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picture galleries are upstairs and from the central part you can look down into a large room below where there is a fine collection of St. Gauden's works. On the wall in back of the broard stair case that leads down to this room, is some lovely tapistry.

At one time during the evening President Roosevelt received the artists. 

We found the exhibition most charming. 

To-day was a beautiful one to be in the country and as we had planned to go to Mount Vernon were very pleased.
 
We went by train and past through the little town of Alexanderia, that General Washington helped to lay out at the age of sixteen and the old Christ Church built of red brick, where he worshipped.

Mount Vernon is just the place for a great man's home with it's charming site overlooking the River.

The old colonial house is white with