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with the simple instincts and habits OF 'he eo"'..
=, ,,ogn.te and man Of business He wrote TO
friend in those latter days that he mad io"ho Mt.
Vernon in need of careful attention Oh MS ie .
from the army. Friends were welcome, pu' NC
must expect simple fare-a bit of mutton anu
glass of wine were all the table ooas'eu u., a;sa
still. after Washington had definitely iaid asiae
the cares of state Col. Darlington found at MI
Vernon still marked simplicity. The veteran upon
the occasion of Carringtons visit went 10 oeo a.
midnight instead of nine o'clock, eXtehdins his
time three hours in honor of his guest. M ID
Washington always spoke of her ofncial NE wiz.
its levees and formality as "her lost days anu '
Mrs Darlington found her in her own rooms WIZ"
a chambermad knitting in one corner and niue
negress learning to sew in another Inc hrst 'auy
of the White House was even then kntting gloves
and stockings for friends and dependents IL was
of this period or perhaps few years earlier, that
an English actor tells pleasant story ne 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 couio'
a large man rode up ON horseback, dismounted.
rendered enectual aid for which he received scaht
thanks and started the ill-mannered pair upon
their journey Then the stranger turned to the
actor recognized him and recalled the fact OF nav
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 his way to dine at MI
Vernon.
For most of us to-day that giant figure In the
background of short national history sufices
to hide the perspective of the earlier Washington
in his successive stages colonial American
Nevertheless, the plain planter and provincial sol
der called upon to lead a new nation in war ana
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 an
equal among his neighbors; he must see Freder.
icksburg, with the still standing homestead OF
Washngton's mother and the house Of his sister:
he must take the delicious walk from Wakefield
wharf to the lonely birthplace monument in the
great wheat field overlooking the Potomac, see
the very plantations that the schooboy of 174O
looked upon hear the mad mockingbrds as he
must have heard them. Above all, such a student
must navigate the lovely waters of the Potomac
in its lower course, where the stream and its
tributaries spread and branch like an inland sea;
must hear the homely speech of $le native popu-
lation to whom the name Washington connotes
not only the dead hero. but their living neighbors
of one blood with the FIRST president"