The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-10-28
MAMMALS BABY.
a st. Louis Man Who, When a
Baby, Was Immortalized
by CHARLES Dickens.

by CHARLES Dickens.
st. Louis Chronicle.
Last Sunday Charles r. Garrison cele-
brated his AID birthday at 35l6 Page ave
nue., in the presence of bis father, lis wife
and three children. While the OCCASION
was one of great interest to Mr.. Garrison,
his family and friends generally, it becomes
one vhica will fix the attention of many
others, here and abroad, when it is said
that the celebrant, when q baby not yet
grown TO the dignity of birthday, and
travelling in his mothers arms TO the en-
braces of the father in ST. Louis, whom h.
had never seen, was met On the river bost
between ST. Louis and Louisville by Charles
Dickens, then travelling through the
United States, who immortalized
THE YOUNG MOTHER
and her first child In the most delicious
little sketch of pathos and humor that sp-
pears in his American Notes"-ihat which
Is said by contemporary writers, to have
been read of,erest and with most pleasure
by the distinguished Lord Jeffries. Dick
ems, at the tim-, was gathering msterial
for his American pen-pic. ures the young
Mrs. Garrison was returning from New
York where the baby was born, to St
Louis, by the way of Pittsburg and the
Ohio River, and the pretty scene of moth
erly happiness -actual In the posi- ssion of
the child and anticipa:ory in the thought
of meeting the husbsnd-touched him
deeply. His letter to his friend Forster in
London, dated April, 1912, and touching
upon the incident with even more feeling
than is shown in the American Notes." Is
exquisite in its appeal to the dome tic sym
pathies which lie in every heart am SHOWS
the great author in light in which be
rarely allowed himself TO appear even In
the t.uderest pas g.s of his hest novels.
DICKENS LETTER.
"There was o little woman on board"
begins the letter, with little baby, and
both little woman and little child were
cheerful, good looking, br,ghteyed and fair
TO see. The little woman had been passing
long time with q sick mother In New
York, and had Left her home In st. Louis
In that condition in wich ladies who truly
love their Lords delight 70 be. The baby
h ID been born In her mothers house, and
she had not seen her husband for twelve
months. Well there never was q little
woman so full Of love and hope, and ten
derness and anxiety, as this 1.-THE woman
Was, and wondering whether he would be
at the wharf, and whether he had got her
letter, and whether, if she sent the baby on
before by somebody else, he would know it,
meeting it in the stree, which, seeirg thst
he had never set Eyes on il In his lie, was
not very likely in the abstract,
but was probable enough 70 the
Young mother She was such an artless
little cresture, I'd was In such . sunny,
besming, hopeful stste. and let out all this
matter clinging cl Sc about her heart so
freely that all the other lady passengers
entertd in o the spirit of il as much as she.
1t was something of blow to the little wo-
man tn It when we were within 20 miles of
our destination it became cleary pecessary
10 put the baby to bed, but she got over
that with the same good humor, tied
little handkerchief over her little head
and came out into the gallery with the
rest. Then such an or scle as she became
IN refereace to the localities and such lace
'iiousne~s IS wss displaye by the married
s;adies and such sympathy as was shown by
.hesingle ones, and such pesls OF laugh
ter as
THE LITTLE WOMAN HERSELF.
who would just as soon have cried, greeted
every Jest with. At last there we're the
lights of 81. Louis, and here was the wharf,
and there were the teps, and the little wo-
M an, COW ring her face with her hands, and
laughing, or seeming to laugh, more than
eyer, ran into the cabin aud shut herself
up tight. I have no doubt that In the
charming inconsistency of such excitement
she stopped her ears, lest she should hear
him asking for her, but didn't rec her do
il. Then a greet crowd Of people rushed
on board though the boat was not yet
made fast, and everybody looked for the
husband and nobody saw him When all
of a suddea, right In the midst of them
God knows how she ever got there-there
was the little womsn huggiug with both
arms wound around the neck of o fine,
sturdy fellow, and ir q mo
ment, there she was again. Juggling him
through the small door of her small
cabin 10 look at the baby IS he lay asleepl
What good thing il is to know that so
many Of us would haze been quite down
hearIei and sorry if that husband had fail
ed to come"
CHARLES r. GARRIsoN,
The baby described as the object of so much
solicitude, is now member OF
The firm of Farley, Garrison & Co.. whole
,a.e grocer, Sill North Second street. and
is one of the most prominent business men
and respected citizens of st. Louis.
His father is sill living, but the 'little
woman" of Dickens died ten years ago. She
vas Mrs. Annie Noye Garrison, whose |
ather, Richard Noye, was . native OF
England, and was local Meth.
,dist preacher for long time in Buffalo,
New York, where his SON, John I. Noye, |
now lives. Mr.. Garrison distinctly re-
his mothers description of
Dickens.
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