Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-10-25
letter from Boston.
BosToN, Oct. II. 1873.


church. Ladies in elegant toilettos, with their
attendant cavaliers in regulation evening CO.'S
tunes were there. Flowers bloomed on the
altar and decorated the chancel; carriages
were drawn up in line on both sides of the
street extending for blocks, while their occu
pants went to witness the ceremony which
made Miss Edith Russell Mrs. Playfair. It
was real love match, so Madame Rumor
says, with romance attached to it. Miss
Russell is youn G, pretty and very pleasing,
genuinely attractive girl, rs yet in her carly
womanhood DIR. Playfair is handsome
man between fifty and sixty, who has been
twice widowed, and is well known in the
world of science and literature. While Miss
Russell was travelling in Europe with her par
ents, she visited Westminster Abbey. DIR.
Playfair was there with party of friends,
and he became onamored of the beautiful
American, although he did not know even her
name. few weeks later they met on the
continent. Stopping at the same hotel, their
scats were side by side at taJh d hote. He
embraced the opportunity to enter into con-
versotion with his pretty neighbor, who had
unwttingly enough made way with his heart
She was as bright and clever as she was pret-
ty, and before they left the table her con-
quest was complete. lie obtained acquaint-
ancc with her father, joined her party, and
when at length she returned to America, it
was as his promised wife. He came to claim
his bride last week, and in the wedding at
Trinity the romance ended. That is, it end
ed as story books end. but TINT close after all.
is he fltn al OF, 30 . t1.,l
which is lived afterward The romance and
the marriage are but one episode in the life;
to be sure upon this hinges the sweetest hap
piness or the bitterest misery. II is only the
episode that story-tellers narrate, the rest
they leave untold, and we never know wheth-
er it develops into Comedy of Errors"
ends in n tragedy, or continues the same
sweet idyl to the last.
There was another wedding the same day,
which was Of almost as much interest, but it
was house wedding, and only the immedi-
ate friends Of the happy pair were present.
Both of them were well known in society and
neither of them were young. They had lived
their first romance years ago, and the CLAM
our of youth had faded; yet none the less is
happiness possibility TO them, and no con-
gratulatons We're ever more sincere than
those that were offered to Hon. Samuel Crane
| and Mrs. Lucinda Cutler on the occasion of
their marriage Mr.. Crane is gentleman of
leisure who has accumulated wealth during
an honorable business career, and no one
holds the confidence of the people more fully
than he. He has been alderman, member of
the Legislature, and Representative to Con-
gress, and his public, like his private life, has
| been without reproach. Mrs. Cutler is the
daughter of the late Gen. Tyler, a most ge-
nial, impulsive woman, generous to fault
kind and sympathetic and dearly loved by all
who know her we'll Habitues of the Boston
theatre remember n gallant old gentleman
| who, with handsome white haired woman,
always occupied the two end seats in the first
row from the stage. The people on the stage
knew them and watched for their approval
The members of the orchestra knew them too
and always looked for the recognition which
| they never failed to receive. These were
Gen. Tyler and his devoted daughter Mrs
| Cutler. Never was such ilial devotion as hers
she put her father first in everything. Every
| desire of her own was secondary to his wish
| eS she lived in him and for him. The old
mansion on fremont St, facing the Common,
was genuine, old-fashioned home, and she
made the brightness; she gathered young
people about her, kept the house gay with
young voices, and CHEEKY with fresh young
faces. She was Lady Bountiful to scores of
poor pensioners, each one of whom loved and
reverenced her But there came time when
the two were missed, and tho word went out
that the General was dead. The house, al.
most the last that remained of the elegant old
homes that faced the fremont St mall, was
| soon converted into "A store and the daughter
found another home There was not one who
knew her who did not congratulate Mr.. Crane,
as Gov. Rice gave his bride to him at the
quiet wedding in one of Longwood's pleas
antest parlors.
| can't help telling you of deed of hers,
which was so like her impulsiye self few
years ago cripple wheeled himself about in
n queer little vehicle, half chair, half wagon,
selling matches on the Common. One day
his wagon broke down crowd gathered
about him watching with idle curiosity to see
what he would do, but taking no pains to as
sist him. From her sitting room window
|
across the street without ever stopping to put
on bonnet or wrap. Down on her knees she
went, examined the wheel and found there
was no harm done beyond what a hammer
and two or three nails could repair procur-
ing the needed articles, she mended the vehi-
Gle herself, talking cheerily to the poor fell
| low all the while. 1t was the work of a few
minutes, and she had finished it and was off
before the idle lockers ON had got over their
surprise A trife, perhaps, yet not one wom-
an in a hundred, or man either for that mat
ter, would have gone out of her way to have
| done it.
| There's literally no end OF dramatic gossip,
and things theatrical are hourishng. Mary
Anderson has been playing to splendid hous-
ed at the Boston. Both artistically and finan-
cially her engagement has been success.
She has played in the "Hunchback, " "Romeo
and Juliet, >" Macbeth, and 'Ingomar," dur
ing her two weeks stay here. She has charm
ed every one who has seen her, and her au-
diences have been of the best and most dis
eliminating OF all the characters, like her
outlet best it is so fresh and unconven-
tional 1t is Shakespeares Juliet, from be-
ginning to end, and that is so rarely seen. In
the first place, very few actresses get ready to
play Juliet before they are away along in the
twenties, nearing the third decade, and they
are by that time women of experience, and
try hard as they may, they cannot encompass
the sweet girlishness of Juliet any more than
they can look it, Youth and beauty are both
in Miss Andersons favor she looks the young
girl to whom life is yet to be revealed. have
seen her balcony scene criticised because
there was not sufficient abandon in it. To
me, that was its beauty and charm. There
was the half terror at the suddenness of the
passion; a natural, maidenly reserve which
| holds her hAok. while love impels her TO the