Tennessee girl, who was a niece of Mrs. Jackson. In this Instance the bridegroom was Lucien B. Polk, likewise of Tennessee. The pair went to live at Columbia, Tenn., where they spent the rest of their Ilves very happily. was a relative of Mrs. Jackson’s, She was married In the White House 0 t young clerk, Lewis Randolph, a son of Martha Jefferson Randolph, who was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson. This takes us back as far as the administration of John Quincy Adams, who had three sons s The handsomest of the three brothers was John

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Ing some opposition to start with. The ceremony was performed in the circular, room, and there was dancing afterward, the president and his wife taking part, in the Virginia reel. It has been said of the Monroes that they made fewer friends in Washington than any presidential family before or since. They were very exclusive and so formal that Mr. Monroe once refused to see a near relative who called at the White House because the visitor was not attired in the small clothes appropriate to full dress. Mrs. Hay, the eldest daughter, would not visit the wives of the diplomats because they did not call first upon her. Thus it came about that when the youngest daughter, Maria Hester Monroe, married her cousin, Samuel Laurence Gouverneur, then secretary to the president, nobody was at the wedding except members of the families of the bride and bridegroom. It took place in the circular room as noon on March 9, 1820, and the clergyman, the Rev. Dr. Hawley of St John’s church, wore kpee breeches with silver buckles on his low shoes. ~ The couple spent their summers at Oak Hill, Loudon county, Va. They lived in New York in winter. Ex-President Monroe died in the New York house while on a visit to his daughter. They had three children, two of them boys. Marla Monroe Gouverneur died at Oak Hill at the age of forty-nine and was buried there. Anna Todd of Philadelphia Was fnanled at the White House in 1812 to John G. Jackson, a member of congress from Virginia and a granduncle of Stonewall Jackson. History is unfortunately silent in regard to sub sequent events in the life of Anna Todd, but it is z known that she went to Virginia with her husband and lived there the rest of her life. Dolly Madison had two sisters. One of them, Anna, became the wife of Congressman Cutts of Maine. The other and younger sister, Lucy, was married at fifteen years of age to George Steptoe Washington, a nephew of the Father of His Country. He died and she went to live with.,the Madisons. All of which merely leads up to the fact that on the evening of March 11, 1811, Lucy, the widow aforementioned, was married at the White House to a Kentucky widower named Todd, who was an associate justice of the Supreme court. This was the first White House wedding and was celebrated with all the eclat possible in those comparatively simple days. It will be noticed that only four of the twelve White House brides have been daughters of Presidents. The first of these was Maria Monroe, the second Elizabeth Tyler, the third Nellie Grant and the fourth Alice Roosevelt. Jpssie Woodrow Wilson will be the fifth.

HARD TO REALIZE.

"We quickly accept conditions as they are. It’s hard to realize that a bald-headed man ever had hair.” , "That’s true.” "Yet some of them not only had hair, bat long, crinkly curls."

"I suppose Mrs. Smith is much distressed about her husband’s death.” "I don’t know about that. He was so meanand cranky that in one way, it is a relief. But then black is so horribly unbecoming to her.”

THE BOSS SPEAKS.

"Young man," said the boss, "I like to see you arrive in the morning feeling fresh." "Yes, sir." "But let it end there. You have a habit of keeping your freshness tsp all day."

NOTHING SERIOUS.

"Was I full when you saw me last night?" "1 wouldn’t like to say that." "Come on. What was T doing?” "Well, you were challengings a lamppost ta race.”

Adams, a graduate of Harvard, notoriously hot tempered and inheriting the arrogance of his grandfather, after whom he was named. At that time a young man named Hellen, from Philadelphia, was employed in the White House in a secretarial 'capacity. He had a very pretty sister named Mary, and John Adams fell in love with her, finally obtaining the consent of his parents to their marriage, notwithstand-

A DILEMMA.

POWER ABOVE ALL

Gospel of Jesus Christ Supreme Now as) It Was in the Beginning. SHAME goes through the world with bowed head and a furtive step, and shrinks from notice. Shame is the acknowledgment of some inferiority or defect, mental, moral or physical. Pride is an upward looking quality, and though it has been listed as one of the seven deadly sins, yet it is proper that a true man have pride in that which is praiseworthy. In St. Paul’s day the Hebrews were a proud nation. They were proud of their religion, of their wonderful history, of their, great men such as Abraham and Moses, of their city of Jerusalem and its magnificent temple. Their pride would not allow them to have any dealings with their own cousins, the Samaritans, because they had intermarried with the Canaanites. The Greeks were a proud people in those days. They were proud of their learning, of their mellifluous language, and of their classic literature which we study after all these centuries. They were proud of their works of art which have never been surpassed, if equaled, and they were proud of their general culture and polish, and they looked upon other nations as barbarians.

Defied Greatness of Rome.

The Romans were a proud nation in Paul’s day. They considered it the highest honor to be a Roman citizen, and, in fact, Paul speaks of his own citizenship as a matter of no small importance. Rome had eclipsed Egypt, had absorbed Greece, while Palestine was only an obscure province In a corner of the empire. Rome also had Its great men—orators such as Cicero and Hortenslus; poets such as Virgil, Horace and Ovid; historians such as Tacitus and Livl; generals such as Caesar, Pompey and Tltua. Men from the provinces were overawed by the city’s greatness and glory, and felt that indeed all other places were inferior, and that here dwelt not only riches and pomp, but also culture and wisdom and power. Paul understood all this; and yet he would stand in the forum and say, “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; make the most of your city, of your institutions and laws, of your literature, and your world-power. There is greater power In Christianity, for It Is the power of God unto salvation.” When Nathaniel Hawthorne first went to England and contrasted the cathedrals and museums and mansions and literature of the mother country with our small beginnings, he did not feel ashamed of being an American. But he appealed to the future and said that America would give to the world men to match her boundless plains, men to match her great rivers, men to match her snow-clad peaks which rear their heads Into the sky. Even so Paul appealed to the future to prove that though Rome’s power was great, yet It was puny compared with the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ —“- Gospel Supreme Over All. Since that day nineteen centuries have eome and gone. The gospel has performed great exploits. Its empire has grown far beyond the borders of ancient Rome* and it is difficult to believe that there ever was a time when any strong man was ashamed of Christianity. backward we behold the atmosphere of history roseate with gWrious associations of the gospel. It has always been the power of God unto the salvation of mankind. It has never dwelt in thieves’ dens or brothels, it has never filled jails or poorhouses, or fostered schemes of vice or avarice. Evil men have often used Christianity as a cloak to cover their wickedness, and many crimes have been committed in the name of the gospel, but after all these centuries it remains pure and unsullied as it came from the life and the Ifps of Jesus of Nazareth. Yet are there not some today who call themselves Christians and yet go about the world apologetically, always ready to deny their allegiance, and would never stand up and say in the face of ridicule, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ” What poor specimens of humanity they are; neither flesh nor fish! There were some people like that in Laodicea of old, and to them the risen Lord said: *1 know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot; I would that thou wert cold or hot. So because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I win spew thee out of my mouth.”

Sweetest Things of Life.

The best things are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties y*t your hand, the path of God just before you. Then too not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain common work as it comes, certain that dally duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life. A night’s sleep, what a miracle of mercy it is; and a new day with the waking up of health to face it; aye, even a pleasant meal with one’s household, Is not that worth a thanksgiving? Or an Interesting book, an hour with an old friend, a Sunday’s quiet resting after a strained and weary week, or some new light of Interest or meaning in one’s favorite line of study—it Is such things as these for more than great special blessings, wffich make up the sum of happy things, if one would but think of them more, and not always be taking them as a matter of course, which would fill out days with thanksgiving.—Brook* Herford

HENRY HOWLAND i illtt What of the strong man’s stubborn pae> sion, ' When Love comes singing sweet aad| low? What of the long established fashion • When Love comes pleading: "Let Mt go?" From habits that enslaved before He turns as one new-born, to sigh, ; • He dreams of wildwood haunts no mottfc His gun and rod uncherished lie. The,thunders of applause that shdok The halls of state for him are all Forgotten when she turns to look And when he hears her softly call: The wisdom that Ke had he lays Aside, forgetting to be wlsife. He craves no honor but her praise. His universe is in her eyes. What of the strong man’s solid reason When Love comes sighing: “Stray with me?” * To noble heights or down to treason , He follows on submissively. From that which armies might have tried In vain to move him he recedes. And at a pensive woman's side The strong man sighs and humbly pleads. The dreams that young love d/eams are fair. The sighs that young love sighs are sweet. Glad angels hover, watching, where The lips of coy young lovers meet. f The skies above young love are blue, 1 The laughter of young love is gay; j To young love all the world is new And all its troubles far away. q But send to me the sweeter, later j Love, blossoming where sorrows lie. The deeper love the broader, greater, That comas to flower but not to die. For him, when youth’s wild dreams are spent And Time has withered many a hope God’s gifts are best if Love is sent To lead him down the western slope.

Information for the Young.

that’s a’gialn of truth?” "It is generally the thing that keeps an the women in‘ the neighborhood saying: ‘Well, I declare!’ ’I never would have thought it!’ ‘you don’t say!’ ‘I never did believe she was as Innocent, as she tries to make out!’ and ‘I feel so sorry for her children!’”

TWO OF THEM.

avoid acting as if I owned the earth."

A Question.

We hope for inanitions In the skies. We yearn for future glory where The splendid, golden turrets rise And all the scenes are passing fair. But shall wo, if we ever win Such glories as we crave, agree Th be content if others there— If all the people who get In, The high, the low. the fat, the thin— Are just as richly blest as we?

Why Diogenes Failed—Perhaps.

"It isn’t recorded that Diogenes ever found the honest man for whom be was looking, Is ItT’ "No, but If Diogipes had bathed a little oftener than he did perhaps the honest man wouldn’t have been so wary about letting him come near him.”

Adam's Advantage.

"After all, Adam had some important advantages.” "Of course he had." "For instance, his wife never spent any hard-earned money of his for the purpose of hiring a private detective to watch him."

Victory!

"If you were going to elope, which would you prefer, an automobile or—” "Oh, Charley! I never thought of doing such a thing, but if you insist let’s not wait I’m an awfully good walker."

Her Winning Way.

"Don’t you think Mrs. Ka Filippe hag such a winning way?” “Yes. I happened to be mixed up in a game of bridge with her night before last. I wonder if Ka Filippe finds It neewmary to do anything for a living? 4

"You talk,” said the tiresome optimist, "as if you thought the world wasn’t go o £ enough for you.’’ "No,” replied the pessimist, "I merely try to