The Nevada County picayune., 1909-02-18
F I'VE TINY VILLAGE
 ee BRLVG7DN, ENGLAND|
GlSs5E@A1s952

tbo burdens of the presidency, left Washington with inc simple instincts and habits or the couh tv magnate and man of business. lie wrote to friend in those latter days that he had iouhd Mt Vernon in need of careful attention on hls return from the army. Friends were welcome put 'ile9 must expect simple fare-a Dit ol huttoh anu glass of wine were all the table boasted. Later etiu after Washington had definitely laid aside the cares of state Col. Darlington fouhd al Mt Vernon still marked simplicity The veteran upon the occasion of Carrington's visit went to bed at midnight instead of nine o'clock, extehdlhe HIS time three hours in honor Of ms guest Mls Washington always spoke Of her oihclal Hle "lsii it's leyees and formality as her lost days and Mrs Darlington found her in her own rooms "lth a chambermaid knitting in one corner, and a ntue negroes learning to sew in another. The hrst lady of the White House was even then Knitting sloNes and stockings for friends and dependents IL was of this period perhaps few years earlier that an English actor tells pleasant story He was on the public road somewhere near Mt vernon when private coach was upset. The occupants a fine lady and her escort, almost angrily demand ed help. While the actor was doing what he could a large man rode up on horseback, dlsmounted' rendered effecual aid for which he received seant thanks and started the mannered pair upon their journey. Then the stranger turned to the actor, recognized him and recalled the fact of hay ing seen him more than once upon the stage. By this time the actor in turn had recognized the man on horseback as Gen. Washington. The incident closed with the actor on his way to dine at Mt Vernon
 For most of us to-day that giant figure in the background of short national history suffces to hide the perspective of the earlier Washington in his successive stages as colonial American. Nevertheless, the plain planter and provincial sol der called upon to lead nation in war and in peace and to take unwilling hand in world politics. must always have thought of his later life in relation with his humber past. Whoever would know Washington in his entirety must not content himself with reading American history from Bunker Hill to the middle of John Adams administration and standing barred before the tomb at Mt Vernon
 He must visit the Northern Neck. where Washington, even at his greatest loved to live equal among his neighbors; he mus. see Freder- icksburg with the still standing homestead of Washingtons mother and the house of his sister; he must take the delicious walk from Wakefield wharf 10 the lonely birthplace monument in the great wheat field overlooking the Potomac the very plantations that the schoolboy of 1740 looked upon hear the mad mockingbirds as he must have heard them. Above all, such student must navigate the lovely waters of the Potomac in it's lower course where the stream and its tributaries spread and branch like an inland sea; must hear the homely speech of the native popu ation to whom the name Washington connotes not only the dead hero, but their living neighbors of one blood with the first president"