Ethel Morton at Sweetbrier Lodge

h air made them sleep like tops and they awoke the next morning entirely refreshed,

my mouth," said Helen. "I talke

admiringly. "I wish I could r

ladelphia in the revolutionary days for me, so it was not my unaided memory that reeled off all that informa

Roger. "Mother, you know this villa

some suggestions to make and R

because they are old, or have connection with some important person

some of the doorways for Miss Graham. She asked me to draw any

ashington Square in New York, only here the whole square has been preserved in its former bea

d James. "I shouldn't want to suggest it if it will

list," said Mrs. Morto

rom that spot to pa

eur we had yesterday," said Ethel

omed to driving touris

they stowed themselves away as they had the day before. Mrs. Morton told him the chief "sights" which they wanted

ay they stopped at Christ Church. Its high box pews seemed to them full of dignity, and they imagined the elaborately arranged head-dresse

irst Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania," said Mrs. Morton. "He was

lace amid the hurry of the city, they found many stones bea

e stone. "Wasn't that just about the t

on. "The first real American Congress after the separation of the country from

istory as long as Sister Hel

o started it,"

knows so much about history," said Mrs. Morton; "it would be an exce

nswered Ro

heir search that the chauffeur asked James, who was sitting besid

Helen, did you know that 'Hail Colu

that," said Helen.

ack of the car, that while John Adams was president, there was a war scare, because French vessels were supposed to be off the coast read

ia'-the regular 'Hail Colu

mory for verses was always good and she rep

umbia, ha

roes, heave

d bled in fre

d bled in fre

e storm of

peace your

ndence be

dful wha

eful for

tar reach

oined in t

nited l

round our

of broth

safety we

s the church which the chauffeur called "Old Swedes Church,"

stand that they were on a historical pilgrimage. They a

site of an old wooden church that was built in 1646. It was a Swedish

around the church in any great num

use they are the descendants of the original founders, and they come from great distances to the morning ser

or the day," said Margaret Hancock. "I used to see them when I was a little girl and we went to

go to a Quaker Meeting House," suggested Mrs. M

s' school connected with it that is very well known-the Penn Charter

would be a meeting to

feur shoo

a Quaker myself, and I know when I was your age

ny other kind of ch

dexterously avoiding a

ves someone to speak. I've been there many a time whe

ing her head gravely; "I don't believ

y," said Mrs. Morton. "Any way, I don't know that I should a

agreement wi

er wouldn't li

was a clergym

to New York and go around the city, taking in three or four churches on Sunday morning merely to hear the mu

selves with looking at the outside

t was filled with int

in the United States," th

t asking, although Roger shook his head

copper here and we've done a great deal of minting for

heets of metal and were then fed into tubes of just the right size to hold them, until th

ooking at the eagle flying through the air on one coin and th

andsome nose," said Ethel Blue, critica

d-man on one side of the nickel, and the buffa

ey saw not only American coins, from the earliest to the most recent, but coins of

e very muscular to carry th

to put it in or it would have been l

ld Mrs. Morton, when she got into the car again. "It has a grand exhibition ever

agreed that they would prefer to stay out

Metropolitan Museum some day be

raham said she'd go with us, and I think we should

d Ethel Blue. "I'm crazy about her, and this would be

our opportunity soon," he

suggested the chauffeur. "Then after luncheon, you

t. Airy?"

dumb asylums in America," re

of them pulled such long faces Mrs

ent on, looking at her watch, "I must meet my business appointment now, so I suggest, Roger, that you take our party to Wanamaker's.

feur was ordered for three o'cloc

ity with many Navy Yards did not lessen their interest in this one, with its rows of officers' houses and its barracks and mess-room. Just because they were so familiar with similar p

ork people are crowded on to a small tongue of land, between two rivers. Here there are two rivers also, but the space between them

t very beautiful,"

s, and the little flights of white marble steps, all alike? I don't see how anybody knows when he has

a house to itself, than for many families to b

York. "The large buildings are wonderfully constructed now-a-days for

householder is responsible for his own heating, his own side-walk, and so on, for all matters whose good care makes for the hap

to me you gain something by uniting, as apartment house people practically do, to hire some on

here land is so valuable that buildings must go up in the air, such co-operation has become desirable, bu

ough Logan Square, to the fact that this was the fourth

on Square when you were down by Independence Hall. This morning you saw Rittenhouse Square. Logan is th

chuylkill, and the rest of the afternoon they spent in the lovely Park

of the finest in the United States. They invested in peanuts and small c

k had had the good sense to leave as they found them. Along the Wissahickon they noticed many small i

laimed Roger, as he read one of the numerous summonses, "but if they catch the cat-fish

ed Helen, as they whirled along the banks of

ouses and go up the river a little way," suggested

o a place called 'The Lilacs,'" he answ

ied Ethel Blue excitedl

arrangements. The boats were large, with seats for

at Chautauqua the summer bef

ach rowing a single oar. Helen sat on the seat wit

in the stern, and Della

ies were establishing themselves in boats and barges and canoes. The rowers found the trip not too hard

pack their bags in order to catch the train for home. The chauffeur had brought

the city so that they felt that they had

on the train and thanked her for her care. "It has been splendid fun, and my only gri

e laughed good-naturedly and agreed wi