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Show Persian-- ' retty. ARLINGTON ' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON THERE Embroider .SACREE): SHRINE OF AMERICAN DEVOTION ON MEMORIAL DAY " "- -i ', r. w--- Cir-Cl- k . sheep-sheurln- wk.h flags and flowers a monument that had been erected to f.he memory of 2,111 unidentified dead found on the fields of Bull Run and.the route to the Rappahannock. There, in 1921, was entombed the Unknown Soldier of the World war, to give the nation its most precious shrine. And there, as a crowning glory, has been erected the magnificent amphitheater of classic design in which the President of the United States on each Memorial Day speaks to the nation and for the nation in paying tribute to its soldier dead. Truly this is hallowed ground and Arlington is a hallowed name. ' . dence at Mount Vernon he and Mrs. Washington assumed Intimate and active care of the two children, who proved of much comfort to them In thplr declining yenrs. Why Named Arlington0 . In 179(1, what are now the Arlington lands were allotted by the court to the legal representatives of John Parke Custls who had died Restate. By the law of primogeniture the estate descended to Washington's namesake, George Washington Parke Custls. It was 0. W. P. Custls who named It Arlington, after the Custls ancestral home In Northampton county on the enstern shore of Virginia. George Washington Phrke Custls had an Interesting cnrc&r.- From the time lie was six months old until the denth'of his grandmother, Martha Washington, on May 22, 1S02, Klch In sentiment, Arlington Is also rich In tradition anti In historic association. Its story goes back to the year 1GG9 when Sir William Berkeley, royal governor of Virginia, by authority of King Charles II, by the grace of find and by the discovery of John Cabot." granted to Itohert 11 owner, a sen captain, 6, (XX) acres of land, Including the present site of Arlington, for bringing settlers to Virginia. Ilowser la said to have sold his grant the very same year to the Alexander fuinlly .for six hogshends of tobncco, But they do not seem to hnve taken advantage of what was obviously a good bargain until 1735 when John and Gerald Alexander asserted title ander the grant made CO years previously and their title was sus. tained. , On Christmas day of 1778 Gerald Alexander sold two trncts- on the Potomac to a certain. John- Parke Custls. One of these tracts, embrac1,100 acres and Including the f ing present national cemetery, brought 11,000 pounds sterling In Virginia currency. John Parke Custls was the son of Col. Daniel Parke Custls who seventeen-year-olmarried had ltartha Dandrldge, the reigning belle of Williamsburg, then the lending city In the. Old Dominion Daniel Parke Custls, died In the spring of 1757, leaving besides his widow and tbelr two children, John Tarke Custls and Martha ' Parke Custls, an estate Valued .at more - - d 4' " than $100,000. . An Historic Marriagt. little more than a year later a young officer In- the Virginia col onlal troops, .who had distinguished himself at Braddock's defeat, came the Widow Custls. Ills name wps George Washington and he and Martha Dandrldge Custls were mnrrled on January 6, 1730, Washington grew passionately and fond of his two Custls died on when Martha June 19, 1773, at the age of sbven teen he was almost Mennwhlle her brother, John Parke Custls. had become deeply smitten with the charms of Miss Eleanor Calvert, second daughter of Benedict Calvert of Mount Airy, Md., a of Lord Baltimore. descendant Ills marriage took place in FebA - step-childre- n jmnrt-broko- ruary, 1774. . At the beginning of the Revolu tlon young Custls promptly offered his services to bis country' and as an aide to Washington he served with distinction down to the siege of Yorktown. There, however, he contracted camp fever and before the surrender took place he was forced to leave his post. lie was removed to the home of his uncle Colonel Bassett, at Eltham where he died on November 5. 17SI, leaving his young widow and four small children. This second blow was almost as great a one to Washington as the death of Martha Parke Custls had been. He Immediately adopted as his own the two younger children, Eleanor Parke Custls and George Washington Parke Custls. who were taken to Mount Vernon and placed a the care of Mrs. Lund Washing George Washington Parke Custis he was continually under her guidance and Influence or under the Instruction of his famous adopted fa- Ave., .New York, of his hobbles. A barbecue was the reword of those who attended these festivals and "an oration by Custls was the penalty" at least, that Is the way one of his descendants put Mrs. Lee left Arlington for Richmond, where he Immediately entered the military service, first of Virginia and later of the Confed eracy. From the date of their departure Arlington was occupied only by servants and soon afterwards a force of Union troops commanded by Colonel Ilelntzelmnn took charge of It Although he was one of the wealthiest men of his day, Custls was often hard pressed for ready cash. On one occasion he asked the bnnk to defer puyrnent of a note for $05 and In 1S31 he applied to the Bank of the United States for a loan of $12,000 In order to finance a trip to Frnnce. There he proposed to go to obtain from Lafayette all of his Revolutionary war papers and his personal recollections of Washington, for a book on "The Private Memoirs of the Life nn'd Character, of Washington" which Custls proposed to write.. Resides aspiring to be the biographer of his adopted father, Custls also had ambitions as. a painter, a poet and a playwright As the latter he wrote such productions as "Launch of Columbia, or "Our Blue Juckcts Forever," "National Dream of Pocahontas, of the First Settlers of Virginia," and an operetta called "The Railroad." "Pocahontas" was played In Charleston and Columbia, S. C and "The Railroad" waj produced at the Old National theater In Washington and also ran for seven nights In Haiti more. First Burials After the first battle of Buil Ran, McDowells army entrenched Itself on Arlington Heights; the mansion was occupied by officers, soldiers were encamped on Its grounds and two strong forts were built there for the defense of Washington. After the battles of the Wilderness, Quartermaster Gen. M. C. Meigs ordered burial at Arlington for all soldiers dying In the military hospitals in and around Washington. The official records of such burials begin with Slay 13, 18G4, so Arlington has been a burial place of soldier of a dead for nearly of the bodies When the century. unknown soldier dead, burled between the Potomac and the Rappahannock, were relnterred In Arlington It brought, the total of Civil wpr burials there fo 10,000. three-quarter- .N- - X A Merry Chase 'Correspondent wants to know If debt collecting is a profession. J think. Its a pursuits Usu-all- 1hm ratters Cultivate Quietness IMS IIow would you like to. find this cute Persian kitten curled up In your favorite chair, or tn a- pretty frame above your hed? Embroider' a pillow or picture with her soft likefless, as you can do so easily tn cross stitch, and make her adoption complete. Use wool, silk Or cotton floss, though angora yarn makes the most realistic likeness. Youll love, doing this needlework' In your spare time, and llnd the crosses an easy 0 to the inch. 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I.," of the Garfield, later president United States, and at that time A" ? si 7t,Ml W f7l was inaugurated the custom of honoring the Unknown Dead, Arlington House, Built by George Washington Parke Custis on His Estate, Now Arlington National Cemetery. as well ai those whose names whose husband was munaglng ferried across the I'otomac to at- go with his state when It left the are known. For the principal ton, fesUnion, although It meant the sacrithe general's property at that place. tend the annual Memorial first at that the fice of everything which he held since tivals which Custls and came Whon permanent peace held, ceremony Day celebration was decorating Washington again took up his resi- breeding of merino sheep was one dear. On April 22, 18G1, Colonel and i in-Cros- is one place in IFthe Easy to . Stitch or Pillow .Kitten i. . - Anybody can appreciate a splendid sunset. It takes a sc.holmly mind to write poetry about It. 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(1316 W) As fob the process by which Arlington became a national cemetery, it came about In this way: In 1SG2, by act of congress, a property tax Writer of Melodrama' was levied In all the states for the "Pocahontas" was criticized as be- conduct of the war. This tax totaled ing too melodramatic and Custls $92 for the Arlington property, and wrote to a friend: "Melodrama Is all since It was unpaid, the property the go now, and even In historical was Ordered sold on Jadunry 11, plays you must sprinkle show and 1SG4. The government was empowpageant and things to please the ered to bid the property In and to' senses as well as the Judgment. . . . use It for educational and military The play Is In Iaindon In the hands purposes. The price paid was ' of Washington Irving and John Howard Payne, who will under their In 1S77 George Washington Custls able auspices bring It out on the Lee brought suit In circuit court London stage. If successful there, for the ejectment-opersons living why, I may he considered here as on the estate, The federal government had rented out parcels of land something of a dramatist." . But If Custls never became known to smnll farmers, while on one cor as "something of a dramatist," he Is nor of tho property a village of remembered for many other rensons, nearly 1,000 persons had grown up, One of them Is the fact that it was won his case In the lower court, In his mansion on June 30, 1831, thnt and In 1SS2 the Supreme court uphis only daughter, Mary Ann Ran held the verdict The government dolph Custls, was mnrrled to a then had made Itself a party to the young lieutenant In the engineers suit, and following the handing $2G,-800- . ther. Perhaps no other American toy ever had better advantages offered him than young Custls had In bis day. As a child ho met all of the great men who had taken part In the American Revolution, and when Washington became President he was taken with him to live In New York and later to Philadelphia. In both places he frequently came hi contact with the builders of the republic, as well as the most cultured and retired element with which- Jflio first President continually gurfound ed himself, lie was educated along the most practical linos In the best schools of his day, forming the foundation for his subsequent taste for art and as literature, and equipping-hiwell for the speakers platform, which he delighted In filling in after years. Following the death of his grand s J V v w.n MOv- v -I ' mother, he made his home for two ,yf i ' V - I 'V; years with bis sister, who had man rled MaJ. Lawrence Lewis. In 1S02, In anticipation of his own marriage to Mary Lee Fltr.hujrh he' began building Arlington mansion, or Lee Y mansion, as It later was callwd. To Y Y. ' v this house, designed after the Tem' 's 'Ys ' lr of Theseus Athens, Greece, ple he brought his bride In ISO! and for the next half. century the "Sage of Arlington," ns he became known, was a leading figure In the life of the national capital There were few men of hote whom' he did not know and few men whq did1 nof know him, i popular with the' people 'of Washington for The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington. whose entertainment he grneftoflsly threw the grounds of his 'estate rp$ of the United States army. down of the Supreme court decision Ills tame was Robert Edward Lee It agreed to pay Lee the $130,000 open. Tlmy were glad to take advantage of his hospitality even though and through that marriage the name he asked, as a compromise. This he was regarded as somethlng.of fin ot another fuamous Virginia family sunt was appropriated by congress . and turned over to Lee.. . beennift linked with Arlington. eccentric character. . The approaching storm of civil After the close of the Civil war Relics of the Washingtons, vflit greatly troubled the mind of the Arlington house, or the Lee mansion Arlington bouse became the re, master of Arlington but he did not as It became known because of Its posltory of a Urge and interesting lfe to see It break. He died on Oc- association with the great leader collection of relics of the Washing- tober 10, 1S57, of the Lost Cause, remained a detons which were given to him by Custls had tfoqueathed the Arlingserted mansion. In recent years, his doting grandmother, or feli to ton House estate of 300 acres to however. It has been restored ami his lot In the final division of the tils daughter and at her death to completely furnished with original household goods or which he pur- her eldest son, George Washington pieces of furniture, or faithful rechased from less affluent posses- Custls Lee. Colonel Lee obtained productions of them and contempo-rar- y sors. These Included among other leave from the articles so that a visit to It army to go to Arlingthings the bed In which Washington to settle the Custis estate and takes one back to the days when the ton died and the tent 'which had during his brief stay there brought "Sage of Arlington" ruled there and sheltered him during the Revolu- order out of the chaotic conditions gave the hand of his daughter In tion. The latter was often pitched Into which It had fallen In the last marriage to the man who was deson the Arlington lawn for the awed tined to become one of the greatest days of Custls life. admiration of residents of GeorgeIt was at Arlington that Lee captains of all time. town and Washington who were made his momentous decision to C WMtvrn NtwaptMr Union. f . le . tft J '' v- v X wx-- $ not afraid, thats the man4 fHE WHOLE DILLON GANG BEHIND BARS . Uk THOUSANDS OF OTHER JOEE. . GIRLS, HE'S A MEMBER OF My HE HAD THE THERES PROOF! MV JOE E. 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