Show 7 at 7 an 0 O D 40 hovry I 1 4 tt A k which be thought worthy to buy LEM the light good an tha afternoon in mind and all that one wnm va pilgrim could make altof a books title above which was written name was the ASHINGTON in the novel arof VW vr of ivanhoe Ivan boe isaac the W V V jew tells the th knight that rr rall he knows lt it la to the custom of the christians to put on pilgrims garb and to walk barefooted for miles to worship dead mens bones there Is something of a sneer neer in isaacs tone and ivar Iv arlio Luo rebukes him with a truly heroic Dias Blas phem phern er cease ceasel I 1 I 1 dont know bow how many thousands of americans Amerio ans go ao yearly to mount vernon to pay a visit to the repository pot tory of a dead mans bones but the Is something enormous it george washington never had lived at mount vernon never had bad as ila cited there never bad died ded d ed there and had been burled in the antipodes there would be excuse enough for tho the visits to the place of seventy times seven the number of the pilgrims who go yearly down the potomac tb ta stand on the towering bill hill and to look off down the valley it Is with an utter shame that it Is conform that after tour four years residence in washington one man american born and with some lurk ing pride of patriotism in his makeup never until recently went to the place where the father of his country and the exponent or of the american school teachers ideal of truth lies iles burled buried mount vernon is in the ultimate object of the voyage down the potomac there are other objects every paddle wheel stroke of the way jr ir the hills on either side are hills of rare beauty crowned with trees that saw the rev and that in the tall fall are wear ing the raiment which belongs to the kings of the forest on the boat going down there was a young gentleman who had married an american wife he ile was much more interested in the beamut beauty y of the potomac a banks bank IS av aej I 1 in the history of the country beyond b the banks and in the life history of george washington than was she tte tt e german asked me his american wife if george washington was born at mount vernon she answered that be he was which he wasn t not by faana miles lie asked her to each and every one of which but with un ertIng inaccuracy ehe made answers thia this was a aided american sirl girl there la Is a fairly well grounded belief that she be met and capt her garman husband while ehe she wat wao doing europe in aa ata automobile or wan ap on the khia some day perhaps vedy likely in fart ahe she go back to her husband a land and will listen to nil hil telling of big his american trip and in the enthusiasm of the nature which he made maje manifest on the potomac he will tell the into ants oric truth truths Loncer ming george which he learned from hie his american wife it may be that some of the germans Gerra aos who know something of the life of the amerlan Amer fran gen eral who was the friend and fellow of will come to think aa as some americans A have boiu to think before thie this that t little tj hartory might be included in the course of tudy study of the average american girl and that not a dollar should be pent spent on her passage money mon y to europe until ehe she know knows without topping to think whether it was wa george washington ur abraham lincoln who crossed the delaware and who something later forced the surrender Bur render of cornwallis at yorktown ork lark town this may seeria to be a matter that 1 fit beside the mark but while the listener had none too thorough a knowledge of america Americ ait history were some thing things aid said on the bo bodt boit it plying down the potomac that if it they had been aid said by an eighth grade chool school boy ought to have brought him a flogging mount vernon haa has been written about by pretty nearly everybody who has hits een seen the place it fallen to the lot of everybody to see ee it in the fall it ie Is a noble place a fitting retting testing ground cor for the first american it eldom seldom falls to man a lot to see ee euch such heroic tree trees there in Is a giant oak which elanda stands eunel nU nel ital over the first ilace cf washing N X k A 4 3 J johnr 1 J 0 av 7 floh fW OH ct 25 ton the body waa was remo ed from the base of the oak about 75 year years ago it never should have been removed it Is that washington selected the place where his body now lies iles and left instruction instructions that one day the change of sepulcher should be made the oaf oa which guarded the first grave must have been standing for three centuries the view from the place ie is inspiring enough to enkindle the eyes ol 01 0 a dead man the view from he the new tomb la Is ine fine in its way but it Is as no noth ing to the grand sweep of river hill tolls and forests foresta which moves before the eye eyd from the place where washington slept for 30 year years hundreds of visitors riat tors go to mount vernon dally daily they peer into the tomb and then straightway go to the house there Is an inter est eat of bourse which attach to any of the belongings ot of washington but it seems to be a legitimate matter of regret that of the thousands who fro go to mount vernon the interest in the mir which washington used when he shaved and in the spoon u with which he ate hta his porridge it he ate porridge la is far greater than iii 1 abe tb forest tree trees under which he walked and IP ili 11 garden cihos hose hedges of forma formal cut vr re p piat aritt with ble his own band indoors at lou it t vernon N druon everything ie to dead outdoors everything Is alive the forest and garden are with washington the con tents of the bouee house are as dust there Is a real interest however la in the library df of the old home la in the main the books bouks are simply copies of those which were on oil the shelves in time the originals as I 1 understand it are in several libraries of the country there are two originals however which are open at the title page so that it the light be good one may read name written in his own hand and the title of the book word Santi sentimental mental tb tbs wonder was and the pool w light was responsible for its risma irk it ing a wonder it the father of hi lib country had not in hie his quiet hour been reading A sentimental jour ley if the gentle martha had peeped into the pages and had re proved george because of what ah en sa there one can imagine bis his read k answer that the book was written ba b a holy priest of her own chosen church the man with the megaphone oa cia the washington waa one tells audience ot of a passengers aa no they roll toll by the metropolitan chit bouse house this Is the club clubok of the tho mobs in another minute aa as the big aa light night sewing seeing bus passes another clubhouse club hous he megaphone man says and ahli la Is the club of tho the cranks the club of tho the cranks u this in formation for motion howler calls it Is the co coo moa mos club and a most interesting or it la its he membership is coin cow posed of some physician and clergymen a few lawyers and two or three newspaper men the scientists ar art in the great majority it costs a pretty penny to join the metropolitan club and to pay the dues and to live the life ol 01 the organization the initiation fee at the cosmos club i bulher aber email small one an the dues are light but there are scores stores of members of the metropolitan club fie the duo of the mobs who willingly would pay tife or thrice the metropolitan initiation fee and the metropolitans I 1 tans dues if tf the expenditure could gain them admission adral seon to the chib where abo th crank cranks foi egather every monday night ie im called social night at a the cosmos club of course the clubhouse la Is opec oper at all times but on monday evening the member members make a special effort to be present and there li it always a large gathering la a the great sweeping rooms of the bouse house where once lived dolly madi SOIL 2011 they dont intrude shop upon you la in the cosmod club the member members are a genial body ot of men and they have many guests from all parts porto ul of the world they find out what the guest likes tc talk about and then some one who knorn knows the pub eject Is la promptly introduced to him there are few world subjects upon which you cannot get an expert opinion in the cosmos club the members of course have their bobbles bobbies and they ride them in one corner of a room there will be an astronomical group and there will be bt another corner comer with a fish group and nd another corner with a bird group and another corner with it may be a mushroom group it all science however in the cosmos club the members play rj billiards and pool and bridge md nd they have a am fla time of it generally and it fit no great expense atif fr it Is one of the hard farts of barth that men merl devoted to science have little money bring high pay in 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