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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

HE approach of February 22 recalls not only the great figure whom all Americans honor upon this date but also the material relating to his life which has come to light during the past year to make even better our understanding and our appreciation of him even greater. As usual an amount of new Washingtoniana, vast in quantity, considering the years that have intervened since he walked the stage of American his-

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tory, has been unearthed and an even greater amount, heretofore known only to professional historians, has been made available to the general public. And as usual the most aisyut , U * Inna itPips gr“ the ne-v written about him, interpreting this man who has been the theme of so many biographers. Undoubtedly the outstanding Wash-, ington biography of the year is the second volume of Rupert Hughes’ study of him, published by William Morrow and company of New York, which takes up the narrative where his first volume left off and tells the story of “George Washington, the Rebel and the Patriot, 1762-1777.” The Hughes interpretation of Washington is important for more than one reason, the principal one being that he, more than any other .Washington biographer, been the storm center of public discussion and as a result many people who would not otherwise be likely to read a biography of Washington have rushed to do so to see for themselves whether or not Hughes has maligned the memory of the Father of His Country. Os course, this is unfortunate for a man who is seeking honestly to tell the truth—and no onp can read the Hughes’ volumes without being impressed by the fact that he IS. But in the long run it is a ? fortunate circumstance, because it is making more Americans better acquainted than ever before with the facts about Washington, not just the dim School book legends. Though to some persons some of these facts may be unpleasant, they can- . not help seeing that the favorable aspects of Washington’s character far outweigh the unfavorable and they will find that it is only by a consideration of both that they have reached some adequate understanding of the real Washington. In his first volume Mr. Hughes stated his pur»pese as follows: To find out as far as possible and to repeat as faithfully as possible just what George Washington was, did, said, wrote, thought, and why and how. . . . The main effort has been to let Washington tell his own story as fully as possible in his own words. This is, indeed, as nearly an autobiography as I can make it. My incessant effort in this biography has been to see his life as he saw it. All other biographers have tacitly assumed that he knew, the future *.j- and builded himself grandly for it. They have looked backward upon him through the dazzling aureole of his apotheosis. But that was not the way he saw the world. He had to grope for his faith and he missed few of the pitfalls, the thorns and the torments of the way. No more did he miss the primroses, the festivals, the dances and sports and romances. That purpose is repeated in his second volume in which he says: Again as in the first volume my incessant endeavor has been to let Washington tell his own story in his own words, and to fry to see his world and his times as they must have looked to him, not as they appear to a backward gaze across a landscape filled with tall oaks, that were once acorns and monuments that were once men. Washington, like every other animal, vegetable and mineral, was an evolution in body and char- » '-acter. With him as with all other earthly beings / environment played a vital part and changed him J while he changed It It is no sacrilege to represent him boy before he became a man, and a man » before, ‘and while he became a god. And there is no kindness to him in suppressing the facts for the more fully the truth about him is told the greater his achievement becomes. . . . It is the most tragic of farces that so many Americans should Insist both that Washington could not tell a He and that his chroniclers may not tell the truth. | Although the first volume of the Hughes* biography is catted “The Human Being and the Hera,” the second volume, if anything, more than the

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George Washington was among the first of America’s road builders. He took up the study of surveying when fourteen years old and at sixteen was engaged to survey' the estates of Lord Fairfax. At eighteen he was public surveyor for the province of Virginia. His diary, from 1748, when be began surveying, until his death is full of references to roadbuilding Here are * few samples!

first, gives us an insight into George Washington, the human being. For it is in the period which this volume covers, 1762 to 1777, that we see Washington, the Virginia planter who gambled, drank wine and rum, hunted, danced, and farmed as did the other country gentlemen of his time. Nor do we have to rely upon the words of a Twentieth century biographer that -he did these things. Washington himself ts our authority and he set down the whole record with painstaking accuracy in his diaries and ledgers. A careful and a methodical man this Virginia planter. Married to the wealthiest' woman in America, possessed of thousands of acres of land surrounding Mount Vernon, he had, with his own extensive interests, a hig job on his hands and he went about handling it in a careful and methodical, manner. So he kept a close record of Activities, his winnings and losses at killed, crops raised and sold, slaves rtered. dances and dinners attended and all of the other details of the complex life of that period. If he often set down such Entries as “By play tickets at Sufidry Times £I.TL3,” or “By Lost on the Race 3.5,” or “By Cards (loss) 10.5.”, he also recorded frequently his generous impulses thus: “By Gave a Beggar,” or “By Treating the Ladies 4.5.” “At the end of every year he totaled up on one page all the sums taken, whether from tobacco, Burgess wages, house or farm rentals, and other sources of income, not neglecting an occasional winning at cards —for he was not even perfect as a gambler; he sometimes won,” writes Hughes. “On the opposite page he summed up the outgo of,all sorts and then struck a balance. It is delightful to find that his books never came out right.” Some of his explanations are ingenuous—“By mistake in Count of the English Silver last year," "By Cash lost, stolen, or paid away without charging.” That the necessity for “farm relief was sometimes as acute in his day as it is today and that keeping a country estate was a great luxury then even as now is shown by the following quotation from his journal: “It is almost beyond belief that from 101 cows actually reported of a late enumeration of the Cattle that I am obliged to buy butter for the use of liny family.” Another indication that Washington faced the same problems as Americans of today ts shown by the doctor bills for his family—Martha and her two children. Jack and Patsy Custis —which were a large item, amounting in one year to more than' eighty pounds, not including a physician who was kept on salary for the servants and slaves. He kept his diaries as faithfully as he did his ledgers. Here he gives in his own matter-of-fact way the record of the tpemlng activities of Mount Vernon, his fight with the stubborn Virginia soil, his struggle for more wealth through the cultivation of tobacco, his efforts to secure for himself and the soldiers who had been under his command large tracts of western land and, occasionally, in the latter years, of the drift toward revolution. “Os introspection he betrayed never a hint.” Hughes says. “A more emotionless diary was probably never written. His only warmth was shown in the pages over which' he wrote at the top, “Acct of the Weather—in Feby” or whatever the month might , be. Here it singularly pleased him to be minute, enthusiastic and as near to poetic as he ever came. Except for the sufferings of his soldiers, hitr highest eloquence was reserved for the weather. ... “Removt* from Washington’s life his careers as a soldier hnd a'statesman, and there remains little to distinguish him from the average successful business man of his day and ours,” Hughes writes. But he was a scientist as well. He had the scientific spirit and was always experimenting with manures and fertilizer?, new methods of planting and plowing. Such was the Washington at Mount Vernon and if we find it necessary to bring forward any more evidence of the humanness of the man it can be' found in the record of Washington as commander-in-chief of the Continental army. Os his career in this role Hughes has written: Pathos Is the most endearing of all qualities and it has been impossible to love or feel sorry for the Washington of the textbooks. Yet he himself was

February J7, 1763—" Laid off a road frbm Mount Vernon to the Lain by Mr. Manley’s” March 14, 1768—“ With the people working upon the new road between breakfast and dinner.** March 23, 1768 —“Rid out to see and examine whether a road could not be discovered and opened from Posey’s ferry back of Muddy Hole plant’n. thereby avoiding the Gum-

I spring which I think may be done to advantage.” August 18,1786—“ Rid to the plantation at the Ferry, Dogue run, and Muddy Hole, and to the Mill. The hands at each place working !on the Public roads.” . I November 13, 1786—“ Began 'survey of the road leading from my ferry to Cameron.”—Detroit News. f Supreme in All Thing* Washington’s common sense, his ability in handling men, his business'

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Ze . »— an infinitely pathetic lonely figurfe. He was in no sense a god struck from the brow of Providence in full uniform. He was a poor struggler with infinite difficulties at a time when chaos groaned in a swoon of torment from whose travail a nation was born and shaped atnid the cries of pain and writhings of uncertaintvA Nobody knew just the right or the helpful thing to do, or what the outcome would be and Washington was as profoundly bewildered as anybody. Everybody who knew him spoke of his shyness, his embarassment. He inspired awe and reverence also, but for the purity of his patriotism and the loftiness of his ideas. Yet he was wretchedly afraid of himself and he had no ambitions except to grow rich, be free, cultivate his farm and his friends, his charities, and the other charms of this world and leave behind him an honorable name. He was forever being appealed to to save friends, relatives, regiments, colonies, or the nation from their own mistakes and jealousies, and he did his best for them, going into debt to lend money, taking on trusteeships to the neglect of his own affairs, forever writing letters and keeping books, though he lov d to dance and follow the hounds and shuffle the cards and let the theater display before him the woes and entanglements of people who would not ask him to arrange their lives for them. ... It is surprising to find how exceedingly emotional Washington was, how bewildered, how sensitive, and how frank in his criticisms. It ts very touching to note his concern about the public, opinion of his efforts, and the pain it gave him to be harshly criticized for inactivity that he could not help and dared not justify even to his own friends and fellow officers. He made no pretensions whatever to unusual wisdom or ability and protested incessantly that he was ignorant, inexperienced and incompetent to his problems, but that his motives were honorable, unselfish, and unmercenary.. The man himself is infinitely more appealing, pitiful, heartbroken, tragic, gay, witty, tender, gracious, tactful, fearless, ferocious, heroic, and. at his loftiest, sublime than the dull gray bore manufactured by stupid dullards, stodgy politicians and mongers of untruismA There is but one thing needed to complete the picture of Washington, the human that is to show that this man, who has been so often painted as a towering demi-god incapable of the commonest of human emotions, was at times capable of towering rages. Cowardice always infuriated him and after one particularly disgraceful exhibition of panic on the part of his troops we have this picture compiled from contemporary accounts: Throwing his hat upon the ground in a cansport of rage and indignation, he cried: “Are these the men I am to defend America with?” He drew his pistols and snapped them at his men—he always thought a coward better dead. But his pistols would not fire. It was said that he drew his sword and threatened to run the cowards through. It is known that he used the canewhip he carried and he beat his people over the shoulders, flbgged not only the private soldiers but officers as well. He lashed the ’colonels across the shoulder blades, swinging his plunging horse thie way and that in the torrent of men gone rat. He fi&lled a brigadier general. A-nd at last, when the British approached very close, he was so bitten with despair that he would not move and an orderly had to lead Ut tioiee

efficiency and his forecast for the future value of realty beyond the Alleghenies were the subsoil to the greatness that the war for Independence and the Presidency developed and caused to grow. The outstanding hero of the American Revolution; the man who has been called the Revolution itself; “the noblest figure that ever stood in the forefront of a nation’s life” was this Virginian farmer and business man. Europe’s longest river is the Volga.

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'T'HE persistent little felt A hat has served notice of its intention to “keep on keeping on’’ in fashion’s parade. A view of the daily arriving Paris collections of millinery styles emphasizes not only the continued importance of felt in the mode, but also the fact that felts with brims are “in” again. frK£X(«rh rrrr, Sa

bo there we have it—felts which place emphasis on widened-brimmed versions of the cloche, also brims accenting novelty effects as well as unusual draped toqiies and hoods. First in favor with the smart Parisienne for immediate wear comes black, with a galaxy of ravishing pastel tints following in its wake. It is encouraging, too. to note that the new hats are utterly becoming, which cannot always be said of hats “we have seen” in the not far distant past. The three brimmed types in rhe Illustration all stress becomingness. The boney-beige felt cloche with its striking feather adornment is distinctly Parisian. Modistes in the French capital are showing a disposition to use feathers, not only as sid® trims such as this, but particularly in the

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way of novel flat effects, worked into the very construction of the hats, in the smart felt hat to the left below in this group, Alphonsine gives a thoroughly new interpretation of that which is tres chic—the brim brought high to one side, dropping low to the other. The feather ornament is typical of the trend to novelties. Plaits in the brim achieve distinction for the youthful felt cloche shown in the circle. With the Parisienne black felt remains supreme for the between-sea-sons hat. A favorite model of a draped toque is pictured at the top to the right. The other toque is in the new dull pink which the mode highlights for spring. It also displays an intricate handling of felt, which is so characteristic of the new stylings. To that annual spring query tn regard to the “to be or not to be” of the tailored suit, the answer is decidedly tn the affirmative. Fashionists are making it very positive, this sea-

Light Wool Fabrics for Spring A new jersey, called lace wool, and another lightweight fabric called wool georgette are expected to be important materials In the spring styles in Paris. Much lace wool jersey is used by the best dressmakers in»costumes designed for Southern winter resorts. Short Sleeves for Spring Perhaps you’ve wondered whether long sleeves are actually here to stay, though they seem to be well entrenched. in fashion favor, the latest

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Some Hats From Paris. son, that the wardrobe of the smart woman will be sadly incomplete without it includes a trim tailleur. Fact is, seeing that we are surrounded by such a bewilderment of elaborate softly feminine silks, chiffons and novelty ensembles, as the mode is now exploiting, the need for a handsomely tailored suit becomes the more imperative. The models this season carry several important style messages. Perhaps the most outstanding is that of accenting a normal waistline through slightly molded-to-the-tigure side seams in the jacket. This tendency is emphasized in the suit to the left in the picture. Wrap-around skirts are in favor and they are not so short as last year. Satin pipings, too, are

noted on the latest tailleurs. As to single button or more, it is a matter of choice, although the former is somewhat in the lead. Black, dark oxford and navy for the formal tailored jacket and skirt, with tweeds and novelty woolens of every description for sports types. Classed in the latter genre are fetching models of striped tweed. The stripes run vertically In the skirt in contrast to the jacket. Favored also are suits which are styled with more feminine lines and details. A very choice exponent of this type is shown in the illustration to the right. It kasha cloth in the much advocated oatmeal color. It is plaited from head to foot tn a way which does not destroy a slim silhouette. The neckline Is cleverly finished with a wide binding which finishes in tabs at each side, making it adjustable to snug fitting. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (©. 19X8. Western Newsoaper Union.)

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