Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-08-07
Mr,. H.rrse. seecn.r steve.

Hartford Letter to the Boston Gazette
IL Among the stay-at-homes are Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe and her family, who will re-
/ main quietly at their pleasant home on Forest
street all summer. This they usually do in
| summer, though sometimes visiting Norfolk,
Conn. Their sacrifice has been In staying In
Hartford during the past winter, when they
were thinking fondly Of the orange plantation
| at Mandarin, Fla, which Mrs. Stowe pur.
chased many years ago, and which has been a
| winter Mecca TO them ever since. The deciin-
the invaidism OF her husband. the Rev. Calvin
| E. Stowe, a man of signal ability, and one who
shadow Of his wiie's Worldwide fame. George i
Eliot made loving reference to him in her
wears the venerable aspect appropriate
white beard and silver locks falling from the
| sides of his fine head, which is bald on top.
W. %sH @ @ es III, IN letter to
| rather more than 40 as withered and dry as q
pinch of snuff, never very we'll worth looking
| at in my best days. and now decidedly used
up article, has not grown larger nor younger in
thirty five years, but is most decidedly worth
| looking at when one can get smile or pleasant
word from her, knowing who she is. She is
modest, and really seems to wonder why stran-
come to Visit her and tells me people
rea6 and pass Judgment upon manuscripts, TO
give aud lend money, and to send autographs
and pictures. She says she shall never do any
more literary work. but leave it for younger
| and tresher minds.
| Her son, the Rev. Charles E. Stowe, is the
pastor of the Windsor avenue Congregational
| church, is very liberal in his ideas, and i'm
mensely popular with his people. He is bicycle
rider, using machine given him by MS mother
to run across town from the north end, to visit
bis sisters and parents every day. The Misses
| Stowe are twins, bearing a strong resemblance
| to each other and named Harriet Beecher
| and Eliza Stowe. Prof. Stoves first wife was
named Eliza, and before her death ielt strong
Beecher, who was one OF her young friends.
When, therefore. Harriet Beecher became his
| second wife, her first children. twin girls were
| named for his first and second wives. A younger
daughter of the author of "Uncle Toms Cabin
lives in Boston, being the wife of the ritualistic
rector OF the Church of the Messiah.
How to Decrease Premature Deaths in
From the Pittsburg Dispatch
physician writes as follows: snake 1t the
| duty of every physician to report for public re-
| cord the name aud description of every male
and female treated for specific disease, and to
| such refuse the license to marry, and you will
decrease by about one-half the children who are
carried to premature graves. Make it a moral
and intellectual crime for clergyman to mar
| ry people who take their vows with a prison
| grating between them. Men and women must
| be educated to the knowledge that physical
crime is greater than moral Or religious crime;
| that to put into their mouths that which de-
stroys the integrity OF their bodies is more rep
| rehensible than neglect to pray.
"The physical leprosy of this day, patent to
every physician, makes him stand in horrible
contem pation of the trightful degeneracy
| by children fill him with amazement, but the
care that some healthy children get is equally
| appalling. Under the present system churches
are going to decay because people are too deli
| cate to attend, and in their stead court-houses,
| prisons and hospitals, that cost millions, are
| rearing their granite heads, monuments, not of
| justice and human kindness, but of human
| frailty.
etc.. can also boast OF the greatest physical and
moral depravity; they are all blots upon the fair
heads erect in pride, we should bow them and
blush for shame. We should be above the
necessity for either"
Not d few Will take exceptions to the doctors
| statement that physical crime is greater than
moral or religious crime. He should not be
| condemned, however, until after his position is
| Carefully examined.
A scrotulous mother will poison a stream of
blood that will reach through three or four gen.
erations, thereby entailing incalculable suffer
| ing and misery. A father, in whom the drink
ing habit is strong and deeply seated, will start
line OF debauchers murdererS and criminals
! that will end only at the galiows. Parents who
encourage the marriage of their delicate or dis
eased children DO more toward celebrating the
image OF God In man than they can ever atone
for, no matter how devout their lives may be.
They simply lay upon their posterity a curse
which they cannot remove.
A Demand for Women.
From the Chicago Mail.
lie women IN the northwest is
only exceeded by the demand for rain. Out in
Wagon Wheel, Idaho, recently, couple OF old
| maids were called to attend dying brother.
The brother died, but before the girls could get
away the whole male population was after
| them, including the mayor, justice of the peace
and other nOtables. Excitement ran high, and
bids We're six to one on the mayor ct al. In six
days after their arrival the battle was over and
the girls both engaged. The mayor had been
cut out by a strapping young miner of thirty.
The weddings were set and the mother sent
for, In order that proper eclat might be given.
The mother arrived in due season, and at once
their late brother apd their immoderate
haste. She declared the marriages Off, and an
nOInced her intention OF taking her daughters
home with her. In despair mass ceting was
called, and the mayor was appointed q COM
| mittee to wait on the mother and persuade her
mayors, ChicagOs included, this gentleman
waited upon tue irate mother. He called her
attention to the great need of Wagon Wheel,
and In the name OF patriotism implOred her not
the town. The mother was obdurate, and de-
clared that she would not depart without her
daughters. On this hint the mayor spoke. He
at once proposed compromise. The mother
need not depart at all. She was tair, fat and
ffty-odd. So was he. They would pool their
issues. Ana they did. The three women are
now connecting excuses by which ali their be-
lated female friends and relatives east can be
brought TO Wagon Wheel.
Oatmeal for Break fast.
For some years great many Americans, par
ticularly in the east, have begun their breakfast
with oatmeal. Very few of them liked it. and
| they could hardly have told why they ate it.
unless from vague notion that it is healthul