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%, 1892 The arms of the Washingtons woven in
TO the fabric of Solgrave manorhouse show three
stars and two red stripes on a white ground In
the niue church at Brington they appear three
times. In the mortuary chapel of the Spencers
there. amid many noble tombs, is tomb on
which repose full length figures of Baron Spencer
and his wife, who Washington Among the
arms carved on this tomb the Washington and
Spencer arms are Quartered together. In the chan
Gel of the church they appear again over the tomb
OF Lawrence Washington and under the mating
In the center aisle down which the feet of the vii
layers pass every Sunday. they cover the remains
of Robert Washington brother of Lawrence There
they are engraved on brass shield of which the
picture here published is rubbing The simple
inscription touching record OF happy life reads:
Here lies inferred ye bodies of Elijah. Washing
ton. widdowe who changed this life for immor-
talitie We 18th of March, 1922 AS also We body of
Robert Washington. gent. her late husband, second
some of Robert Washington of Solgrave in We
county of North. who departed this life ye 10th
Of March, 1922. after they lived lovingly together
in this parish"
The of the knights of Washington-the
stars and bars-were worn their shields. On
their helmets they bore q crest-sometimes a ra-
ven, sometimes an eagle The Herald's college Of
London, the authority all matters of heraldry
says: In the red and white bars and the stars
of the shield, and the eagle issuant of his crest.
borne later by General Washington the trainers of
the constitution got the idea of the Stars and
Stripes and the Spread Eagle of the national EN-.
blem.'
PERSONAL GLlMPSEs OF WASHINGTON.
In historical tribute Of more than usual inter-
est on Washington a Colonial Magnate" writ
ten by E. N. Vallandigham, the following is the
striking Introductory sentence: That great river,
the Potomac in its tidal course, seems fifty to typi-
fy the life and character of the majestic man.
Washington who born within sight of its
banks, whose permanent home for most of his
life overlooked many miles of its course, and whose
tomb now dominates its waters"
The sketch concerns itself almost exclusively
with the home side of Washington's career and
will be read with interest by many persons accus-
toned to think of the father of his country only in
his regimenta uniform in the presidential chair
at the capital.
"Magnate he was and the neighbor of other
magnates who were notoriousy pleasure-loving and
fond of display" says Mr. Vaandigham. as his in
teresting article is near It's close. washington re-
tained the business instincts and habits OF his fam
lily. Before he was IA he had familiarized himself
with business forms and methods, and from his
early youth he was strict and minutely careful
accountant. During much Of his life at Mt. Vernon
he rose at daylight, breakfasted at seven In sum-
mer and eight in winter. dined at two upon meat
and vegetables, drinking beer cider and two
glasses Of old Madeira and went early to bed.
Gle helped Peter, the slave blacksmith, to make a
new kind OF plow, and was SO eager to try 1t that