Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 19, Hammond, Lake County, 19 May 1917 — Page 3

Mav 19. 1917

THE TIMES PAfrF, THKEU iraftrti Tiiin ii tmm tfmii aim n iti mi !f"y ecome a HUSE Prior to the remodeli of the TORE, ft Id store and the opening of the beautiful new HALLMARK . ncuarry wall conduct an old time AU

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New Collection of Relics On, Exhibition At National Museum - Mementoes of Daily Life of the Washington Family At Mount Vernon.

O human bein? ever inspired

greater interest in mankind than George Washington; and as the years pass and his per

sonality becomes yet stronger and Hearer with the light of time, interest in new objects with which he was conneted becomes more and more keen. The latest Washington treasure to which the public has been given opportunity of paying tribute is a new loan collection which has recently been acquired by the National Museum at Washington. This exhibition of 196 objects connected with the daily life of the family at Mount Vernon is one of the most important which the public has had a chance of viewing for many years. It is of especial interest in that this is the first time it has been outside of a private home since it formed part of the furnishings at Mount Vernon, so the objects presented have hitherto been seen only by a ta.Tork-d few. The owner of the relics is Mr. Walter O. ptw, a direct descendant In

the sixth degree from Martha Wash

ington. Three New Portraits of Washington. In every collection of rtlics of a great man of the past his portraits, conveying as they do some real phase of the personality of the subject, are of prime importance. In the Peter loan collection there are three portraits of Washington which are new to the public. One of these is a very rare speciman of the porcelain portraiture vof Richard Champion, an English artist of note; another is a water color on blue rPr by William Thornton, and the third is an excellent engraving by C. Tiebout of the Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, whose original is said by the family to have been regarded as the best likeness of the General in later life. Famous Dinner And Tea Services. A large proportion of the central and largest of the three cases containing this collection is occupied by a generous share of the famous white and gold dinner and tea services used by General Washlr.srton during hia

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presidency in New Yor . Philaffelaia and at Mount Vern, ! '.ning Is here from the la-Best soup tureen to the tiniest cc(te cup, th many of the side dishea Oi q.akv. and graceful

are cheaper than candles." A large ornamental Jar of pottry decorated in relief with clusters of grapes probably did service at Mount

Vernon for cooling the wine of Its master as he sat at table. The un- ! galnly cooking utensils of the old i regime are represented in a large egg

poacher of copper, whose generous capacity openly shames the high cost of living today, a large mixin? o-vi and various pans of the same attractive metal with an enormous iin coffee mill. Among the furniture which can.;, from Mount Vernon and is placed on view in this collection are very handsome ladder-back chair of maha.y with cushioned s&t, a quaint oli cupboard filled wiih sliding trmyw .or holding Knen, a id a beautiful cd firscreen on a hici three-branch .t-.-. hogany stand. The screen is ctwith a piece of grun brocade of rich

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President as.' V- Washington Washington's "Patent Lamps.

were hostesses to lr -imer..ble home! A quaint little brass lamp decorated i and foreign frivjds '.nd th ?e adn.ir- j with an Ior:ic border is one of the j ers frequently acknowledged their inost interesting pieces in the whole' hospitality by gia of china. Ore oC ; oliection. as it was one of a set of !

the rarest and rnos t eautiful bits In s fourteen which Washington ordered'!

goblets and decanters, evidence the eiegHt taste - ' their original owners,

and a two -Lrn.:.che ? k''ver candelabra i design and t .ure. now

again repeats tho chaste simplicity in ! soft neutral tone, but once the i--t he selection of their table decora- j a brilliant costume of the mi&.rcss of tions. Mount Vernon. In the case with this

screen and the cna;r is a unarming

' little dressing table or inlaid manog-

any which Lafayette presented to Martha Custis, when she was r. child at . the home of her grandmother, Martha Washington.

the Peter coll-'ctio- is a large bow!, a piece of thi famous "Cincinnati" china, which cane to them as a token of affectionate remembrance from the French officers 'f the Revolution. The representative collection of crystal shown in t'ae central case, in the various wine and wticr glasses.

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France. "I believe they are called J Another especially interesting piece patent lamps, " he wrote early in the j in the collection is a chair cushion autumn of 17S9. and they were not embroidered in a shell pattern on -tn-to cost over three guineas apiece. I vas. in worsteds of varying shJe "Thesa lamps. It is said, consume their i yellows and browns, the colors w. own smoke," he wrote, "do not injure blended, the high lights picked one tha furniture, give more light and i with silks. This is one of a doiwa

ths busy housewife at' Mount Vernon round time to work for her three grar odaughters, presenting four to each. Another piece of Mount Vernon handiwork is a framed embroidered picture representing an antelope so flnet embroidered in black on a cream-tinted silk background that it gives the impression of an etching, further evidence of the workroom at Mount Vernon is a fascinating little needle cushion of velvet provided with a small clamp to fasten it to the table. Beside it lies a pinking fron. A brilliant yellow band of richly patterued thick brocade hanatng in the central case is a piece ok Mrs. Washington's wedding gown, and recalls the fact that the ladies of the early American court followed the rashion of the French women of the eay in their use of vivid colors for all ii iportant occasions. Among these interesting mementoes oi Mrs. Washington is her watch. r"sch )..-ger than the lady's watch x ;od- . It is a very handsomely v ravsd timepiece and after the '5shi n of the time was provided with extra ca.se, face and crystal, which accessories lie beside the watch. There sre three most Interesting lockets in the case, one very beautifully decated in brilliant enamel, the second a .ittle oval shell affair and the third most interesting of all as containing a lock of General Washington's hair arranged to form his coat of arms. Washington's ShcIJ Buttons. Of peculiar interest in this case are a trio of large pink shell buttons, with a curious history. The story is told by the famMy that while the seat of HOvj-r.ir.ant was in Philadelphia. President Washington was walking down the street one day and met an itinerant vendor selling the delicate ahells. He begged th Preident

to buy. On the latter's inquiring w V . he could do with them the ma- -plied: "Make buttons for your c -The Idea pleased the fancy of executive, who had the.sheiis i. .. into buttons and used upon a cos.: brown velvet. One of General Wr. ington's afternoon and evening; d:rsions was chess, and a handsome sof red and white ivory chessmen in their mahogany case have been :to fully 'preserved through all the a erations. A Plan of Mt. Vernon A quaint and interesting pen ink plan of Mount Vernon and v -immediate surroundings is displayed in one of the cases here. It is the work of a Mr. Samuel Vaughan, a

I London merchant who visited Mount i Vernon in 1787, and was evidently j much impressed by the beautiful home j and its admirably designed Burroundj lngs. He embodied a copy of this A number of autograph letters are i in the collection. Three of these are j by General Washington, and are wrtt- ! ten to Thomas Peter, his stepgrandj son, and one is written by Thomas ! Peter to "General Washington, Mount I Vernon," and dated May 18, 1798. On the outside of one of the letters. from ! Washington is written in the familiar handwriting: "Alexandria, 18th May. i Mr. Thomas Peter, Federal City. The Postmaster in Georgetown will oblige by. forwarding this letter. G. Washington." The franking privilege obtained in that day is proclaimed by j the word "Free" written beside the ; addresses of various of the letters. ! There are numerous letters of con

dolence to Mrs. Washington in the collection, sent by friends after the death of her husband. Among them are letters from Alexander Hamilton. Henry Knox, Theodore Sedgwick and George Washington Lafayette, son ot the marquis.

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