Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-02-18

en-, h,,rdors of the presidency left Washington
with the simple instincts and habits OF the coun'
~ maRnate and man OF business. He wrote TO
friend I'm those latter days that he had found MI.
Vernon in need Of careful attention on his return
from the army Friends we're welcome, but they
must expect simple fare-a bit OF mutton and a
glass OF wine were all the table boosted Later
STILL after Washington had definitely laid aside
the cares Of state, Col. Darlington found - Mt.
Vernon still marked simplicity. The veteran upon
the occasion OF Carrington's visit went to bed at
midnight instead OF nine o'clock, extending his
time three hours in honor OF his guest. Mrs.
Washington always spoke OF her official life with
its levees and formality as her Lost days and
Mrs Darlington found her In her own rooms. with
a chambermaid knitting In one corner. and little
negress learning to sew in another. The nrAt lady
OF the White House was even then knitting gloves
and stockings for friends and dependents. II 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
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, dismounted.
rendered efectual aid for which he received scant
thanks. and started the ill-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
Clo6eu Win ING oCtOT On us way 70 ulHe ~ MI
Vernon.
'For most OF us to-day that giant figure In the
background OF our short national history sufhces
to hide the perspective Of the earlier Washington
in his successive stages as a colonial American.
Nevertheless the plain planter and provincial sol
der. called upon to lead new nation In war and
IN peace. and 10 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 Walt the Northern Neck, where
Washington. even 1t his greatest. loved 70 live an
equal among his neighbors; he must see Freder.
icksburE. with the stil 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 tho
great wheat held overlooking the Potomac. see
tho very plantations that the echooiboy Of 1740
looked upon. hear the mad mockingbiFds as he
must have heard them. Above al. such a student
must navigate the lovely wateFs Of the Potomac
IN lta lower course who're the stream and its
tributaries spread end branch like an lnlana sea;
must hear the h0mely speech o. the native popu-
iaGlon 70 whom the name Washlnaion conaotas
not only The dead hare but their living neiehbagn
q one blood WITH ths ksat prepleeEk