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Show lOHii HE Second Daughter of Fresic'ent Wedded in White House. SIMPLICITY MARKS CEREMONY Bride Makes Charming Appearajp ce in Ivory Satin and Old Lace Wedding Wed-ding Gifts Many and Beautiful, but Are Not Displayed. Washington, Nov. 25. Late this af ternoon Francis Bowes Sayre and Jessie Jes-sie Woodrow Wilson, second of President Pres-ident Wilson's three daughters, stood before Rev. Sylvester Beach in the east room of the White House and were made man and wife. The entire affair was very simple, aa had been requested by the bride, and the number of guests was rather small distressingly so to many persons per-sons in official and social circles of Washington who had expected to receive re-ceive invitations but were disappointed. disappoint-ed. Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, eldest of the three daughters, acted as maid of honor to her sister, and Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson, the youngest, was one of the bridesmaids. The thres other bridesmaids were Miss Adeline Mitchell Scott of Princeton, Prince-ton, daughter of Prof. William B. Scott; Miss Marjorie Brown of Atlan- l 1 A - w v r ' V ,4 v if s ' h i l ' V, 4 I Mrs. Francis B. Sayre. ta, Pa., daughter of Mrs. Wilson's cousin, cous-in, Col. E. T. Brown, and Miss Mary G. White of Baltimore, a college friend of the bride. ' Dr. Grenfell Is Best Man. Mr. Sayre wa attended by his best man, Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, the famous fa-mous medical missionary to the fishermen fisher-men of the Labrador coast. The two men have long been fast friends and Mr. Sayre spent two summers helping help-ing Dr. Grenfell with his work. The ushers were Charles E. Hughes, Jr., son of Xustice Hughes of the Supreme Su-preme court and a classmate of Mr. Sayre in the Harvard law school; Dr. Gilbert Horax of Montclair, N. J., who was a cl.issmate at Williams college in 1909 nd now at Johns Hopkins university; uni-versity; Benjamin Burton of New York city, and Dr. Scoville Clark of Salem, Mass., who was Mr. Sayre's companion in Labrsdor and Newfoundland. Newfound-land. Wedding Gown of Ivory Satin. The bride's gown was of satin, of a soft ivory tint, trimmed with beautiful beau-tiful lace, both old and rare. It was made in New York and the women connoisseurs declared that it was a masterpiece. The lingerie in the trousseau is of the most dainty material mate-rial and is all hand made. The maid of honor and bridesmaids were beautifully beauti-fully gowned and all looked their best. Coming right in the midst of the chrysanthemum season, this was made a' chrysanthemum wedding and that flower was used most profusely in adorning the White House. As the bride's favorite color is mauve, that was made the prevailing color in the decorations. The east room, and indeed in-deed alf the rooms in the president's mansion, were beautiful indeed. Eipart on Their Honeymcon. After the ceremony was completed and the couple had received the congratulations con-gratulations cf the guests, refreshments refresh-ments were served, and then Mr. and JJrs. Sayre departed for their honeymoon. honey-moon. Their plans include a visit to the home of Miss Nevin, Mr. Sayre's aunt, at Windsor Forges, near Church-town, Church-town, Pa., where they first met. After January 1 they will live in Williams-town, Williams-town, Mass., for Mr. Sayre is to sever his connection with the office of District Dis-trict Attorney Whitman in New York and become assistant to Harry A. Garfield, Gar-field, president of Williams college. There was one disappointment for those who attended the wedding, for the gifts were not put on display. It is known that these included many beautiful and valuable articles sent by relatives and personal friends of the bride and groom and of their families fam-ilies and by admirers of President Wilson. Handsome presents were sent by both the senate and the house, that of the latter being a diamond la-valliere la-valliere which Miss Genevieve Clark, Francis Bowes Sayre. daughter of the speaker, bought for the representatives in New York. Guests Limited to 400. Those who were invited to witness the wedding were mostly personal friends and the number was kept down close to four hundred. The list was pared and revised several times, and as has been said, the operation resulted result-ed in many heartburnings. From the house of representatives' circle, for instance, the only guests were Speaker Champ Clark, Mrs. Clark and Miss Genevieve Clark, Marjory Leader Underwood Un-derwood and Mrs. Underwood, and Minority Leader Mann and Mrs. Mann. As might be expected, the streets outside the White House were as crowded as the police would permit with curious persons eager to .watch the arrival and departure of the guests and trying to obtain through the windows win-dows a glimpse of the doings within. The police arrangements were admirable admir-able and nothing happened, in the White House or outside, to mar the happy occasion. Immense Wedding Cake. Jessie Wilson's wedding cake was a triumph of the pastry cook's art. It was two and a half feet tall, counting the white orchids that were placed on top of it, and weighed 135 pounds. The first layer was four inches, thick and 22 inches across. The cake contained con-tained 19 ingredients and its cost was about $500. Over the body of the cake was molded a thick white icing scroll work, on its top was a design' for the initials of the bride and groom, done in silver, and around the sides were lilies of the valley tn white sugar. ' This delicious contortion was distributed in 2,000 dainty white boxes Miss Margaret Wilson. tied with satin ribbon and each of the proper size to go under the pillow of the recipient to bring dreams. The wedding of Mr. Sayre and Miss Wilson was the thirteenth to be celebrated cele-brated in the White House, but the bride has always considered 13 her lucky number instead of a hoodoo. There have been more than twenty weddings in which either the bride or groom resided in the White House, and the last wedding ceremony performed per-formed there was the one which united Alice Roosevelt and Nicholas Long-worth. Long-worth. Today's event was much quieter quiet-er than that one, and the guests not nearly so numerous. Mrs. Sayre a Social Worker. Mrs. Sayre was born in Gainsville, Pa., twenty-five years ago. She attended at-tended the Women's college at Baltimore Balti-more and was an honor member of the cln?s of 190S, being also elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. For two years after her graduation sho on gaged in settlement work in Kensington, Kensing-ton, Pa., and she is a member of tlx? executive board of the National Youns Woman's Christian association. She has delivered several excellent addresses ad-dresses in. public. In appearance shi; does not resemble resem-ble her father as much as do her sisters, sis-ters, having rather the features of her mother's family, the Axsons. She is an accomplished swimmer, rider and tennis player and also something of an actress. Something About the Groom. Francis Bowes Sayre is twenty-eight twenty-eight 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 presi-dent of the Bethlehem iron works, since known as the Bethlehem steel works. He was also once president of the boa-rd of trustees of the Lehigh university. Francis Bowes Sayre graduated from Lawrenceville school, Lawrenceville, N. J., in 1904, and from Williams college col-lege 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 bten working in the office of District Attorney Whitman of New York. During the summer he was admitted to the bar of New York state. Mr. Sayre's mother is Mrs. Martha Finlay Sayre, daughter of the late William Nevin, who was president of Franklin and Marshal college at Lancaster, 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 Nevin, head of the American church at Rome, and a cousin cous-in of Ethelbert Nevin, the composer. Other Whitu House Weddings. Of the twelve previous weddings in the White House the first wan that of Anna Todd, a niece of Dolly Madi- m :s: v 'SB:..-.-. vsSiS;:.; viMmM, . lffllllllllli( V yr - V x x i Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell. ison's fivst husband and John G. Jackson. Then Mrft. Madison's sister, sis-ter, Lucy, was married to Judge Todd of Kentucky. The third wedding, wed-ding, that of Maria Monroe, daughter daugh-ter of President Monroe, to Samuel Lawrence Gouverneur in 1820 marked the first social use Of the east room. Eight years later John, the second son of President John Quincy Adams, married mar-ried his cousin, Mary Hellen, in the blue room. While General Jackson was president there wert three weddings wed-dings in the White House, those of Delia Lewis to Alphonse Joseph Ifver Pageot of the French legation; Mary Eaton to Lucien B. Polk, and Emily Martin to Louis Randolph. Many years passed before there was another anoth-er marriage ceremony in the president's presi-dent's mansion, the next being of Nellie, Nel-lie, the only daughter of General Grant, and Algernon C. F. Sartorls. In 1876 Emily Piatt, a niece of Mrs. Hayes, was married in the blue room to Gen. Russell Hastings. The eleventh elev-enth of this series of Weddings was that of President Cleveland to Frances Folsom, and the twelfth that of President Presi-dent Roosevelt's daughter Alice, to Nicholas Longworth. The gift of the senate was a magnificent mag-nificent silver service. The French ambassador, M. Jusserard, presented the bride with some priceless tapestries, tapes-tries, very much like those he gave to Alice Roosevelt when she was married. The Marquin Cusani Confa-lonieri, Confa-lonieri, retiring ambassador from Italy, and the marchioness gave four massive silver candlesticks, a foot high and elaborately engraved. From the representatives of many other countries, including Japan, Cuba and Panama, handsome presents were received. re-ceived. The Russian ambassador and Mme. Ilakhmeteff gave the bride a jeweled umbrella handle, the pn-dnct of a Moscow firm of goldsmiths heavily studded with precious and semi-precious stones, all of which r. ere mined in the domains of the czar. |