The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26
GOING BACK.
Mrs. TiIton Abont TO Return to Her Old
Home.


New York Letter.
The tempesttossed Elizabeth Tilton
viii soon return to her old home at No.
IA Livingstone street, Brooklyn, which
| she deserted nearly six years ago, when
her husband became, in spite of all her
| efforts to restrain him. the public nc
cuseT of Henry Ward Beechcr. It's an
odd old house that Tilion owns, ard it
was = curious art gallery when it was
| occupied by the family and frequently
visited by the pastor of Plymouth
church. There was a picture Of Tilton
! IN it, which had been painted TO strong
| " resemble Jesus of Nazareth, and a
| picture of the Savior, SO oddly painted
rs 10 amaze artists. Il didNnot represent
| the Man of Sorrows with bowed head
and pensiye countenance. but 1t seemed
to be portrait of some old German
knight The head was placed upon the
trunk of Appolo, on the theory that the
| perfect man had Z perfect body. The
highest type Of physical beauty had been
| chosen in the same mold, and the
large head, boldly set upon the fair, full
neck was covered with wealth of gold
en- locks, and the beard was pictured as
of the same hue, while the large eyes of
| the Shakespeare portraits, cleaning
with the fire of genius, were set IN the
head. Then there was picture of Hen
~ Ward BeecheT, painted with pursed-
| up lips as though in the act Of receiving
a paroxysmal kiss, and portrait of Eliz-
abeth Tilton, with her head inclined, her
black curis falling at the side of her face,
and the brown bird-like eyes looking in
! tently ut the picture of her pastor. There
| was winding staircase, over which FOR
a sky-light q miniature painted dome
had' been constructed, and the mellow
! light that was sified down fell upon the
plaster image of I. I. himself. These
| outlines. however, have been removed,
and the house for sometime has been
| given over TO boarders and L landlady,
| who recently moved away without say
| ing the proper adIeuX to tradesmen of
| the vicinage. AS Theodore has been the
sole benefactor of his wife ev9r since she
made her confession substantiating his
| charges against Mr.. Beecher and will
continue to receive his support, he has
requested her to return to the old house,
now vacant, and to make it IN the future
her home Mrs. Tilton has been living
| for some time III Macon street, Brooklyn,
in house rented for her by her husband.
| Her two sons, Ralph and Carroll, the
latter u youth growing much like his
father, have lived with her, while the
| father has kept his two daughters, Flor
ence and Alice studying music and art
respectively in Stuttgart, Germany. He
designs to keep them out of the country
as long as possible. Mrs TIlton, al
though grown nearly gray through all
| her troubles, has not lost her devotion to
the church. She brings TO. mind the
| story Of the colored brother, who was
! loud in eXhortatiOn, but shaEy in morals,
who, when rebulled for bringing so much
scandal on the church, said: YES, boss,
l owns square up, Use done broke cb-
cry one of de Commandments but, brcs
| de Lord, Use ncbber lost my 'ligion'
| There is now no more devoted disciple
of the Rev. Malachi Taylor teacher of
| the Plymouth brethren, than Mrs. Tilton
and her son Carroll, who has become
converted to the doctrines of the same
| sect, and is studying for the ministry OF
| the order.