Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-02-20

hlg boys and gals went swinging
around Ia merry, Joyous circle siug.
ing. We are marching, marching To
Quebec, while tho drums are loudly
beating"
on, those were halcyon days Indeed
la Ole NiEginny when ncighiors met
togrther-rich anu poor Hlike-,O help
each other ut log rolllngs, barn iAis-
ings, harvastinga and huskings, and 10
tr0lic mcrtlly when the work was
done.
have spoken Of the banquet hall Mt
Mount Vernon. Together with the
library and piazza overlooking the
Potomac, II was one OF the chief
features of two new things added 10
the old mansion Ia 1888. Two yess
Previously, Ou December -, 1888,
Washington had performed the crown.
ing act VI his heroic career by giving
back Into the hauds OF Congress his
commission as c0mmAndef-in,chiei OF
the armies VI great country which
owed its Individual life ~ largely to
him. ON the following night-Christ.
mas Eve, l7s3--ns plain Mr.. and Mrs.
Washington aud his beautiful wife
were again welcomed home 10 Mount
Vernon with Just such another neigh
Uorly demonstration as have at
tempted to describe above aud Of which
have often heard my father tell. The
fame Of Washington aud the rapidly
growing nation which hp was regarded
M having begotten dew 80 many
visitors 10 Mount Vernon that the eu-
lArgenent " the grand old house was
absolutely necessary for their lifting
entertainment.
"rhete crowd upon me today with
strange vividness the memories Of my
subsequent visits 10 Mount Vernon aud
Of the many times | saw its master In
the nearly three remaining years he.
fore death closed his brilliant earthly
career ON December IA, 1893.
"No man ever had u more Intensely
human side than Washington. II
was common talk among the people OF
our ueighbornood that he had u strange
weakness for purchasing lottery ticket.
There were also rumUrs that he had
what old Tom Weller would call u
'ama'hle weakness for falling In love
head over hoeis--plstonlcally or other
wise-with pretty young women, and
WAS very greatly annoyed when the
Aforesaid young women refused TO fall
In love with him. Many Of our neigh.
bOrs even went 70 far as TO say that he
always traded horsts TO his own sdvan.
tsge, and Never swap horses with
Washington hually became a sort Of
proverbial saying In that section OF the
on Dominion.
"rhOugh he was unquostiOnably the
Richest and most prominent American
Of his day, he was an Internationally
bad spcller, rs everybody knows.
have often heard my father say that
Washington had great passions, but
held them In magnificent control,
aud that though remarkably talk.
alive to confidential friends he
was siugularly taciturn when
there was likelihood Of what
he said being repeated or made public.
He always asked a blessing at table,
where he had his glass OF wine or ons
Of beer at every meal, and he was a
healthy, cheerful, active man, who en-.
loved llfo az II Il were worth living.
No man was ever more thoroughly
familiar with every detail of his affairs
or ever gave TO his estato closer per
gonal supervision. His natural dig.
nifty WAS such that he could very well
afford 10 do and often did do many
things that were unusual for a planter
OF his condition and time. Those were
the days when the women pulled thu
flax while the meu broke, swingled
aud haokled 1t, ami then twisted 1t into