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Show WILSON WEDDING QUIET ANDSIMPLE CEREMONY PERFORMED AT THE HOME OF THE BRIDE, THIRTY GUESTS BEING PRESENT. Following the Wedding, the President and Mrs. Wilson Left for Hot Springs, Va., to Spend Their Honeymoon, Hon-eymoon, Traveling In Private Car. Washington. President Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait were married at 8:30 o'clock Saturday night, December IS, and left after ward to spend their honeymoon at Hot Springs, Va The president and his brine traveled in a private car attached at-tached to a special train. The weeding was quiet and simple, but thirty gut-sis being present when the ceremony was performed at. the bride's home which made her the first lady of the land. Shortly after 10 o'clock the president presi-dent and Mrs. Wilson entered a waiting wait-ing White House automobile and motored mo-tored to Alexandria, Va., across the Potomac, to take their private car there and avoid 'a crowd at the railroad rail-road station in this city. The ruse by which the wedding party got away to Alexandria was complete. com-plete. Because 'the hour of the wedding was known to comparatively few per-ons, per-ons, there was not a large crowd in he vicinity of the bride's home, al-hough al-hough a large police guard had been provided. All arrangements for the wedding ceremony were carried out perfectly, the president arriving at his bride's home soon after 8 o'clock, and the remainder re-mainder of the wedding party, which numbered less than thirty, following soon after. The ceremony was begun oimnunU-ant, w:ts wait ing' beneath the-canopy the-canopy to perforin the ttoromony. and with him, to assist, was the president's pastor, (he Itev. James II. Taylor of the Central Presbyterian church. Mrs. William II. Boiling, the bride's mot icr. gave her away. The president stood to til e right o the clergymen andthe bride stood on their left. At once, Dr. Smith began the words ot the Episcopal marriage service.' the president, making his responses first, and then the bride making hers. After the bride promised to "love, cherish and obey," the president placed the wedding ring, a plain band of golj upon her finger and then, after a prayer, and while the couple clasped their right hands together. Dr. Smith declared them man and wife. The entire party then turned to the dining room, where a buffet supper was served. The- decorations there were in pink and on the buffets were banked growing ferns and pink roses The tables were decors ted with Lady Stanley rose blossoms. On a table in the center was the wedding cake, a fruit cake of several layers high, or namented with sprays of pink orchids in the center. Mrs. Wilson cut the cake without formality and no arrangement ar-rangement was made for bestowing bits of it upon others than those in the wedding party. Married in Traveling Gown. During the ceremony and at the luncheon afterward, during which a siring orchestra slayed, the bride wore her traveling dress, a black silk vel vet gown, with a picture hat of black beaver with no trimmings whatever except one feather slightly upturned on the left side. At ht-r throat she wore the president's wedding gift, a magnificent diamond brooch. The skirt of her gown was of walk ing length and cut on full lines. The waist had silken embroidery of blue shading from the deep tones of roya1 blue to delicate shades of pastel and was threaded with silver. Mrs. Wilson's trousseau is said by close friends to be magnifUent in its extent and to have cost se feral thou sand dollars. Most of it is American v- ; - - - I ' n v H -r-H - . mi ""-1 11 " "Wi.1i ll " -" President and Mrs. iVilson. as had been arranged at 8:30 o'clock, and was followed by a buffet luncheon. Mrs. Wilson was married in the traveling gown she wore to the train. -" Quiet Home Wedding. Ever'Uiing was in readiness for the ceremony when the president arrived and it proceeded without music. '' Neither the president or Mrs. Gait had any attendants and there were no ush-'" ush-'" ers or flower-girls. Neither the army, 0 the navy, nor the diplomatic corps was represented and the occasion was es-sentially es-sentially what both of the couple had ' wished it to be a home wedding. ' On the first floor of the bride's 1 home, in two communicating rooms, a wedding bower' had been arranged ' wittv a background of farleyanse and ' maidenhair ferns, which extended from L'.c door to he ceiling. Over- n head there was a canopy of green in the form of a shell lined with Scotch heather. In the background and at l" the center was placed a large mirror 0 framed with orchids and reflecting the J scene. Above the mirror was a spray of orchids across a background of, '' ferns and the corners of the canopy ' were caught with orchids. American I beauty roses were on both sides of i '' the canopy, beneath which was a I 5 prayer rug on which President Wilson ' and Mrs. Gait knelt during the cere-j mony. j Just at the hour for the ceremony J the president and his bride appeared j r at the head of the staircase, which B was decorated with ferns, asparagus t vines and American beauty roses, j 1 They descended to the lower floor. ; 1 where the guests were grouped abou: j ' informally. United by Episcopal Service. The Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rec-i 1 tor of St. Margaret's Protestant. Kpi-- ; copal church, of which the bride is a ; made and the best shops in the Unite States wer called upon to suppl what what the bride's friends say i one of the largest and most carefull selected wardrobes ever gathered b any mistress of the White House. The ring used in the ceremony wa made from a nugget of virgin gold pn sented to the president two month ago by a delegation of school childr" from San Francisco. Despite the intimation from til White-House that nothing should b sent by any others than relatives an close friends, the President and Mr: Wilson were showered with gifts tha filled an entire room in the Gait homt They were of a wide variety and cam from many climes and many peoples Sketches of President and Bride. Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait was bon October 14, 1872, in Wytheville, Va. I direct descendant of the Indian prii cess Pocahontas. Has eight brother and sisters. Still retains the goo looks for which she was famous in he youth. Is charming, tactful and inte: ligent. Has devoted herself to charit rather than to society's conquest! Runs her late husband's jewelry stor and brings a "dot" of $300,000 to th president. Likes baseball, golf, a'ttt mobiling, good books and m',di Dresses well. President Woodrow Wilson wa born December 2S, 1856. in Stauntor Va. Passed his childhood and yout mostly in Georgia and South Carolina Educated in public schools. Davidsoi college, Princeton university, Univei sity of Virginia and Johns Hopkin university. Married Helen Louis Axson of Savanah, June 24, 1SSI Taught history and economics at Bry Mawr, Wesleyan and Princeton. Elec ed governor of New Jersey. Electe president of the United States in 191: |