, 1879-06-01

An Editors Story of Julia Ward Rctotf
by the Trnvcler--Unltarian Blue Blood
Garrlson's Funcral-The Tom Moore Celc.
bration-Oliver Wendell Holmes Speaks
His Piece.
From Our Our. CoTTtspondent
BOSTON, May 29.-Crossing the Common
the other morntng,-it was Monday morn
Ing, the beginning Of the week whict
We call Anniversary Week-1 was be.
guilcd out Of what Holmes calls s't the
broad path" in his "Autocrat," by the fal
glimpse Of the Public Garden, and SO put of
everything else to turn aside and look in upon
the tulips aud rhodoras In all their magnifcence
And, strolling mere, 1presently sat down upon a
seat where could rcgale my eyes at mine ease,
and forgoi all about the " meetings ~ that were
in progress Just beyond this paradise OF quiet and
beauty, when suddenly WIS recatled 70 them
BY dry, nasal voice saving: "Say, dew yew
know whether Mis- Juila Ward Howe il back
agin in Bostou?" For moment did not sup
pose that I was the person addressed; but,
turning my head, saw
AN up-couSrRY RUSTIC TRAVELLER
at little distance from me, on the same bench,
and with his body bent forward, an1 his eyes
| fixed in patient, contiding inquiry upon me,
"No," told him, Mis- Julia Ward Howe was
i not back again, but still sojourning in the Old
| Country.
"T'o1hcr side yit, cha" he remarked, with
the questioning iuhexton.
| "Are you an admirer Of herss" inquired.
He looked oddly at me, as If had put q
conuudrum in Greek to him. Then he replied,
slowly, mo; I dunno her. But I've read
about her oifn On good deal, and I thought
I'd like to see her. l feel sort o. GURUS about
| her. s'pose you're pretty well acquainted With
! her, amt yon2 he concluded briskly.
di6claimed the honor Of such intimacy as he
| s'posed, but informed MIN that had some
! acquaintance with the lady. ;.
''Well, 1 thought ! should like to see her,
| andI thought likely I shottzd, for reckoned
BE- 11sk Rsbea toag noT to talk at this
This was said with sort of puzzled air, as if
he couldn't account for the strange fact of
"Alis' " Howe's staying on t'other side when the
anniversary Woman's Rights Mectin' u was to
after this, and By and by, waxing confidential,
be said, in lower tone aud with
A FUNNY PucKER1NG OF HIS EYES AND MOUTH
into half-smi1c Of infinite amusement: stThe
reason got set on thinking 'bout her Just now
was On account OF the curusest thing happened
to hear bout her comm down here to Boston
smart-lookin' fellers-a~settin' just behind
me. One OF 'cm was an editor.
seckoned bv his talk. They we're sayin' some
thin 'bout the meettn' on this week, and the
porter used to know oil these people, and the
t'other one asked him somcthin' bout alis'
Howe,and the editor says, Well, that makes me
think Of call l made there once. II was bout
at, and I WAS sent there to get the facts. The
Doctor, her husband, let me in, AMI he said he
didn't rcelT know whether Mis- Howe he'd got
hum from New York or not, anu he turned to
if she'd go and sec II her ma was tu hum; and
jest q they were talkin' bout It, Mis- Howe
called out from top q the stairs, "Yes, I've got
home, my dear; who is It wants me?'" Well,
this t'other =, teller he larled right out at this,
for her rights on the hum track, though, did
she!'
+" It made me larf too; 1've1orfcd 'boutit ever
since. Curusest thing ever see; mighty smart
woman she is, though and I'm really di6ap-
pointed not to sec her"
I WAS TOO FULL or <LARF"
myself to say much to this, aud presently my
confding neighbor started up with the cxclama-
tion, Why, there's Andrews folks now" and,
giving me friendly nod, he went off to Join
II Andrews folks" for whom he had probably
been waiting. wondered, as 1 myself started
up and went out of the Gardens, whether in any
other city than Boston such curious-or, as my
neighbor would say, "curus '>-little encounter
and conversation would hare taken place. And
even In Boston I don't think it would have hap
pcucd on any other than Anniversary Week.
0uc hears now and then that Anniversary Week
has "gouc up'. and .'played out," and that
IS *|nohody would know that such exercises were
Il ho s;rses ss week xe'e IS proS
ably not what it was twenty or twenty-five years
ago, but 1t is BY no means s'gone up'' or
"playcd out" aud the streets give pretty full
evidence OF the strangers within the gates. IT
any one wants further evidence outside OF the
fremont TEMPLE, Music and other halls, let
him or her apply at late date at any one of the
boarding houses On the hill streets, just over
the Common, that are 's shandy' to the "mect-
ings," aud meet the invariabe reply,
Up to this writing the order and number of !
the meetings has been: Monday, the meeting OF
the Society for Aiding Discharged Conyicts, that
Of the New England 'Woman-Sutfrage Associa-
ton, meetings Of the American Bible Society, OF
the Ministerial Union the American Peace So |
ciety, the Society for Promoting Christian
knowledge, Piety, and Charity, and the Nlassa-
chusetts Congregational Charitable Society. On |
Tuesday there WAS a Unitarian Conference
meeting at a. H., With |
BREAKFAST SERVED IN THE CHAPEL
at e.. at $3.50 the annual meeting OF the Ameri- |
can Unitarian Association, another Of the Ma
ternal Association, the forty-cighth annual ]
meeting Of the Congregational Publishing
Society, business meeting Of the Woman-Suf-
fragists, session of the Woman-SufIrage Con-
vcntfon, annual meeting OF the american Col /
lege and Education Society. Gu Wednesday |
severa. Of these repeated. with the new adj |
ditions of the Congregational Union in fremont
Temple, the various missionary societies, and |
Friend, Prevention of Cruelty to Children, tile
Young MEMS Christian Union, reception Of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union. On
meetings Of the Moral Education So
cety, Convention Of Congregational Ministers,
meetings Of the Free Religious Association,
Unitarian Sunday School Society, Chidren's
Festival under the auspices of the Wolnen's |
Temperance Union, the meeting OF the Wonen's |
Centenary Association Unitarian Festival in
Music Hall. and several other minor meetings