Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-26
LoNGFETLow's HOME, CAMBRIDGE, MASS
His Birthplace Portland


ample of colonial architecture as there
Is In the vicinity of Boston. In nddi-
Ton To its fame az the home OF Long
fellow, il was the headquarters of Wash
mgton when he was in Cambridge.
The present occupant Of the house IL
the poets eldest daughter Miss Alice
Longfcllow. Miss Louglcllow Is wo-
man Of rarely beautiful character
Child NJ she WAS when they lost their
mother she seemed TO feel az once as n
her mothers duties were hers, and TO
try To take the rest OF the children so
little younger thun herself muther'H
place. During her fathers life she was
Ills constant companion, his faithful
helpmate, his friend. And since his
death She has iilled the same placc to
his bachelor brother. Charles Iiongfel-
low, who Is now living with her at the
homestead, Al present he IN nm invalid,
not having recovered from the serious
attack 10y which he was Frustrated while
at Nuhant last summer.
Though 10y birth, and by every right
that society recognizes, the lIlngfcll0wa
are entitled 10 all the social prestige thar
one can be- ElyCn In this country. and In
spite of the dcslrc OF every one 10 cuter.
tain them. they live very quiat life.
They seem not TO attach the very slight.
est importance TO social position. They
ANANNA NNANN ANA NNNANt me NilhN NJ
concerned their few intimate fripn1s
aud for fashionable life they seem IA
have distdNe. Their devotion 10 ono
another Inns always been touching. and
few families nrc SO completely upitpI
as theirs. IL hrs almost seemed ms n
their tather's words had personal nDnli.
cation aud tho sad tragedy Of their lives
had never been quito forgotten.
we viii he paiirnt and assllage the
feeling
- We may not wholly stay:
by silence sanaifylng, not conceal
The grief that must have way,
Oddly enough none Of the family IN.
herited any great amount of the fnthor's
ghls' The sons were neither of thcm
inclined TO literature, and the nearest
thlne 10 the roappe lrance OF the artistic
temperament was the elder son who
in'u WAlfe 10 be painter. aud has
move latolN dome something as an nrchi.
lwt' naturally anything that his fotll.
crs son attempted would attract notic9
consequently for q time his name wns
constantly meatinnCd hy thOsn who kopt
uack nl al such things. But of late
very htuo q heard of his painting Er.
nesi Longiellow married Miss Cora
Sptl'uuh OF Cambridge, She has always
wy hNil'hlE ana much of their
suf ms heen spent either abroad or In
New York, although they come homo
Hoiheumo each year In the summer
'h'y have house at Magnolia, Mass
The second SIM. Charles Ionefellov,
e a Somerset club man. and las liceA
lnuch OF iet, Years at The elegant housa
h the club on the slope of Bearon I'M
,nNerlooking tho common. Before his
llhtss he was "A handsome follow ns,1
an his life 90 d deal of active oot III do,,''
exercise lie SEEMED 60 bear no rosems
hlanoe " disposition 20 his father. hein.
.Aere hSe the Appletons, his mothers
Nopie With them, especially Ills IN,
tie, lpm APPLETON, famous Wit ,yb,.,.,
Don mots are still retailp1 ygith
'sh az dinner tables o. Ia the ,uiinigt,
sMoAe eiuh he s man's man an ever,.
SENSE Of Tie word isspeciaifriend s,,,o,s,
ne late Commodore Mel6. Wins ~, ~
ems ''~'A % shocked his friends: Hon.