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242 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS the rest, the President would forbid the exportation of arms or munitions of war from the United States into any part of the Republic of Mexico. His policy of justice, patience and friendship in all dealings with Mexico won the approval of the whole world. This policy, dictated by neighborly regard and freedom from any spirit of aggression, has, it is believed, gone far to make for the endur ing friendship of the neighboring republics when the present unhappy struggles in Mexico have given way to honorable peace. MRS. WOODROW WILSON is the daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel Edward Axson, long pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Rome, Georgia. She was born at Savannah when it was the home of her grandfather, Rev. Dr. I. S. K. Axson, a distin guished Presbyterian minister. Mrs. Wilson is a woman of rare gifts, good taste, and charm of manner. Although her paint ings have been exhibited in art galleries, she likes best to be known as a home-maker and, if she has any ambition as wife of the President, it is to set an example of unostentatious living to the women of America without, however, the slightest inclina tion to dictate to others. Their home, whether in the college town or in the White House, has always been a center of culture