Show Lafayette Pose In her recent book The Home of the Laayettes Miss Edith Slchel narrates the following anecdote of the friend of Washington In America On returning I from hjs visit to America In 1S23 Lafayette stood for his portrait His sister Madame de Montagu was much embarrassed by the thought that ho would probably reR been painted with the Declaration of Rights In his hand but she was too delicate to ask hlrtiOn On his first visit to her after his return home she inquired what pose he had chosen cho-sen Her curiosity made him smile Veil my dear ho replied I am tak tiK a walk my hatand cane in my hand like this and he Imitated the attitude he had described 1 li z And the other hand asked Madame do Montagu anxiously It is In my pocket answered the general gen-eral which Is better than having it in somebody clsos It Is this portrait which hangs In the I White House in Washington |