The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-01-26
TIE CARY SISTERS.
Why They Removed to New York
Their Sunday Evening Re-
ceptiOus.

From HoUFJ at Home
In 184S, Horace Greeley went TO Gin
CinnatI to lecture, and he visited the CArys
at their home Whnt the philosopher"
told them 0r city life, what pictures he
painted Of metropolitan splend0r, do not
know, but two years after, these young
ladies did Just that thing which Horace
Greeley il constantly warning young men
in the country not To dO-thCy came to
New York. Il WIS u bold step. They
entered the city not knowing single
soul except tho distinguished lecturer.
whom still | suspect Of having enticed
these innocent and gilctl llamselS from
the rural districts" to this "sink OE In
Quity." Ills influence in the affair is
redeemed by his faithful friendship ever
since, and Justified by their very great sue
cess They fell to work, and soon pre-.
vailed To conquer fate. Their whole
career since has been one Of growing abiI.
tv, md increasing social and literary in.
ilurnCG and importance.
The interest felt in these ladies has been
increased By the trunk hospitality which
has made their home the gathering place
Of people Of the most diverse mental and
spiritual and social habits and culture,
Their first city friends were members Of
the press. They had no father, brother,
nor bcaux, and 40 their evenings were
spent indoors In that remote period Of
American history, there being no such
thing rs n paper published every day in
the week, the Misses Cary, who made the
"evening and morning one day" and so
closed their Sabbath with the shutdown Of
the first day in the week, set apart It's
evenings for their friends. And thus be-
gan their SUNDAY evening receptions" 30
well known in America and even in Eu-
rope, and their present pastor has not pre-
vailed tn make them change their CHlen.
iar. Through all these years II has been
their custom TO set the tea table on Sun
day evenings for fifteen or twenty guests,
and those come who choose, and cat, and
drink, and talk, and then through the
evening, men and women drop In as they
may, and the conversation ia informal, md
no social bonds are created, for parties are
seldom presented To one another. The
sisters are insemrablc, They have won
tlcrlIl physical rs well as intellectual SYM
pathy. They love each other with extra.
ordinary devotion, and they love their
home. They have never been 10 Europe
They seldom leave the city. In the sum
mCr run Of a few weeks TO the White
Mountains, and 4 visit Ofa few days to
their friend, the poet Whittier, constitutes
their vacation.
II they could all I've gathered into one
rom. Il would really I've sight 70 sec all
the people who have been ATTRACTED by
these charming women during the years
they have occupied this coy home. Let
Us ihncy that they are 40 collected.
There Is, Grei4 pETNeeD' Of their friends,
Horace GreelCy-nOt 80 very handsome,
perhaps, hut owing 80 much To his toilet !!
He Is sitting in q listening or distracted
attitude, with his great, full head bent, or
smiling all over his great baby face as he
hears W tells something good; perhaps es.
pcCiNlly enjoying the famous Quaker ser
mon which Oliver johnson, Of the Lnde-
pendent is telling with such friendly ac-
cenluatiOn, and with such command over
his strong features, while all the company
are at the point Of explosion. There Is
Theodore TiltOn, a yOuthiGl-loOking "Old
bOy"-hut no mute ingloriOus TiltOn," as
Professor Raymond says-that round
headed Professor Of Rhetoric in the cor,
npr, who reads Shakespeare in style that
would make the immortal William thrill
Il he could only hear him. That slightly.
built man with heavy mustAche Is Lord
Adarc, son Of u Scotch Earl, and the bon.
mic bright-eyed woman by his side Is his
wife-tmmCnsely pleased with PhRbe's
frequent and rapid nllies Of wit And
there are Robert Dale Owen, author Of
"FOOttaIls on the Boundary Of Another
Wnrld," and Edwin WhipPle, the Boston
EsSayist and lecturer, whose forehead
doth 50 lorCibly opprezs all the rest
Of the face; and there, Samuel BOwles,
Of the Springfield RsTtblingH, and author
of"Acros tie Continent" and the trHve.
Ter, Colonel Thomas W. Cox, n the Sab,
and there, Justin Mccarthy, formerly Of
the London Morning !Slr, the author Of
'EMy Encnys Daughter and that hand.
sonle old gentleman, with the smile Oi the
morning in his face, 50 courtly that you
EEL he should be solncking'S prime minis
ter, and 80 venerable that he would give
dignity v An REChIfShOp'S Cro0ieE, b Ole
Bull, whose cunning hands have wrung
music frm the strings If the violin; and
Just beyond, hurley and full ofgoOd nature,
Ia Phtneas T. BArnum, Snowman" and