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

She passed her childhood IN quaint
old-fashiuuel hnDsc. surrounded with IN
old eariru. and cnr0mpassed with trees
associations which have had ava inllu-
cucn on her whole life She WIS del
icatc child, unable tp take nu active
past 10 the play cf niher children; was
rouiidcd 20 The teaching Of q tutor when
other girls were associated with one an-
other IN the class room Of schools;
carefully watched by older people. her
mind and temperament took serious
turn
Anyone who has been reading her
STORY Of q Child win not need 10 be-
told that She was an imaginative child
| though She looked back TO very happy
youth. but will wonder that her creative
! faculty should not have found expression
earlier ! think that the explanation Of
its shy silence may be found IN her
bringing up
She was the inmate Of an old-fast-
ioiAd home where children were loved.
| whore their needs were carefully att
tended to- their tastes and PLEASURES cone
sidered- but where they were but chill
dren, and were treated ms such In her
home they were indeed 'scen and not
hcurd' there it was never for an In
slant Thought that they had opinions,
much less that they should express them
The manner In which girls In their teens
are encouraged.,todny in having IDEAS
aud expressing opinions fills Mrs. De
land with kind of amazemcnt She
coniesscs that she cannot get used 10 it.
Il was not until a girl ia long gowns
She returned from her school days at
Pelham Priory, that she had any part in
the life of her elders Vet one who
notes the mauncr in which girls are rob
bed Of their childhood lon these days can-
not but envy Mrs. Deland her youth
Those quiet hours in which naturally her
thoughts were Kept to herself had much
TO do, | am confident, IN developing that
seriousness OF character which under
lies her life
After her school days at Pelham
Priory she studied ari at Cooper insli-
tute. New York. go those who visit her
home should not be surprised At the hnr-
uony ia which hostess and house
blend
The story Of how her friend. Miss
Derby. FIRST induced her to secl; public
Us known wherever Mrs. Dpund's name
has gone. Miss Derby's uppreciatiye
spirit seems To stand toward literature
in the light Of "a discovercr and pro-
mOtcr since she acted as sponsor for
Mrs. Delund she stood in similar
position To- Miss Margaret Mprrington.
who oddly enough b. close friend OF
tho frat god-chili
Mrs. Deland Grst came to Boston 70
live. on her marriage Go Mr. lOrn H.
Dcland That marriage has hecn q
happy one IN it the wife has found q
gcrcrous sympathy In all her plans
whether ph.Antlr0pic or literary
u friend over ready to aid her and 10
advise her. and Il has been her rare
fortune to- be- able 10 respect Che adj
vice as we'll as 60 appeal To- Il.
One who has read Mrs Dclnnd's
work carefully knows that the deepest
interest she take, in the world Is m its
rOci1Q and economic problems SHE is
puzzled, pcrplcxed aud sudlcned hy
the 'countlcss thousands" who are
CONDEMNED by the natural course of
moral evolution To individual and up-
parcntly hopeless suffering. She il
troubled BY tIr impossihility of adjust
ing individual life to the general