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Show THE WASHINGTON monument is a something far in the dim future. But the women are determined to do something to keep alive the memory of America's idol; and so they are having the house at Mount Vernon repaired and refurnished. Their efforts apparently are not entirely satisfactory, for a lady correspondent of the Springfield Republican says: "It is such a pity-such a sad woeful pity-that the women who have this place in charge have so little common sense, so little taste and real veneration for the home of Washington. The different rooms belong to different States that have appropriated them, and a vandal[?] committee have undertaken to restore and furnish them. The east parlor or music room, treated by Ohio, heads the ignominious procession. It has at the first glance an Ohio look; it is so new, so fresh, so shoddy. They've painted the walls and ceiling, they've laid Turkish rugs on the floor, they've made new furniture that has the pattern but not the look of anything old, they've hung in it an abominable mirror with a beveled glass border ornamented with a cut-flower design, and the only thing in it is the harpsichord of Nellie Curtis." |