Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-22

who designed the structure over
hundred years ago went 10 his long
rest And TINT overlooking the mar.
row tboroughlnre at the east end. sew
rral wide shallow Sits had been made
In The originally blank wall.
This rs the house that has been for
some years the residence of Mr.. Loriu
g.. Drgud, aud his wife, who wrote
John Ward Preacher
The severity OF the exterior gives one
uu idea thol The opening of Tie front
door viii usher one into house whose
interior H. aus Unique and individual as
its mistress h known TO be.
one steps into q small square veSti-
bulc and through 'hc upper half of a
Dutch door, with haugiugs of blue We
louiH, gets o view OF u great artistic
room. IN preparing her home for mod
crn luNUry and freedom for individual
taste, The boundary lines, the narrow
limits ul the original house, with its
severity Of q hundred years ago, have
been utterly dsrcurdcd by Mrs. De
land. Walls have been leyellcd and
The narrow front passage ia which ar
chitccr, INDUCED IN the days of ulr
grundmaa, has been thrown into the
tooui--A room which occupies the en-
tire ground door Of the house. The
odd windows noticed from the outside
lw floods of light from all directions
into it
The paint is white aud curtains of
yellow Alk soften and illumiup tho
light bookcases are set into tic wall
everywhere under the marrow win
flows high IN the wall. between the
windows, IN the corners, and over the
staircase which cliugs 90 the wall ON
one side. Opposite this staircase is 70
wide Fireplace which occupies a ful
halls Of TINT side OF the room. II is OF
hnCk with a high mantcl and above It's
wide hearth one rcuds
blow, blow ye winds of whirlmg snow.
We cannot Quench my ruddy glow
Al the back Of the room a white or
gam with panels of yellow silk stands
between two tiny how.Windows like
the one projecting ON the story ahoyc
ono sp,e such rooms I'm pictures
sometimes, but rarely finds them ia the
old party of nn American city.
IL were asked whit ! Thought the
hosctting sim ct the ugc, should say.
curiosity, And one prcspnt STATE of
curiosity Is the healthy interest pco-
pie are entitled go feel in those who
mid them, who teach them, who nmuse
them and who rule them. gone mad.
No person In the realm of writer's
has suffered more from this curiosity
than Margaret uclond, She uudouht-
odly notices il morn because She did not
iicipullng d as most writer's DO, She
only SOUGHT public through the eal~
nest solicitations Of am 0ppreciative
fricnd and her effort and her success
came very close together,
Mrs nNlaud r0nfosses she considers
the world has rght to know about her
literary work. She does not consider it
curiosity In her readers TO care 10
know how she writes her stories or why
bat She does think too well of her fellow
creatures 90 suppose they care "A rap to
rend TINT she does or does not DO her
| own marketing, or does or does NOT care
about carrying bundles home front shops,
She Inns suffered much from paragraph.
Vrs aud has been often condemned to
| reud even in her fuvorite evening paper
tales about herself as novel go her as to
anyone else
Experience has doubtless brought her
% The frame of mind M which Charlotte
iruHte lNVd after fame overlook her,
when slo Wrote her old teacher; "For-
merry ! used 10 listen 10 reports with n-
! ttr'gl ana certain crAlnhty. bur !
I am grown deaf and skephcal expe-
rience has taught me how utterly devoid
| 90 foundation her stories may he.
1 lhetefoee, one who rcspects Mrs del.
! NhN opinions aud scrunlcs approaches
| lhe task o. discussing Mrs ilcland her
/ SELF Win SOME perpleNity She IS DO,
| fgeh0ed from an Old Scotch lamliN, The
/ Namppells the branch from which She
| sprlug lived 10 the South, but later came
| North rs laf as Pennsylvania, nod the
I author was born 10 Pittsbugg