New-York tribune., 1896-07-02
"REMINISCENCES OF MRS. STOWE
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WRITES or HER IN
HER ANDOVER HOME

ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WRITES OF HER IN
HER ANDovER HOME.
From McClure's Magazine.
To the stranger visiting Andover for day. there
will long be pointed out. as OF The sights OF
the Hill the house occupied by Mrs. stowe during
the time Of her husoands professoTsnp IN tne SEM
stowe mas always had the home touch IN beau'iiuI
In fact my chief .npre ss.on OF those years when
We had the rich opportunity Of her vicinity consists
in occasional slimpes OF lovely interiors over which
presided a sweet and quiet presence as unlike the
esloon which Andover Seminary seemed to nave
createl for Itself Of this great az: gracious la1y as
a spirit IS unlike an old-time as-ta,or. To tell the
truAwhich p,rhaps IS nSs neee',aryl dl.y ny, slS E
privilege of neghborhood was put SANITY alIse-
Why do not know Sne gave no oheace that
recall 10 the peculiar preferences OF the pace.
ard the Episcopal Church did not prevent her from
duifuay occupying with her family her husband's
her c:clsgiastica ie.nquencies woui nave been only
too visible. had they existed. tradition that sAe
Wis .ei the theatre in Boston when she felt like IL
sometimes passs soemnly from III 70 lip, but this
the mos; serious criticism upon her which can
havs since found susPc91 b,o:so;ng . ipt9 % be,
insuficient estimafe OF Mrs stoves value. or a;
certain buntness IN our sense u the horror
which she I'D to Anioyer by living among US, sprung
from the fac that sAe was woman
Anlover a heavily masculine place she was
usei 70 eminent men, ana 10 men VINO thought they
we're So or meant 10 be- though, TO be By the
ladies' Of Their families and the pillars Of tne.r de-
Hi had not arrived. ] have sometimes wondered
what would have been the tate even or my mother
I'D she lived to work her power 70 rs boom. Ana
Mrs Stoves fame clearly 4 TACT 80 apart from
the traditions and from the Ideals tnat Andcyer was
nuzz.ed by H. The besi OF her good men were too
fsdal in their views of women, IN those days, 10
iin-lerstaud a l!fe like Mrs. stoves. IL should be
reneuheroI that W. have moved on since then So
fas md 80 far hat IL is alnOst hard rON FOR Us
4, understand the perpleNity with which intelligent.
even Instructed used 10 consider the pncnom-
cc.gn OF a superior woman a. !. was tnea for such
mon 10 un !erstanI sucn woman at all Let Us
orer 10 them the wi1th OF sympathy and hnentss OF
f.e-,erton which they IA no: Always know how 10
offer the woman.
My rersanal -euerlbrances Of Mrs Stowe are those
Of a Young cir. whom she entertained at intervals.
aIwavs de.lghtfuly, the long parlor running the
width OF IL. s.One house whose deep enora3ured
vin.w-aeats scene! to me only less wonderful than
inc sof and brightly coloret. "a her worliy looking
rff'cus with Whlrh ihose attractive hooks gen
n-.nslv nl,eI There were flowers always and
n,v-r u XIV made sumner OF the eternal .iniover
u4rtsrs in the stone house; ard there were merry
eris and boys-Mrs Stowe was the most unselhsh
sn1 how ny OF nO,hcrs-lni there were always dogs
no and li;t,e curly and straight but In form
dog HE with It's gracious reaction cn the gentienesS
arI Iir.lne-. OF family life. ab0anled in her house
IT, v,,s n y open hosltablc house human ani hearty
ami happy. an1 have always remembered II affec-
nn amusing instance OF the splr: Of the stone
bo,se c,mes back 10 me from some far-avay day
.I.n fnunI myself schcO.mate TO Mrs. Stoves
,r,,ny1. d1ughier Ths ilt'le descendant OF genius
and OF pnll1nthropy was b:dden 70 write comrosi-
ton an order which she resolutey refused for some
sud one day the child brought N slip OF paper =