| Show possible now to see washington the man now that prof albert bushnell nu icart says again that george washington swore during a cabinet meeting there Is n double indictment against him lie he also swore during the revolution resolution it Is said that on one occasion he threw his lint hat to the ground in a fury and jumped up and down on it uttering strong talk tho the while the more moie of the historians say that he was even vulgar 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 right night ecith benth century in virginia the best word picture of him done by anybody vint that of thackeray shows a washington not greatly unlike the contemporaries in history as in art and religion n there tire are fundamentalists and mo modernists d ernis ts th the e writers of the latter group 9 go much too far in their c efforts f to humanize manlye hu him they distort him into and vulgarity the fundamentalists still pu put tt a hatchet in his hand and make mm him innocent of even a white lie professor hart and are on the middle ground As the parson weems version of washington prevailed while the middle middie men of today were coming to maturity the silly old legends still etall prevail they are dying hard but they tire are dying in another 20 or 25 years there will be a far better con of this figure ns as he really was waa athe the first the last the best neither it plaster saint nor a devil may care boston herald |
