St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-22
MISS EASELAK
A Description of Her Home and Her
rming surroundings.

Charming surroundings.
Boston Herald.
Her brother and younger sister she has
helped on the stage. The latter goes to
America with her. for these two are devoted
friends as well as sisters. Lila is a clever
young girl, with considerable musical tai
ent. The brother stops in England to
take care of their aged father and mother.
This tenderly -cared-for mother is q con-
firmed invalid. Miss Eastlake owns de-
lighful house in Hampstead. The house
is named The Homestead" Nowhere
else is she so charming as at the head of her
table in the spacious dining-ro which is
always full of light flowers, warm crimson
hangngs and as much sunshine as can be
comprised in London in the winter. Win
dows are on three sides of the dining-rOom,
for the house is a corner one. For miles
around one can see over Hampstead Heath
and st. Johns Wood while seated at Miss
Eastlake's hospitable board. The table is
daily decked with flowers. There is huge
silver and crystal epergne. holding several
bouquets. Then there are tiny receptacles
wherever one can be placed, filled with
in the Queen Anne style, and
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All is quaint and poetic. Rooms are on
each side of the hall. In the drawing
room are rare bits of carved brio a-brac
and valuable china, of which she is fond.
Over the dining-room is Miss Eastlake'S
private boudOir, where she rests. reads and
studies. ''And where" she says gravely,
Il go for twilight half-hour, to tn nix
over the past day and plan for the morrow
alone" Her fav0rite books are Shake
speare, the Bible, Thackeray, Dickens and
Meredith. She also likes little girl books
even fairy tales. For there is much of the
child in her mental and moral makeup;
a sweet ingenious nature, loving flowers.
animals, especially dogs and horses,
| and cherishing almost an id0latry for
children. Two or three times year she
| has children'S party, aud she selects little
| girls who don't have many good times
otherwise. For one little girl with a dis
eased spine she has paid to have the benefit
of hospital treatment The child calls her
1.-THE princess" and 1.-The madonna" She
| is tenderest when among children. Her
! instincts are matchmaker whole heart is
| truly woman'S heart. So generous is she
that her best friends are alarmed lest she
| shall impOverish herself by her lavish gifts
to those less fortunate than herself. She
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is an Arcadian in her faith in. all that is
| to whom she writes the most cheer
ing letters. These letters are fairly
courtly in their old time grace of diction.
She is honest in her dealings. Her word is
her bond. She is amiable to fault, es
pecaily to interiors. Her reverence for
| truth in speech and life is something almost
| ludicrous. if that be possible, for she will
not lend herself to even the usual polite
| fictions sanctioned by good society.
| Strai ghtfGrward, simple, affectionate. I'M
| affected, she IS Mary Eastlake in character
and manners. She has no spice of CO.
! Quetry, and fears to wound her friends,
whose love she prizes as sacred gift. Her
estimation of friendship is most lofty, neT
| loyalty to her family most touching. The
| home she has honestly earned is for her
| parents her brother and her sister, Fash
ion and sfrivolity she despses, and never
mngleS IN society other than OF her few
| tried friends. Those she sometimes enter
tains at dinner. welcoming them with
| girish, Old-faShoned sort of courtesy emf
nenty her own. She lives as exclusively
in her beautiful home as any English pri-
vate gentlewOman. Among her associates
she is beloved and respected
10 WTll6 VI lltI IldJuIdliy. suggests Hei
manager, Wilson Barrett, who also lives in
one OF the London suburbs, in George
Eliot's former hause. Mrs. Barrett was
the great melodramatic actress, Miss Heath.
She was the Lucille Western of England.
She is an invalid and has been for some
years. Mr.. Barrett almost gave up his
American trip when his physician finally
decided that Mrs. Barrett could not go to
America with him, her health being I'M
equal to the journey. So she remained in
England with her beautiful daughter. Mr.
Barrett is a model domestic family man.
loving his home and family. There is much
of the tender fidelity of the st. Bernard
about Wilson Barrett He is as refined and
sensitive as his charming leading lady. Be-
tween Mrs. Barrett and Miss Eastlake, also
Mr.. Barretts daughters. exists the warm
est friendship. When Mrs. Barrett was
able to be about more she came often to the
theater, suggesting stage bus mess to all the
company, for she is a past mistress of dram
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