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Show UL. iufj-i' i! JJ:iX''J''-d?M&lvSlfj hlrh 'bought worthy enough TniT?""' ft4tiMf.1.kc..1, v-&l'cVSvl "N" w""n,t 1,00,1 00 th (l iT VJASHW Q'TOrJ AND .Mt3 M f fl.Tnon In mind and all that cm 'L.,.,.Baag5SWr?",,"jj' t.fi"lf Hf U pilgrim could make oulof a book's Tasi' SlMV Tl3 ti'3 lH fl Pi tltl. above which wu written VHIIINOTON - In the novel Wof "Ivanhoe." Inane the Jew tells the knight that he knowe It la I ho custom . S "f the Christians to put on ':' pilgrims' itarb and to walk 1 flTOli ,,l,r,'f,oted 'r nillca to j worship dead mcn'a bonna There la something of a jSJl sneer In Isaac tune and -n IVMiihoe rebukes him Willi a truly hemic. "Hlnsphem r, row!" I don't know how ninny thousands of Americana go yenrly to Mount Vernon to pay a 1lt to the repository re-pository of a dead ninn'a bonea, but the number la something enormous. If George Washington never bad lived nl Mount Vermin, never hnd via-Ited via-Ited there, never hnd died there, and hnd been burled In the antlpndea there would be eiruao enough for the vlalta to the place of seventy times seven ithe number of the pllgrlma who ko yearly down the I'otnmac to stand on the lowering hill and to look off down the valley. It la with an utter shame that It la ennfeaaed that after four years' i realdence In Waahlnitton one man K American born and with aome lurk- I ,n Pride of patriotism In his make- ,Y "P "itll recently wont to the f place where the father of his coun- " . f tr " the eiponent of the American V school teacher'! Ideal of truth Ilea i f burled. I Umnl Vernon la the ultimate ob ject of the voyaxe down the Potomac. There are other objects every paddle- wheel stroke of the way. for the hills on either aide are hills of rare beauty crowned with trees that saw the revolution rev-olution and Uiat In the full are wearing wear-ing the raiment which belongs to the kings of the forest. On the boat going down there waa young Oerniau geutlemnn, who had married an American wife. He waa much more Inieieated In the beauty of the Potomac's banks and In the history of the country beyond the bauka and In the life hlatory of tleorgo Waahlnitton than waa she The (lerman asked bla American wife If Oeorge Washington waa bora at Mount Vernon. Hoe answered that he was; which he wasn't, not bv E many miles. Me asked her many other questions, to eacb and everv one of which, but with ,.... . ' made answers. Thl. waa , travel JTI ter-girl. ter-girl. There I. a fairly Well-grounded biiur'lh'? she met and captivated her ol, while she was doing Europe , ? h?"h,nd waa ,h.Psll.,n, 0" ,h. Rb, ".. """'' or Some day, perhape-vedy likely, In fact-ahe will go back to her husband', laid and ClU listen to his telling of hi. American trip and n the enthusiasm of the nature which he made manifest on the Potomac he will tell the "hla-'arte "hla-'arte truths" concerning George Waeblngtun J which he learned from his American wife. I It may be that aome of the Germane who ' know aomethlng of Hie life of the American ion- ' "' "uo 'rlend and fellow soldier of Steuben will come to think, aa some Americana hnve come to think before this, that a little Amerlcuu hlatory might be Included In the courae of atudy of the average Amorlcan girl, and that not a dollar should be apent on her paaaage money to Europe until she knows without etnp-plug etnp-plug to think whether It waa George Washington or Abraham Lincoln who crossed the Delaware, nnd who, something later, forced the surrender of Cornwallla at Vorktown. Thla may aeem to be a matter that la beside the tunrk, but, while the listener had none too thorough a knowledge of American history, there were aome thluga said on the boat plying down the Potomac that If they had been said by an eighth-grade schoolboy school-boy ought to have brought hltu a donning. Mount Vermin has been written about by pretty neurly everybody who has seen the place. It hasn't fallen to the lot of everybody to see It In the fall. It Is a noble place, a fitting resting ground for the first American. It seldom falls to man's lot to see such heroic he-roic trees. There Is a giant oak which stands swnUuel over the first burial place of Washing- j ... 1 1 1 1W1 rn 1 1 minimum we ,r '-;,rI"!..'. i-,'-!-. ,.Jilj ."Z-TJX'"'H'''''-"'"' ,"c;-w ? :.;.v..rr aM.; .;; . - -t.-.Y,r " 1 ton. The body waa removed from the baae of the oak about 76 yoara ago. It never ahould have been removed. It la said that Washington selected the place where his body now lies and left Instructions that one day the change of aepulcher should be made. The oaU which guarded the first grave muat have been atandlng for three centuries. I. J. ,rom ,he ,,lc l"PlHng enough to enkindle the eyea of a dead man. The view from the new tomb la fine In Ita way. but It la as nothing noth-ing to the grand sweep of river, hilltops and for- .n.'V" b,or ,he " P'- where Waahlngton slept for 30 yeara. rt.i,"U'"l.re!.1 Vl"",r " lo M"1 Vernon I straightway go to the bouae. XUj e-an laaer- belonging, of Waahlngton, but It aeem. to be a legitimate matter of regret that of the thousand. ror which Waahlngton u.ed when he ahaved and In tl e .poor, with which he ate hi. porridge, If he at. porridge I. far greater than In the forest who!, h 7 "Mr,b.h l" " In the garden 01 ""aM c,,t Indoor, at Mount Vernon everything I. dead: outdoor, everything I. ,v.. Tb, fore.t ,nd tZl, k"""01 WUh w"""K'on; th. contents con-tents of the bouse are aa dual. There la a real Interest, however. In the library of the old home. n th. main the book, are simply cople. of those which were on the ahelvea in Washington', time. Th. originals a. I understand It. are In aeveral libraries of the country. There are two original., however, which are open at the title page, so that If the light be good, one may road Washington's name vrltten In hla own baud and the title of th. book 1 Jr word "Renllmental." Th wonder was. and th. pool light waa responsible for Ita remain lug wonder, If the father of hit country had not In hla quiet noun been reading "A Renllmental Jour ney." If the gentle Martha bat! peeped Into the pngn. and had re proved George because of what ah aw there one ran Imagine bis read) n.wer that the book was written bj a holy priest of her own chosec rhurch. The man with the megaphone or the Waahlngton "rubberneck" wag ona telle hla audience of passengert as they roll by the Metropolitan chit houae: "Thla la the elubof the nob..' In another minute, aa the big sight seeing bus passe, another clubhouai the megaphone man says: "And thli la the club of the cranks " "Th. club of the cranks," aa thl. In formation bowler call. It, I. the Cue no. club, and a mo.t Interesting or kanltatlon It la. Its membership la com posed of scientists, some physlclani ana clergymen, a row iswyera anc two or three newspaper men. Tb. .dentists art In the great majority. It costs a pretty penny to join th. Metropolllar club and to pay the due. and to live the life ol the orKunliatlua. Th. Initiation fee at the CosmcM club I. rather (mall, and th. due. are light, bill there are score, of members of the Metropolitan club, "the club of th. nobs." who willingly would pay twice or tsrlce th. Metropolitan's Initiation fee and the Metropolitan', dues If the eipeudlturt could gsln thrru admlsslua to th. club where tb "cranks" foreguOer. Kvery Mondat night I. called "social night" at th. Cosmos club Of course tb. clubhouse Is opec at all limes, but tin Monday evening the members make a elieelal krort to b. present and there li always a large fctberlng In the great, sweeping rooms of the hoik where one. lived Dolly Mud I sou. I They don't liarude "ahop" upon you In ths Cosmos club. Tht members ar. a geuiul body ol men and they hn many guests from all parts ol the world. They and out what the guest likes tc talk about and th some on. wbo knows the pub Ject Is promptly Introduced to him. There are few world subjects uin which you cannot get an expert opinion In tie Cosmos club. The members. If course, have their bobbles and they ride them , q 0n corner of a room thers will be an aatronolcal group, and there will b another corner wltu a fish group and another cor ner with a bird groan and another corner with. It may be, a mushroom group. It Isn't all science, however, la th. CoiUios club. The member, play billiards and pool and bridge, and they have a Hut time of It generally and at no great eipcimo, foi It la ona of th. bard fact, of earth that men de voted to .cleneo kav. little money. Lesrulu, dooan't bring high pay u th. market. UJ |
