Show AN ECHO OF THE CENTENNIAL I Wnz Jarje Washington a Married MonA Mon-A Question of Propriety The Tribune just before the centennial celebration published the estimates of n number of noted men and women on the character and services of George Washington Washing-ton Their views were somewhat widely at variance It is however safe to say that none of them resembled to auy great extent the ideas i advanced below The morning of celebration two servant girls were overheard discussing the day and its teachings in a South Side kitchen Nora was busily engaged in washing the breakfast dishes when Bridget the girl in the house nest door entered The conversation inform in-form and substance if not in accent was as follows Mornin tye Nora Same tye Biddy darlint An is it wurnikin yo air7 Thruo fur ye an whoinotr Weve no roight to be slavin th1 day its the cintinval dye moind The cintiuyal Fwhafs this yere givin mer Oim tellin yo no loi at nil Mike wuz tellin1 me Divil a Bthroko of worruk is the byes doin th day savin the plicemen An whats the cintinni tincinny whats tho name ye wor givin jt 0 something about wan Loondred years ago the furrust prisidenl wuz nfther bein crowned or something An who wuz the furrust prisident I dunnor He wuz a felly named Jarge Washinton Oi think An what wuz he af thfr doinP Sure ho wuz th father nv his country An its celcbratin his mimory th day they sir on ivery wan has a holiday Oi dunno Oi dunno Sorni a bit o me iver heerd the presto asphakiu av him An wuz he a married mont I Oi dunno II Thin Oim not sure at all at all that hes I a proper soobjec fur two varchowous colleens col-leens the bikes av us V be convarsin upon so I frs bike beebune us Thrue fur ye Nora ye wuz allays delicate deli-cate on the soobjee av propriety And the subject was dropped Chicago Tribune I |