Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-17
Five Minutes a Day
 With Our Presidents Copyright 1e2o-By James Morgan

TI-WAsHTNGToN-fN LOVE AND
 WAR
 1752-Washinston Inherited Mt. 17ss-vjsss W.st Expedite" to the 175+Second Expedition. f 1755-on Staff of General Brad
 dock.
 1755-Visited Boston.
 1759-Married Martha Custis.
 After youth of toll, which harden- ed the muscles of his character and body, Washington at twenty-one un- eXpectedly became by the death of his brother the owner of Mt. Vernon. and i free at last to give rein to his rest less spirit for adventure in sports and politics. in love and war.
 A foreign visitor once doubted the story that Washington threw a dollar across the Rappahannock. An Amer ican wit ventured to explain that a dollar went farther then, and. a still wlttier American argued that it was no feat at all for man who threw a l sovereign over the Atlantic.
 From the bare soles of his feet, which called for No. 13 boots, to the crown of his small, well-formed head, | Washington measured six. feet two. His enormous hands, with their knotty knuckles, required gloves specially made. Massive, yet lean, his sinewy frame always remained under two 1 hundred weight. A devoted sportsman, the new squire of Mt. Vernon had the weak l ness of his time and place for card playing, rallies and lotteries, For five days at stretch, he hunted and he chased foxes sixteen uays in two months. He could clear the tallest
 fence without rising in his stirrups
 and shoot his musket straight to the
 mark with one hand.
 In his young manhood Washington found his 'inelfnations strongly bent to
 arms To softer arms than those
 of Mars the young militarist also was
 inclined. Through the grave manner
 he wore even in his laborious and
 anxious youth, he ever was ready to
 wink at a pretty girl and to sigh over
 her through the measures of dance.
 Remember, we are not yet come to
 the postage stamp Washington. As
 this is the last chance to smile at him let us while we may.
 Frying posterity finds him at six teen pining for a mysterious .Iowland , beauty" who would not have the pen
 niless surveyor. He recieved also by his own confession a 'tcruel sentence from Miss Betsey," and afterwarc ], was rejected by Miss Phillipse of New
 York. At last the disappointed i, wooer came to the White House or fl the PamnlnlheN, and once more ht
 lost his heart. The mistress of tht
 manor, Mrs. Martha Dandridge Custis : was wise enough to keep it being 2 widow of seven years, the mother O ! l two fatherless children, the owner O. large estates and with no man abou the place. Of plain appearance anS 5 simple origin, with common. sense ant solid character. with broad acre and shares in the Bank of Englant !. to boot, Martha was the needed bal 2 ance. wheel for her high-spfrited hus e band, whose rowing affections sh anchored forever at her own fireside.
 When flying embers rom the wa
 fields of Europe ignited the savag
 forests of the New World, Washing ] ton was a militia major, and he wa
 dispatched on-a mission to the Ohio, . perilous journey of ten weeks througl ' wintry desolation. The next yea . he went aeairo rJith band of sol 2 2 diegs, for now the Seven Years Wa ' | had spread 10 America. His cam :. paign was hardly a glorious failure s but he reported that he liked to hea 5 the bullets whistle. q Now General Braddock came t e scorn the colonial breed while h 6 showed them how British regular
 fought in proper sodierly formation ' The undrilled red chidlren of tn, 2 forest stubbornly refusing, fe.a fight 0 e the Euroean plan. Braddock fe | amid his panic-stricken troops O n the Monongohela. At the head of hi Y grave in the wilderness the prayer X for the dead were read by Colon, 'r Washington.
 F Although Washington had won n Ie battles he had made a most import 10 ant conquest. When the Seve r. Years War came he was still a 70 Englishman, and to him an islan | three thousand miles away still wa n home: In his cotact with British ot l. officers he was shocked to find the,