The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-20
WASHINGTON AT TwENTY-ONE.
Portrait lately discovered in Glasgow;
pninter unknown.

ferson called him 1.-THE best horseman
of his age" He subscribed generous
~ to the races and ran his horses at
them. He would go to Annapolis or
even as far as Philadelphia to attend
the races. And he rode to the hounds
until 81, when he fell off and spraincd
his back. He went "ducking" for teals.
| sprig tails and Mallards alcGv the Po-
| tomac marshes, and at othe. Ames he
went "a dragging for sturgeon, or
angling for other OF the finny tribes.
/ He also attended cock fights when the
/ chance offered.
Mother Embarrassed Him.
| Washington's real relations with his
mother We're quite in contrast to those
painted I'm our childrens books. The
more recent biographers paint her as
/ illiterate, untidy and complaining,
while the tradition was that she
smoked pipe. and she has been blamed
for not having been Spartan mother.
for, because Of fear for his safety. she
4 prevented his entering the navy and
/ later objected to his becoming a SOL
! der. Although her son. George seems
! to have taken little trouble to be with
her after he fell heir to Mount YER
| non: he yet did more for her than her
/ other children--let her keep a part OF
his share of the fathers estate and
purchased for her "a commodious
4 house, garden and lofts COZ her own
choosing) in Fredericksburg, that she
might be near my sister, Lewis, her
1 only daughter. ~ ~, -,
money. but yet the old lady had such
a poor mouth" that q movement was
once started during the Revolution to
have the Virginia Legislature pension
her. This amazed and incensed the
general. who soon put stop to It..
Later he addressed her: "Hon'd Mad
am. In consequence OF your cornmuni-
cation to George Washington of your
want OF money etc, and advised her
to break up housekeeping and live
with one of her children. He places
Mount Vernon at he- disposal, but adds
that since the war his house is like a
public tavern, always full Of stranE-
ers, among whom she would have to
do one of three things; 1st. to be all
ways dressing to appear in company;
Cd to come into (their presence) in a
jdishabille. or, Sd, to be as 1t Were a
prisoner in your own chamber" And
he adds that the first she would not
like the second he would not like,
while the third, would not be pleasing
to either Of them.
Take Care Of the Pennies.
"Take care Of the pennies" was evil
IDENTIFY one Of the generals notices.
He weighed the toll money given to
his ferryman, and If 1t was short
welght the latter was made the loser
Yet once when General Stone. of Mary
bland. gave what weighed three half.
pence over Washington wrapped III
that amount in paper for delivery t.
stone on his return. And returning
, from the army the landlord OF Noun
Vernon, on carefully measuring {
room, found that a plasterer engaged
lin his absence had overcharged fiftecl
= shill!ngs. Some time afterward Thu
. lpasterer died and his widow, upon re
!, marrying. advertised that she woult
: receive and pay all due to or BY he
: former husband Washington. upol
for his fifteen shillings and receive
them.
A new contribution to knowledge
/ washingtons human side has Jus
: been made by w. *. Bixby, of ST. Loui
: who purchased and had printed for til
t first time. in a Very limited presenta
! tion edition. the long-lost inventory {
: the Mount Vernon estate, us appralse
I by Washington secretary Tobia
i,
with the wills of Georse and Marth
} Washington. was filed in the Fairfa
y courthouse whose records became scat
j. tered about the grounds In q Unio
), raid in the Civil War. ,The captain Q
4. n Union company on the grounds
1.-The time picked UP several papers
among which he later found Mrs
Washington's Will and the Inventory
II rhese he retained until his death, whe
I they were sold, the will being bough
nv II prominent New York collector
George Washington's will, hoWeve'
was never lost. An expert Of the Con
pressional Ilbrary's manuscript q
v,sion is now down at Fairfax Court
~ house repairing it.
81 His Art Taste,
We now get our first Knowledge frol
20 +his inventory OF the original content
=, o. tho rooms at Mount Vernon
~ shows that the generals art taste 10
= mostly to war scenes and portraits
n GENERALS. He had upstairs solr
rs, sNvmphs Bathing, an "Adonis Carrie
". on by Venus and pictures 81 TN
- class. but the Hreater part % the 60