Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 206, 8 July 1913 — Page 8

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After the Honeymoon Married Life the First Year.

BY MABEL HERBERT URNER. "Helen, who do you think, came Into the office today?" "Who?" absently, intent on the difficult process of pinning a veil over a large hat. They were going out for dinner. "Uncle Joe. He would have come up to see you, but he was in town only for a few hours." "Uncle Joe!" With a thrill of dismay, as she thought of the silver bread plate he had given them, and ; that she was now having engraved for Estelle Hardtoan's wedding present. "Yes, It's the first time he's been in since our wedding, He asked after you iand seemed sorry he couldn't get up. lit seems that mother told him we had 'received three bread plates and he was quite distressed. Said he had j bought his at Tiffany's with the un- : derstanding that it could be exchanged. So he wants you to take it back and get something else. He suggested 'a tray or a berry dish." "Oh," pulling nervously at the veil," 1 1 wouldn't think of exchanging it. One ! can't have too many bread plates and besides I would rather keep what rhe selected." "That's foolish. We'll never need t three bread plates and he wants you : to have something else, something you : can use. I told him you'd see about it i this week. I'll go with you, if I have time." "Oh, no no you needn't do that." "Yes, I Baid I would. Uncle Joe is i getting old and rather childish, so I ' promised him I'd go with you, if I could. He'll probably be on to see us ome day next week. We'll try to get it exchanged before then." Her fingers were trembling as she finally adjusted the veil. What could she do? The plate was, by this time, already engraved and probably on its way to Estelle, for she had directed the engraver to send it. What COULD she do? How could she keep Warren from knowing now. If only she had sent Estelle some inexpensive present, as he had told her or even nothing at all! Anything would have been better than sending one of their presents and risking Warren finding it out. And when he knew with his innate hatred for untruths and deception in any form what would he say? For the first time, Helen felt that she might be afraid of her husband. It was Anna's afternoon off and for a change, they had planned to take dinner at a down town restaurant. But Helen was too worried to eat. She pleaded a headache and merely toyed with the food on her plate. The place was crowded and the service bad. And Warren was impatient and irritable with the waiter, as he always was unless he was well and What Keeps the Good Alive in the World? SELECTED BY EDWIN MARKHAM ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE, the dean of modern science, author of "Man's Place in the Universe," "The World of Life," etc., now at the serene summit of ninety years, sent out through the Cassell Company a memorable book entitled "Social Environment ind Moral Progress." This keen survey of the human problem I commend to you. Not long ago on this page was printed an article showing how this scientist looks for the betterment of

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most promptly served. His constant railing at waiters was one of the things from which Helen always shrunk. And, now, as she listened patiently to his irritable complaints, the thought came: Why should all the forbearance and adaptability come from her? Why must she try to be reconciled to all his faults, while he was so intolerant of hers? All the way home, she dwelt on this, and the thought gave her courage. But, for fear it might be only a fleeting courage, she resolved to make thp most of it now. She would tell him the faets about the plate! He did many things of which she disapproved and which she was forced to accept! Why should he not accept someof her failings also? When they reached home, she hurriedly threw off her wraps and went into the sitting room where he was settling down with his paper. "Warren, we can't exchange that plate Uncle Joe gave us. I have given it away." He looked at her, too astonished to speak. "I had it engraved and sent to Estelle Hardman for a wedding present. You said give her something inexpensive or nothing at all and I couldn't do that, after she had given up that expensive vase. We had three silver bread plates and I sent her one-

that's all. It was not that I didn't ap preciate Uncle Joe's present but to me that seemed the best way to use it I know you will think differently, but in many ways, we are different. And then she waited for the storm. It came. He was angry, very angry. He said many things, among them that he had thought her at least honest and, in this, she had deceived both Uncle Joe and Estelle. "Are you quite through?" she asked. "Then, for a moment listen to me. We have been married two months. Most of that time I have spent trying to adapt myself to you and to your faults. You say you are, in all things, literally truthful and that you abhor any form of deceit. That I know. "But I know, also, that you are irritable, and selfish and unreasonable and domineering! I do not think I am any of these things. But I admit that In small ways, harmless ways, I am not always truthful nor always quite honest few women are. "I have had to accept your failings and now you may learn to accept mine." And without waiting for a reply she quietly left the room, closing the door after her. It was the first time she had asserted herself in any way. And for a long time he gazed at the closed door, more astounded and disconcerted than he had probably ever been before. things from the women, through the law of natural selection. Here is an i extract from the chapter of Heredity and Environment: "If we glance through the past history of mankind we see an almost unbroken succession of aggression and combat between the various races, nations and tribes. We see great conquerors and great material civilizations as a result of their accumulations of wealth and of slaves. "The periods of culmination of j these old civilizations, founded al-1 ways on conquest, massacre' and sla- j very, are marked out for us by the ruins of great cities, temples and palaces, often of wonderful grandeur, j and with indications of art, science and literature, which still excite our admiration in Egypt and India, Greece and Rome; and thence through the Middle Ages down to our own time. Truth on the Scaffold. "But the inhumanities and horrors of these periods are inconceivable. ' Think of the horrors of war in the perpetual wars of those days before lVE. Yi1?ov6K MILU

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the 'Red Cross' service did anything to alleviate them. Think of the old castles, many of which had beside the dungeons a salaried torturer and executioner. Think of the systematic tortures of the centuries, of the witchcraft mania and of the Inquisition. Think of the burnings in Smithfield and in every great city of Europe. Think of " 'Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.' "Freedom of speech, even of thought, were everywhere crimes; how, then, did the love of truth survive as an ideal of today? To escape these horrors, the gentle, the good, the learned and the peaceful had to seek refuge in monasteries and nunneries. "Ought we not to be thankful that such education and custom, the varied influences of such an environment, were not hereditary? And is not the fact that the whole world has not become utterly degraded, and that anything good remains in our (Continued on Page Nine.)

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ACCORDING to Francis Bowes Sayre, the young man of twentyeight who is to marry Miss Jessie Wilson, one of the three daughters of the President, the wedding will take place in November in the White House. Hoodoo numbers have no terrors for Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, second daughter of President Wilson. Her father's career has been strangely intermingled with the supposedly unlucky number thirteen, and now Miss Wilson is to marry Francis Bowes Sayre and become the thirteenth bride of the White House. But the daughter of the President is not one of those persons who declines to sit in the thirteenth row at the threatre or objects to being the thirteenth guest at an entertainment. Many times has Miss Wilson defied the superstition about the number thirteen and sat in the thirteenth row of a theatre with her father, who prefers to sit in that row and regards the number as particularly lucky, at least with regard to himself and his family. For thirteen years President Wilson was connected with Princeton University.

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JESSIE WILSON 13TH WHITE HOUSE BRIDE Many persons profess to see an .evil omen in the fact that Miss Jessie Wilson will be the thirteenth White House bride. By some persons of nearly all nationalities the number 13 is regarded with superstitious fear. Paris will not have the number for any of its houses. Parisians so hate the "thirteen party" that there is a class of professional dinner out called "quartorziennes" whose function it is to make the fourteenth at entertainments and dinners. In England the superstition is believed to have arisen from the old calculation of the insurance offices that one out of thirteen persons taken indiscriminately will die within a year. Others trace the awe in which the figure is held to the last supper at vhich thirteen were present. The an'.i'pathy to thirteen is older than Christianity, however. In the old Norse mythology the thirteen party was deemed unlucky because at a banquet at Valhalla, Loki once appeared, making thirteen and Balder was slain by the blind god Hoder at the instigation of the intruder. In his thirteenth and final year there he was nominated for the presidency of the United States. FRANCIS SAYRE. He became president of the United States in 1913. Announcement of the engagement of Miss Wilson and Mr. Sayre was made, by coincidence, on the first anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's nomination at Baltimore for the presidency. There have been some twenty odd marriages in which either the bride or bridegroom resided in the White House, but the last wedding to take place there was that of Alice Roosevelt to ex-Representative Nicholas Longworth, and that was the twelfth wedding ceremony performed in the president's mansion. Roosevelt-Longworth Wedding Simple. While the wedding of Miss Roosevelt was extremely impressive it was still Bimple in character. Compared to the pomp, ceremony and gorgeousness that attended the recent wedding of the Princess Victoria Luise, only daughter of the Kaiser, and Prince Ernst August of Cumberland, at Berlin, the Roosevelt-Longworth wedding becomes almost Puritanical in its plainness. Probably the wedding attended by

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the most show was that of Miss Lucy Payne, sister of Mrs. Dolly Madison, who was married to Justice Todd of

, the Supreme Court, in the White j House, the first to take place there. I At that time. 1S11, fashion demanded l a much greater display of pomp in ! such events than it does today. Also, ; Mrs. Madison felt that since it was the ; first wedding ceremony to be performed in the White House it should be memorable in more ways than one. It is not expected that Miss Wilson ! will care for an elaborate ceremony, I She is a very serious minded young : lady, with a turn toward literature and settlement work. Alice Roosevelt, too. had decreed that her wedding was to be as simple as possible, and out of deference to her wishes the diplomats ho attended appeared in conventional wedding garb. Had they worn the glittering uniforms they are wont to affect on state occasions, the wedding would have been a much more brilliant one, in appearance at least. Only a year elapsed after the ToddPayne wedding when the White House again heard the sound of wedding bells. In 1S12, the year of the second war with Great Britain. Anna Todd, niece of President Jackson's wife, was married to Representative John G. Jackson, the first member of Congress to marry a relative of a President. Misa Monroe Firat Daughter to Wed. For eight years the serenity of the White House was not disturbed. Then, in 1820. Miss Maria Monroe, daughter of President Monroe, was married to Samuel Gouverneur. Miss Monroe was the first daughter of a president to be wedded in the official residence at Washington. In 1824 Elizabeth Tyler, daughter of President Tyler, married William Waller. Two years later Washington society was again stirred by the marriage ot Miss Mary Hallen to John Adams, son of President Adams. From 1829 to 1837, during President Jackson's administration, there were several weddings. Miss Delia Lewis married Alphons Yver Pageot ; Miss Mary Eaaton married Lucien B. Polk and Miss Emily Marlln was wedded to Lewis Randolph. All took place in the White House. A long period was then jumped, until the wedding in 1874 of Miss Nellie Grant, daughter cf President Grant, to Algernon Saratorls. which many persons today will remember. In 1878 Emily Pratt, niece of President Hayes wedded General Russel Hastings and in 1886 Frances Folsom was married to President Cleveland, who, by the way was the first president to be married during his term of office. Miss Roosevelt's Wedding Ceremony. The next wedding at the White House was that of Miss Roosevelt in 1906. This ceremony was performed by the Right Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee. Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Washington. There were no bridesmaids. The bride entered the famous East Room of the White House on the arm of her father, and walked through the roped aisle thronged on either side by diplomats, statesmen and distinguished personages from every civilized country, to a raised platform at the east end of the room. There the bridegroom with the best man awaited. Eight minutes only was required to perform the ceremony. President Roosevelt stood behind the couple. To the left were Mrs. Roosevelt and the members of the family. At the right were members of the Longworth family and the ushers. Congratulatory telegrams were received by the hundreds from prominent Americans and from the rulers of all European states. Among the wedding presents sent by European sovereigns and nations were a finely wrought bracelet from the Kaiser, a sevreB porcelain table piece and sevres vase from the president of France; a rare antique brooch from King Alfonso of Spain; a rare Goeblin tapestry from the Republic of France, a dowry chest containing carvings, embroidery, silks, paintings and Jewelry from the Dowager Empress of China; two silver vases and Japanese embroidery from the Emperor of Japan; a mosaic work, copy of a painting in the Vatican from Pope Pius X, vje wutK TttftH TO JlKTH til. 6o7TriTW ETCHED C -How v n

a mosaic work representing scenes from Italian cities from the King ot Italy, and a $25,000 necklace of pearls from the Cuban Government. The wedding presents reached a total value of more than a quarter cf a million dollars. Miss Wilson a Social Worker. Miss Wilson is 25 years old and was born at Gainesville. Ga. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and an honor member of the class of 1$0S at the Woman's College. Baltimore. For two years after her graduation she engaged in settlement work in Kensington. Philadelphia. She is a member of the National Executive Board of the Y. W. C. A. and in this capacity paid a Tisit to the Night Court for women in New York City together ith Mrs. J. Borden Harriman last winter. She also visited the Children's Court. In February last Miss Wilson addressed the legislature of Delaware in behalf of a ten hour law Tor working women. The legislature passed the bill. When the Democratic convention was in session at Baltimore. Miss Wilson arranged a diagram at Sea Girt. N. J., showing the situation, and which she changt-d as the delegates changed their voles. While the balloting was going on the members of the Wilson family sat and watched the diagram which Miss Wilson corrected as the reports came in Irom the convention hall. Miss Jessie doesn't resemble her father as tnuih as do her sisters, but has rather the features of her mother's family, the Assons. She is athletic and likes tennis, riding and swimming. She is also something of an orator. Addressing a number of school girls on the enjoyment of settlement work in Philadelphia in November. 1912, Miss Wilson said: "There is uo charity in the work, but self sacrifice and interest In others." At the biennial convention of the Young Women's Christian Association in Richmond. Va.. in April last. Miss Wilson spoke before rowds that filled two churches, and was then compelled to address an overflow meeting. In SL Ixmis. in April, she also addressed a large audience on "Thoughts in Captiity," taking as ht-r text the fourth and fifth verses of Second Corinthians. In January she spoke at the vesper services of the Y. W. C. A. on "The Joys of Service." Sayre Comes of Old Family. Francis Bowes Sayre is 28 years old and was born at South Bethlehem. Pa, a son of the late Robert Heysham Sayre. who built the Lehigh Valley Railroad and at one time was assistant to the president of that road. The elder Sayre also built and became president of the Bethlehem Iron Works since known as the Bethlehem Steel vVorks. He was also once president of the Board of Trustees of Lehigh University. Francis Bowes Sayre graduated from -awrenceville School, LawrenceviUe, N. J.. in 1904 and from Williams College In 1909. He entered Harvard Law School and graduated "cum laude." He was a member of the Sigma Phi Fraternity. Gargoyle Society and the Phi Beta Kappa at Williams. For the past year he has been working in the office of District Attorney Whitman of New York. He left the office a few weeks ago to take bar examinations for New York State. As soon as he Is admitted he will be made a Deputy Assistant District Attorney under Mr. Whitman. Mr. Sayre's mother Is Mrs. Martha Finlay Sayre. daughter of the late John Williamson Neein, h was president of Franklin and Marshall College at I -an carter. Pa. She is a descendant of Hugh Williamson, of North Carolina, one of the framers of the Constitution of the United States and is a sister of the late Robert J. Nerln, head of the American Church at Rome and a cousin of Ethelbert Nevin. the composer.

As Often Happens. "1 wonder why Rob doesn't marry?" "He hasn't met the wrong till yet. proba bly." Puck. By C. Al. Payne

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