Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-01
B0StOn'S OStraciSm of Sumner.


The occasion was debate at the
meeting of the Boston Prison Disci-
pline Society (1S47). He had done or
said before this some things which of.
Tended the inner circles of Boston So
ciety, but in setting forth his views on
prison discipline, he. in the heat of de-
| bate, made some needlessly cutting
remarks on persons of the first respect
ability in the city, and lie was thence
forth voted by them to be vulgar"
His offenses against what was consid
cred social and political decorum went
on increasing year after year, and the
houses where he had before been well
come visitor closed their doors to him
one after the other. 1t is curious that
this fashionable ostracism continued
after he had made himself great repu-
tation in the United States Senate,
and held the position of chairman OF
the Senate Committe on Foreign Rela-
tons. He was IL political force of the
first rank, IN the opinion of ambassa-
doris of foreign states, when numbers of
the commercial and manufacturing ar
istocracy of his native city rated and
berated him as q vulgar fanatic. Mr..
| IL,
who represented Boston in the national
House of Representatives for many
years before, during. and after the war
of the rebellion, and who was an init
malo friend of Sumner-told me that
one of his solid mercantile friends once
asked him how he managed to get along
with that fellow Sumner.
"Oh, very WE'LL" was the reply. 81
meet him very often. He appears to be
invited to every party given in Wash
ington. You can't go any where with
out meeting him."
But you don't say he is considered
a gentleman? You don't say that he is
u man that one would ask, now, to dine
at your table or mine?"
NO." Mr.. Hooper reioined, with
that dry, delicious, and quietly mali
cious humor which characterized him,
~ don't think that it would become
you to invite him to your house. But
society in Washington is mixed up of
| heterogeneous elements such as we
never find in Boston. There is, you
know, a lot of ambassadors from the
various countries of Europe,-dukes,
earls, barons, knights, and other per-
sons, with this or that title prefixed to
their names-and they are compelled,
for political reasons, to invite all kinds
of persons to their dinners. Sumner
seems to be their favorite guest; but
| would not, OF course, advise you to in
vite him to dinner. In Boston we are
naturally more cautious in selecting the
persons who are to eat our meats and
drink our wines. In Washington we
have to be less discriminating"
And the good Boston merchant de-
parted, fully. assured that his friend
Hooper entirely agreed with him as to
tue propriety of excluding such fanat-
ic as Samner from the inner sanctuary
of his own unpolluted dwelling. And
yet at this very time Sumner was rec
ognlzed at the seat Of government as
one OF the powers to be consulted in
the settlement of matters which init
mately affected the prosperity of the
commerce of Boston in common with
that of the whole commerce of the coun-
try. p. Whipple, in Ha,per's Maga-
zine.
| The HEALING VIRTUES OF PLANTS. -
New discoveries-or what claim to be
discoveries of the healing virtues of
plants, are continually making. One
of the latest is that celery is cure for
rheumatism; indeed, it is asserted that
the disease is impossible if the vegeta-
BILE DO cooked and freely eaten. The
fact that it is almost always put on the
table raw prevents its therapeutic
powers from becoming known. The
celery should be cut into bits, boiled in
water until soft, and the water drank by
the patient. Put new milk, with little
-four and nutmeg, into saucepan with
the boiled celery, serve it warm with
pieces Of toast, eat it with potatoes, and
the painful ailment will soon yield.
Such is the declaration of physician
who has again and again tried the ex-
pertinent. -"