The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-12-13

library the other side of the hall. The
cases are made in the wall, and draped
nv crimson. "This is father and mothers
nook. 1 write up stairs in the front-room,
lust BIG enough for three. There is a
handsome sideboard, and quaint Japa
nese china on the table, and fine Grim
son cloth. l don't take you to see my
house because rthink it is fine. don't
know that l ever showed anybody my
home on their first visit but someway-I
think you understand" I do understand.
am getting at the pure home life OF this
woman. The house is neat as a pin.
Were housekeeplngher only accomplish
ment, it could not b better. Her sewing
is fine, as fine as anyseamstress; her tastes
as refined as refined, as connoisseur; her
| love OF beautiful nature intense.
| And when she tells me Of her cat now
dead-poor Alec and says she lined a
box with pine white and put Alec IN 1t,
and put flowers over him, put him de
Gently in the ground, and over his mound
planted blossoms OF the plants she
dug from his head to-day and 1t IS gong
to be in her room all winter,-then al
though hated cats, could almost DROP
tears over Alec, for he shows me his mis-
tress' hungry heart She had known
griefs which could not be spoken, and has
laid away forever the brightness OF he1
Young life, but she has never wept over
childrens graves, never known childrens
love; and so poor Alec-poor dumb pur
ring Alec-has dozed in her lap and list
ened to her poems, and been sole critic o
her articles; has assisted in welcomln!
her guests, and noted with quick felin'
: perception the added adornments OF III
mistress home; has been the most init
mate companion Of woman whom al
the world deem it an honor to know; dle'
in her room, and was wept over and bur
led in flowers, -and gives me the on
weakness of Mary Clemmer's nature
weakness so feminine, SO harmless, s.
touching that it is too sacred to talk abou,
ONLY that | want other women who hav
admired her intellect to know her lovln!
heart, that never finding its affection sat
isfed. lavished its warmth upon poo
: dumb brute.
Of Mary Clemmer's private domestl
, kaffairs | shall say little. Women wit
: natures like hers never parade thel
| WrOn9S,tncy SnlVcI duu Sill Lin "lloAi 49,
; hearts are laid bare to the world. In tn
= divorce which gave her her freedom an
> gave to her again her maiden name Their
Il was nothing to cast the slightest blur o
her character. In public career OF som
: years there is yet to be heard the frs
a whisper of scandal. Every cent she ha
a spent she earned herself. She has gon
- - on quietly, has bought her home, tttc
s it up with elegant adornments, and
: embellishingit daily. As soon as she ca
:, afford it, she is going to get blue SAITH
- lambrequins for her priceless curtains;
a she told me; and her next purchase is
!" be an easel to hold big book of eva
:; = kins Yosemite Views" Thus, little
~ little her brain brings her beauty to fea
:. on. Her mother and father are spendir
10 ~ theirlife's evening happily; the clou'
W W and care have rolled away, and lie
:. blank banks low in the eastern sky Ill
~ thunder clouds of summers day; al
i the grass is gemmed, and the birds SIM
- ing from the wet boughs; the sun shlnll
30 with renewed splendor, the whole we
sh blaze OF gold, everything fresh al
"a a CHEEKY for the brave woman, who WI
or her pen fought the battle of life, al
Va ~ won; who has smiled at the clouc
TX breasted the storm, defed the wind, a
"a welcomed the sunlight at last. Wdshan
49, tom Totter