Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-23

llttie drawer, too, the greatest lot q old
I silhcueties Of old friends. relatives, ana
: even Of a rival
I Here is Niles MIller's picture" she said.
"she was rich girl. and my HUSBAND mad
been picked out by their mothers Tor a
/ match; and I was a poor mans daughter.
! but she said, with a lingering nenae OF
old time triumph, The chose me instead.
didn't learn, for she didn't know. Nnai
had become Of Miss Miller, but warrant
1 you she go, a husband as she had a pretty
/ face and pretty fortune.
She said that 10 making these slihouetter
an instrument Tor tracing the outline Of the
face was used similar 70 what boys and girls
use a. school to-day for charging or rcdue-
| ing pictures In outline, and called panta-
I graph. Il was moved over the pronie % tie
/ face while the person sat In chair. Pho
toeraahy was. CT course. unknown then.
| "Will you tell me something Of your reeel-
lectl1nB OF Washington CityT
81 went to Washington with my husband
! IN 1893 and remained there up 10 1923.
afterward visited there from Cincinnati We
attended tho Unitarian Church. and my
husbands aad fathers pew was adjoining
! that Of John Quincy ADAMS. At the Presl-
I dents levtes which We used to attend very
! regularly. have met score OF tlmea Clay.
| Webster, Calhoun John Randolph and many
other mon who were prominent IN those
| days. The speeches OF Randolph Of Roam
/ ol,e were always an occasion Tor q full gal
] lefN. lie WIS an ATTENTIVE ana lNfeIelluH
! speakor-full or IRE and action. u was a
very strange contrast 10 listen to Randolph
and then 10 Webster, Webster was tho very
! opposite IN bis manner. He would stand
as lmm0vablo az A statue. and used few
gestures. His voice was strong, but he
spoke slowly and resolutely. ard was very
emphatic and impressive. But there was
| nothing snowy about his way o. speaking
I w~a also very fond OF listening 10 Henry
Clay. His face was attractive and he was a
very courteous man In all his movements
and In all his expressions. Bur be had
very sharp and effective way OF making
point. and vas considered the great speaker
Of bic day, He used always to address my
father as cousin. One day my father SAID;
Mr. Clay, why do you call me cousln?
Well said Clay I VIII tell you. Your
father and my father were both Baptist
ministers, were they no,2 | have seen
much Of their correspondence. and In tho
lettora they addressed each other aa dear
brother" Now. u they were brothers We
must be cousins"
did you ever see Van BUREN,"
Il remember him. OF courge. He and
Aaron Burr looked very much alike In those
days. So every one used to say. l have
often heard my mother talk of General
Warrington. whose house abe often visited
In Philadelphia al the corner Of Eighth
and High streets And I knew the family
Of Benedict Arnold on the wlfe'R side. The
hrst time | was yacclnated was by ONE OF
her brothers. br. shippon OF Burlington,
n. j."
"Wanhlngton city has changed a great
deal sluce your day" / said
"Yog. OF coursc, az / soc by tho pictures
Of its beautiful buildings, That reminds
mo that the architect Of the present dome
was Thomas usuolS Walter. I knew him
we'll He was educated by my grand
father, Thomas Uslcls, whose nameslke he
was ms mother was nurse In my grand
fathur'a family, ana he was o poor young
man IN whom my grandfather took much
interest Let me See" she continued, as
she looked back Into tho old days In her
quiet. self-posseasod way. vi think Alex
andria, across the river. was much
larger town than Washington then. We
often went there to church on Sunday In
the church that Washington attended All
the servants were slaves In those days, and
wa never had any trouble about cooks and
Hergauts. / never considered my children
any charge to me-and | had nlne-be-
cause wo had good slaves who took kind
care Of them. and children and nurses
were very much attached TO one another"
DO you recall any thing specially of John
Quincy Adams7'
~ used to sec him not only at church
but frequently at the houses OF friends,
heard him say once In his pleasant way
that he never went to sleep In his life,
even then. without repeating the nursery
prayer:
Now lay mo down to sleep,
I pray tho Lord my soul To keep:
II ! should die before 1 wake,
pray the Lord my soul to take
''Tie said he had been so accustomed from
early childhood to ray this little prayer that
no couldn't sleep without saying H.. In
those days public ard private bathrooms
were not known. MIR. Adams was great
swimmer, and II got him nto a dilemma.
| Aa he was taking a bath In the Potomac
one morning before breakfast some ra8cally
| boys stole his clothes, and he was obliged
| to 20 back 10 The water and wait I'M some
| fishermen came along. TO whom be ex-
| planned The facts and who furnished him
with some Of th0lr old garments. Mr.
Adams was very courteous man. and rain
canning w while We were at church one
| day, and having no umbrella myself he
escorted mo home under his.
Il saw Mr. Adams afterwards at Cnoin-
| natl, whom he delivered great address
on the laying Of the corner atone Of Adams
| Observatory which General Mitchell had
| projected lie was well along In years then,
but stlll very nno speaker,
"Aa 1 have said 1 went afterwards 10
| llys IN Cincinnati. and l recall Mrs. Trol.
| lope quite clearly think she came there
/ 81 1899. She had a hard time OF IT, and
| tried TO support herself through a lsdy's
| bazaar which she founded. She soon went
hack -LL--llla-+'a-- -r-rry-- trT-
Natufeu ana aAuunluk DOCK. OI course Mn
all read 1t and got very angry. She was
the mother OF Anthony Trollope. Her hus-
| band. q harriator, had treated her so badly
that abe had He'd TO this country. General
| o, NJ. Mitchell, Que OF the prominent men
| o. the town, was soldier graduate OF
4 West Point and the head OF a COLLEGE.
| Mitcholl's Classical Academy. which my
| children attended, Another man whom /
kaew a. a schoolboy aud who went TO
| Mitcho's Academy, was George Pendleton,
/ aiiprward Democratic candidate Tor Vice
/ President, then Senator from Ohio aud Mn
] was With my son at AItcheli's Academy
| OF the United States from Ohio There was
at Cinclnnatl--Rev. Timothy Flint, pastor
OF tho Unitarian Church there After Mr..
/ Flint left Rev. Ephraim Peabody became
our paotor. lie was ano ap6aRer lie
| aflerward went 10 Boston and took Kings
| Chapel and remained thoro a long number
| OF years down to hla death"
what Is your impression Of the appear
/ ance OF Nashington C.tyg"
! when first saw Il thought Il A prettv
I town. II was handsomely laid out Tho
| trees along the streets were growing nicely.
| Did tell You tina, ! have Mrs. John Quincy
1 Adams hureau--the one used BY her whom
/ her husband was prtsdent2 Il Ia IA the
other room. Il "A large LiahoEany chest
! az drawers, N which Mrs, Adams kept her
| dresses. When each President retired, with
I the expiration Of his term. Ii was tho Gus.
tom 20 sell the furniture at auction 10 save
! tAo expense suppose. % shipuing H. |
! haurht that bureau on thai oce4slan .