The Washington times., 1934-04-27

and yards of garden hose. Yellow paint
for the kitchen, black paint for the
screens, blotters for ink and ink for
CHIP ROBERT blotters. And of paint cleaner.
This very afternoon shall have to follow Willie around
while he the What really want to do to
get in the and 60 whizzing down the road to-to-
"To williamsburg interrupted Phyllis "You We been
talking about the place for Said didn't believe even
the RockefeerStandard Oil billions could turn Twentieth
century town back to its Colonial self"
Besdes the dogwood and redbud are blooming along the
Virginia roads The shining the air cool and crisp
andwait until get my hat " exclaimed 'The housecean
ing3 know Willie will work happily without me
shopping about
"Undoubtedly,'' said Phyllis.
The day Phyllis and stood in Williamsburg. Before
of mud known the Duke Of Gloucester Street
unmacadamizing street.! Moving heaven and earth and
shaking John D. Rockefeers pockets up the good
paving and redrt the street. Trying to make into
of road Williamsburg had when it the capital of Eight
eenh century Virginia In most every place else in the
try good citizens are robbng banks and taxpayers for enough
money to hide dirt with macadam
ut looks just like detour to me-" remarked II can't
bear to think of the clean and shining Raleigh Tavern
there-heyve restored it exquisitelybeing plashed
with mud
Such its usual fate in the good old days when the
planters gaoped up for sniff of Jamaica rum some
thing BETTER, answered Phyllis.
Walter Wilcox who later took US through the Raleigh
Tavern said he liked better than any palace he had
in Europe. He made good pictures Of the taproom
the epaces and the funny stairs and show them
IN Washington before long.
perfect Chinese Chippendae in America The walls
the color Of ripe egg plant The carving and the
proportions Of the beautiful.
Almost more interesting tnan the Palace ITSELF is its
cherished English lockwood garden Terraces and walls
and fragrant cmp of lockwood have the air that
appreciated gardens-and peoplehave During
utonary War; when anything as definitely English as the
garden might have been resented by the rebeous Amer
cans the people of Williamsburg kept special guards there
protection against King Georges troops
The first Capitol Of Williamsburg destroyed The
plans not The present Capitol is copy Of
just when the royal governors and other gentlemen
Of authority housed there certain too obstreperous citizens
Phyllis and I meandered about the town for hours In
Williamsburg time has than stood STILL 1t has turned
backward in its flight Not only the public buildings
but the private househe homes of Virginia. revered
ancesors-now cluster about the village greens exactly
they did when the little town the center of Southern
Colonial culture
One of the most famous persons in Will
lamsburg William Baxton a negro sexton. William
knew the proper pose with every variety tourist
"He the faithful old family servtor with the sentimental
and talked Of the good old days of the past With mod
and progressive he oppressed and browbeaten
member OF an injured race longing for equality and pos
'He called the grayhaired lady from Alabama Mss and
the Senator from Dakota Brother both he was fer
tile of information Many people Williams
burg to seek the graves Of their and it behooved
William to find them. Once he asked the Recors help in
his search for the Hamlets But there buried
here, insisted the parson Here's the proof replied Will
liam He produced photograph Of the churchyard. Be-
meath it were these lines:
Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep -
The town crowded with Virginia Garden Week tour
lists when there. Everyone with interest in colo
nia architecture and history must day travel Will
hamsburg Phyllis and called at the Williamsburg Garden
Club to ask about the Garden Clubs flower the Sternberga
Lntea-n palmer terms the yellow fall The crocus
is native of the Mediterranean countries. 1t first
brought to Williamsburg to decorate the Palace gardens
When royal Governors went out of style the country
the royal gardens fell into ruin The towns ladies
the bulbs planted them in their gardens Dis
ributed their offspring he bulb throughout the State to
mark the interviewer links of friendship and knshp which
makes up the fabric Of all VIRGINIA society,",