The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-05-11

that pust have come from these
room. The kitchen is separate
building about fifty feet from the
dining room and I'm still wonder
ing how in the world they kept the
food warm, while carrying it to the
dining room. Perhaps the large
warming pan in one corner OF the
kitchen, did twofoTd duty.
After the rooms on the first moor
had been viewed and admired to
our hearts content, we assembled by
narrow, winding stairs to the sec
ond floor. In Washington's bed :
room is the bed upon which he died.
II is the usual four poster kind. The
room Is Of modern size with a
large brick fireplace and three good
sized windows from which a splen-
did view OF the Potomac can be
had. There are various other pieces
of furniture which belonged to
Washington, among which was a
hair trunk. \ which has LIS brass
lacks on IL. There is also in this
room Washington's mothers arm
chair. brought from her home at
Fredericksb burg and two cushions in
worsted cross stitch done by Mrs.
Martha Washington.
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Miss Nellie Curtis room is most
quantity furnished with a high bed
reached by carpeted steps. a fold =,
ing washstand and couple OF
hood DAYS; worn high chair, a
little crib. daintily made up and on
one of the crib posts hung a little
bonnet somewhat soiled as If it had
been taken off the little girls head,
as her mother was making her ready
for dreamland, after busy. happy
day out in the bright sunshine
among the lovely flowers. On this
floor are the three guest chambers
opening out of a small hall. Each
contained the usual old time furni-
ture, as the Washingtons were
noted for their hospitality and the
house seldom was with out several
house guests. We suspect she must
have puzzled her brain as to where
they could sleep. From this floor
we went up short fight of stairs
into the attic, where Mrs. Washing
tons bedroom was. This is a small
room with only one window, with
out a fireplace. We thought 1t
strange that she should have this
Ioc" Oh VIC loulN tho
she chose this room after her hus-
band died, as from it's one window
she could see her husbands tomb.
1t was in this room that she died.
Late in the afternoon Of April 10,
we left Mt. Vernon and drove into
Washington, arriving at about five
o'clock. We found good accommo-
dations at the Howard house, which
is within walking distance to the
capitol We were soon out for a
hike to see the capitol and many
interesting sights enroute. While
at the capitol we secured an auto
and driver for 81 per hour to come
to our hotel at 7:45 the next morn
ing to show us the points Of inter
est in and around the nations
capitol Our drive took US over
Pennsylvania avenue. one of the ia
nous streets of the world. Our
guide pointed out places of interest
such as the Pension building, the
largest building in the world. The
new national museum, the RED
Cross Memorial, the United States
treasury. This is a big massive,
solid built structure and is in keep
ing with its office as a treasure
house, the bank of the nation. In
fact we viewed from the outside all
the public buildings and the mil
lionaires residences. There wasn't
one / would care to live in, not
even Woodrow Wilson's magnificent
residence, which was pointed out
to us. Tourists never fail to visit
the national cemetery at Arlington,
where sleep the dead heroes Of the
nation. A beautiful memorial am
phitheatre of white marble in the
form of an clips the front formed
by temple facing the Lincoln me-
mortal across the. Potomac in wash
ington, costing $750,000 has been
built. A broad stairway leads from
a beautiful garden to the temple
which will seat 5000. In the after
noon we saw the interior OF the fol-
lowing: capitol, congressional Il
brary. white house, Pan American
buildings and several others that
cannot now recall. Especially in
teresting was our visit to the house
of representatives and senate. Our
guide pointed out the seat OF knute
Nelson and Elk Senator Kellogg.
One of our party asked where Ship
stead would be. He replied he did
MT know.
Our two days stay here nave
proved much too short and we had
only a passing glimpse of the city.
But the call for the home land made
us willing to strike the trail early
in the morning of April 20. We had
no difficulty in following the trail
out of the city and We were soon on
our last home stretch. We passed
through many cities, which were
the homes of noted people. Fred
|erick in Maryland, the home of
Francis Scott Key, author of the
Star Spangled Banner and Barbara
Fritchie of the famous poem, lived
and are buried here. Crawfords :,
vile. Ind, was the home of General
Lew Wallace, author Of Ben Hur.
His nome and spacious grounds are
open TO the public. Danville, Ill,
is now the home of Senator Uncle
Joe" Cannon. AS the men folks OF
the party had sworn of smoking
they did not care to call on uncle
joe 49,,
feel as if had only half de
scribed the delights will say moth
ing of the discomforts) of motor
trip. 1t is the only way to see the
world from it's true and best angles.
IT is an ideal way of spending ones
vacation and no doubt now that
paved highways connect all the cities
a great many teachers will spend
their vacation most happily and in
structively in this way. We nave
not a word of complaint to make
regarding the various hotels we
stopped at or the food furnished.
Prices we're very reasonable and
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