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Bellefonte, Pa., February, 24, 1911.
FOR WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.
Here's to the tree and the cherries it bore;
Here's to the hatchet that smote it full sore;
Here's to the lad that was honest and true;
Here's to his colors. the red, white, and blue;
Here's to his sword with the laurel entwined;
Here's to the hero in all hearts enshrined!
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GOOD TO HIS GUESTS.
Thoughtfulness of his guests was a
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striking tic in the make-up of
Ww. An incident which illus-
trates this comes down to us, as told by
Elkanah Watson. Watson was visiting
Washington at his Mount Vernon home,
after his retirement from the Presidency.
I was, he says, extremely oppressed by a
severe cold and excessive coughing, con-
tracted by the exposure of a harsh jour-
a decision in his favor would “cause the
most people the least trouble.” His argu-
ment won the day.
never new so constant an at-
in church as Washi And
is behavior in the house of God was
reverential that it pro-
effect on my congre-
y ever with-
have often been
at Mount Vernon on Sabbath morning,
when his breakfast table was filled wit
guests. But to him they furnished no
pretext for neglecting his God and losing
the satisfaction of setting a good example,
For instead of staying at home, out of
false complaisance to them, be used con-
stantly to invite them to accompany him.
ughing : A Story of Starch.
y Ss from | Starch keeps us “stiff” inside as well as
posure. It |, Hall the food we eat, potatoes and
n contains a large amount
I TE Et ams A Jum amount
beside him course, been of importance to man since
with his own the earliest times. The other use of
starch, at the hands of laundresses and
careful housewives, began about three
- hundred and sixty years , and is sud
to my intellectual stature, | to have nated in re
It came into jpopelarity in England in
the of Elizabeth, whose courtiers
and ladies wore ruffs of cambric too large
to stand firm without artificial stiffening.
The starch of the Elizabethans was like
| that of modern times except that it was
| colored, and it gave delicate tints to the
| huge linen contrivances of the fashion.
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ness, and charming the confidence, of a Before Elizabeth's time ruffs were not
shy, frightened hing of cambric, but of fine Holland, which
As to Mrs. Washington, the little guest Jucywired no stiffening, and was very cost-
—as she said later—was so a ily.
ed on this EH with oa Washing. | It is recorded that. when the Queen had
ton, I paid very little attention to his ruffs made of lawn and cambric for her
wife. She took small note of children, | OWn use, none of her friends could tell
and the only recollection that comes to | how to starch them; but the Queen made
me of her in this first interview is that ' Special call for some women who could
she was handsome, of dignified - starch, and Mrs. Grilham, wife of an offi-
and was dressed in a rich figured ilk cial of the royal household, was the first
. Washi [rosse] tie to use some
Ey but 1 declined doing so. As
after retiring, my ng in- |
. elapsed
the door of my room was gently opened, |
bowl of hot tea in his hand. i
It is said that the Commander-in-Chief cellency and M
of the Continental hich were |
preparing to receive the British after the
surrender of Yorktown—was heard to | ment
the following words to a portion of : which
army:
your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no
clamorous huzzahing increase their morti-
fication. It is sufficient satisfaction to us
that we witness their humiliation. Pos- | Presidency: “The Dancing Assembly of
| Philadelphia—May the members thereof, i
' and the Hix sex who Honor it with Shee
A more particular follower of fashion Presence, long continue the en t 0
than George Washington would have been | abi amusement so Innocent and 30 ag
hard to find. Most of his clothes were or- | Pie.
terity will huzzah for us.”
TRAITS OF WASHINGTON.
dered from London, and no out-of-date
rel would please him. He once told |
a friend that *“we often have articles sent
to us that could only have been used in
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perfine blue cotton velvet as will make a
coat, a waist-coat and breeches for a tall
man, with a fine silk button to suit it;
six pairs of the very neatest shoes, and | aPParently, and certainly with a deal of
one dozen of the most fashionable cam- |
bric pocket-handkerchiefs.”
No one ever knew Washington to be be-
hind-hand on any occasion. Punctuality, |
which seemed a part of his very nature,
he expected to see just as rigidly observed
by his friends. When he invited le
to dine with him at a certain hour he ex-
pected them to be there. Very often one
or two would appear when dinner was al-
most half over, and to such he would
sometimes say in his polite hg © Gen-
tlemen, we are punctual here. y cook
never asks whether the Company has ar-
rived, but whether the hour
Col. Humphreys, who has seen much of !
public life, was given full charge of all ar-
ents connected with the reception
of guests at the President's levees.
ranged an ante-chamber and a presence-
room. In the latter the guests assembled.
Its doors were opened wide while Hum-
phreys preceding the President, walked
through the ante-chamber and, i
the presence-room, announced in a |
States. This rather embarrassed Wash-
3 : | lence and the tenderness of the scene.
Eton, and later Die said to Humphreys. passed th the
, you have taken me in once, but you
shall never take me in a second time.” | SOrPs of light infantry and
Virginia planter, twenty years her senior.
and money in plenty were left her
at his death. The two littl
her second marriage—were always treat-
ed with the greatest kindness and i
eration their foster-father. In
brought her so many | the steward and, in a rebuking tone, he
suitors and so much favor, never deserted | said: Take it away, sir; take it
her as she grew older.
Washi
doctrine that marriage is a failure. On
the contrary, he wrote many years after
ith Martha Custis: “I
most interesting event of one's Hie. the | (0 the fact that he would spare himself
his marriage with
My brave fellows, let no sen- { all night—an elegant room; the
sation of the satisfaction for the triumphs | nating, fireworks, etc.,
you have gained induce you to insult | pretty.”
| a dancing assembly in Philadelphia a few
a | take my leave, but shall be obliged to you
In a letter to Madison, Jefferson says that 3
Col. Humphreys on one such occasion ar- | if €ach of you will come and take me by
| dignified sensibiy
ad) § sensibility;
The President of the United | Jb la
e children— | One
consid- | curable was obtained as a pleasant
her | prise. With much
was not a believer in te
broide pron d | starcher.
witha sm Ss mn Sided 2 har i In 1564 a Flemish woman, Frau Van de
her neck and shoulders. Pluses, came: jo Londons and gscablighed
ANCI i there a sc to starching.
FOND OF DANCING, | school succeeded, and the Frau of Flan.
|. Dancing was a pastime of which Wash- , ders became rich. She charged a high |
| ington was excondiigly fond. Gen. | price for each lesson, with an additional
little dance at my | charge for a recipe for making starch out !
quarters a few evenings - His ex-| of wheat, flour, bran, and roots.
rs. Greene upward | Among the nobility the favorite color
was yellow—rather odd when we remem- |
ber what the modern housekeeper thinks |
| OF yetiow Slotkes; The Wir isgblonssle)
3 ad | fol preferred green. ropriately |
illumi- | enough, our Puritan forebears used blue |
were more than | starch, although many of them did not |
; approve starch at all. They classed it |
among the idle trumperies of life.
of three hours without once sitting down.”
Knox describes “a most genteel entertain-
given by myself and officers, at
ashington danced. We danced
This toast was given by Washington at
An Intelligent Elephant.
In India domesticated elephants are
usually given drink from large wooden
troughs filled with well-water by means |
of a pump, and an elephant usually per-
forms this operation. Every morning he |
goes regularly to his task. I
On one occasion, when one old fellow |
was engaged in pumping such a trough
full of water, it was noticed by a passer-
by that one of the two tree-trunks that
supported the trough at either end had '
led from its place, so that the trough |
began to empty itself before it was full. |
he elephant was closely watched to!
see whether he would discover that some-
thing was wrong. The animal showed
signs of lexity, but, as the end near- |
est him lacked much of being full, he!
continued to pum
Finally, seeing
to pass out, he left the pump-handle and !
began to consider the phenomenon. He
seemed to find it difficult to explain.
Three times he returned to his pumping,
days previous to his retirement from the
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Many incidents showing Washington's
| shrewdness have been recorded by vari-
! ous writers. A good example is an ex-
i perience he had with Volney, a French
Volney wrote to the Presi- :
duction to the American people. Wash-
ington had reasons for not wishing to
| give it, and yet with the utmost courtesy,
tact, he simply wrote back the words:
C. Volney needs no recommendation
G. Washington.
WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL TO HIS SOL-
DIERS.
, from
bl Fraunces's tavern, soon after | and three times he examined the
which their beloved commander entered | Soon a lively of his ears indicated
the room. His emotions were too the dawning of
strong
to be concealed. Juruing to them he
said: With a heart full of love and grati-
tude I now take leave of you. I most
devoutly wish that your later days may
going to put it in its place again. Bat it
be as prosperous and ha; as r
former ones have been and hon- Was not, 55 #00n Losathe ; SA Darel) t, She
orable. I cannot come to each of you to
Raising the trough, which he then al-
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huge feet, he rolled away the second
‘braced him. In
| manner he took leave of each
In eye was the tear of
® yas uo to the pump and completed his task.
ted to interrupt the majestic si-
Leaving the room, he
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A SHREWD CALCULATOR.
Much of Washington's success was due
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the concession have made an annual
foundation of happiness or misery.” And ' "0 effort—whether he was doing an act Qetivery of 200.000 kilos per annum in
Mrs. W. paactical and industri- °f s, or concerning himself in t for their previlege.
ous, gen and trustful, seems to matters of importance to the nation. ber is the result of a disease. The
have been well fitted to inspire this senti. | humorous Story ahustiat this very | first forest that exuded gum was a sick
ment in her noble husband. When he | Sharacteristic, ati Site ane: | forest,
rode away to war she wrote in her diary: ngton neighbor, :
“Yes, | forsee consequences; dark days | Mr. Mason were both vestrymen of Po-| ——In a contest between two living
and darker nights; social ts hick church, the members of which were | skeletons it is difficult for either to cast
abandoned: yume planning to erect a new on a | the other in the shade. i
jeopardy by war, perhaps; neighbors and different site. At a meeting to dis- —— i
pany} variance, and eternal separa. CUSS the matter Mr. Mason favored the | ——They say every man has his price, |
tion on earth possible. But my mind is old location, while Col. Washinglon just but isn’t it true that a good many men |
made up. My heart ian "the cae. 38 Siongy ued new ne. The mat. | give themselves away?
George is right—he is always right. | deliberat; When the 1 pd =o lived w
AWED BY GREATNESS.
some other |
husband wasn't pitied by
woman.
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ced and id them carefully together at
Poa, a unique crea
The Status of England's Qneen.
It may be said that, by reason of curi-
' ous provisions of law prevailing in Great
Britain, the Queen is, for private business
purposes, not as a married wom-
an at all, seeing that she is the only wom-
an in the realm who does not come with-
Property Act. The iple of this law
may be stated sim thus: The King.
as such, is entirely different from all 8
er married men. His time is too fully
taken up with the affairs of state to per-
‘ mit him to devote any part of the remain-
der to domestic matters. It follows, there-
fore, that the whole management of the
Queen's private business matters must de-
volve upon Her Majesty herself, and that
no responsibility whatever in respect to
them rests upon the King.
If, therefore, such a thing could be im-
agined as Queen Mary contracting debts
in her husband’s name, the King would
not be responsible for them, as any other
husband in Great Britain would be unless
he had given due notice to all concerned
that he would for the future decline to
settle such accounts.
The Ria may not be sued for the re-
covery of the amount of money represent-
ed by any indebtedness he may incur;
but the Queen is accorded no such protec-
tion under the British law. She has her
own Attorney-General and Solicitor-Gen-
eral to represent her in all her legal mat-
ters, though: of course, pavept for ordi-
nary private purposes their services are
scarcely ever needed.
Authorities have held that, while the
Constitution is glad to recognize the
Queen, the fact must not be lost sight of
that, after all, her position is limited to
that of Queen Consert, and that, there-
fore, she is in a sense one of His Majes-
ty’s subjects. In certain contingencies,
remotely likely to arise in these times,
she would be treated as a subject; but in
other respects she is accorded privileges
by the realm that are given to no other
person save the King.
In this relation particular mention may
be made of the question of high treason.
Now, it is generally understood that the
King is the only personage against whom
it is high treason to plot; but it would
also be high treason to conspire inst
Queen Mary. All consorts of British rul-
ers have not enjoyed this privilege. When,
for instance, Philip of Spain married the
first Queen Mary, it was denied to him,
though some time after the marriage a
special act of Parliament was passed in
which he was granted the concession.
The signature “Georgius Rex” will te
attached to all state documents of such
importance as to demand it; but in no
circumstances whatever would the cor-
responding one, “Maria Regina,” be al.
lowed to be affixed, either in conjunction
with that of George or without it. Should |
Mary survive the King, many cf the priv-
ileges that she at present possesses will
be withdrawn from her, only nominally |
in some cases, but actually in others, :
while constitutional law provides that
some curious restrictions shall be placed
upon her. It will no longer be high treas-
on to plot against her, and it is held by,
at least one high authority that she could
not jany again without the special li-
cense and permission of the King's suc-
cessor.
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Fishing with Dogs.
ey |
The Ainus of Saghalin Island, off the!
Sibenan coast, have a unique method of
fishing for salmon-trout with
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The waters about the island are won- | riveted, wired, and clamped to a some- horn?
derfully clear, and from a boat the bot- |
tom of the water is distinctly visible, and
innumerable salmon-trout may be seen
swimming.
The Ainus, when about to fish, take
with them a number of dogs. Ata cer-
tain point all the men and dogs come to
a halt. Then half the men and dogs
move farther along the water's edge, |
about two hundred yards.
At a concerted signal the dogs are
started from their respective points, and
swim straight out seaward in single file
in two columns. At a cry from the Ainus,
the right column wheels left, and the left
column wheels right, until the heads of
the columns meet. Then, at another
signal all of them swim in line toward
the shore.
As the dogs near the shore, increasing
numbers of fish appear in the shallow
water, frightened forward by the splash-
ing of the advancing column of dogs,
which, as soon as their feet touch bot-
tom, pounce upon the fishes with light-
ning rapidity.
e animals promptly bring the fish
have seized to their masters,
who cut off their heads and give each dog
the head which belongs to him as his
share of the catch. The dog that catches
nothing gets nothing.
It is believed that this dog-drill of the
Ainus is entirely unique. It is the more
extraordinary, when it is considered that
the many of which have been cap-
tured the forest, are still half-wild.
Cranes That Herd Sheep.
The yakamik of South America is, so
far as is known, the only “shepherd bird”
anywhere. We have all known, of course,
of dogs that, unaided, may be trusted to
Shepherd a flock of sheep, but a shepherd
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ture, protect them from prowling animals,
| to bring them safely home again,
ture.
The native owners of sheep and poul-
try in Venezuela and British Guiana are
the possessors of this shepherd bird, and
back safely. Any unlucky animal detect-
ed by the yakamik while prowling about
to steal gets very much the worst of it.
e bird savagely attacks the marauder
th wing and beak, forcing it to retreat
in haste. A dogs no match at all for
At dusk the bird returns with its flock,
never losing its way, no matter how far
it may wander, for its sense of location is
extremely acute. When it arrives home,
the yakamik roosts upon a tree or shed
near its charges, to be ready
its supervision of them when they are let
out in the A
queer bird is to be as affec-
as it is trustworthy. It will follow
its master about with capers of delight,
showing its appreciation of any attention |
given it by the most extraordinary evolu. |
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~The trouble with most of us is that
we never put off till tomorrow the trou-
ble we can borrow today. i
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
for | can enjoy life to the full, eat heartily,
| cure is being established. The “Pellets”
A Safe Explosive.
A new osive has been discovered in
Berlin which is set off only by a special
detonator. The inventor was led to the
discovery by the fact that certain very
powerful explosives can be exploded only
by the application of a certain degree of
Sica) lore. the elements of this ex-
plosive 8! at reciprocal pow-
ad that ordinary oh does not permit
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required to break them down. But there
are other chemical compounds whos in-
gredients have so little affluvity that they
can be separated without difficuity.
Nitrate of ammonium is of the latter
class; and when suddenly placed in con-
tact with a source of ignition its acid and
ammonia gas elements explode and while |
exploding the nd poses,
Ammonal, the explosive obtained by
knowledge of the properties of nitrate of
ammonium, is excessively powerful and
absolutely smokeless, and the products of
its combustion are harmless.
This explosive is produced by mixing
aluminun: in powder with nitrate of am-
monium. |
The strength of the explosive can be
increased by varying the proportions of |
the elements, and thus rendering them
equivalent either to the most active nitro-
glycerine or to the most harmless gun-
wder, so that ammonal is good for use
in mines for blasting, extracting coal or
slate, and in places where the work to be
done requires a slowly progressive ex-
plosive. It is of excellent service when
something requiring great precaution and
care is to be extracted, such
When the pulverized aluminum in am-
monal takes fire it scizes the oxygen of
the nitrate of ammonium and the gases
force the explosicn.
One of several advantages of ammonal
is that the men who work with it are
absolutely safe. It cannot go off without
the agency of its detonator. It is harm-
less when not exploded. No precautions
are needed either in its use or in storing
it. In storage it resists all the changes
in temperature as long as it is kept in a
dry place.
All sorts of experiments have been
made in testing it. A three-pound pack-
age of it was thrown in the fire; the en-
velope burned, but there was no explo-
sion. A package of one-pound weight
was put on a hard rock and pounded |. Toate given six
with a hammer. The result was what it
would have been bad the ammonal been
been sawdust. Another package was
placed at the end of a pistol. and
the pistol was fired without affecting’
the eqplosive.
Thus it was shown that ammonal can-
not be exploded except by the touch of
its own detonator.
Washington's Artificial Teeth.
It may not be generally known that the |
Americans to wear artificial teeth. By |
the time the War of the Revolution had |
i ended he had parted company with most |
of the outfit which nature had given him. |
An ingenious physician and dentist of |
New York City undertook the then un- |
usual task of re-equipment, and produced |
at length a full set of artificial teeth.
These are now, of course, a dental curios- |
ity, and offer an additional proof of the
heroism of our first President, for it is a |
matter of fact that General Washi n |
wore those teeth for many years and, so
far as we know, never complained of |
them. i
The teeth were carved from ivory, and
what ponderous gold plate. Three large |
| clamps, in particular, figure conspicuous-
ily in the roof of the mouth, and must
have caused difficulty, if not anguish.
There were an upper and an under set; |
and the two were connected and held in
position relatively by a long spiral spring
on each side.
Nevertheless, Washington wore them
| long and well; a fact sufficiently attested |
by the worn and dinted condition of both !
teeth and plate.
At the last account these teeth were!
the property of a dental institution in |
Baltimore. i
The Spelling Habit.
The art of spelling words correctly is |
of comparatively recent ute. Time
was when men and wouen did not care.
but wrote ahead without regard to strict
orthography. Madame de Sevigne, for
instance, never learned the proper way to
While it was remarked
by Madame de Maintenon that at the col-
lege of St.-Cyr much precious time was
wasted in learning how to spell.
E It Semaine Sowever, for the Empress
ugenie, at piegne, to put to
a practical test the spelling standard
which obtained even among the highest
literary authorities. Thus, under pretext
of a theme proposed to them for an ex-
amination, a number of French Academi-
cians took down from dictation a compo-
sition by Prosper Merimee. Not one
“immortal” wrote without mistake. |
As to the Empress, she could not un- |
so many faults being made, un- |
til it was conveyed to her that she her- |
self, from the same dictation, was Fespon-
sible for no less ha ninety: "Lk -
peror again made sixty. It is but r to
S04 noveever, Shiak the dictation aS co:
i y with a view to focussi
the difficulties not only of spelling, .
grammar.
Nature's Object Lesson.
In almost every community
will be
found some one woman who is a splendid
example of ect health. She knows
nothing of di which afflict most
women. Motherhood to her is pure j
with scarce 4 pain-pang to mar it. dhe
sleep soundly and throw her whole energy
into work or play as it may happen. That
woman is Nature's lesson. She has no
privilege above any other member of her
sex. No rights that do not belong to
ecery woman. This fact has been proven
in thousands of cases in which women
have been lifted from misery up to the
high level of robust health by the use of
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The
possibilities .of perfect health inhere in
every woman. Its development is ob-
structed by local disease. “Favorite
Prescription” removes the on
and makes weak women strong and sick
women well.
In the use of ordinary pills the dose
must be increased the longer the pil fs
used. That means the pill habit is being
established. In the use of Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets the dose is diminished
instead of increased. That means that a
are an aid to Nature, and when the nat-
ural functions are re-established the
“Pellets” having done their work can be | bread,
dispensed with. They are invaluable for
the cure of constipation and its myriad
consequences.
ration and violent means are Bj
as gold. |
; nearly any dealer. This can be
| the old familiar game of “hide
i ble” in which the hunter is
; hidden hatchet by being to
. is “hot or cold,” or by di
. FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
———
It is a great service to create an honest smile as
we meet one another in this heavy-laden world
=The Rev. Dinsdale T, Young.
An amusing feature for a Washi 's
rthday entertainment, says What-to
Eat, is to have a story teller, costumed to
represent George Washington, to tell as
many improbable yarns as possible. The
fun of the game, of course, is founded on
the proposition that Washington could
not tell a lie. The storyteller should
, look very serious when relating his yarns
and the more absurd stories, the greater
the ainusement. Another appropriate en-
tertainment of the same nature is to have
a story-telling contest, each guest exert-
| ing himself to tell the most improbable
! of three or ote persons decides upon the
Either the hostess or a committee
stories and awa
est Manchausen.
Cherry Tree Contest.—A cherry tree
contest affords much amusement. The
hostess should secure a bough of a green
om the branches 9 Which she sus-
means of green several
dozen candied or imitation cherries.
Each is blindfolded in succession,
tu around three times, handed a Jie
of scissors and told to clip as many -
ries as he can. Each is allowed two or
Tee nutes in which to do the clipping.
yer is supposed to clip into space,
wherever he thinks the cherries are, and
must not feel for the tree or endeavor to
the prize to the great-
' touch it with his hands. The person cli
ping the greatest number of cherries in
the time allowed is awarded a box filled
with crystallized fruit.
Burying the hatchet is a feature no less
entertaining. Procure a hatchet-shaped
candy box, which can be bought from
as
thim-
ided to the
whether he
viding the com-
pany into equal sections which compete
' with each other in a hatchet-hunting con-
test. One section adjourns into a hall or
i neighboring room, while the other hides
the hatchet. ‘the first section then re-
esses in which
to locate the hatchet. If the correct loca-
tion is named, the guessing side wins a
poiat, if not, the other side scores. The
iding party next adjourns to the hall and
. becomes the guessers. And thus the alter-
nation continues several times, and the
side with the greatest number of correct
, guesses to its credit wins the prize. Those
‘on the winning side often are allowed to
engage in an individual contest of card
cutting or drawing straws or some such
simple lot game, to see which one shall
Father of hisCountry was one of the first | finally possess the hatchet filled with can-
_ Question Contest.—Any short Wash-
ington Birthday entertainment might be
combined with a historical contest, the
questions all pertaining to incidents in the
life of Washington. Here is an appropri-
ate list of questions with the correct an-
swers:
Question 1. What was the profession
of Washington's father? Answer. Plant-
er.
Q. 2 Did George Washington attend
o.
any college? A.
Q 3 “What was the maiden name of
his mother? A. Mary Ball.
Q. 4. In what year was Washington
A. 1732,
In what State? A. Virginia.
Who sent him on his famous
journey through the wilderness? A. Gov-
ernor Dinwiddie.
Q. 7. What nobleman was his early
patron? A. Lord Fairfax.
Q. 8. What position did he hold under
Braddock? A. Aide de camp.
Q. 9. Whom did he marry? A. Mrs.
Martha Custis.
Q. 10. How did he act when compli-
mented first on his military service?
A. Blushed, stammered and could not
speak.
Q. 11. What year was he made conti-
nental commander-in-chief? A. 1775.
Q. 12. Where did he spend the winter
of 1777? A. Valley Forge.
aE When was he elected President?
Q. 14. How long did he hold the Presi-
dency? A. Two terms of four years
or Did he leave children at death?
0.
Q. 16. Where did he die? A. At
Mount Vernon.
Q. 17. Did he hold slaves? A. Yes.
an Did he approve of slavery?
0.
Q. 19. What became of his slaves after
their master’s death? A. They were set
ree.
Q. 20. whom was he called “first in
war, first in peace,” etc?. A. By the
House of Representatives.
Q. 5.
Q. 6.
Two girls last gave such a jolly
Washington's y entertainment
that others may like to copy it.
They sent out invitations to a Colonial
Sigtinety ove A square of heavy water.
color paper, just enough p into a
large envelope, for a crest a small
gilt hatchet surrounded by a border of
cherries. Beneath it was the date 1732.
3508 is hiao and gilt. Thelivitationwes
tten as for an ordinary party, but was
kept in an oblong space that left an inch
and a half border of white paper.
Quite conceal the invitation form
trees to form a nook
for the music, a band of three
pieces.
Tied around the lower half of tree
the
trunks were great gilt hatchets made of
pasteboard.
The refreshiinis juiso were
pe great 0
and steam Bot
in several French
drinks, while lamon
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