Show possible now to see washington the man now that prof albert bushnell hart says again that george washington swore during a cabinet meeting there Is a double indictment against him he also swore during the it Is said that on one occasion he threw his hat to the ground in a fury and jumped up and down on it uttering strong talk the while the more of the historians say that he was even val gar occasionally it Is known that he drank in moderation played cards for money went to cock fights and raced horses as all men of his station in life did during the eight benth century in virginia the bet word picture of him done by anybody that of thackeray shows a washington not greatly unlike the contemporaries in history as in art and religion there are annd and mod the writers of the latter croup go much too far in their et forts to humanize him they distort him into cheapness and vulgarity the fundamentalists still put a hatchet in his hand and make him innocent of even a white lie professor hart and thackeray are on the middle ground As the parson weems version of washington pre while the mid die men of today were coming to maturity the silly old legends still prevail chev are dying hard but they are dying in another 20 or 25 years there will be a far better conception of this figure as he really was the first the last the best neither a plaster lint nor a devil may care Boston derild |