The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-07
nosron 20 Anrrn1cus.
a Boston, May 81, ls7

Boston, May 81, 1872.
MYsVKRY DEAR FRIENDS IN AARRI-
Gus: A whole month has passed since
1 left you. To me it seems a very
long month; it has been crowded 50
full of new places, new faces and
sights. And then, too, my dear Ameri-
Gus, 1 have never been away from you
SO long since you were born, and i
cannot help the natural yearniEg
towards the object of my love and care
fer so many years. THE EMPoRIA
MEMS finds its way to me every week,
but in vain have / looked for an Amer
icus iteml What is the matter I?
Where Is our inVincible Rus? Is he
SO busy selling property to the new
corners? or has he retired from the
world OF letters? And that other,
who sometimes dropped line from
Americas to the NEWS? Is he so &C.
cupied with finishing his new church
that he has no time to send word for
the refreshment of the far away
friends? / have had but very slight
news from Americas since left, and I
really feel anxious to know OF it, how
it looks, what its changes, &C., sc.
Don't think all the time only of your
cows and great diaries. Think once in
a while of old friends.
This Is anniversary week in Boston,
AID the city is foil of people from eve
rywhere. It is quite stormy, of course.
Anniversary week always is. There
are meetings of some kind, for almest
every hour of every day, so one finds
plenty of food for the mind as well as
the body.
Last Tuesday 1 attended the Wo-
mans Suffrage Convention at Fremont
Temple. A great, quiet, deeorons
crowd. There was nothing ridiculous,
nothing unwomanly, nothing even ex-
ceptionable. I heard speeches from
Lucy Stone, Ada Bowles, Mrs. Celia
Burleigb, and other good, earnest wo-
men, of whom we have all heard, and
who was very glad to see. I think
that convention, and the arguments
there brought forward, should have
gone far towards changing the views
of many now opposed to the cause.
Yesterday was iTAIemorial Day." a
day set apart for the decoration OF the
graves of our fallen soldiers with flow
ers. Tie morning was very fine, and
the streets and avenues seemed like
morning flower gardens, so full were
they of people. Different military
companies, in full uniform, men, wo-
men and children, all bearing flowers,
on their way to the various last resting
places of their comrades and friends.
1t is beautiful idea and very lovely
sight. 1t is a real gala day. All
places of business and all schools were
closed. There were appropriate servi-
ces, addresses and music, at the burial
places, and the days exercises were
closed with soft rain, gentle tears,
shed over the graves of the fallen.
Yesterday evening was one of the
hundreds gathered at the Music Hall,
at the Great Unitarian Festival. The
sight to us was novel and exhilarating.
The grand organ gave us music, such
as we westerners never hear at home.
A most luxurious repast, of all the good
things, to refresh the inner man, was
followed by bounteous ''feast of rea-
son and flow OF soul.' We heard good
words from Robert Collyer, OF Chicago,
and others. We could not but wish
our friend, E. Copeland, of Emporia,
were there to enjoy the rich treat, and
to tell them little about Kansas. 1t
made us smile to hear Collyer speak of
Chicago as the star West" OF course
we are quite western in manner and |
style, and some of the refined Boston,
ians stare little at our awkwardness.
but we've only to say ''Kansas, if you
please" and old Boston himself makes |
his best bow and Immediately bids US
welcome; so high in their estimation |
stands Kansas, so dear to their hearts |
is its name.
Every one now is full of the Subj
lee." It Is to be-the grandest musical |
festival the world has ever heard. |
Perhaps will send you word again |
when that is over. For the present, |
goodbye. Ever yours, HAL.