Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-09-17
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From The Chicago POST
The tYifc of Horace GreetoB.


is 10 receive the nations guests Ia the
Whiis House, i. Legitimate subject OF
discussion, and Mira. Greeley now stands
haiore the public no more sacred than
Mrs. Grant, or moro sacred than we're
Harriet Laue OF Mrs. Lincoln. The
queen and her household are legitimate
theme. for the Court Journal Mrs. Gree
lev is somewhat older than her husband
who WAS si1ty.one on the I'd day OF last
Fsbru.rY. She is described ss once hsv-
ing been quite beautiful. For yeais she
hs. been' an invalid. with intermittent
spells of love and kindness toward hsr
husband, and then showing long seasons
OF eccentric sioicism, insratitude, and
even tyranny
"What has caused this unevsnesS III
her temper ~ | asked my lady iiiond'
who knaw Mrs. Greeley intimately.
We'll, she was born in the ordinary
walk, of life. Her miad is strong and
without culture. Sickness has broken
her constitution, and she is governed sh
tirely by impulse. We nil consider sSf
z little insane. She WAS formerly sccus-
toned to occupation. and even to hard
wolk. as u mother and head OF family
bat of late years Mr. Grseleys financial
position prevents the necessity ui labor
on her part, aud her mind has become
uneven aud her temperament spssnod'
ic.7
How did sho uss to bee'
she Was much better suitsd to Mr.,
Greeley years ago than now Then abe
entsrsd into all OF his cold-wSter and
vegetarian ideas with zesi worthy OF n
Roman mother. Mr. Greeley tells oven
now, with great PRIDE, with what Spar
tan Stoiciam Mrs. Greeley used 10 prs
side before company at tdsir GrahainiIc
meals when he WAS running the Morn
iug Post in 1883
How DO YOU mean ?" inquired.
"Why. Mr.. Greeley then lived in II
cheap WAY. Neither he nor Mrs. Gree-
10y aie meat or drank tea or coffee.
Their dat was Graham bread. boiled
beans and salt. Snd cold water, Mr..
Grseley has told me how Mn, Greeley
acted when she had friends TO visit her
from the county
How wa, that -
We'll. she would set her little table
with Graham bread, milk, beans. salt
and wafer; aud when they all sat down
she would never apologize. or even OK
plain anything, but leave her company
to do the best they could.
Sometimes said Mr.. Greeley, i
used 10 suggest 10 my wife that We
ought to explain TO our visitors. but she
said, No. no, Horace What is good
enough for us, is good enough for them :
Tho result was, said Mr.. Greeley. laugh
ing, that people who came to stay =
week generally stood Mrs. Greeley,
cooking about two days. and never re-
peated the visit ill compelled to. They
ncysr came back for pleasure.
"How are their relation nowadays 2
l asked.
well, Horace lets her alone. lie
never lrels, and never chides her, even
though in some of her tsnirums shs acts
badly enough to drive him crszy."
Once" continued nv friend, IL was
invited out to spend Sunday at Chaps
qua. Mira. Greeley was in one of hsr
disagreeabls moods She made Mr..
Greeley walk into the fam on foot from
the depot to drive two goals; then when
wsgot half way there, she inquired OF
the driver his price. This she refused
to pay, and ss all got ont aud walked
the rest of the distance. WAen wo got
TO the houso she declared she had los.
tho kew, and whsn Mr. Greeley came up
she made the poor man crawl through 4
side window and unboll the door on the
inside, when, TO the astonishment OF Us
all, she qsietIy showed us the key which
she kept in her psckSt all the time"
WAS not this done rs & joke ?"
no, not at all It was done out OF
pure deyiltry, Just to bother Dir. Cree
ley"
And Dir Greeley ?"
"Why. he neither smiled nor com
planned. In fact, in his treatment OF
Mrs Greeley aud her whims, he is the
best man ever knew. lie neyar for
gets her. but waits on her and takes her
seedlings like young lover. indeed,
I DO believe Mr.. Grseley love. his wife
with al her faults. He SAYS he had work
10 get h.r. tu4t he married nor Tor love,
and that Be -1wsys shall love her-no
matter what she does"
Don't she never try to please him ?"
No, she tries hard TO perplex him.
! She used to behave that children ought
to be brought up in state OF nature. un'
trammeled by clothing. To carry out
this idea, she used 10 have straw placed
on the psrlor floor. have The children un
dressed, and make than run up and
down ike Raphssrs cherubs, and then
laugh at their harmless but queer Irolics