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PI *.4&fe v,^^88i»ifoaHa». ii l^fci .• . JANUARY 8,1931 Si £;j>1^' /,.%• **£ Qeorge 'Washington's Wedding ^s-^.^Whea The Young Virginian Met and- «• Won Martha Custis ; 4 ' *!>.. 7s '£^V So much has been written on the Mrs. Custis expected him. When he more spectacular phases of George left there he must have been in high Washington's life that it is sometimes spirits, for he took with him the lady's difficult to appreciate the really; promise to marry him as soon as be human qualities of the man. One of , should finish his military service on the finest stories ever told of Wash- the Ohio. |@t?f ongton is that of his courtship of j Washington did not see his betroth- Martha Custis and their subsequent i ed again for several months, for it marriage. In this story are revealed I was December before he returned some of the best and most attractive I from this expedition. His duties fulqualities of America's greatest hero. | filled, the Colonel resigned from the The firm, strong-willed leader of men j army and hastened plans for the wedwho unflinchingly would face death on. ding. It was during Washington's the battlefield found that he needed absence on the frontier that he wrote the companionship and helpful counsel j the only letter to Martha which alone of a woman. Fortunately, he met i remains of his prenuptial correspon- I % • i ^ M M the sort of woman he wanted to preside in his home, and they were married on January 6, 1759. The story of Georga Washington's marriage to Martha Custis is told by the Division of Information and Publication of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, in a statement intended to call attention to the 172nd anniversary of this notable event. George Washington first wet the Widow Custis at the home of Major Chamberlayne in May 1758. The lady had then been a widow for about a r. She had married Colonel Daniel Parke Custis when she was seventeen years old, and was left ait his death eight years later, with two small children and a considerable fortune. Although it is said that Washington was formally presented to Mrs. Custis for the first time by Chamberlayne, it is almost certain that the famous soldier and charming widow had at least heard of each other before that time. Fate must have taken a hand in the events of that day in May wheh Colonel Washington was detained at William's Ferry over the Pamunkey by his friend, Major ChAmberlayne, who earnestly pressed upon the young man an invitation to stay his journey and enjoy the hospitality of the plantation But Washington was hastening to Williamsburg where he intended to ask the Governor in person for men and_supplies for the frontier, which previous urgent letters had failed to obtain. Chamberlayne was insistent, however, and when it appeared that all his importunities must fail to alter the plans of the Colonel, he informed the latter that he was then entertaining the charming Mrs. Custia. This argument^ apparently, was potent enough to convince the young warrior where all others had been dence with her. This dignified and gravely tender note is dated Fort Cumberland, July 20, 1758: "We have begun our march to the Ohio. A courier is starting for Williamsburg, and I embrace the opportunity to send a few words to one whose life is now inseparable from mine. Since that happy hour when we made our pledges to each other, my thoughts have been continually going to yoa as to another self. That All-powerful Providence may keep us both in safety, ia the prayer of your faithful and ever affectionate friend, G. Washington." It still is uncertain whether the marriage occurred in Saint Peter's Church or at the bride's home, the White House. At any rate, the Rev. Mr. Mossom, rector of Saint Peter's officiated at the ceremony. Jared Sparks, one of Washington's earliest biographers, is the authority for the date of the wedding which he established as January 6. But no matter whether the wedding took place at the White House or in the church, it was a notable event and was attended by a great number of Virginia'.; prominent people. The Governor himself was there with civit and military authorities, and many of the socially elite. Only a traditional account of the festivities on that occasion exists today, but certainly the celebration left nothing lacking. Martha's wedding gown has been thus described by one writer: "--a satin quilt, over which a heavy white silk, inter-woven with threads of silver, was looped back with White satin ribbons, richly brocaded in a leaf pattern. Her bodice was of plain satin, ann the brocade was fastened on the bust with a stiff butterfly bow of the ribftjpn. Delicate lace finished the low, square neck. There were close I elbow sleeves revealing a puff and vain, and Washington consented to j frill of lace. Strings of pearls were remain only long enough to partake. woven in and out of her powdered of the meal which was then being prepared. Bishop, the personal servant of Washington, who had served under Braddock, was instructed to hold the Colonel's horse in readiness for a speedy departure as soon as dinner was over. The old soldier knew very well his master's reputation for punctuality, and since the business at Williamsburg was important, he fully expected that this wait would be a brief one. But the dinner hour passed and the sun sank sa*ik lower into the west, and still Washington lingered. At last in the warm dusk of the May evening, the faithful Bishop received orders to stable the horses for the night and the journey was postponed until the next day. t There is something amusing in this scene of budding romance, although it is no wonder that Washington tarried. Martha Custis was beautiful, attractive and accomplished. She has been described as being short, slightly plump and of engaging personality. Certainly the Colonel's interest in the lady was matched by her own interest in the renowned young soldier, and auch mutual agreeableness was sorely sufficient to crowd prosaic business into the background. However, the Governor had to be visited, so the next day found Washington on his way to Williamsburg. hair. Her high-heeled slippers were of white satin, with brilliant buckles.'* The attractive appearance of the bride was equalled by that of the tall, well-built bridegroom. Always particular of his dress, Washington, on this occasion;' was elegantly ar rayed and, according to all accounts, was the most gallantly magnificent figure in all that assemblage. At last Mount Vernon had a-« mistress, but months elapsed after the wedding before the young bride saw her future home. Washington had just been elected to the House of Burgesses so the young couple remained in Williamsburg while that Chamber remained in session until May. When Washington did return with his wife to his beautiful estate on the Potomac the place became home to both of them for the remainder of their lives. Washington's marriage was a singularly happy one. In Martha he found all those womanly qualities which were needed to supplement those of his own character. Who can measure the value of the encouragement she must have given him during the weary days of the Revolution ? Certainly she was always a faithful and devoted wife, and the Father of his Country owed a great deal to her for the measure of success he attained. Among the anniversaries of the many important dates in the life of George But as soon as the business which Washington, this one of his wedding took him there was taken care of, the, holds an element of human interest now fully smitten Colonel proceeded to the White House, the Custis home on the Pamunkey, where it appears which no doubt is appreciated By all hi# countrymen. •"••M j .-friit", -- HffiGkLL HE OUTDOORS FEED THE BIRDS Now is the time to prepare feeding fective. Care should be taken to see that shelters do not constitute traps where birds can be cornered by cats, dogs, gashawks, or other enemies. It is safer for the birds if openings are left from which they can .escape in case of attack. "Best results will be obtained by placing^ shelters in natural game coverts, rather than attempting activities for game birds nnd song to entice game into barnyards or too and insectivorous birds throughout the far '"to the open. In any event it is northern portion of the United States, j inadvisable to feed game birds with January, February and March are the j domestic poultry, or where poultry critical months for the birds. If they manure has accumulated, as many do not receive help when the ground diseases and parasites a**" easily is covered with ice and snow they transmitted between barnyard fowls will starve. In a number of states the conservation department, conservation organizations, Boy Scouts, 4-H clubs, Izaak Walton League chapters, schools, nature clubs, farmers and others cooperate on intensive winter feeding campaigns. Many flocks of ring-neck pheasants, bobwhite quail, Hungarian partridges, and even wild turkeys are saved from starvation. and came birds. LEGAL NOTICES FRED B. BENNETT, Attorney ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Estate of Theodore Meyer, Deceased. The undersigned, having b^n appointed Administrator with *"511 an- The small birds, the familiar winter nexed of the Estate of Tisodore visitors, always fully repay any effort Meyer deceased, late of the County of in their behalf. The school children in j McIIenry and State of Illinoi" hereby many instances build feeding shelters [ gives notice that he will amoar beand supply food to their feathered j fore the County Court of M-Henry friends daily. Boys and girls who feed the birds will become real conservationists in later years. Encourage them all you can. Shelter feeding is very effective. The tepee or lean-to of shelters, made County, at the Court House ir Wood- Stock, at the March Term, on the first Monday in March next, at which time all persons having claims against said Estate are notified and requested "to attend for the purpose * having s Like BLOCUM'8 LAKX tcene at a Coffee Warehouse la tawtos, Brand. lIVep&FAd tr'ltie National Geographic F Society. Washington, D. C.) AR up in the jungles of French Indo-Chlna, some 300 miles from the doorstep of the world as measured in distance, a thousand years in the past as measured in time, and eons back In the unknown as measured in history, is Angkor, one of the most puzzling works ever contrived by the hand of matu Temple and town and network of dim and forgotten shrines, it represents a culture that must have been far in advance of anything coeval with It and a power that must have been virtually irrestible even iu Asia, where men at arms were plentiful and warfin re was a favored business. But the culture died and the men who had built it disappeared* and for hundreds of years the forests of banyan and bamboo hid from the eyes and memory of the world what had been a metropolis of a million inhabitants. Two generations ago a French naturalist broke through the wall of jungle in a search for specimens of tropical life and came upon a spectacle such as the slaves of the lamp might have contrived for Aladdin. Before him, in the quivering silence, rose the five towers of a vast step pyramid, a stone tapestry representative of an art and architecture like nothing else with* in the ken of man. A moated wall surrounded it and a cloistered gate upon a causeway that led to its rocketing staircases; and, for all that, jungle growths were close about its lower stage and odd clumps of verdure grew from its arched roofs, it seemed that life had been io Its shadowy galleries only, a moment ago. The temple was virtually intact. No Trace of Man Except Ruins. The astonished visitor looked about for the ashes of altar fires and stood listening for the footsteps of returning priests. It seemed incredible that a people could have evolved a civilization such as that typified by the great temple and then have vanished without any of their neighbors hearing of It But there were no huinan beings in the empty halls, nor was there trace of man, save In the ruin of his works in the walled city to the north. It is now more than sixty years since the stunned eyes of Mouhot, the naturalist, looked upon the magnificent heights of Angkor--more than sixty years since the greatest detective story in the history of the world was laid out with Its million stony clews to ptugje tbe savants. Today, with its principal remains classified and ticketed, its Inscriptions translated, and Its monuments lifted out of the jungle, Angkor is still the vast and silent mystery that it was in the beginning. The world knows more about it now. Splendid automobile roads, cut through what was once a thicket of bamboo and is now an endless rice field, bring the traveler, on regular schedule and with little personal discomfort, from Saigon, at the foot of Asia, to the bungalow on the edge of the Angkor moat, in a few hours. Yearly hundreds ef visitors from all parts of the world are seeking out this odd corner and carrying away with them amazed reports that will lure other hundreds. And yet, were it not for the fact that these tremendous zlkkurats remain much as they were when they were first built, defiant of time and weather, by the Tonle Sap (Great Lake), the incredible tale of the civilisation that built them and vanished would rank as it did in Mouhot's time, as a none-too-cieverly-constructed myth Discovered by Mouhot. -Two generations ago the modern world had never heard of Angkor. A dense forest spread across Irvdo-Cbinu. French trade was confined to the coast, and there was no commercial traffic on tbe Mekong river north of Pnompenh for the reason that Cain bodia's resources, the same resource* that had given this region a possible identity as the Golden Cliersonose of legend, were as deeply earppted with useless verdure as the hidden cities of the North. Pnompenh, the capital of tbe Kingdom of Cambodia (western portion of tbe Indo-Chinese peninsula), was a village of nipa thatch and bamboo, a comic-opera metropolis, where a despot ruled in fear of his lite over a semisavage, if not completely savage, people. Saigon, the present capital of French enterprise in the East, was just rising from the marshes south of Annan. What might He hidden in the masses of foliage to the north, no one knew. l>uring these troublous times M. Mouhot passed up the great river into Tonle Sap and made hfe discovery. Archeology, already thrilled by the translation of the Rosetta Stone and the unbelievable bit of detective work Which led to the decipherment of the Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions, turned its attention at once to this new field. For half a century learned men toiled here unceasingly to prove at length only what had been suspected from the first, that a highly intellectual people had built up in this valley a civilization, and that however inconceivable experience might show such a thing to be, their marvelous culture had been sunk without a trace. Once, and not so long ago, the Journey to Angkor could be made only by boat--a tedious passage that took five days. The stories of travelers who made the pilgrimage in those days are long recitals of hardship and continuous descriptions of impenetrable jungle. There Is no reason to believe thflt these accounts were at all inaccurate. But conditions change rapidly In IndoChina. A lace pattern of paved roads has been traced all across this end of Asia. v Now Easy of Access. . Motor transport, more flexible and ifcster than the typical oriental railroad, has brought the upper reaches of the Mekong valley to within a few --hours of Saigon; and paddy fields, spreading out and beyond the old horizons, have pushed the jungle Steadily northward. Today one may ride for hundreds of __ miles without seeing any trees save in far scattered clusters, and It was only yesterday that the tiger and elephant walked here, unmolested heritors of the physical kingdom of the Khmers. Beyond a bank of water lilies in the still moat, beyond a cloistered wall that seems to have neither beginning nor end, the great bulk of Angkor Vat drives Its stone wedge into the sky. A pilgrim looks upon it through misty eyes and with an odd constriction of the throat, for there is only one Angkor Vat There is no such monument to a vanished people anywhere else in the world. The sun is setting now, and the gold has come back to the minarets. The lacework of carved rock Is fragile as cobweb in the gathering shadow, and with the half light of early evening the central pyramid has taken on an awe-inspiring size. It seems futile to retard its grandeur. One does not describe an Angkor. He sits and gases at It In silence and amazement. The name Angkor has been somewhat loosely applied to these ruins. There are two principal groups: Angkor Vat, the temple, and Angkor Thorn, the town.. The word Angkor Is believed to be a native corruption of tbe Sanskrit Nagara, meaning capital. Thorn is a local word, meaning great or grand. Vat is an appellation designating a temple and is generally associated with Buddhism. Wonderful Step Pyramid. Angkor Vat was the last Important work of the Khmers and remains today the finest expression of their peculiar art. Built as a shrine to Hindu gods and apparently devoted to Vlshu, Siva, and Buddha in turn, It has departed a long distance from the psrent architecture of the Hindus. It Is a step pyramid which rises through three cloistered stages to a group of five mlteriike towers, of which the one in the center Is dominant The temple area Is about a quarter of a mile square and is surrounded by a moat and a high wall. A causeway crosses tbe moat and strikes through a gate pierced In the middle of the western wall, whence it leads to the portico of the first stage. The lbwer galleries measure nearly 250 feet on a side. The facade is five times as wide as that of Notre Dame of Paris. It is the history of Angkor Vat that no beholder can judge accurately how high it really is. The towers are loftier than the tallest palms of the jungle, but they are lifted still higher by tricks of perspective that form the, most interesting part of their design. In the mass Angkor is as impressive ss the Pyramids of Egypt, more striking as au artistic ensemble than even the Taj Mahal. But it4s not for these attributes that the dazed pilgrim would classify It as the most fascinating place In the world. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis and daughter, Helen, were callers at Mc- Henry Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren were Crystal Lake visitors Friday evening. Harry Matthews and son and Elmqp Esping were callers at Crystal Lake Wednesday. x Archie Fosa of Libertyville spent Saturday at the home of his parents here. ^ Mrs. Clara Smith was a dinner guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Haas at Wauconda Friday. Leslie Davis and son were callers at Lake Zurich last Tuesday. Harry Matthews attended a farm bureau meeting at Grayslake Monday. Herman Christian of Oak Park spent the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse. Lloyd and Elwood Dowell of Roseville and George Eatinger of Wauconday spent last Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell. Chesney Brooks spent a few days Inst week with Robert Dooley at East Chicago, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stranglund of Wauconda visited at the Wm. Foss home Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis and children visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dowell at Roseville Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Matthews and two children of Bensonville were Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren spent «New Year's eve at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lundgren at Wauconda. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Haas of Wauconda were callers at the home of Mr3. Clara Smith New Wear's day. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren entertained Mr. and Mrs. George Lundgren and Miss Nelson of Wauconda, and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lusk and daughter, Betty Lou, of Round Lake New Year's day. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse spent New Year's eve at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Duncan at Mylith Park. Misses Hazel Haffey and Lucile August of Wauconda were callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews JMonday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foss and sons, Miss Pearl Foss ^md Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Foss of Libertyville, Henry Filmenten and niece of McHenry sponsored a surprise party on Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Foss at their home at Woodstock. Cards were played and prizes awarded. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews attended a New Year's eve party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ffenk Dickson at Wauconda. JSO SURETY OF LASTINQ PEACE < *jr GENERAL JOHN J. PKRSHING, i» The CtaMrr ^EOPLE say we Bhould disarm. America is already almost disarmed. Good men and good women tell ns that we shoqld throw away our armaments. We have very little- to throw away. \ I pray fervently that there will be no more war. With all my soul I hate it. But what have I to be so sure there will be no more war? We know that we will not provoke a war. But what is there in hie» ^^ tory which authorizes us to conclude that tome one else will not pro*: Yoke one? It is not a question of whether or not we believe in war. It it a question of whether or not we will defend this wonderful country of v :, \ ours if another nation, which does believe in war, should attack na. ^ We are all lovers of peace now. But somehow it is possible to changa 'fMi us in a few months. The same people who one month denounce war will be found the next month clamoring for war. Suddenly we see men and women and little children--not soldiers--but peaceful civilians, clergy-? * ^ men*, mothers and kindly old ladies and quiet men shouting for war. > It is easy to point out the fallacy of the argument that a large armjr is a dead expense. 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