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BOSTON CHAT.


Eewsy Letter from the American Athens
The Image Gaze Lent Change OF
Laws-Tewksbury Horror Pretty wo-
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Library.
Correspondence of the RECORD UsIosl
BosToN. April IL, 1888.
With the close Of Lent there was sud
den rush back to gaiety. As strict Catho.
lies or Episcopslians there is not go large
proportion of our population that
OBSERVES LENT
As you may suppose, but the Lenten season
more or less affects all society, and its close
is the signal for spring rejoicings on all
sides. Perhaps one of the most brilliant
of those eveats to which the general public
are admitted was the kettledrum given by
the Young Women's Christian Association.
There has been nothing SO charming and
unique in Boston in many day. It
brought ont our handson-est women in a
perfect multitude. When you reflect that
over
TWELVE HUNDRED GIRLS
Have found the doors of the associations
house closed against them for want Of room,
you can fancy the great need for funds to
provide more accommodations for these
girls, and how heartily such work en-
gagged the good women who got up this
kettledrum in aid OF the good work These
bright-eyed, strong-limbed New England
women had gone Boston through, and can
vassed quite all its streets, resolved to raise
funds for new building, and this kettle
drum was given to help on to the work.
OF course the brighter eyed and handsomer
workers operated the scheme, and of course,
too, it was grand success. God give it,
that all other efforts for the new building
may be also successful. There were no less
than sixty tables, each presided over by
A HANDSOME WOMAN,
With dozen aids. All these wore pretty
Quaker caps, Marie Stuart caps, Swiss
caps, mob caps, and the like, with dainty
lace edge and embroidered aprons. Each
table accommodated sixty guests, and
there were no less than $50 walters, who
were all charming young girls, in delight
fully. coquettish. costumes, and all lost in
laces and caps and knots of ribbon and
bewitching aprons. They all marched in
procession,
JUST THINK OF 1T.
Three hundred and sixty rosy Boston girls
adorned for the occasion and all in process
sion in supper hall.
Of course you have heard of our Tewks-
bury horror, and the reveistions of i'll
treatment and cruelty and neglect in the
State Almshouse there. The investigation
is now going on, and Governor Butler is
prosecuting the charges Of mism snagement.
When ne entered the coD,mittee.rcom the
other day | was there to see He wore a
bright boutonnaire in his lapel, and as he
swung easily over the threshold the crowds
applouded General Ben warmly. He never
bowed, and did not give by an token that
he heard it. He had a woman on the wit
ness stand to prove about the carting of
dead bodies of paupers to the medical COL
leges.
JUST. IMAGINE
That woman, Miss Manning, testifying
in this style:
Were you in the business
Yes.
What business
Transportation.
Of what?
/ don't know.
OF dead bodies?
l transported the things. l never saw
one.
Will you look these gentlemen in the
face and say you were not engaged in haul
ing away dead bodies for the doctors?
was engaged in transportation business.
Do you understand that, sir?
Yes, madam, understand. What did
you get for the transported?
l got so much apiece. don't know
what was transported.
How much did you get apiece for what
you don't know you transported
Oh $40 in one place, and SO at an
other. l used the wagon my brother
formerly had.
Did you ever LOOK in the wagon to see
the things?"
No. l had a man to do that, colored
man.
Is the business Furnishing now?
Not so well. 1t never has been so terri.
bly, flouriahiDg since 1 took it.
Terribly .fourishing, madam, is good !;
very good.
Who paid you?
Thomas Marsh.
For carrying little ones, too?
carried some, and he paid me.
Didn't he refuse to pay for "little
stiffs %
No; he said he'd pay for big and little.
Where did the wagon load?
/ don't know. Marsh knows.
Will you swear the "things you have
been talking about transporting were not
dead bodies from the Tewksbury Aims
house?"
don't know.
And SO the horrible examination goes On.
THE IMAGE CASE.
OF course you have also heard of the
image case of Lizzie Cannon against the
Catholic Archbishop and priest named
Fleming A girl aged l3 had epileptic fits
and frances and swoons. She claimed to
see spirits of the dead and talk with them.
She had a box of card board images of
cherubs, which she called angels, and to
these che talked and sang and was deeply
attached. These paper figures had quiet
ing influence upon her. The priest took
away the images. and the girl became de-
spondent and fell into speechlessness, lost
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