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Fort Independence (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
readings were in the vestry of the Church of the Disciples. Mr. Clarke, our mother, Erving Winslow, and others of the congregation took part: we remember the late Professor James Mills Pierce as Orlando in As you like it ; his beautiful reading of the part contrasting oddly with his middle-aged, longbearded personality. Our mother's rendering of Maria in Twelfth night was something to remember.] June 17. Up at five and to get a boat. Maud and the Lieutenant [Zalinski] rowed me to Fort Independence and back, a most refreshing excursion. Dear Dr. Hedge came out to make a morning visit. I kept him as long as I could. We talked of Bartol, Rubinstein, Father Taylor, and Margaret Fuller, whom he knew when she was fourteen years old. He urged me to labor for dress reform, which he considered much needed. Had preached two sermons on the subject which his dressy parishioners resented, telling him that their husbands approved of their fine clothes. I begged him to unearth these serm
Samana (Dominican Republic) (search for this): chapter 16
rked a good deal, too, and perhaps have tried more to fulfil the duty nearest at hand.... I thank God for my continued life, health, and comfort. ... I ask to see Samana free before I go.... Thy will be done is the true prayer. Samana was not to be free, spite of the efforts of its friends, and she was not to see it again. TSamana was not to be free, spite of the efforts of its friends, and she was not to see it again. The record of this year and the next is a chronicle of arduous work, with the added and ever-deepening note of anxiety; it was only for a time that the visit to Samana checked the progress of the Doctor's physical failure. He was able in the summer of 1874 to write the forty-third report of the Perkins Institution: an important onSamana checked the progress of the Doctor's physical failure. He was able in the summer of 1874 to write the forty-third report of the Perkins Institution: an important one in which he reviewed his whole work among the blind. He felt that this would probably be his last earthly task; yet the following summer found him again taking up the familiar work, laboring with what little strength was left him, and when eyes and hand refused to answer the call of the spirit, dictating to his faithful secret
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 16
ely son of three years departed many years later, leaving a blank as sad and bitter. Henry was a rare and delicate person. ... . His life was a most valuable one to us for help and counsel, as well as for affection. Perhaps no one to-day thinks about his death except me, his junior by two years, wearing now into the decline of life. Dear brother, I look forward to the reunion with you, but wish my record were whiter and brighter. October 5. Boston. Came up for directors' meeting of New England Woman's Club. Went afterward to Mrs. Cheney's lecture on English literature.... A suggestive and interesting essay, which I was glad to hear and have others hear. It gave me a little pain, that, though she pleasantly alluded to me as one who has laid aside the laurel for the olive branch, she said nothing whatever about my writings, which deserve to be spoken of in characterizing the current literature of the day; but she perhaps does not read or like my works, and besides, people think
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 16
hree hours in depot.... March 1. Went to Saturday Morning Club. Found that John Fiske had failed them. Was told to improvise a lecture on the spot. Did so. ... March 5. Went to hear the arguments in favor of rescinding the vote of censure against Charles Sumner... . [In 1872, Sumner introduced in the Senate of the United States a resolution that the names of battles with fellow-countrymen should not be continued in the Army Register, nor placed on the regimental colors of the United States. This measure was violently opposed; the Legislature of Massachusetts denounced it as an insult to the loyal soldiery of the Nation,... meeting the unqualified condemnation of the Commonwealth. For more than a year Sumner's friends, headed by John G. Whittier, strove to obtain the rescinding of this censure; it was not till 1874 that it was rescinded by a large majority.] March 10. A morning for work in my own room, so rare a luxury that I hardly know how to use it. Begin with my Gr
Utica (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
prang into being showed that the time was ripe for it. That energy, handed on through two generations, is no less lively to-day; the name of the club recalls a hundred beautiful and interesting occasions. The Journal hurries us on from day to arduous day. Even the aspiration of New Year's Day, 1873, breathes the note of hurry: Dear Lord, let me this year be worthy to call upon thy name! February 5 finds her on another quest: Mem. Never to come by this route again. Had to turn out at Utica at 4 A. M. Three hours in depot.... March 1. Went to Saturday Morning Club. Found that John Fiske had failed them. Was told to improvise a lecture on the spot. Did so. ... March 5. Went to hear the arguments in favor of rescinding the vote of censure against Charles Sumner... . [In 1872, Sumner introduced in the Senate of the United States a resolution that the names of battles with fellow-countrymen should not be continued in the Army Register, nor placed on the regimental color
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
eek, She had a voice that made me meek, I had to listen when she did speak-- Cookery bookery, oh! My husband comes, a saucy elf, And eyes the saucepan on the shelf; Says he, “Why don't you cook yourself?” Cookery bookery, oh! Chorus: Sing, saucepan, range, and kitchen fire! Sing, coals are high and always higher! Sing, crossed and vexed, till you expire! Cookery bookery, oh! Jocosa Lyra! one chord of its gay music suggests another. It may have been in this summer that she wrote The Newport song, which also has its own lilting melody. Non sumus fashionabiles: Non damus dapes splendides: But in a modest way, you know, We like to see our money go; Et gaudeamus igitur, Our soul has nought to fidget her! We do not care to quadrigate On Avenues in gilded state: No gold-laced footmen laugh behind At our vacuity of mind: But in a modest one-horse shay, We rumble, tumble as we may, Et gaudeamus igitur, Our soul has nought to fidget her! When estivation is at end, We've had our
Geneva, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
y prayers dawned propitious, and was as bright and clear as I could have wished. She was up early, and found the hall beautifully decorated with many fine bouquets, wreaths, and baskets, the white dove of Peace rising above other emblems. There were two services, morning and evening, and many speakers. Mr. Tilden and Mr. Garrison both did nobly for me.... Thank God for so much! She had the great joy of hearing that the day was celebrated in other countries besides her own. In London, Geneva, Constantinople, and various other places, services were held, and men and women prayed and sang in behalf of peace: this she counted among the precious things of the year, and of several years to come. June 6. Quiet at last, and face to face with the eternal Gospel. Weary and confused, anxious to wind up my business well, and begin my polyglot sheet .... Yet on June 10 she is arriving in New York at 5.40 A. M., bound for a peace meeting. June 11. I got two bricks from the dear old
Dominican Republic (Dominican Republic) (search for this): chapter 16
shop Ferrette's lectures. And in all these things I seem not to do, rather than to do, the dissipation of effort so calls me away from the quiet, concentrated sort of work which I love. It was time for the Doctor to say Come! and to carry her off to those tropical solitudes they had learned to love so well. Yet the departure was painful, for Maud must be left behind. On March 1 we read:-- Of to-day I wish to preserve the fact that, waking early in painful perplexity about Maud, Santo Domingo, etc., and praying that the right way might open for me and for all of us, my prayer seemed answered by the very great comfort I had in hearing the prayer and sermon of Henry Powers of New York. The decided spiritual tone of the prayer made me feel that I must try to take, every day, this energetic attitude of moral will and purpose, even if I fail in much that I wish to do. On May 27 she writes:-- My birthday. Fifty-five years old. Still face to face with the mercies of God in
Samana (Punjab, India) (search for this): chapter 16
Here, when death had taken my dearest Sammy from me. Uncle John was so kind and merciful at that time, and always except that once, when indeed he did not express displeasure, but I partly guessed it and learned it more fully afterwards. God's blessing rest upon the memory of this hospitable and unstained house. It seems to me as if neither words nor tears could express the pain I feel in closing this account with my father's generation. The most important episode of 1874, the visit to Samana, has already been described. Turning the leaves of the Journal for this year, we feel that the change and break were necessary to her as well as to the Doctor. There were limits even to her strength. January, 1874. A sort of melancholy of confusion, not knowing how I can possibly get through with the various requisitions made upon my time, strength, thought, and sympathy. Usually I feel, even in these moods, the nearness of divine help. To-day it seems out of my consciousness, but is
Oak Glen (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
d came to occupy the old. Here the first grandchild (Alice Maud Richards) was born; here and at Oak Glen the next four years were mainly passed. The Doctor's ardent spirit longed for new fields of re the summer delight of the grandparents, as they and their mother usually spent the summer at Oak Glen. Friday, September 13. Before I open even my New Testament to-day, I must make record of theconverts evil into good, and without which all good degenerates into evil. July finds her at Oak Glen. She is full of texts and sermons, but makes time to write to Fanny Perkins, Mrs. Charles Cto strike up at a moment's notice. There was much coming and going of young men and maidens at Oak Glen in those days, and much singing of popular songs of a melancholy or desperate cast. The maiden in the summer to see the old people at the Town Farm, a pleasant, gray old house, not far from Oak Glen. In the afternoon visited the poorhouse with J. and F. and found several of the old people a
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