St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-10-14

Of dre'Arrns which attended her. T..
{ Dr. Mcdowell, charmed with the talent
and earnestness Of His pupil, afforded hel
every facility in his power, giving her the
treetiom Of the, college at all times, and oc-
casionaly bestowing upon her a private
lecture, when she attended to see him pre-
pare dissections for the public ones.~~~
i Pleasant and encouraging it is to find men
Of ability and ,eminence 50 willing to help
a woman when She is willing to help her
E,self. The career Of this young artist
hitherto has been marked BY, the warm
and generous encouragement of 6rst-rate
men, from Mcdowell to John Gibson, and
pleasant is is to find the atFectionate and
grateful! appreciation Of such kindness corr
verting the temporary tie of master and
pupil into the permanent one Of tried and
valued friendship. ~ remember Profess
or Mcdowell writes Miss Ho mer, "with
great affection and gratitude, as being a
most thorough teacher, as well as at all
times good friend. =" -: r.
Through the winter and spring Of 1851,
in fact during the whole term, Harriet
Hosmer prosecuted her studies with unre
limiting zeal and attention, and at the close
was presented with 8 diploma" :" or, as we
in England should call it, certificate, tes
tifying her anatomical efficiency. During
her stay at St. Louis, and as a testimony
Of her gratitude and regard, Miss Hosmer
cut, from bust Of Professor Mcdowell, BY
Clevinger, medallion in marble life size,
which is now in the museum of the col
lege- 1t is, perhaps, worthy of note that
Clevinger and Powers both studied anato~
my under this professor.
The ''diploIna" achieved, our young as
pirant was bent upon seeing New Orleans
before returning to her New England
holne.' 1t was season of the year not f;s~
yorablc for such travel, and, from one
cause and another she failed in inducing
any Of her friends to accompany her. TO
will and TO do are synonymous with sonae,
and so Harriet Hosiner, having set her
mind upon an excursion down the Nlissis-
sippi to the Crescent. City, embarked her
self one fine morning on board a steamer
bound for New Orleans The river was
shallow, the navigation difficult; many
boat did our adventurous traveller pass
high and dry; but fortune, as usual, was
with her, and she reached her destination
in safety. The weather was intensely,
warm, but, nothing daunted, our young
friend saw all that was to be seen, return
ling at night to sleep on board the steamer
as it lay in its place by the levee, and at
the expiration of a week returned to St.
Louis. Arrived there, instead Of rejo;ri-
ing h.: Ge1iends> she took boat for the
Falls Of St. Anthony, on the Upper Miss
issippi, stopping on the way at Dubuque
to visit a lead mine, into which she de-
scended by means of bucket, and came
very near an accident which must have in
eyitably resulted fatally; catastrophe
which, ais no one knew where she was
would probably have remained secret
forever. At the Falls Of St. Anthony, she
went among the Indians, much to their
surprise and amusement, and brought a.
way with her pipe, presented by the
chief in token Of amity:, Shealso achieved
the ascent Of q mountain: never before un-
dertaken by female, and so delighted
were the spectators with her courage and
agility that they insist I'd upon knowing
her name, that the mountain might thence
forth be called after her. In a visit to
St. Louis last summer, Miss Hosmer found
that her rustic admirers had been as good
as their word, and ssHosmer's Height re-
mains III evidence Of "the little ladys" am
bition and courage
! On her return to St. Louis, where her
prolonged absence had created no little un-
e;ssiness, she remained but short time
and, bidding farewell to her kind friends,
retraced her steps homeward.9e5
! = This was ifs the summer of 1851. No
sooner had Harriet Hosmer reached home
than she set TO work to model an ideal
bust Of Hesper, continuing her anatomical
studies with her cousin, and employing
her intervals Of leisure and rest threading,
writing and boating. Now followed a
period Of earnest work, cheered and in
|spired BIZ those visions Of success, Of pur-
Epose fulfilled, Of high aims realized, which
! haunt the young. and enthusiastic aspirant
and throw halo round the youthful days
Of genius which lends a color to the
whole career. As Lowell wisely and poet:
ically says: T.. @as.. III sa'.~
j"w Great dreams preclude low ends. .r..
Better to aspire and fail than not to as
pire at all. Better to know the dream and
the fever, and the awakening, if it must
Ebe, than to pass from the. cradle to the
grave on the plane Of content with things
assthey are: There may; be aspiration
without genius, there cannot be genius
I without aspiration; and where genius is
! backed by industry and perseverance,, the
aspiratiou Of one period will meet its reali-
zation in another. .,,u t>@5>,s3e
To 60, to Rome, and make herself &C
quaa|inted with all the treasures sof art, an