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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1911)
i i ra r f 7st Uia i ife s tl y -5 wfytxPiw j JTvl W 5 5 V fif7 oFioifr VEHOJY SfAYJO 3H0WYG TsftFW XOOF COimwtlXS 7V made in the past to have our national legislature take some action In this matter There Is however constant agitation on the subject and a continual increase in the number of people who look upon it as a public shame thai our greatest patriotic shrine should be in other hands than Uncle Sams This resentment is due In great measure to what the critics are pleased to dub 1 N EFFUKT is to be made to have the new congress take up the pro posal that means be devised here by the United States government may acquire title to and assume the management of Mount Vernon on the Potomac the home and tomb of George Washington II was only because the last congress et the session which closed a few months ago took definite action in the matter that there was halted a project to profane the historic precincts of Mount Vernon by the location of a reformatory In the vicinity and It Is being ar gued that if congress has to bestow such foster ing care upon the famous mansion and estate why not have the whole management of the Institution which really belongs to the whole people vested in the elective body closest to the people Several unsuccessful attempts have been m SHI XJ QtiSS i d rSfS V f 1 mmmmm2 J1L sfi hi Ji IPi t UVV ITW C5sa s svXn iV aAA mat rewXl x- vav t -v ir wfsys Jl fi a V aaiBH VKyi f v ovi xsxi IJFV m 3Ti Xft3 m X J v - Wz m A DJWWAY NOWAX 0f0 Tf ZATJLY Jc2VrAr BMCX WAJJLS the dime museum meth ods which obtain in the conduct of this tourist mecca The procedure complained of is the charging of an admission fee for entrance to the grounds and the sale of postal cards guide books and other commodities Unfavor able sentiment is attributable especially to the circumstance that most of the money making enterprises conducted at Mount Vernon are on the monopolistic order Only an approved brand of guide book can be purchased on the grounds and so on through the whole list of articles for sale even to the circumstance that a single line of steamers on the Potomac river has the exclusive privilege of landing tourists at Mount Vernon However whatever may have been the mis takes of the association of women who have control of Mount Vernon or of the superin tendent who for twenty five years has had the authority of general manager of Mount Ver on there is no denying that they have ac complished much in the restoration and main tenace of the manor house and the most inter esting part of the famous Virginia plantation Only recently has there been completed an Important undertaking In landscape architec ture which is especially notable because it supplies the final feature needed to reslore the actual conditions of George Washingtons day at the country seat which the Father of His Country loved so well and where he lived and died This final restoration has been the re placing of the lawn and garden walls which in colonial times played an important part in the surroundings of Mount Vernon as they did in the case of almost every mansion of its type The original walls on the Mount Vernon estate most of which were constructed under the supervision of Washington himself were in an excellent state of preservation when he died but successive heirs to the estate al lowed them to fall into decay until there wa3 naught left but the foundations These walla which add so much to the appearance of the Mount Vernon estate would have been re stored years ago had it been merely a matter quently enable adherence to the policy of hav t everything historically correct to the most minute dettiL After a quest that had continued for more than a score of years the long sought bricks were recently obtained when there was demol ished an old colonial mansion known as So ciety Hill located in King George county Vir ginia This structure which was built by Colonel Thornton a close friend of George Washington and which by coincidence later passed into the possession of a member of the Washington family wasi constructed of bricks brought from England -The bricks in the So ciety Hill mansion when cleaned proved to be Identical in size and color with the bricks found in Iho ruined foundations of the original garden walls at Mount Vernon Accordingly the walls were restored in accordance with the original drawings and enough of the origi nal Washington bricks were rescued from the old foundations to provide a coping for the walls the bricks obtained from the King wm iv sSfi -S Ttzr sr 5r v tjyVi fv A r jt LSP v 6 wm rlZ sk T The most extensive of the restored walls are the screen walls the function of which was to hide from the sight of Washingtons guests seated on the lawn the inevitable do mestic activities that were carried on around such outbuildings as the kitchen the smoke house the spinning house etc adjuncts of the mansion which it was not desired to have obtrude themselves upon the notice of visit ors Almost as interesting as the screen walls however are the Ha Ha walls which are depressed below the level of the sloping lawn and are consequently unobservable from the portico of the mansion but which In Washingtons day performed an important function by preventing the stock from wan dering on the lawn in front of the house The name Ha Ha as applied to such walls origi nated In England and is attributed tov cross country riders who were surprised into mak ing the ejaculation when they suddenly and unexpectedly came upon such a hidden wall in their chase of a fox The restored walls although the most im portant of recent improvements at Mount Ver non are by no means the only ones that may be noted by the sightseers and tourists who now visit this historic spot in throngs that ag gregate 100000 a year A new roof has been placed on the mansion house and the public probably has little conception of how much time and labor was required to obtain the de- of expense for the whole -work cost only about The English home with its lack of proper 1500 However a more serious stumbling - heatIne and alBO it3 sad lack of ventilation block delayed operations namely a desire to j r A and hnthtnhn a no mora a marvel to the secure briCK tnat wouxq oe aupncaies oi tnoae -- - originally employed and which would wJUXwb wjmM v XPX American woman than the American home is to the English woman The latter freely admits that the conveniences of the American home are beyond compare but there is one serious defect that is always commented on This is set forth by Mary Mortimer Maxwell in the National Review London There is no place for father Surely there must be some truth in this for so many British women have called attention to the fact that we have no privacy in our homes and have pointed to theshortcomings of pretty strands of -beads serving as doors and to the fact that the bathroom is the only sanctuary the Indianapolis News remarks This Is borne out by observations In many cities A former official in Indiana is well read in history He also has a family He freely admits that he absorbed his history lying with pillow in the bathtub safe beyond the reach of the growing children This is JuBt what Mary Mortimer Maxwell is speaking about when she says But the member of the American family to whom my thoughts turn in greatest SS county site furnishing the remainder in Z2 VZSSi of the material -- gugpW WsaaeMWBiyjWBSg1 K j2J J ZlZ Wc zvm lift W3 iS iV f xCwXvw br Vm rff3JCXWMFiJl5TCO1PLrfO AT Mowr vrYpr ttmrf s fVs t ml m k iV i tm v fiX iSi VoV - I tyiiM 33 sP rxti wMm TSf Orsii0G5 Arvomr ypov VAW f hvs frjyiVi Z1 3 f0X y wfQ wl m J 5s Av ia WWr 3SS88 2y X S y c - Q2 v mm 5Ssv of individuality is the father he who pays for everything buys the house with his own earnings or hires it and yet generally has not so much as a corner that Is his very own It is called his house it has many rooms There are the drawing room the living room the library -There are numerous bedrooms and dressing rooms but if he really desires solitude there would seem to be nothing for him but to lock himself up In the bathroom Sometimes you hear the members of an Ameri can family speak of fathers den to be sure Why just before I left America a New York friend when she was showing me through her newhouse said to me This Is my hus bands den showing me into the sunniest and brightest room in the house My eyes rested upon antimacassars and tea cosies a copy of Poems of Passion an embroidery frame a train of choo choo cars and a box of such tem Faiaasgm m -- yi wf vrva 5H itt MOlSIT VR1Qtf AfAMJOW AS JT 4L APPAR5 TO0AY f stone as many people suppose but has a frame of oak usheathed with pine cut painted and sanded to resemble stone The new sys tem enables the heating of all the rooms in the mansion by a hot water system and yet the boiler room with the inevitable menace that comes from Are and stored fuel is located 400 feet from the mansion and wholly underground Another modern improvement at this reju venated estate in old Virginia is found In the provision of a fine water supply obtained from a splendid artesian well Powerful pumps op erated by electricity supply water from this well for household purposes and keep filled at all times the emergency reservoirs which would be depended upon in case of fire Inci dentally it may be explained that the score of men Including guards gardeners laborers etc who work and live on the Mount Vernon estate or close at hand are organized into a well drilled fire fighting force and they have chem- ical and steam en 9iTA 5 VCf AA Vr -v te rK - ymMmm OJ 3t86 wJvit1 1 iK v T1 y vfl X m nV fej STttS ivZ S gines for fighting SbOvx the flames should this destructive agent ever menace the mansion a re mote chance it would seem for all the rooms -in the house and all the LdiraH exterior walls have been treated with a fire resisting paint For all that elec tricity is employed to pump water and perform certain other chores on the Mount Vernon es tate the magic cur- 1 - SlV rs TlKf 3S S5S3 nz 77tOjLWrCYYJir MOLWr VAiOf SHOWftGrt 1SCFJV WAll sired material for this roof just as it was no end of trouble to find the bricks for the walls above referred to About 60000 cypress shin gles were needed for the new roof but they must needs be rived shingles because Wash ington had that kind and it seemed impossible to find any rived shingles because nowadays shlnglesare not made that way sawing being much easier than splitting Finally a lumber firm in South Carolina undertook to supply shingles that would duplicate those of Wash ingtons day but they charged almost a cent apiece for the singles which made the roof a pretty expensive one Mount Vernon mansion now has one of the most perfect heating systems to be found in any American residence It was designed es pecially to prevent danger from fire and in this connection it may be mentioned that Washingtons old home is not built of brick or STr1 A rent is not allowed in the precious mansion and the manor house is lighted as it was in the days of yore solely by candles There has been another notable undertak ing at Mount Vernon in the form of the con struction of drainage works which control forces of nature that threatened to play havoc on the famous estate This new system of sanitary drainage has first of all served to reclaim the bogs and swamps which at one time gave the place a reputation for unhealth fulness Equally serious in possible results were the threatened landslides near the man sion and in the vicinity of the old tomb of Washington from which however the body of Washington was removed some years ago to the new tomb These slides have been averted for all time by the construction at considerable cost of a tunnel which pierces the hill on which the mansion stands lPVffiPFVrifVipirifafWr NO PLACE FOR FATHER Bathroom Nook Only Place in Which Family Head May Find Privacy Its the sunniest room in the house went on that wickedly selfish little American woman so the children and I spend a great deal of time here I have been shown through other American homes where the husbands had their own dressing rooms their own hanging cup boards and have noted with surprise the com plexion balms bodkins with pink bebe ribbon ready for running through lace bonnet whisks and cut glass powder boxes lying upon the chiffonier along with military brushes and safety razors 1 do believe in separating dressing rooms and separate dressing tables the fond wife would gush and then she would show me her husbands own hanging cup board which being fitted up with a new kind of patent trouser stretcher which she found exactly the thing for keeping her skirts vln lct 0rdeF Be ken Possession of American confections as my soul delights In to the farthest and which no manly man could possibly be seen eating I looked about for rows of curious pipes for a horribly dusty and disordered writing table a lounging Jacket out at el bows but oh so comfortable after the work aday coat a copy or two of a sporting paper but not a sign of such mute witnesses to masculine ownerhIp6f that room did saa up and darkest corner where a pathetic and lonely greatcoat might hang on a splitary peg Does this thing after all make the path to the divorce courts popular Our British critics sometimes think so Men are brutish folk at the best and sometimes do like to be alcBA V v I x WELCOMED BY MEN WHO SMOKE Particular men who smoke realize how offensive to people of refinement is a strong tobacco breath and how objectionable to themselves is that dark brown taste in the mouth after smoking Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic Is worth Its weight in gold for this purpose alone Just a little in a glass of water rinse the mouth and brush the teeth The mouth is thoroughly deodorized the breath becomes pure and sweet and a delightful sense of mouth clean liness replaces that dark brown to bacco taste Paxtine is far superior to liquid an tiseptics and Peroxide for all toilet and hygienic uses and may be obtain ed 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