WASHINGTON'S Cn country's father, here to-day Thy children honor then, And crnm thy enre and guidance msy Protect and keep ui free. Ay", not Alone thy children bend In suppllnnce for thy aid To-day thy children's chlldred sond Mask t i'Bi -rueir prayers as Children of unfamiliar face, From Cuba nnd Luzon, In thy strong care to-dny we plaao, TON xom mou win icaa mem on. These little ones of fnr-off lands Need nil thy strength nnd might. Tench them to cltisp our proffered hnnds And follow In the right I faul Wost, "rHC,,:4NECDOTAtj- CEOPCE T is not claimed for these nnec dotes o( Wash ington tbnt they are now. Bat to many they will seem new bo cause they Lave been collected from sources not .'A accessible to the aeneral yM pnblio. They serve to Vj show, in each instnnco, some snecial character- j istio of the man who be gan as a snrveyor and ron ia- I ed his career as a rresutent, and as a whole givo a fairly rounded-out picture of the great soldier and states man. Declined a Pellcney ns a Rrproor. r Washington's steward onoe pur chased the first shad of the season for the Fresidont's table, as he knew his master to be extravagantly fond of fish. Ho placed it before Washing ton at table as an agreeable surprise. The Presidont inquired how much he paid for the shad. "Throe dollars," was the reply. "Take it away," com manded Washington rathor sharply. "I will not enoonrage such extrava ganoe in my house." A Flag of Trace For Uenerel TTowe's 1ng. While the British oconpied Phila delphia and the American foroelay in winter quarters at Valley Forge, one day, ;as Washington and his staff were dining, a fine hunting dog, which was evidently lost, eame to seek something to eat. On its collar was the name "General Howe." Wash ington ordered that the dog should be fed, and then he sent it to Phila delphia nnder a flag of truce, with a letter reading: "General Washing ton's compliments to General Howe. He does himself the pleasure to re turn to him a dog which acoi dently fell into his hands, and, by thv inscription on the collar, appears to belong to General Howe." The British commander, in reply, sent a oordial letter conveying ht warm thanks for this sot of courtesy fc Ms enemy. An Kvsinple of Bis Tlianglitfnlnese. Elksnnh Watson, who visited Mount Vernon after Washington's retirement from the Presidency, tolls a story 'which shows Washington's thought fulness of his guests. Watson re lates that "I was extremely oppressed by o severe cold and excessive cough ing, contracted by the exposure of a harsh journey, Washington pressed me to use bo me remedies, bat I de clined doing so. As usual, after re tiring my eoughing increased. Whon some time had elapsed tho door of my room was gently openod, and, on drawing my bed-curtains, to my utter astonishment I beheld Washington himself standing at my bedside with bowl of hot tea in his hand." Others, If Afraid, Might Fall Bade) Ho Would Mot. ' While Mr, Evans, one of the ohnp Inins of the army, was standing near Washington a shot struck the ground so close as to cover his hat with sand. Muoh agitated he took off his hat and aid, "See here, General!" "Mr. Evans," replied Washington, with his usual composure, "you had better carry that home and show it to your wife and children." During the bombardment of York- A . 1. TO-li:.!. 1. l i , KAMY U 4rillBU AOfJIi Up IB lUUOBUHUt firing of eannon and musketry from their whole line. General Washing ton and Generals Knox and Linooln were standing in an exposed situation. Colonel Cobb, one of Washington's ids, who was exceedingly solicitous for his commander's safety, said to him, "Sir, you are too muoh exposed here. Had yoa not better step ft little book?" "Colonel Cobb, if yon are afraid you have liberty to move back," was Geuoral Washington's ioy reply. Knocked Down In a l'olllleat Discussion. In 1751, while a Colonel, Washing ton was stationed at Alexandria when there was an eleotion for members of the Assembly in which Mr. W. Payne opposed the candidate supportod by Washington, In tho course of the contest Washington grew warm aud aid something offensive to Mr. Payne, who, at one blow, esteudod him on the ground. The members of Wash ington's regiment heard that their Colonel had boeu murdered by tho mob, and 4 hey were soon nuder arms nd in rapid moliou to the town to inflict punishment on the snpposod Assassin. To their groat joy the '- Colonel came out to meet them, thank ing them for snob a proof of attach' saeni, bat conjuring then by their i2P BIRTHDAY"! 9vX we unve prayeui 1 i or WAJI.lNGTONl great love for him nnd their dnty to return peaceably to their barracks. Fecliog himsolf to be the aggressor, Washington resolved to make honor able reparation. Early next morning he wrote a polite note to Mr. Payne, requesting to see him at the tavern. Payne repaired to the place appointed in expectation of a duel. On ins ap proach Washington rose to moot him, and, smiling ns he offered his hand, began: "Mr. Payne, to err is nature; to rectify error is glory. I believe I was wrong yesterday; yon have al roady had some satisfaction, and if ,13 til! wm. j WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, FEBItUAKY 23, 1732. Angnstine Washington "Well, Psyche, what is it?" "Praise heaben, massal it's a boy." yon deem that satisfactory here is my band let ns be friends." Mr. Payne was from that moment an enthusiastic admirer of Washington, Washington's Apology to Nelly Cnstls. Nolly Custis, who was Mrs. Wash ington's grandohild, nsod to relate the following inoident: "I was young and romantio and fond of wandering alone by moonlight in the woods of Mount Vernon. Grandmamma thought it wrong and unsafe, and eoolded and coaxed me into a promise that I would . not wander in .the woods again unac- oompamed. But I was missing one evening, and was brought home from the interdioted woods to the drawing- room, where the General was walking np and down with bis hands behind him, as was his wont. Grandmamma, seated in her great armchair, opened a severe reproof, I was reminded of my promise and taxed with my delin quency. I knew that I had done wrong, admitted my fault and es sayed no excuse. But when there was a slight pause I moved to retire from the room. I was just shutting the door when I overheard General Washington attompting in a low voioe to intorccde in my behalf. 'My dear,' observed he, 'I would say no more; ASKING KELLT COSTIS'S PATIDOW. perhaps she was not alone.' His in tercession stopped me in my retreat. I re-opened the door and advanoed np to the General with a firm step. 'Sir.' said I, 'yoa brought me np to speak the truth, and when I told grand mamma l was alone I hope yoa be lieved I was alone.' The General made one of his most courtly bows and replied, 'mj child, i beg your pardon.' Could Be "Downright Impudent Some times." Washington always seems to have been mostateaso when among women. At his wife's reooptions he did not view himself as host, bat conversed without restraint, generally with wom en who rarely had other opportunity of seeing him. An eyewitness states that "the young ladies used to throng around htm and engage him In eon versatlon. As these were the only opportunities which they bad of con versing with him they wero disposed to nse them." That this atteutiou was not merely the respeot due to a great man is shown very clearly by the letter of a young Virginia woman, who wrote to a correspondent that "when General Washington throws off the hero and takes np the chatty, agree ably companion he can be downright COULD BK LTKABLY IMI-CDEST AT TIMES. impudent sometimes such impudenco Fanny, as you and I like." The Cherry Tree story. The cherry troe story is pure fiction an invention of Washington's first biographer, Parson Mason li. Weoms, whose budget of anecdotes, to which wore usually appended a first-class moral, was accepted ns truth by an unsuspecting world because its author was the earliest in the field with a life of the great man. The scene of the cherry tree inoident is located on the Stafford farm, where Washington's father diod, and from which his mother moved to the house in Freder icksburg, Virginia. He Told One. Washington told a lie when a boy, according to a tradition in the town of lus youth i redenoksburg. Being but a tradition agrcat-graudmother's narrative it is given for what it is worth. The story ruts that Wash ington, thirteen years old at the time, was sent by his mother to drive home a cow from the nearby pasture, and milk it when stabled. The cow was dnly driven to shelter by George, who, disliking menial tasks, negleoted to milk the beast. He had gone to bed when his mother, hearing tho bellowing of the oow, and suspecting something wrong, called to George, asking if he had obeyed her injunc tion about milking. Sleepily ho an swered "xes." At the February Tca-Pnrly. When I arrived, la regimentals trier. Hlie stood dispensing ton nnd snllv-Innns. Transformed by stiff broonde and powdered wig, The fairest of nil La.lv Wnshlnctons. In time I craved the favor of n cup or tier own savory, delicious Drew. Whlnh serving me nnd looking coyly up. duo enugnc auu cyou usuuuco my pun nno. diuo. Her glance said plainly ns a spoken word In donning them I'd gonoa slop too far; For my forebears wore rod for Ueorijo the nurd. And Mattle Is a loyal d. a. r. So when the nrns wore drained and grow ing com, To calm the torrent of a rising gorgo And justify my action, I made bold Myself to liken to that other Ooorge. She listened, then Incredulously asked. And wherein, pray, does the rosem- blnnce lie? Take care, sir, thnt no innuendo's mnsknd By the fine words with which you make ropiy. "It's simply this." I said. Intensolv grim "Where lie wus vanquished I'm content io do; And what fair Martha Custis did for him Another Martha's fairly done for me." Edward W. Barnard, in Judge, One Way Out of It. Sunday-sohool Teacher (wishing to show how easily George Washington might have falsified) "Now, chil dren, little George didn't know but that he'd be severely whipped by con fessing that he chopped down the cherry-tree. What might he have done in order to keep peaoe with his father?" Patsy "Buried the hatohot, mum." He Kuev, Teacher "Why aid Washington cross tho Delaware River?" Johnny Thickneck "To git on the other side." Martha Washington's Watch. It has a oracked and yellow faaa And bangs wllhio a erystal cow; The stem Is bent, the key Is lost. The golden back with saratohes crossed. For uiauy a year has passed away Ulnee last It told the time of day To Martha Washington. In old Virginia, years agone, Hhe put that pretty trinket on With rich brocade and luaes rare, And sliver powder on ber lialr, When courtly George a-woolng eame, Before she took the stately uuuie Of Martha Wasblngtou, When he was lute, I have no doubt. Sue took the uuuleut tliuepleoe out Aud frowned to mark III in overdue; i'ur Cupid, tyruut over you And over me, oh, lovo of mine, llad then the same sweut power divine O'er lUrlua Washlugtoa, Oh, broken toy of timet they say Hhe wore you tin her weddlug-day You saw ber beauty nnd hor bllS4, You witnessed, too, the mnrrlitga-kuuj, And ticked lu auswer to the sturt Aud happy throbbing of the heurt lit tturtba Washington, Judge, 2MJMJVnJVKxM.MJ.): wASHiqjo's cpossiq, Pre i wit Day Apneirsnej of tie Plsat Whirs WsaMngtra CrojieJ -th Delaware, O ono 'will find it easy to disas sociate Wash iugton Cross ing, on the Del aware, with b 1 utter in a I weather, broken fields of ice nnd the hard ships and privations of the disheartened Continental army on that Christmas, bight of 1776 which t held by many historians and patriots to be the turning point of the Bevolntinn. To think of and to see this sleepy little hamlet of Washing ton Crossing on a bright and balmy day one can hardly realize that in the midst of its picturesque beauty onoe limped that starving, half-clad yet determined army of men to tho vie- f nil.' A-5a e. Vf MONUMENT AT WASntVGTO CROSSINGI HHA.B TI1E OLD TAVEltM. tory that turned the thought of defeat into one of conquest. From the little station, which is eight miles above Trentou, on the ISelvidere road, ports of all the houses and the blacksmith shop which go to make np tho village are in sight. Parallel with tho railroad is the canal, windiug iu graceful curves about tho Hues of tho hilln, and a few hundred feet to the west, down a gentle slope, is tho river, broad and peaceful. On a bit of rising ground, with graud old trees about the yard, slop ing westward to the caual, stands the oue house of iuterest the headquar ters dnring the hours which made this bit of laud historic. Great willows grow at the foot of the front yard by a stream thnt runs through the stone springhonsej their big limbs stretch far out over the caual aud lend a grateful 'shado to weary mules and pedestrians alike. The stones erected on the Pennsyl vania side by tho Bucks Conuty His torical Sooicty and on the New Jersey side by tho Society of the Cincinnati mark the old ferry and where the army crossed. It was then called Mc Koukey's Ferry, afterwards Bernards ville, after Bernard Taylor, the orig inal owner of the property.npon which tho "old house" stands. The present name was given when the railroad passed through. There are many changes in the plaoe since General Washington and his k TUB TAVERN Hit APQUAnTEItS. army took Bear Tavern, The acourate traomg of the landmarks is made somewhat diffionlt by the building of the Delaware and Earitan canal feeder, which parallels the river, and the dif ference in the present grades and roads from those that existed in 1776. The old house, then a tavern, was far too small to be of any nse, save to the offloers. It is a quaint structure. shingled and whitewashed. The front shows two entrances and donble door at each, with bright flowers be low the steps. On the first floor of the house are three rooms of gaod size and stairway around the great chim ney. The east room was once the barroom, and traces of where the bar stood are still visible. Bows of wooden pegs ornament the walls and the great hewn beams. The old fireplaces are still intaot, though the cranes and spits are rusted. In the woodwork of the mantel hun dteds of bullets are imbedded, besides as many holos and indentations of others. Tradition says that the sol diers, to keep warm, pegged away at the fireplaces to see if their aim wss stilt good. sMll mm iwiii."' i,ii lliTllil fN 1 fclHi' I il l I a. j m ti. if,.? mm I 'NEW YORK Designs For Costumes That Have Be come Popular in New Yoiik Citr (Special). The long box coats are being more and more worn every day, end quite as fashionable for the juveniles as for the A YOUTHFUL BOX COAT. grownnps. This stylish one present ed by Le Costnine ltoyal, for girls in their teens, is of gray broadcloth, with the indispensable stitching and large white pearl buttons. The broad, donble, shawl-like collar is a new and attractive feature, distinguishiug this coat from the ubuoI run. The Sfew Spring Rinnans. "" The new spring blouses are looser (u front than last yonr's, but as it is I Am HOME fciHUNO BLOUSUU. their sweet will always to be of in finite variety and caprioiousnoss, it is not possible to say that otherwise they have greatly changed. They are made with cape collars and boleros and epaulets, like other bodioes, and they are tacked, plaited and covered with laoe and embroidery. At a matinee this week, writes Ellen Osborn, I noticed a crossed blouse of delicate rose-tinted silk with a yoke of white silk and lace that was marked in diamonds with the narrowest of black velvet ribbon. From the yoke and crossing fronts hung a deep black silk f"inge. A coral-red blouse shoulder to shoulder with the pink one cost both the r best effect, just as the dark, brilliant-cheeked girl who wore it made her blond neighbor look faded. Yet the coral blouse could not be blamed for its pretty tuoked and plaited frout, its sleeves tucked lor a few inches below the shoulder and its white silk eorded revers. A simple and very attractive even ing blonse is of oreaiu-oolored mousse line, with deep laoe oollar decorated with gold embroidered rosettes. Its flowing cravat is of white silk with laoe ends. A more elaborate evening blonse of golden yellow silk has a small bolero of cream-colored laoe and a front of plaited mousseliue. Tho crossed ends of tho yellow silk cravat are car ried out to the sides snd held tight by mousseliue rosettes and stress but tons. Ullmpso at Spring Styles. If one may trust the harbingers of fashion, whioh have all the air of wallows from the Itiviera that in duo FMHI0N& 1 the Metropolis. . time will make a summer, the Easter hat of 1900 will have a high, formid able looking square crown, or else one thnt is practically flat; its brim will be swathed in cloudy rolls of tulle and its chief ornsments will be large, wheel-like rosettes of lace or ribbon or velvet, and flowers of a delicacy'of coloring and texture that is new to) millinery. Apple, peach and cherry blossoms are first favorites, and one sees entire strawberry plants leaves, flowers and fruit. The fringed scarves of last antnmn have given place to tulle streamers that are brought from the back of the crown to cross upon the hair and then knot in front with long floating ends. A Ires to He Iteinetnhered. A dress that may be remembered beyond the close of the season was lately worn by Mrs. George Gould, at Georgian court. The iiudcrsklrt of exquisite silver ganxe was plaited over pale blue mousseliue do soie, which, in turn, had an underlining of pale blue taffeta. The overskirt, which openod in front, was of palest blue satin, incrnsted with silver em broidery, and tho low round bodice had wreaths of tiuy roses for shoulder straps. The belt, of pale-blue miroir velvet, fastened at one side of the frout with a big velvet rosette. Mrs. Gould wore pale-bltto slippers and gloves, nnd her hair was dressed with roses. The ttnse For Fringe. On elaborate costumes an eighteen inch fringe is not uncommon, and fringes are made iu two or three layers of different colors, or different shades of the same color, that in themselves almost constitute costumes. The llnlrro In llluh Favor. Tho oldest of old friends that has just taken a new lease of favor is tho bolero, many, many new editions of whioh appear every clay. Endless variations are worked upon this theme. The Fashion In Aprons. The rule of simplicity applies to maids' aprons. There should be n huge bretelles nor flaring flonuces nor "trimmings' of embroidery and lace. A nurse's apron may indulge in a few tucks alnstered upon its deep hem, a parlor maid, housemaid, waitress and chambermaid, all of whom have sub stantially the same uniform, must wear perfectly plain aprons, Hlioulder- straps and a bow in the back are com mon to both brands of aprons. Horns mistresses permit an uutrimmed bre telle, but the narrow shoulder-strap is better taste. Long streamers in the l;nek are preferred by some. Yoa can hardly go astray in the matter of servants' dress as long as you insist upon plainness. It is the woman in Hunan's APnow. search of novelties aud makes the mistakes. "exlxas" wh
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