The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-06-06
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Josiah Quincy, the new assistant
secretary of state, is the fifth member
Of his family to bear the honorable
name of Josiah. So great is the filial
respect in which this baptismal name
is held that it used to be averred by
the people of Quincy, Mass, where
reverence for the towns namesake fam
lily has become cult, that the present
Mr.. Quincy was originally christened
Josiah Josiah.
The author Of 'Alice in Wonder
land,n who in private life is Rev.
Charles L. Dodgson, is said to have be-
come almost a recluse. He is a tutor
of mathematics at Christ Church col
lege, Oxford, and bachelor. He is
still fond of children, but the only peo-
pie of mature years he finds interesting
are the children for whom he wrote his
famous book, and who have now at
tanned a larger growth.
"A ten-year-old girl. Bessie Scates,
living near Boston, has just COM
pleted book of eleven chapters. The
first seven chapters were finished be-
fore her parents knew that she was at
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Bessie, Willie and Nellie Fisher at
Christmas and Other Days" The story
was written with the idea of selling it,
and in order not to disappoint the child
her parents will have it printed for
private distribution.
"A novelette, by Kate Epson Clark
in a current monthly has for its
heroine trained nurse, and carries
out its romance in hospital wards amid
the routine work which falls to the lot
Of these skilled women In cap, apron,
and fever thermometer chatelain. The
volunteer nurse has long been favor
tie character in fiction; 1t is a conces-
sion to the growing Importance Of her
regular" sister that she is becoming,
not an accessory, but principal in
novel making
Sir George Reid, president Of the
Royal Scottish academy, does not sym
pressed in Great Britain for Mr..
Whistler. The great impressionists
portraits attract, he says. because they
are ghosts, they are shadows. 1t is as
if you went into crowded drawing
room and saw ghost fitting here and
there samong the actualities of warm
flesh and blood. That is why Whistler's
portraits are so remarkable; they are
not people, but ghosts.
u. H. Boss, who at seventy-six lives
in Baltimore. was in his youth postal
messenger boy, and it was his duty to
carry the mail from the post Office in
Washington to the White House.
Andrew jackson was president at that
time, and Mr.. Boss says that ''Old
Hickory" frequently used to come to
the door himself to receive his letters.
Sometimes he was clad in dingy Office
suit and wore slipshod slippers. He was
thoroughly democratic, and occasional
ly said to the boy Come in and warm
your toes, for they must be cold.
For the last sixteen years of his
life, Mr.. Whittier lived at Oak Knoll,
Danvers, with his cousins, Mrs. Wood
man and the Miss Johnsons. who an
ticipated his every want with the ten
derest love and consideration. Birds
and squirrels, trees and flowers were
his close friends, and from his study
window he enjoyed them all. He loved
pets, and three of his cats were named
Bathsheba, Solomon and Rip Van
Wrinkle, respectively He was no re-
cluse but freely mingled with the
family, meeting all visitors. whether
young or old, with great cordiality.
In particular. he made little children
welcome and understood thoroughly
the art Of entertaining them.