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the burdens of the presidency, ieit Washihstoii
with the simple instincts and habits OF the coun-
-, aanote and man of business He wrote to
friend in those latter days that he had found MI.
Vernon in need of careful attention on his return
from the army. Friends We're welcome, put they
must expect simple fare-a bit OF mutton ana
glass of wine were all the table boosted. Later
still. after Washington had definitely laid aside
the cares of state, Col. Darlington found at MI.
Vernon still marked simplicity, The veteran upon
the occasion of Carrington's visit went to bed at
midnight instead of nine o'clock, extending MS
time three hours in honor OF his guest. MIS-
Washington always spoke of her official HE WIN
its levees and formality her lost days and
Mrs. Darlington found her in her own rooms Win
a chambermaid knitting in one corner, and ntue
negress learning to in another. The first lady
of the White House was even then knitting gloves
and stockings for friends and dependents 1t was
of this period perhaps few years earlier, that
an English actor tells a pleasant story lie was
on the public road somewhere near Mt. Vernon
when a 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
large man rode up on horseback dlsmounted
rendered effectual aid for which he received seant
thanks, and started the ilmannered 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 WIN the ACTOR on MS way 10 uile ut MI
Vernon
s For most of to-day that giant figure In the
background of our short national history suffces
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 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, at his greatest, loved to live an
equal among his neighbors: he must see Freder
icksburg with the still standing homestead OF
Washington'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 schoolboy of 1740
looked upon hear the mad mockingbirds as he
must have heard them Above ALL such a 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-
lation to whom the name Washington connotes
not only the dead hero but their living neghbora
Of one blood with the first president"