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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 9: second visit to Europe (search)
res of interest. Wandering about its purlieus one day, I came upon a sort of open cave or recess in the rocks in which I found two rude cradles, each occupied by a silent and stolid baby. Presently two rough-looking women, who had been carrying stones from the riverside, came in from their work. The little ones now broke out into dismal wailing. Why do they cry so? I asked. They ought to be glad to see you. Oh, madam, they cry because they know how soon we must leave them again. Tom Appleton disposed of the water-cure theory in the following fashion: Water-cure? Oh yes, very fine. Priessnitz forgot one day to wash his face, and so he died. My husband's leave of absence was for six months only, and we parted company at Heidelberg; he to turn his face homewards, I to proceed with my two sisters to Rome, where it had been arranged that I should pass the winter. Our party occupied two thirds of the diligence in which we made a part of the journey. My sister L. had with h
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 20: friends and worthies: social successes (search)
. He has thereby lost the whole of this story when he might have enjoyed a part of it. One other singular figure comes back to me across the wide waste of years, and seems to ask some mention at my hands. The figure is that of Thomas Gold Appleton, a man whom, in his own despite, the old Boston dearly cherished. In appearance he was of rather more than medium height, and his countenance, which was not handsome, bore a curious resemblance to that of his beautiful sister Fanny, the beloved wife of the poet Longfellow. He wore his hair in what might have been called elf locks, and the expression of his dark blue eyes varied from one of intense melancholy to amused observation. Tom Appleton, as he was usually called, was certainly a man of parts and of great reputation as a wit, but I should rather have termed him a humorist. He cultivated a Byronic distaste for the Puritanic ways of New England. In truth, he was always ready for an encounter of arms (figuratively speaking)
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
f public charities at Rome, 124. Morpeth, George, Lord (afterwards seventh earl of Carlisle), at Lansdowne House, 102, 103; Sydney Smith's dream about, 107; takes the Howes to Pentonville prison, 109. Motley, John Lothrop, at school with Tom Appleton, 433. Mott, Lucretia, 166; at the Radical Club, 283. Moulton, Mrs. William U. (Louise Chandler), reports the Radical Club meetings for the New York Tribune, 290. Mozart, symphonies of, given in Boston, 14; appreciation of his work tauh, 159; compared with Sumner, 175; effect of his presence at the Radical Club, 286; his orthodoxy, 287; speaks at the meeting to help the Cretan insurgents, 313; at the woman suffrage meeting, 375; supports that cause, 378, 382; at school with Tom Appleton, 433. Philosophie Positive, Comte's, 211. Phrenology, belief in, 132, 133. Pius IX., Pope, 125; his weakness, 194, 195; his death, 425. Poe, Edgar Allan, his visit to Dr. Francis, 39. Polish insurrection of 1830, the, connection