Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1926, Page 77

MAGAZINE SECTIO“A A e | @he Sunday Stae [ Par(fi—SPages WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1926. Saie of Book to Aid Preservation of Wash SONIC LODGE of Tredericksburyg, where Washingtor was dmember. WASHINGTON,, DETTY WASHINGTON LEWIS, portrait « in her old howme/, * Kenmotre Iredericksbuvao GEORGE WASHINGTON. Drawn on stone/ 7 woERWoOD A 3 = 7 UNDERWOOD. . : o *\ 2y Rembrandi Peale. MONUMENT 3 .; \\\ e marking grave e 2 of the mother of George Washinglo People of Fredericksburg : - o - : L1 , SN St Form Guild to Undertake E « By L 4 AR AN . George Washingtows old survey Work on Local Memorials o R : 8 rF— office’ on Yhe Waskington Faymy e e : ; ¢ ) [ triot that guided the destinies of the i the five-vol »n, bound young country w: us, cold- | ' P " am with 1y proper, moralist, who couid not teli 1 a lie. in number- But while Weems was popularizing are in photograv furnish a a legend, Marshall was slowly putuing complete gall together, with care and schola hip, | traiis. Tk the actual story of Washington, a|the one that hangs in the Masonic | biography too hone its genera- | Fredericksbu in which tion. That he was ideally fitted for | Was! m was made Mason. ~ i g asihom, B X ¥ - the work is clear. He had background. rofi d 1 h Citizens’ eluding with, the)| Giore snd s iburiod there. His o ! : i § 4 \ B ot His father, Thomas . had | Guild from the sale of the edition el was a property holder in e ol hope some day N e O et ot been a boyhood chum of hing- | be applied t . ana prosper. ) 2fid & member of its board of trustees. ton's, learning surveying fr tion "ot landmarks in e died there, as did hington's | Marshall himself had served with dis ricksbur: hich Wash- ©us as Frederick sister Mildred. Betty, the ‘only rtici- | t 9 { de scendant of the Gcoyg@ :“"L‘lnn under Washington, ‘partici- | i The organiza- That, of course, a time | of the general who grew to maturity, . - i 5 fer o o 0. Fredericksbi ently | si i e ¢ | pating in many of the gre tion has no paid ocers or employes S o EFitetm | o ecietne 1t thre, Hisiaunt : D Washington cherry tree ow | Bnd ‘Tost o the Ereat Crises Which | and s chArIoF providse AgRImL § anniversary Cof s “official = rec-|married Col. Willls, “top man of the Where Wmshmq{ows meals were eookedl. the Washinglon howme farm), i;flé«;xd“‘ng:}e Revlution t:lnt“::\;;‘m« membership personally profit : ognition; mot its birth date but its'town,” and was mistress of Willl 5 3 i P : : A @ s, by ) ent, | any way s or o cotmsimisiressiior il (SRG 1o e 10w Home of Washinglon's mother,inFredericksburgs Tredericksburg,Va .. cducation, heredity and environment. NG & community long before the House |famous battla of Fredericksbure was j et compeR Y Iaane Colored Concrete ses gave it cognizance and | fought years later. His brother He spent seven years in preparing i . 1 it with the functions of | Charles was for a time a property | wells with her before accepting the | hope to wipe out the impression of | during a life of public service; the|ceeded to compose a blography to his|the first edition and was 15 years re. AUL HONURE. a Detroft artist ‘s municipallty. New York is this|holder and resident of the town, and | presidency. him as an utterer of pious banalities | original sources of the truth about|own liking, based on some knowledge, | Vising it to the last detall. Add to 2 = 7 e vear celebrating its three hundredth | prother Samuel resided within a ‘Washington hims was a prop-|created by the Rev. Mason Locke|his country. When the bequest be-|much hearsay and a vivid imagination. | these years of toil the writer's ve. - 3 uv}ne}ve}s.«;-;“, enniversary. The two ities, | stone’s throw of the town limits. erty holder in Fredericksburg as late | Weems, whimsical fiddler, cart-tail|came known, many of the literary | But Weems was something besidss a | FRclty, the judicial aspect of his schol- T settled * house he occupled is still stunding, |8s 1785 and on the record books of |orator, peddler and writer, or the im-{m>n of the day applied to Bushrod|poor writer. He was a good business | 8rship, his sympathétic understanding . “»i"_‘;‘ o 3“ in- land in the old gravevard, nea#y, his | the old town is a copy of the address | pression of him as Rupert Hughes | \Vashington for the commission to|man. He filled his life of Washington | of Washingion and his pov to ex 1, two drab and ur ddaughter, Mildred Washington, | he delivered there when he referred to | pictures him, and substitute in their | write the life of his distinguished rela- | with maudlin sentimentaliti ome ! ress himself in clear, fluent, beauti- 3 - £ And so b lantic | great-niece of ‘the general, is buried. | Fredericksburg as “the home of my | places the Washington as he was seen | tive. The applications ranged all the | fabricated, others elaborated—and en- | ful prose, and there is the Cowb.na- proposed th f a new received | The gene! father-in-law, Col. Dan- | growing infan He was initiated, by the thoughtful and scholarly John way from the scholarly Noah Webster | titled it ‘“The Life of George Wash-| tion that makes the great biographer. | colored concrete L 08 m}!i L cargoes from G by way of | dridge, who, local legend says, dropped | passed and raised in the old Masonic| Marshall, his only authorized biog-|to the Rev. Mason Locke Weems,|ington With Curicus Anecdotes Equal-| The reprint of Marshall's “Life of E€Ste,” In which the color effects a: Y'redericksburg. . dead at the races In Fredericksburg |lodge there, and remained a member | rapher. self-styled ‘“rector of Mount Vernon |ly Honorable to Himself and Exem-|George Washington” is just off the Produced by tinted ground glass mixed Tn the last two centuries New York | without seeing whether his favorite | of it until he died. With this as an end, they have |parish,” a mythical ecclesiastical dis- |plary to His Young Countrymen.” with | presses of a New York publisher, and | int according to Popular Scien: lias become the greatest human ant-|horse won or lost, rests in an old| _Fredericksburg people therefore ten- | formed the Citizens' Guild of Wash- | trict, and author of some of the taw- | the hope that the title would appeal | as nearly as possible is a reproduction = MOF hly ’ A f heap in the world, g its peo- | Fredericksburg cemetery but a step |derly cherish Wash:ngton's memory; | ington's Boyhood Home, Inc., a char- | driest writings of his times. to the market. It did. The highly |of the first edition. In the more than Builders know that you can't simply ple in millions and its th in bil-|or two from the grave of William [ not only in national but in local pride. | tered organization which has secured | Bushrod Washington turned from | virtuous and model, but obviously im- | 115 years that have clapsed since the can of paint into concrete a lions, while Frede . content | paul, brother of John Paul Jones. They know him as he has been |the publication rights to John Mar-|them all to select a man who had| possible, storles about young Wash-|first edition came from the press, satis ily colored material. with the accumulation of golden mem- * K koK painted historically, but, better still, | shall's “Life of George Washington,” |been his uncle's friend, nelghbor and | ington evidently pleased the people of | there have been many achievements | For one t the chemicals In the ories, peaceful {they know him traditionally, through | first on the presses in 1810 and last ‘companion-in-arms, and persuaded | the time. The book ran through a |in the art of printing, but it would be Dbaint may :rfere with the chem- hanks of : . proud | JT WAS in Fredericksburg that |little intimate stories that have been | printed in 1882, nearly 100 years ago. |him to undertake the work. To John | total of 70 editions, and is responsible | difficult today to find a work that sur. | icals in the concrete. and, second, even but not boastful of its past | - Washington introduced his mother | handed down by generation after gen-| Marshall's biography was written in | Marshall, he handed over all th pre-|for most of the fairy tales about |passes it In beauty of typography or if the chemicals agree to let one an- One of the mosi treasurcd historic | to the French generals, it was there | eration of familles that once were his | clrcumstances that ave the author |clous papers on which the authorized | Washingtdh that have been taught to | beneral appearance. Paper from the | other alone, the color afterward fades Yandmarks tanding on Manhat- {he attended with her the famous|neighbors, or intimates of his mother.| more advantages than any other: biography would be based, and from |generation after generation of Ameri- |first edition was chem.cally analyzed | in the sunlight. tan Isk is T'r: and peace ball, subject of the much-copied | Knowing Washington as they do, the | writer on Washington, past or pres-|which it would derive its accuracy, | can school children. and duplicated, the mills adding the | Colored glass neither fades nor painting Miss Jennie Browns. }L‘llizfi)ls of Fredericksburg believe the | ent, has had. George Washington be- | honesty and authority. ‘Weems' incongruous document has | Washington coat-of-arms as a water- | washes out, says Mr. Honore, but -ombe, which hangs in the Newark | Natlon needs to know him better. | queathed to his favorite nephew all| This ended the matter for the | somewhat obscured the very human |mark. Marshall's revised text is used | keeps its place in the concrete as long Museum of Art, and it was to Fred-| With the approach of the two hun-|the personal letters, private papers |seekers of the commission, excem]_ gure of Washington, and has per-|in the reprinting, but the work is |&s the building stands, doing its bit tp ericksburg he hastened for last fare- ' dredth anniversary of his un.hmulnd secret documents acoumulated!Mr. Wesma Undeterred, he - pro-'suaded many that the two-fisted pa-'issued in the magnificent format of make the neighborhood cheertul. A , A » Washington TER B. GOOLRICK. |vears, is steeped in memories of Bl It was his boyhood home, the place story 41l visited | wiere—if _anywhere—he cut down i | his father's “favorite cherry tree, L Vi | threw ihe Spanish coin across the T ed. | Tiver and broke the neck of his i | mother's favorite colt. ~His mother e .({ 0%} | spent 50 vears of her life ta