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WE are so -accustomed to pictures
of George Washington in arlg!d
attitude, with sternly com
pressed lips and generally forbidding
expression, that we forget he was ever
young and a human being of flesh and
blood like the rest of us.
Instead of being a cold-blooded prig
Washington was magnetic In person
ality and a great social favorite. He
was the finest horseman In Virginia,
an exceedingly graceful dancer and a
dRndy In ruffles, gold lace, velvet, silk
stockings and diamond buckles, who
caused a flurry In feminine hearts
whenever he appeared.
Toung Washington was always fall
ing In love, and after his engagement
to Mrs. Custis was announced his
mother wrote to a friend: "I have had
a. great deal of trotfble with George,
but It is all over now." His first at
tack of the heart occurred when he
was 15 years old. and the object of his
affections was Miss Frances Alexander,
aged 17, whose father's plantation ad
joined Mount Vernon. To her the
youthful lover addressed the following
acrostic:
From your bright sparkling eyes I was un
done, ' .
Rays yon have more transparent than the
Run.
Amidst it's glory In the rising Day,
Jone can you equal In your bright array;
1'onstfcnt in your calm and unspotted mind.
"F.qual to all, but will to none prove kind.
So knowing, ncldom one so young, you'll
Find.
Ah! Wo'a me that I should love and conceal,
l-ong have I wished but never dared reveal,
Kven though severely Love's Pains r feel.
Xerxes that great wasn't free from Cupid's
Dart.
And all the greatest Heroes felt the smart.
Imagine him pining and sighing and
grating hia teeth In despair, just like
any young American lover In these
days! It is amusing now, but at that
time It was a very serious matter to
George Washington! Not much Is
known of this courtship, and soon after
no lost his heart to Miss Lucy Grynies,
whom he often referred to afterward
fs his "Lowland Beauty." Here is a
letter he wrote to a boy chum in which
he speaks of her:
'Hear Friend Robin: My place of
residence is at present at His Lord
ship's where I might, was my heart
dlsengased, pass my time very pleas
antly, there's a very agreeable
Young Lady Lives in the same house
(Miss Mary Cary), but as that's only
adding Fuel to the fire, it makes me
the more uneasy for by often and un
avoidably being in company with her
revives my passion for your Lowland
Beauty."
About this time Washington wrote
(j SEEN a mighty funny thing a bll
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ago, corr.in through Madison
Square." said the House Detec
tive of the Hotel St. Reckless.
"What was It?" asked the Hotel
Clerk. "A breadline of recent million
aires, or a society baby attended by Its
own mother, or a lady with a collection
of dead songbirds on her hat driving
behind a dock-tailed horse to the Soci
ety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, to complain because eomebody
has been feeding a canary German
verbs to make it sing Wagner?"
"It wuz a lady, all right," said the
House Detective. "Leastwise, she wuz
mainly dressed like a lady. A square
jawed lady she wuz, vlth one of these
here faces that looks like a if it wuz
set with a time clock to go off at 4
o'clock. She wuz standln' on a box
talkin' to an audience composed of
i three other ladles similar to herself, a
messenger boy with a package marked
Rush,' and a couple of them literary
gents that reside on park benches and,
read cast-off newspapers fur a livlji.'
"She wuz carrln' on, very excited,
about the wrongs of some down-trod
sex or other, whon a cop came along.
She opened right out and dared him '.o
arrest her and put her in a giooiny
dungeon, but all be done wuz to sug
gest that mebbe he'd better get her a
dipper of water from the fountain,
seeln' as how she seemed to be gettiif
kinder hoarse and het-up. But she'
wouldn't have it. and so 1 come away.
I wonder what ailed her?"
"She must have been one of the Suf
fragettes," said the Hotel Clerk.
"Yes, I know that; Jest from lookin'
at her," said the House Detective, "but
wot pertlcular trouble d'ye think she
wuz sufferin' from? Wotever it wuz,
Jt wuz sure serious."
"You misunderstand me, Larry," ex
pounded the Hotel Clerk. "Sufrrage;
ting is a complaint, not a disease, al
though It has alarming and distressing
symptoms and many of the patients
never recover. It rarely attacks one
of the nice, cosy little giggle-gir.s
thai's got a good figure, and plenty
of her own hair,' and a regular beau
to bring her flowers and theater-tickets.
Most of the victims I've heard
about are strong-minded ladies with
features to match that have been dis
appointed through getting the wrong
kind of a husband or not g.-tting any
at all. You know the varieiy of la.ly
I mean, Larry? She has double soles
on her spectacles and her walking
ihoes, and she wears a man's standing
collar that dpn't fit her and a placket
that's suffering from the hair-lip and
I shirtwaist that don't make tha proper
ronnection with her skirt, so that the
casual observer, is moved by pity and
feels like taking off his sunpenders and
Bfferlng 'em to her, and a dress that
ags down behind and -Irags on the
earth like a kangaroo getting ready to
lump. In short, Larry, a SuiYraget'.e is
i female who wants the right to vote
md must have It between now and 5
9'clock thi afternoon. Tomorrow morn
ing before breakfast won't do. It's go:
to b dqno right away or there'll be
Ynnnri Ladies Detore ft
He YYasACcepiea
by the
Richest Widow
in Virginia.
a letter to "Dear Sally," in which he
sai'l: "I am almost discouraged from
writing to you as this is nay fourth to
you since I reed any from yourself. 1
hope you'll not make the Old 1'rovt.rb
good out of sight out of Mind as it's
one of the greatest pleasures In living
in Fairfax in often hearing from vou
and hope you'll not deny -me.
"I pass the time much more agree
bler than what- I imagined I should as
there's a very agreeable Young Lady
Lives in the same house where I re
side (Miss Mary Cary) that in a gveat
measure cheats my sorrow and deject
edness tho" net so as to draw my
thoughts from your Parts. I could
wish to be with you down there with
all my heart but as it Is a thing al
most impractakable. I shall rest .my
self where I am with Ijopes of shortly
having some minutes of your transac
tions." So we find the susceptible George in
terested in three fair damsels at once:
"Sally," the "Lowland Beauty," and Miss
Mary Cary, which recalls the story of the
man who could never snoot a bird, be
cause just a.s he had aimed and was
ready to shoot at one bird another flew in
the way.
In 1753 Lucy Grymes, the1 Lowland
Beauty, married Henry Leo and became
the mother of "Light-horse Harry," the
Custer of the revolution.
One Most Serious Affair.
One of Washington's most serious love
affairs was with Miss Mary Cary, and
there Is no doubt that she was in love
with him, but her fathef prevented the
marriage by handing out the Alaskan
negative. When Washington asked for
her hand the old centleman dismissed
him pompously, saying that his daughter
was accustomed to ride In her own car
riage. Rather a Joke on him as Wash
ington was afterward, in his own right
and that of his wife, the richest planter
in Virginia. However, Washington con
tinued to write to Miss Cary even after
Colonel Cary's rejection of his suit. In
fact the correspondence kept up until
after his engagement to Mrs. Custis and
very nearly to the time of his marriage.
Miss Cary. it Is said, persistently misin
terpreted his letters and answered them
so warmly that he was much em-
DARED UI?TTQ PUT HER 2N JL
remarics, and somebody'll go to the
hospital suffering from nervous pros
tration of the ear-drums."
"Oh, now I know what you're drivin'
at." said the House Detective. "Why
didn't you say so? They used to call
'em F.qual Righters. because they be
lieved in epual rights for themselves
and none at all for the men. But since
Wen did they start in to mnkin'
speeches In the parks and darin' police
men to arrest 'em?"
"It's a pleasing custom that comes
over to us from England, whjere the
new outdoor sport of Suffragettlng
originated," said the Hotel Clerk. "Over
there the movement has created ffreat
excitement and much feeling. Siiffra
getting ladles have been invading Par
liament and getting themselves locked
up and chaining themselves to railings
outside of government building and
forcing the police to file "em loose, al
though why anybody should want to
file loose an English Suffragette that
was properly chained up is. more :han
I can understand. Members of the
House of Lords bas been especially
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barrassed. Possibly, knowing him so
well, she didn't take his engagement
seriously. Who knows? Women were
the same in those days as now, and no
really feminine creature likes to see a
good man get entirely ' away from her!
In a letter to Miss Cary, written three
months before his marriage, he gives
her this gentle admonition:
"You ask if I am not tired of the length
of your letter: No, madam. I am not,
nor never can be while the Lines are an
Inch asunder to bring you in haste to
the end of the Paper.""
Miss Cary afterwards married a young
swell. Edward Ambler, who died young,
and his pretty widow was often a guest
at Mount Vernon after Washington's
marriage. The Cary romance extended
over several years, but in the meantine
there were others. It is consoling to
know that Washington was human
enough to occasionally , do something
amateurish, and the thing lie fell down on
hardest was writing poetry. The follow
ing was composed when he was a Major
harassed. You take a noble peer with
a mind like a fruit cake, that's spent
many calm and happy years of his life
sleeping on a bench in the House of
Lords with his high hat on, and it irks
him to be suddenly waked up by an
impassioned lady with the gift of con
versation and a grievance, who's stand
ing on his toes and shaking a damp
umbrella in his face.
"The King himself is said to be much
disturbed over the situation. It Isn't
often that the King allows himself to
be disturbed. The only affair of state
which interests him every day In tho
week is the menu for dinner. His
duties largely consist in being photo
graphed for the English illustrated
weeklies and In laying corner-stones.
When it comes to laying coiner-stores,
I regard King Edward as the prize-winning
Brown Wyandotte of the world
of architecture. Otherwise he leads a
quiet and sedentary life, and so natur
ally It worries His Majesty to be called
away from the camera or the corner
stone, as the case may be, to help the
First Lord In Waiting- shoo an lmpas-
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and about 20 years old. It was addressed,
to Miss Betsey Fauntleroy:
Oh. ye Gods why should my Poor Resistless
Heart
Stand to oppose thy Blight and Power.
At lait surrender to Cupid's feathered
Dart
And now lays bleeding every Hous
For. her that's Pityless of my grief -and
woes, .
And will not on me nlty take. ,
I'le slep amongst my most inveterate' Foes
And with Gladness "never wish to wgk.
In deluding slpeplngs let my eyelids close
That in an nrapiured Dream I may
In a soft lulling sleep, and gentle repose
Possess those Joys denied by Day.
There is a letter on record In which
Washington asked Mr. Fauntleroy's per
mission to make a proposal ofnarriage
to his daughter "in the hope of a revoca
tion of a former cruel sentence." - But
the father's reply was unfavorable, as
usual,, and Miss Betsey afterward mar
ried Thomas Adams, of Williamsburg.
It Is a tradition of that town that after
her rejected suitor beca-me famous and
visited Williamsburg as the guest of the
IT HAKELy ATTACKS A
7WCE, C0SY,2sTTXLB
sloned delegation of vociferating Suf
fragetters off the front stoop of Buck
ingham Palace.
"It's like this, Larry: In England,
the Suffragetters are unhappy because
the authorities will lock 'em up and
over here they are distressed because
the authorities won't lock 'em up. When
a lady of mature years has a yearning
to inhabit a gloomy prison cell with
leg-irons on, and be a martyr in de
fense of her principles, and when she
can't find anybody that'll help her along
in her laudable ambition, she's exceed
ingly apt to become peevish. ,A martyr
that's getting the hoarse haw from the
ribald populace has great trouble look
ing like a real genuine smoking-hot
martyr right off the griddle of perse
cution. There's danger of merely look
ing foolish."
".Wot business has s woman trot
TV If
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people she watched the triumphant
pageant from the window and when the
great hero saw her lie waved his sword
and saluted her, whereupon the lady
fainted away.
On another occasion he fell in love
with Miss Mary Phillipse.- the beauti
ful daughter of a wealthy Englishman
who lived in a sxiperb mansion on tho
Hudson near West Point. Washington
promptly proposed, but was told that
somebody else's coquette was already
engaged to be married. Washington
said afterward that he thought things
might have resulted differently if he
had waited "till the lady was in the
mood." There was a tragic ending to
this romance years after, when the
haughty creature who had spurned the
hand of the commander of the Ameri
can forces was arrested as an Eng
lish spy. She was thrown into prison
and- all iter property was confiscated.
Washington was too wise to turn
into a woman hatetr merely because !
he had been thrown down three times J
OF THE
mess in' with politics, anyway?" asked
the House Detective. "Politics is a
grown man's game."
"That's the opinion held by many
other gentlemen who object to giving
women one or more votes apiece," said
the Hotel Clerk. "The thought of con
ferring the franchise upon a woman is
deeply abhorrent to the conditions of a
lot of men who either go out of town
on electlbn day or else decline to vote
because they'll be thrown In contact
with a number of socially-Impossible
persons, if they enter the' barber shop
or the undertakers' parlor where the
bulwark of our liberties has set up its
lares and penates for the time being.
They feel that a woman could never
master the intricacies of the modern
ballot because it's a blame sight more
than they can master themselves.
"That's one reason, Larry,' why the
Tammany ticket always polls such un
expected strength in the districts
where the reformers live. Eustace von
Tiltingnose. upon being shoved into a
small, ill-smelling canvas booth by a
Sheriff of Election who is temporarily
in succession. He knew there were
plenty of pretty fish in the aquarium
and that it would be only a matter of
time when he'd make a good catch.
That time came just two yrars after
he was jilted by Miss Phillipse. and
it happened In this way: Colonel Wash
ington was on his way to Williams
burg on official -business, and while
crossing Williams Ffrry was accosted
by a hospitable ' old gentleman, who
asked him to rest a while at his home
in me neignoornooa. j b wi"nei j
answered that his pressing Dusiness
would not permit the time. But, as
an inducement, the old gentleman men
tioned that among the guests at his
house was the handsomest young
wiaow In all Virginia! That changed
matters. 'The young colonel smiled,
hesitated, and then well, then he
decided that he had more time than
he had supposed.
Cpon reaching the house he was in
troduced to the fascinating widow,
Mrs. Martha Parke Custis, and we
can imagine the coy glances of this
enticing young croature. for it was a
case of love .at first sight. And in
stead of getting away in a few hours
as he had intended, old Bishop, the
colonel's servant, held his horse in
readiness for hours and hours. But
his muster didn't come. In fact his
delighted host had little difficulty in
persuading him to stay until the next
day.
Washington had Just returned from
a brilliant campaign, was gallant,
young and hajidsome. and the clever
.widow didn't lose any time bringing
down her game! . A few days later
Colonel Washington visited Mrs. Cusfls
at her own beautiful home and this
time he offered his heart and sword
with success. It Is quite evident that
a propitious reception awaited him. for
on the way to the house he asked a
slave if Mrs. Custis was at home, and
he said. "Yes. sah, I reckon you'se the
ge'n'leman what's spected." They did
not meet again till their marriage six
months later. The engagement was
so sudden that Mrs. Custis felt a bit
shy in announcing it, but she said to
a friend: "My dear, the truth is, my
estate is getting in a bad way and I
need a mian to look after it."
Wealthiest Woman In Virginia.
At that time Martha Custis was 27
years old just .three months younger
than her fiance. She was short, had
eyes that snapped, her manner was
very gay. and she was thought by some
to be the most beautiful woman in
America. She was the wealthiest
woman in the Old Dominion and the
mother of four children, two of whom
were living. The marriage took place
at the home of the bride in January,
1759. Tho exact date is uncertain.
They must have been an interesting
couple, for the great height of the groom,
a rosy-cheeked young athlete, said to
have been the strongest man In the army,
was in striking contrast to the petite
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detached from the treet-C!canlng De
partment, becomes confused on unfold
ing something that looks like a Japanese
bedsheet. In a moment of aberration he
imprints his mark under the emblem of
tho Justly hated machine and then he
hurries to the club and drinks eight or
nine cocktails before he feels like him
self or anyone else. He's against
Woman Suffrage, and I don't blame
him. What he needs Is an election
law that will admit of his sending his
butler to vote for him."
"Wot do you suppose would happen
if women wuz to get the right to vote?"
asked the House Detective.
"They'd elect Fairbanks President,
said the Hotel Clerk. He has such a
roguish way of combing the back hair
forward over his bald spot."
How Marbles Are Made.
Philadelphia Record.
Most of the stone marbles used by boys
are made In Germany.' The refuse only
of tho marble and agate quarries is em
ployed, and this is treated in such a way
figure of the bride. Colonel Washington
was' feet 2 inches tal and weighed i
about 210 pounds, and, though his figure;
was always commanding, lie was lithe, ,
acil and graceful in every move. He
walked with a wonderfully swift, elastic
step, and stood straight as an arrow.
His features were animated, not stolid, j
and his- penetrating blue eyes glowed ,
with fire when he was talking in an in- .
terested conversation. All who knew him ,
ay that he was full of repressed pas- j
sidn. In fact, there was nothing what- :
ever slow about George Washington, and
the only reason he has such a reputation i
for goodness raised to the power of stu- j
pidity Is because of that cherry tree 1
story.
The Fashionable Life.
The fashionable life of the Washing
tons may be imagined from the follow-'
ing list sent to London In which, the
General ordered clothes for himself. Mrs. .
Washington and his two step-children,
to whom he was devoted:
For General Washington: "A superfine ,
velvet suit with garters for the breeches: ;
pumps, riding gloves, worked ruffles, 3):
shillings a pair: housings of fine cloth !
edged with embroidery, plain clothes with :
gold or silver buttons."
For Mrs. Washington: "A salmon
colored tabby velvet with satin flowers. ;
ruffles of Brussels lace, or point, to cost I
20; fine silk hose, white and black satin j
shoes, six pairs of mitts, six pairs of best
kid gloves, one dozen most fashionable
pocket handkerchiefs, a puckered petti- ;
coat, six pounds of perfumed powder,
handsome breast flowers (houquets de
corsage) and some sugar candy."
For Master Custis, aged 8, and his liver
ied servant, aged 14. there were long or
ders, and for Miss Custis, aged S. " '
coat of fashionable silk, with bib apron. :
ruffles and lace tucker; four fashionable i
dresses of long lawn. fine cambric
frocks, a satin hat and neckties, satin
shoes and white kid gloves, silver shoe .
buckles, sleeve buttons, aigrettes, 60w
pins, a fashionable dressed doll to cost
a guinea, gingerbread toys, sugar Images. .
a Bible and prayer-book and one very i
good spinet."
Washington was fond of sitting with
his guests after tlinner, a glass of Ma
deira wine at his side. It was his habit
to drink to the health of every person
present and then give his favorite toast:
"All our friends."
During the 40 years of his married lif
he wore suspended from his neck by a
gold chain the miniature portrait of his
wife. The life of this handsome young
couple at their Mount Vernon home was
ideal. There was only one cloud. The
unsatisiied yearning to have children of
his own was frequently expressed in nis
diary and in letters to hia frjends. Pos
terity looks with awe upon the man who
was "Father of His Country." but the
man himself would have got much more
satisfaction out of one little pair of
chubby arms around his neck made of his
own flesh and blood.
that there is practically no waste. Men
and boys are employed to break the re
fuse stone Into small cubes, ' and with
their hammers they acquire a marvelous
dexterity. The little cubes are then
thrown Into' a mill insisting of a grooved
bedstone and a revolving runner. Water
is fed to the niill and the runnor 13 rapidly
revolved, while the friction does the rest.
In half an hour the mill is -stopped and a
bushel or so of perfectly rounded marbles
Is. -taken out. The whole process costs
the merest trifle. . . .
Making Americans.
Tn Pertain sections of Chicago length of
citizenship Is computed In a peculiar way.
A teacher In a down-town school reports
one original method of determining wheth
er or not a man of foreign birth baa be
come a good American.
"How long has your father been in this
country?" she asked a small pupil.
"Oh, a long while." was the reply.
"But how manyf years?" persisted the
teacher who wished to get hold of a few
facts.
"I don't , know . anything about the
years." the child replied, "but father is
a real American. He has, shaved off his
beard."
Later the teacher made inquiry and
found that In that particular neighbor
hood not even a set of naturalisation pa
pers Is considered so indubitable a sign of
Americanism as the fact that a man has
taken to patronizing the barber.
Six o'clock.
J. W. Foley in the New -Tori- .Times.
Plx o'clock in the tower and street,
Th tune and tramo of hurrying feet.
The feeble flicker of smoke-dimmed stars.
The clatter and clang of cabs and cars;
A splah of blood from the dying sun,
"Life with Its duties shirked or done,
A battle lort or a battle won.
And people hurrying home.
Klx o'clock by the mists and marts.
Ry thn murky wave where th fen-y darts,
By the Hghts, like stars, that glow and
gleam.
B7 th ebbing tides of the human stream;
By tho clicking flags and the hearth stones
far
Therp the Joys of waiting households are.
By tho titsks laid by that make or mar.
And people hurrying home.
Six oloek by the forge grown cold.
By the steel come chill and the hollow
mould, .
By the baited column and half-reared" spire,
The dying blaxe .of the dampened fire;
Plx o'clock by the lines grown dep
In tho adder's brow; by the shades that
creep
To the crest of day from the caves of sleep.
And people hurrying home.
Pix o'clock and a mantle sorcad
By the snowy riakes for the day now dead;
Six o'clock by tho dreams and deeds.
By the laugh that leaps and the heart that
bleeds;
Six o'clock by the lights that shine
In a distant window yours or mine.
By the emptied glass or. tha bubbling wine,
And people hurrying home.
Six o'clock and the tangled webs
Of the day lay snarled, but the folk tide
ebbs.
From the pebbled shore to the sea out there.
And the beach of the street lies bleak and
bare;
Six o'clock and the great piles there
Close shut, like prison eel' for Care.
Whie hollow eyes through gratings stare.
And people hurrying home.