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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1921)
. . ; '.: .. ... - , . ' ,-'v j,.- - fACE TEH v ; ..ir s 4S !,tt..r,'-rvy. -"-hi.. !;.. - f .1 j, i-ii t : i k- I i - i-j i i - -; iJ - .- , ? (t . - . , . . ! APen Picture of MountVer ' non As It Was When the Father of His Country I Dwelt Therev : H . ROBERT TIGHE - ARTHA. IANDRIDGE CtS- j 1TIS was In the richest bloom of j-ounr womanhood T hen, at the a pa tf twemy-tven. a married Ceorse Washing'oQ. the wtdding feast was held in the "tix chimner house," at Williamsburg, which had been bequeathed to her by har first husband, Daniel Farke Cus tta, together with a large fortune in lands and moncjK The property she had thus Inherited included1 many slaves and J100.09 worth of bonds and mortgages. i Washington had been a poor young; man; bat his Inheritance of the JCoant Veroon st$c from his half toother Jlwrtnce made him well-to-do, and his marriage made him wealthy.- Not long after he enlarged the house at Blount Vernon, which, built uy nrs nau-Droi.ier in ihj, ma.my vi th tabor ct convicts ocportea .rrarn. """ w"-" ?n..filnr ttist If h.-iil nnlv four rooms) - . . on tne nr.i noor. r H it. Aftor his n.arrlipa he added a house spun couon ana wooi, aio uh quet hall" the north endt anSlwVin,;! Coth. and ad. .IV. the - T J !niWM fnr the master and his fm- " " "". """.,0 "" ' -.cnen was fletacnea irom tni uisti" Eyes of the Heart" -Chaplin Creates NewRofe-'Thc r Good BadWite cave-man 1 duiti-'is:'vci wot, u As Spanish Dancer A Poem To Beauty. .. n. ART M1LE3 M INTER proves . In order to provitJe work for a. friendly Ithat .ho 1 ft real dramatic glazier. ; It prov to be an exh.lfrat 1 actress In her latest picture, j ing as well as profitable pursul. It I "Eves cf the Heart." She Is : also highly humorous especia.iy when not blonde, vapid. Innocent in-(Jackie Coogm is the braker of glasj a-enue but a little blind plrl wno brought up by a band of crooks, whom ah believes to be honeist people. It is only: when ahe regains her eyesight nod learns what th people with whom ah ts living really are that she begins to realise that lite is not all one a Of roses as she has been led to believe. William E. Parsons the "villyvn" of the picture, rd It Is he who teaches Miss Mlnter as the blind, girl to steal and rot safes. Charlie Cliaplla Charllo Chaplin, as tue foster father to ft two weeks old baby! It took the famous comedian himself to create euth ft role, and from It be wrot what 1 s declared to b one of th roost ludicrous comedies ever made for th screen. me !" "'"- . :. cture is entitled "ine .... rnla ! Blaveil DV n. said to b. child . ,o what should be -.1.1 ' to what snouia babies, mothers. It is places Mm. ., a host of helpful hint. . MnrgucrtU- Cm.rtot t;o do in watching Chaplin! Margueri;. Courtot who really ' ,c .f "the kd" la spue of doesn't appear older than her .conlcs , il kl grows to sturdy boyhood I slon to twtnty-thrH. has worked in ,.',! ,r the tutclsg and car of his j pictures sine Fhe wa s'xteen. Bj. Is tZ r itk-r H. v.lope. h. mrt L.nder. dark hrd rr.ceful, and near trcure. bet connecte with thelat- ter (aa one -sees it today) by a cov ered way. There were a number of outbuildings. In one . of which, called the '"spinnins' house," sixteen' ncsro women were kept constantly at work. Washington added much lai.4 to the estats by purchase, and i hi day it cotered neariy thirteen square miles though now it comprise only JSJ acres. The establishment was pa triarchal, and there were many slnvift whom t?!e-propr:ctor was accustomed to call "iv people". When he died, he left, as part of his property, li slaves. He was not an advocate of ilavtry, and declared on a number of occasions that he would give hb own negroes their freedom were it not that .'nvf had become matrimonially mixed with the vdower negroes fhwlocginit hSs wlfc) , tuch , ,ent lnat .. ,,,. ..ouu be caased bv their manumljf n. F"arm Self Supporting i Wa. Racrn wnmen In thfl SDinnine ! " " . , -i .. " . 3 ill w.ana t,.ie i """. Donitay Orvcit- A product of the music halls, a wild. unconventional, beautiful, physlra. j creature is the heroine of "Thir -.ioyd-j Had Wife." Dorothy Green. Th p'uf was adapted from "The Wild Fawn, try Mary Irnlay Taylor, reyently ap - ; - t ,s i - . ..,," tj - ? .."J r"'s j " 1 ' -; - 7 f .Li . ,. . i,m , ,f ; , . v; '.:;4J - i-VvM V -v,; v-v: i; V, irir iv-. ' H i - ' , ' f X ' V - ' ' -'. ' - y-eSe?, f ,'-- w . . - , K' , 4 ' - - . , -, va rvrr, I 1 - 'J . 4 f ' vx ' j i' "1' j " ' i pearing. h Muny MBgzanv...- f a ,Spilrl(,n ,cnorita as tt-.o acseen The troubls starts when the besu'i- , 1)miv ai!moiniraies In Rogues and ful Parisian dancer marries the " lo j Romancc." ' of an aristocratic Southern f ami. jr.! , M,s conrtot b-rn.it her screen and puts' him and his very respectably ftrft , ..RMbe Marquard Wins parents through emotions of altera-- ... BK0 0ne of r mrte a arm. tnc:gr.ai,on. nn. rniinn. frleht and worry. Before; the end of the play, no.eer. "y . . . i proves to them that an is a sacrifice her happ'ness foi" her hu ... n-d vntimr to ac- OHHUB. 1 -J cept. life o, lone, nes, -no the constant plights In which cept a life of loneliness and sadness utiii i.- r- DAltYEAST.CIlEC0NIAN1PENDLST0N..CllEa01T,- TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1921. Waihlngtoi never had to go to mar ket, heeause the estate produced Its own too.l supplies. At one count that was made, there were J96 hoad of cat tle. 3J horses. 77 mules. 386 shsep and 127 nogs. Mount Vernon, eco nomlcally speaking, was self-svrpport-int. Nevertheless, some things were bought In Alexandria, and the scale of living may be Judg;d from such items fin Washington' accounts) as "55 barrels of shad" and "117 barrels of herring." r , , Tae eatate embraced a number ot farms, on whictK a variety of crops were grown, the most Important be ing tobacco. ' Washirgton had a 'al- ent for farming, as was proved by th fact that he mada a great deal- of money by it. ' Most of his produce was! aanr t. ,..urti? nnfl hit tflhurro ftlLS!1. of so superior a quality that it always j fetched an exi.-a ril5h price ' lie got up every mu. sniffs ii v viu.t., made a toor bf inflection oa hoft-e- hiirk It was on .ore nt mcse expeui- tion-i. by the way. tnat nt unnerweni A nrin i.vtt.Kiir thi, (1AV h:lir fnlll ' and we.' aJ caught the'cold which . rsilil t-,1 in his d at!t. . ,, i.l nw. i.'tin.uiu. Tn old kilch.n Is WcdI to. u i v i definite,, known abou- hie, w,f,., ' , does not appear to have heen a worn- r ferentlanal nfIH9te hut . . . hK-irar'rir'!H'finll WHII IB ,lhCI .u. i.nmn i ( -The Te-b of (h - Tiger.' C ftl HU-IUlifiWU Wl T" - - " " I 3nfrt swkknrd Josef Swickard, -who has Jumped from slapstick comedy to the bicg'H dramatic role of 'he ye-ir. lie cr.j;-: i of ..Virw:1, .,. v,crs" In j . . rm B . .,h Ad0.I 'The, for Horsem B of the.Apo ralyt s l.ucy rott'M f.l li'-rt l,jicH , Eert Lyte'.l In the thrs of li-'ng !r.i;fd bv the wll s nf I'clen f.ecle the dccidrdly mlsb-ad Ire . nrt.re. !"rt) Jb r. !.1 trit r reirt l-ttcr ill "The M!.!ediit l.t'l" Mr. iiS'.',! v..-n. . -. .a.'K,'.- QVrh rt pr!!S.-d most recent starring medium cn ihejtbdar t.v.-B ti luwdlsr natives of t;. . , - i -c . ! ... .v1' V : ...... . ; ( " , - - 1 was an admlrabla housekeeper. She was described by one contemporary overtona, not-temperea,. ana ou- stlnale." Neverthele.iai her marriage j was certainly a very happy one. Utr t, ((..hi n.4 ta-n rfavnt, tA hrr And &S D9 renumbered, he adopted aer r. ri.rtchildren. the CuHtLs boy and i.i 1. iK, if tliav ' hrt b-en ni! own offspring, WasTilllfTfoo A Good Cook-' Althovi;,h no: obiiaced to practice the art. unless' Y way of ' supervision. 7: " . ... . . Martha Washington was a nn-rate - ' ' , , . rw'1. notable Plum puddiags, and in her : i:n.e mince pica at .Mount crnon were , , , - V . ZnT.oZ alive. There as no Tanhe, f eourse, such conveniences belli t'en an soret. ixirt of Uel. O S-eel'J 1 .U'I by lacs Cotioft. Jusr whit Mr, L re-nut.- this, potint' in ihe Mtn- Is. 0(7 9". ft 1 But It will ' " ' f'i : . r- N , I -t . i . - ' i -I i-l s known, and all the cooking was done over a wood fire In a huge fireplace. above whlah a big Iron pot was nui- penflejl That was a primitive age, as Judged from our present viewpoint. The man sion at Mount Vernon was one of the finest and most 'tliproughly Improved residences of its day. Hot It hud no bathroom: there was no phimblng. and therefore mo runninw water. All the water supplied to the establish ment was drawn In buckets from a well. ' There were no carpets on the llors, and, needless to ay, there was no central heating plant, open fires being the only dependence for warmth In winter. Of wood for burning there was, of course, a plentiful supply, and In the principal rooms' thera were fire pla0.. Slaves lighted the fires tn the Houih Africa, wlm euj-.le Iheir women I with a right to the Jaw, or coix them j (o oo triext milon;iry mure thor. sixi.-i-n-pjiii'd club. Yet air. .rn u would sin 't be talking lesa.of do aitJilc Cist'lflin tafia ot cost um. v I "V .t'J i .. I r It .',-;. :i, vn -AW bed rooms'before fhe toaster and. mla- tress and their guests got "Up on coid mornings. )l was the IlitiU touch of luxury at th.t period..- '.' OtXMl Living At Monnt Vernon ; On the oilier luud, thera was al ways a mot Lounii(u) supply of deli cacies In th way of food. Game -IB any Quantity wast be had for Ihe troublo ot shoeiln. II. .Titer were plenty at dee", and the narshes of the I'oiomaa were tflive lth canvasback and other ducks. Wild turkeys could be bouKhr In the' market of Alex andria for 15 cents aplec. and ter rapin for 5 cent , In tue river there were unlimited quantities of shiul and othtr flahc. The hlnh. cost of living had not begun 'to , he talked of In Washington's time, ' .. Pinner nt Mount Vernon wai. In the early afVrnaon. It whs a liberal meal, and everything was put on the table at ojie tlinc--uteats, vegetable.' game, fsli and even pics" and pud-Hue When th e'oth was "drawn.V the ladles rellreil and the men enjoyed their wine. In tlio years that followed the war of th Revolution th house became "like i tavern" (a Washing ton wrote in one of his letters); and more or Itss"! dutmt.ilshcd visitors were constant!? thore, om of them slaMng for months. Washington was a sportsman. He rode to bounds: .he fished, and often he went shooting for ducks. ' In his kennels li kept some fine 4s. fv orlto etn sailed Swectllpil., Ho liked" to play cards, .though .a mild gambler' and , usually unlucky. His diary records his largest winning as 3 pounifr, and on, one ,occalon he lost 9 pounds, 14 shillings and 9 pence. . He was a born siierulntor. and was constantly engaged in land deals, lie was nn enthusiastic patron of raffles and lotteries, which were fashionable In ht day, nnd frequent enlrles In his accounts are' found' of -sums ranging as h!Kh as 10 pounds. Invested In . J . Marie ITovost ' "Mvl Queens" of filmland r del uged with a variety of mall, and pro' posals of marriage qr as frequent aa mils andi duns In th mail-box ot the Impecunious. What makes Mis Pt - of ' TWELVE rAcrs lottery tickets. II put up, ft pouua for a chano on nck:c, it pounaa, i I shillings on an neyclopedla, a4 other sums on ft conch, ft pair of tlX- ver buckles, ft watch, ft fun, eta, - roua of ixiicin ' ' . Tho Father of His Country wftl -) ceedlngly fond of pretty women, and, he liked to dance. He danced tip t ' within 'litre ycara of his death, nd' regularly attendod the assembly bailaj at Alexandria, to which all th irreat families of th "Northern Neck" of' Virginia subscribed. Those were early affairs, however, nnd by midnight h , I'as home again. Ordinarily h went j to bed nt o'clock.! t ( Jkn entry In hi diary of 1789. fori February il (referring to th previous , day) says: ''ent up to Alexandria, to th celebration of my birthday. Many nanoeuvers were performed by an uniformed corps, nd an elegant ball a ad supper jt tvls'it," j I-est tha abov date be deemed" ft ; mistake. It should bs plained that ) Washington waa born ne on th I2d of February, but on th 11th day ot. that month a, fact testified to In b own diary. Ho was born ttforft the American Colonies adopted t Uretorlan calendar, which put pJI dates forward eleven days. 1 A 8tny-at-lIoiuo Man ' .Washington was ft home-lever, and. although circumstances forced in conspicuously Into public' life, h never cared for It. After he had relinquished the rrcsldency. hp wrot to friend: "I can truly ay I hd rather b t Mount Vernon, wtth ft frland or two about me, than be attended at th seat of government by th offtcera ot tt and th representatives of every Power ; in Europe." It was at about this ilmo tnt N'tlll J Custls, hi grarnldauchter, sold In ! lotlorf "Grnnrtfaihar Ls- e dellcwtad :a find himself or.co again. UnpV Fairer risblngton." . J i. recent letter addressed to her ! tiat It contains no proposal, nor ovua Is hint of one. - And this'! tho poentl "I've never heard your vole iorhaid Your band, so slim ttnd fnlr.V But I've loo1;ed Into your ryes of blu And seen your smile so rare, "I'v never ast-.t ydtout to din cu4 ' see ' f x A show .or rarne or Iwo, No one's ever even Introduced ft . . Put I'm Just croay ever yoft. , "1 know Itl never site yaa " TJ My girl or wife to be, ' For you're only my raovta nC3k Vou'r just n dram U nks i i