Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . to him, General Lafayette,why is it you seem so sad? ^Ah, madam, he replied, how can I help being sadwhen my poor soldiers are clothed in rags? Your men shall have clothes! cried the lady. The next day all the ladies of Baltimore gathered to-gether in the same ballroom. There they stitched and cutbusily—and talked, too, Ishould think—until they hada great lot of clothing madefor General Lafayettes sol-diers. General Lafayette visitedBaltimore again w^hen he wasan old man. This was afterthe colonies had won theirindependence and after hehimse
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . to him, General Lafayette,why is it you seem so sad? ^Ah, madam, he replied, how can I help being sadwhen my poor soldiers are clothed in rags? Your men shall have clothes! cried the lady. The next day all the ladies of Baltimore gathered to-gether in the same ballroom. There they stitched and cutbusily—and talked, too, Ishould think—until they hada great lot of clothing madefor General Lafayettes sol-diers. General Lafayette visitedBaltimore again w^hen he wasan old man. This was afterthe colonies had won theirindependence and after hehimself had passed throughall the terrors of the FrenchRevolution. The peoplewelcomed him with wild , women and little chil-dren crowded to see him. Arches of triumph were builtfor him to pass under. He, and his children forever, weremade citizens of Maryland. Fayette Street and LafayetteSquare in Baltimore were named in his honor. You must not think of the city that Lafayette visited,and that the British tried to destroy in the war of 1812,. LAFAYETTE 193 MARYLAND as being like the one that you know. There were onlyabout fifty thousand people in it. Now there are morethan ten times as many.* Where the Washington Monu-ment now stands was then in the country. And wherenow are stores, and banks, and shops, were then the resi-dences where the people lived.
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