Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — MRS. WOODROW WILSON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MRS. WOODROW WILSON.

W ife of the Democratic Presidential Nominee. Honorary President of the Woman’s National Democratic League.

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the new leader of Democracy and probable next mistress of the White House, is perhaps the most interesting woman in the United States today. This is inevitable-not because she wishes It. for she does not —and is as firm as a rock in her conviction that being the wife of a public man does not necessitate nor call for a woman’s becoming a publicity seeker. She successfully resisted all appeals of photographers and Interviewers until Mr. Wilson’s nomination as Democrfttic candidate for the presidency was un fait accompli. This modesty is easily traced to her southern ancestry and training and is characteristic also of her distinguished husband. She was born Klien L/uiise Arson, daughter of a Presbyterian divine of Savannah, Ga., whose family, so far as he knows, is the only one of the name in America, i : Like Mr. Wilson, she has one brother and one sister living, all In the same literary circle as the doctor and herself. In this atmosphere of learning Mrs. Wilson could hardly be expected, to be other than she is—widely read, broadminded and charitable, devoted to her borne and the principles for which it stands. She has marked ability as an artist, and It is said that a portrait painter of ability was spoiled when she married the young barrister who had then given up the practice of his profession to specialize on the subject that has made him a presidential nominee. Mrs. Wilson’s three daughters—Misses Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Jessie Woodrow Wilson and Eleanor Randolph Wilson- possess the mental characteristics of their father and their mother’s artistic teni|>erament, combined in such a way as to give zest to every moment of their lives and protection from the foibles of the world. They form. Indeed, an Ideal family circle, one that it would be well for every Am erica n household to emulate.