The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-01-08
nARGAIET FULLER.

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81 very soon noted, even before was
prepared to ratify their Judgment, that
the women who visited US 20 make or
Improve her acquaintance seemed in
stiuctiyely to recognize and defer to her
as their superior in thought and culture.
some who were seniors, and whose
writings had achieved far wider and
more profitable popularity than hers,
were eager to sit at her feet. and to list
en- to her casual utteranees as to those
of an oracle. Yet. there was no asslInp-
ton OF precedence, no exaction of def
erence. on her part, fer, though some
what stately and reserved in the pres
ence Of strangers, mo one sthawed out
more completely, or was moro I'M
starcbed and cordial in manner when
surrounded by her friends. Her mag
netic sway over these was marvellous,
understandable: women W no had known
her but a day revealed to her the most
jealousy guarded secrets of their lives.
seeking her sympathy and counsel
thereon, and were themselves annoyed
at having done SO, when the magnetism
of her presence was withdrawn. /
judge that she was the repository OF
more condolences than any contempora-
ry; and L am sure no one ever had reas-
on TO regret the precipitancy of their
trust. Nor were these revelations made
by those only of her own plane of life,
but chaInbefmaids and seamstresses I'M
burdened their souls TO her, seeking and
receiving her counsel; while children
found her delightful playmate and q
capital friend. My son Arthur (other-
wise Pickle, who was but eight months
old when she came to us, learned to walk
and talk in her society, and to love and
admire her as few but nearest relatives
are ever loved and admired by child.
For, as an elephants trunk serves either
to rend limb from the oak or pick up
a pin, so her wonderful range of capac-
tiles, of experiences, of sympathies,
seemed adapted TO every condition and
phase Of humanity She had marvel
Gus powers of PRESERVATION and mimicry,
and, had she condescended to appear
before the foot-iights, would have been
recognized as the first actress of the
Nineteenth Century. For every effort
to limit vice, ignorance and misery; she
had ready, eager ear, and willing
hand; so that her charities-large III
proportion to her slender means-were
signally enhanced by the fitness and
fulness of her wise and generous coun-
sci, the readiness and emphasis with
which she, publicly and privately, COM
mended TO those richer than herselfany
object deserving their aims She had
once attended, with other noble women,
a gathering of outcasts OF their sex and,
being asked how they appeared te her,
replied, as women like myself, save that
they are victims of wrong and misfor-
tune No project of moral or social re-
form ever failed to command her gem
erous, cheering benediction, even when
she could not share the sanguine hopes
of its authors: she trusted that these
might somehow benefit the objects of
their self-sacrifice, and felt confident
they must, at all events, be blcst in
their own moral natures. i doubt that
our various benevolent and reformato-
ry associations had ever before, or have
ever since, received such wise, discrim-
mating commentator to the favor of
the rich, as they did from her pen dur
ing her connection with The 1iibuae-
RecoHections Of Busy LUe-HOrace
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