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Received at Office of Stray Letters THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. CL FEBRUARY 21, 1926-PART 8. 3 Old Washington Home Is Reflection Poisonous Animals, Living and Dead, Os Spirit of Eleanor Parke Custis Received at Office of Stray Letters Charm of Adopted Daughter of First President Helped to Make Mansion Serene* Clerks Recall Experience of Man Who Recovered Set of False Teeth, While Millions Peaceful and Happy Place That It Was. in Money Are Mailed Without Proper Addresses. BY LEILA WILSON RATHON. : Nellie Calvert and granddaughter of • li\ LEE I'OE HART. once Lord Baltimore. Brooklyn, more the birthday of Airy, long Xiitie is a youtip mail m of — George Washington I Mount the home the Par away to the sea arrives, , Calverts, him. we turn our thoughts descendants of land Baltt-. If. O. B. Bob. we call to the more, is still a home, loved and eared Oh, lettir carrier, find bun lor nn-. first President as a national i AS for. though having passed into other used as an ad- figure, whom the country at cryptogram, hands, its present mistress is Mrs. mailed, ap- large loves to honor, and dress on a letter we. who live Percy Duvall. within easy access of his lovely old parently, for a joke, instances Abingdon lias become tlie property which home on the Potomac, think of him ilie difficult problem* of former Representative Philip Camp- THIS onict, also as a country a confront the dead lettfci gentleman, gen- bell, wlio. with his family, tleman Virginia as makes his a division of tlie United State* Post whom claims her home They have brought it back most distinguished son. .As we there. Office Department, under control of visit misuse and neglect once more, to Mount Vernon, we arc reminded, from First Assistant Postmaster General how- in the community a semblance ever, that to occupy john 11. Rartlett. Maryland is due much of lat ? ast ci .he gay manor house, the pervading personality the in addition, on tlie envelope bear- that still scone of outstanding events in the seems to ding it give it a sense ing llii-se lines, in lieu of superscrip- t>> and happy life of is* y oung mistress, Elea- of serenity sweetness. very tion, were only the words "St. Mark's and The nor Calvert Custis, and her fond spirit youth in one corner. It might have of and ga> ty that made husband. Jack There Ave.” ' young Custis. seemed a hopeless puzzle, but not so the mansion a home in fact, as well as family of daughters in name, very presence i their little three to a woman employe of the the of whose one son tirst saw the light, among certain benign is still by the i and letter ottiee is famous for influence sensed them George Washington Parke t'us- dead who visitors, was lovely girl, her feats as a "blind reader.” that Eleanor : known ns t'ustis of Parke or tis. later “Mr. Applying "the cross-word puzzle Custis. as she is more fa- Arlington.” whose miliarly loved, “Nellie" i old home is the test,” as might termed, the known and pivot of interest in the National it be Custis. the delight of her adopted fa- "blind reader” looked up St. Mark’s | Cemetery, and Is soon to lie refurnish ther, Gen. AVashington. in a Brooklyn directory, and sent j .-,1 as in its ot<l days, just as Mount Ave. Maryland mother, a to every person To her Eleanor has been by the regents. circular named Calvert, Nellie Custis owed much of Vernon "Robert” living there. As a result, her grace, Iter charm and her sweet- An aged visitor to Mr, Campbell right one applied for the letter and Abing- the ness. The or Eleanor | since he lias become master of got first “Nellie." of hearing it. Calvert, was the daughter of Benedict -1 don told him Ids mother tel! This branch of the Government de- ! of going to a bull at Abingdon and talc Calvert, son of the fifth Cord Balti- partment. under Postmaster General j ittg a baby, putting more. him, with her. him Harry S. New, to which letters and It In the original Cord Balti- j to sleep in an upper chamber and then package* unclaimed arid undeliverable was dancing night away till, some more manor th.ii John I’arkd Custis. i half ihe are sent from local post offices, is a de the wee. sm: II hours the son of Cady Washington, wooed and i time in of facto museum of curiosities. Yet the Culvert, gray she his wed the dashing Nellie who , dr.n.n. and father would tel- are never astonished gather up dead-lei clerks < , ould ride to over the rolling : him and carry bins home anything, according to hounds them, at Prank Maryland hills with os mueh spirit ! with other babies probably also Staley, superintendent of the division, and grace as she could tread a meas- ! went a visiting under similar circum- w hose duties include, in addition to ure in tlie stately old rooms of Mount | stances, while the little Custis babies overseeing the dead letter and dead Viry, near Upper Marlboro. I also slept, under (be tender care of parcel-post office here, supervision mammies, as the The two children of Cady Washing- | their country folk and of in hosts made the three other branches the ton by her former marriage, John j their merry in the double States. parlors below, dancing United Parke Custis and Martha Parke Cus- i across the wide When they open a package, it is tis. or Patsy or “Cittle Patty” as she i central hall to the dining room on the nothing unusual for them to find a was called, made their home with I other side. horned toad, a centipede, a chameleon, step-father, Gen. Washington, j Mount Venn»n is familiar to all who a baby alligator, a gopher, a their ; Capital of stuffed and his wife, their mother, at Mount visit the the Nation,whether petrified frog, an opium pipe, spirit The general, who led an ! American citizens or foreign trav- photographs, plates, poker chips Vernon. to coffin army to victory and later ruled the elers. and those with vision to o’' a set of false teeth. lack of repeople it as in its pristine days, the THE “GRAVEYARD OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT,” THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE, WHERE 6.- new republic, confessed to his j A story is current the division John or Jack. Host romantic spot tend sweetest in 300.000 LETTERS AND PARCELS WERE RECEIVED BECAUSE THEY WERE IMPROPERLY ADDRESSED authority over young about the last mentioned. An old man "I can govern men. but 1 cannot homeland in this broad country of By National Photo ours. rushed up to tite clerk in charge and govern, boys," said, and so young he make claimed a act of false teeth locked up was sent away from home tu Those who pilgrimages to old lack in a glass ease. the were disposed papers • study, lie went to Annapolis to the mansions realize that such old homes parcels (that went astray in mails ,• letters received and of checks and commercial "Why do you think they are yours?" importance were Rev. Jonathan Boucher, who tutored I? have a personality of their own. If W‘*rc stuck away in big pigeon-holes, in the dead letter service last yeai, : similar received Mary- one cannot feel it. then one is out of asked the curator. a circumstance that offered a tine op- which is a decrease of nearly 300,000 jJ the offices of the dead letter some other youths, and the “Because I j serv; luck. It is a sense that may be culti- would know them any- portunity to the predatory rodents. from the preceding year. This is the |! la-st year. capital lteing not far from Mount “1 bought land lag:' w bh l vated .and \i>!tmg old ha nor house may where,” saiil the old man. They were much addicted to cutting first reduction in volume of dead let- jj Money found in dead letters a Vernon, made the trip back myself ago, he often happily bring it. one sensible them 10 years and used up cotton cloth and other dress tors since 1922. and. while it is small, loose in the mails amounted to $1 '• and forth on horseback. His way lay If is them until they were in the mails ii i to this feeling individuality ;,nd lost fabrics for the-IP nests, he explained, it seems to indicate that the response 706.1*2, a decrease of *12,290.67 fro; the hospitable doors of Mount of city past personality, no when l sent them to the to be but wffiit they seemed enjoy most of the public to the department’s ef- the preceding year, and $64,106.66 where, as all old manors manor house in the to ¦ Airy, in country can t<-!| to mended." was wedding cake— ;pieces of which forts duting tlie past year for ; amount was restored to tn was kept to rlie visitor more better; this of its day, open house plainly than Tlie ti-eth were taken out of the were frequently found in lost pack- addressing and wrapping lias in a owners. traveling gentry, and there NELLIE CUSTIS, AFTERWARD MRS. LAWRENCE LEWIS, MIS- Woodlawn its history of all the OF WOODLAWN. serenity, peace and contentment, that ease; the claimant popped them into ages—and the bran stuffing of dolls measure been made. Close to $5,000,000 in money order young man met the daughter of TRESS mouth, they i the Is as much a part of it as faded his and.
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