Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-06

to look pretty small. At any rate, a
few men go up to the house and lnVes-
tigate this ball for themselves. The
house is lighted the music playing,
Beasley is bowling low in a Guadrille to
the tune of a darky's fiddle, but the
partners are imaginary, the quadrllle
is imaginary; There is no one there but
Beasley. "Thc man has gone stark
mad they say, when suddenly a little
chair is wheeled into the room and a
boys delighted voice makes clear that
it is all a play Standing outside with
the others, reporter says, softly,
And just to please little sick kid"
The new serial which is begun in this
months American Magazine is by that
master story teller. William J. Locke,
author of 1.-The Beloved Nagabord,"
''Septimus," and "The Morals OF
Marcus" The new story is entitled
"Simon and Jester The characters
include an extraordinary dwarf, 4 Won
derful and beautiful woman who APP
pears professionally as an animal
trainer, and Simon, whose eccentrici-
ties and downright fnencss of charac-
ter ought TO please anybody.
Mrs. Washington was a strict dis
ciplnarian about certain matters, and
other things, always required
the members of the household to fol-
low the example of her husband and
dress for dinner which was at three
O'Clock. On one occasion, Nellie
Gusts and her cousin. Martha Dand-
ridge, appeared at the table in their
morning gowns but no comment was
made upon it until a coach was seen
approaching and the visitors, some
French officers of high rank and
Charles Carroll, Jr., of Carrollton, one
of Miss GUSTS ardent suitors. We're an
nounced. Instantly, the girls, in q
nutter of excitement, begged to be ex-
cuSed in order to change their gowns,
but Mrs Washington shook her head,
mo" She said. ''remain as you are,
it is good enough for any guest of his
Needless to say, Miss Nellie never
overlooked her proper garb for dinner
again.
owing to the prominent position OF
her grandparents, Nellie Gusts had
untold advantages and was accustomed
early in life to both flattery and at
tention from the notable men of the
time She was one of the most in
teresting figures in the White House
during Washngton's regime, yet that
she was content to take up again life
in the country is evidenced in a hap
by letter written few days after the
family returned to Mount Vernon,
washington having completed his
second term as Presidency, in which
she writes: 1--WE arrived here on Wed
nesday without any accident after a
tedious Journey IF seven days. Grand
papa is very well and much pleased
with being once more Farmer Wash
ington"
A power in politics, owing to the
tactful manner in which she could
bring together great minds which mar
red or harmonZed, she was always a
true woman and the embodiment of
domestic happiness. Democratic in
her intuitive knowledge con-
verted to her views some of the most
obstinate opponents of Democracy, yet
through it all she was merely the gra-
cous hostess, sincere friend and trust
ed helpmate. Far from aggressive, her
opinion was valued by such men as
Lafayette, Zachery Taylor and hosts
of others who frequently begged leave
to visit Woodlawn to rest their tired
brains in the generous atmosphere or
the womanly intelligence of her whom
they had known as child at Mount
Vernon.-Edith Tunis Sale in Novem-
Der Number of Norman f. Mack's Ma
tional Monthly.