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NOVEMBER 22, 1812
The Commoner.
THE WHITE HOUSE FAMILY
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, president-elect,
comes of that stock which
has been described ao the most
vigorous physically, the most alert
mentally and the most robust morally
of all the strains amalgamated in the
development of the American char
acter Scotch-Irish.
His father was Joseph R. Wilson,
a son of Judge James Wilson, who
came to this country 105 years ago
from Ireland and settled in Phila
delphia. Judge Wilson was an edi
tor and publisher and established the
Western Herald at Lisbon, O., to
which state it was a logical journey
from Philadelphia on an Ohio river
steamboat.
It was in Ohio, then, and at Chilll
cothe, that Woodrow Wilson's father,
Joseph R. Wilson, married Janet
Woodrow Juno 7, 1849. His father
was a Presbyterian minister and the
Woodrows were Scotch Covenanters.
Woodrow Wilson's father was first a
professor of rhetoric at Jefferson
college and later professoi of
of chemistry at Hampden-Sydney col
lege in Virginia. He loft college
work for the ministry and in 1855
became pastor at Staunton, Va. It
was there that his son who was
named Thomas Woodrow Wilson was
born December 28, 1856.
Woodrow Wilson's father and his
family nloved to Aug-sta, Ga., in
1858, and from then until the time
came for him to go to Princeton as
a student, his home was in the south.
He can dimly remember the out
break of the civil war. He saw little
of the suffering or privations that
It brought, however, for Augusta was
fortunate in being removed from
scenes of bloodshed and never was it
invested by an army. Cne of Wood
row Wilson's early memories is in
seeing Jefferson Davis, then a pris
oner, riding by on his way to Fort
ress Monroe. After early training at
Davidson college, Davidson, N. C,
Woodrow Wilson entered Princeton
in 1875 a member of the famous
class of '79.
When President Wilson goes to
live at the White House March 4,
1913, he will be accompanied by q,
charming wife and three accomp-
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f "Stolen Delegates" J
Wilson's Conquest of the Bosses
The Birth of the "Moose"
And many other stirring Inci
dents of the recent Republican,
Democratic and National Pro
gressive conventions are graphi
cally described and keenly
analyzed by
W. J. BRYAN
In his new book, just issued,
"ATaleofTwo
Conventions
9f
Mr. Bryan devotes graphic, day-by-day
chapters to the Republi
can and Democratic conventions,
all written on the spot, and
gives us a good account of the
Progressive convention. The
book contains the platform of
each party, and some of the
notable convention speeches. In
cluding Mr. Bryan's own at
Baltimore, with comments on
the speeches of acceptance of
Taft and Wilson. Some of the
best cartoons of the period are
Included,
Imo, cloth, Illustrated, 91.00 net
If you would preserve a clear Idea
of nh nt van done at the conven
tions get thlM hook.
The Commoner
Lincoln, 3Tehraka
J
lished, interesting daughters. Each
has somo definite accomplishment,
they are fond of entertaining and of
entertainments, and without being
absorbed in society will give White
House social functions renewed in
terest. There will be nothing super
serious about It. There will be
plenty of humor, plenty of fun, and
those who want to keep up at a
White House reception had better
brush up thoir wits.
It is quite widely known by this
time, perhaps, that the three daugh
ters in the Wilson family are MIbb
Margaret Woodrow Wil.son, 26 years
old; Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson,
25 years old; and Miss Eleanor Ran
dolph Wilson, who is Just twenty
two. A visitor to Mrs. Wilson's homo
recently described her as a little
above the average height, slender,
almost girlish, yet rounded and
graceful; her eyes soft, yet sparkling
with animation; a complexion that
would make a boarding school miss
envious, and hair brown and wavy.
Margaret, the oldest, has a rich
soprano voice which is being culti
vated. Mrs. Wilson declares Mar
garet inherited her voice from hor
father.
Jessie Woodrow Wilson, tho
second girl, is named for her Scotch
grand-mother and her father. She
is an artist of ability, but her whole
ambition lies in sociological work.
"I must confess," Mrs. Wilson said
recently, "that It came as a shock to
me when Jessie took up this work.
For, you see, it is all so different
to the way of life of tho girls of
the south and my youth. But I ap
preciate the change in tho views of
young women that has taken place
and I am not so old-fashioned as to
believe that girls must be bound by
tradition."
Jessie is, perhaps, the most bril
liant of the three daughters, though
all are clever. She was graduated
from the Women's college In Balti
more, and' on her graduation day
Doctor Wilson delivered the bacca
laureate. The third daughter, Eleanor Ran
dolph, is studying at the Academy
of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. If
Margaret inherited her voice from
her father, Eleanor inherited her ar
tistic ability from her mother, for
Mrs. Wilson paints landscapes in oil
that have been honored with ap
proval by many of the best painters
and art critics in America. Every
year the Wilsons form a part of the
art colony at Lyme, on the Connecti
cut river.
Originally Mrs. Wilson devoted
herself to portrait painting, but in
recent years she has taken up land
scape work.
Mrs. Wilson told how In bringing
up her girls she had followed her
own theories.
"Up to the time they were 12
years old they were educated entire
ly at home," she said. "I am a strong
believer in the family influence, and
so I took personal charge of their
early education. Even when they
were only 5 and 6 I used to read to
them the Odyssey and translations
of the older classics. I felt that if
they were to acquire a proper appre
ciation of literature they could not
begin too early.
"I was always a great reader and
would pass whole days in my father's
and grandfather's libraries. Until
comparatively recently I never read
anything of ,a later period than
Dickens. But I must confess that I
do like detective stories."
"The happiest life for a woman,"
added Mrs. Wilson, smiling happily,
"contains three elements a husband
with whose tastes you sympathize.
your hqme and your children. I've
often said and I'm sure my hus
band, practical theorist that he Is,
agrees with me that husbands and
wives reach their truest and noblest
development when they arc comple
mentary to each other. That's tho
way I feel about my husband. I
want him to feel that I am always at
his side."
When she speaks of hor husband,
Mrs. Wilson's flno eyes light with
enthu8lnsm and her conversation
proves hor splendid grasp of big,
social and political topics.
"I want others to know my hus
band as I know him. You know my
husband's ideals and minp havo al
ways boon supplementary to each
other. I have tho greatest confidence
In his ability to rondor practical tho
theoretical Ideals which ho holds. I
havo such groat confldnnce In the
clearness of his vision that I havo
frequently accepted his Idoas on sub
jects about which I had no oppor
tunity for personally inquiring into."
Besides hor tnste for literature
and art, Mrs. Wilson is devoted to
gardening. "Not ninking things
grow," as she explained, "but in lay
ing out and planning gardens."
While she was mistrens of Prosnoet,
tho official residence of the president
of Princeton university the gardens
attached to It wero mi lo over and
Improved under her direct Ion until
they became a moss of flowerv glorv
that attracted visitors from fnr and
near. One of her recrets In leavlnc
Prosneef vns that she had no loncer
a miiding hand in tho care of Its
gardens.
Of hor first meeting with Mr. Wil
son, then a wtudent nt Johns TTon
klns, Mrs. Wilson said Httlo. She
WR mnrrled to the voung lawyer
he hnd already practiced one year
nt the old hous' in which she was
born.
"Doctor Wilson never had nnv
teste for te prnctlee of low," Mrs
WHon sld. "a'd he enrlv determ
ined to become a teacher of it. But
bin ambitions wore political. How
ever, he found that lie could not co
into nollttcfl and be a free nirnt
owing to Mr lack of menni at tlmf
tlrno, and rather thnn have bis bnrwii
tied In firiv manner ho reTetfu"v
crave up his ambition. Neither dl'l
Tie want to become an ed'icntor. and
bo has often laiicblnflv told me how
when be was a student at Princeton
bo would look out the window, and
seetne one of the nrofesors nnwn
would declnr that he never would
become one of them.
President-elect Wilson has paid
much nttontlo; to outdoor Rnorts
He URiiallv roes abroad durlncr the
summer and on hlR return pannes the
remainder of the vacation ofl"n at
Wq summer home In Connecticut,
Wblio abroad Mr. Wilson has ummllv
nicaptf bis time In te lan district.
"PTnelapd Tdavlnp polf. walking and
bicycle riding. Wichita Beacon.
unito and use to the fullest every
particle of opposition to Mr. Bryno
or tho party he represented and to
combine it Into an organization that
has wiped out a normal republican
majority In thin state that was be
lieved to bo too largo to overcome.
It wnn a big thing to do nnd It
was done fairly and In a big way.
It marks Mr. Johnson as a big mnn
and he will and inunt bo considered
In the big public affairs of South
Dakota and of tho nation from this
time. -Yankton Press and Dakotan.
(Rep.)
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HON. 13. R. JOHNSON
Whether or not Hon. E. 3. John
son Is finally declared elected next
governor of South Dakota all must
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was a wonderful one. Starting with
the assertion that he was moro in
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