The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-28
THE HOSPITAL WHICH SHE
FOUNDED.
TWO AUTHORS COULD NOT AGREE.
Causes Which Led to the separa-
ton of Prominent Litera-
tours.

Mrs. LathrOp Is now thinking of de-
voting the rest Of her life and fortune
TO rounding cancer hospital, and to
that end has been, until recently. a
| nurse for several months in the Cancer
hospital at One Hundred and Sixth
street and Central Park west, wearing
the nurses garb, eating at the common
table, subject to all the strict hospital
rules. She has not lived with her hus-
band for about a year, although some
correspondence has passed between
them, and there is a hope that mutual
misunderstanding may be cleared
away.
Nearly five years ago Mr. and Mrs.
Lathrop created comment all over the
country by leaving the Unitarian faith
OF their New England fathers and join
ing the Roman Catholic church. for
which both have since manifested the
zeal Of converts. 1t is said that this
membership in the Roman Catholic
church. which discountenanced divorce.
was all that at one time prevented Mrs.
Lathrop from applying to the courts
for a separation.
THE QUARREL KEPT SECRET.
Neither Mr.. Lathrop nor his wife will
give for publication any OF the reasons
for their unhappy situation, further
than that they did not agree on the
extent to which Mrs. Lathrop should
devote herself to this unexpected can
Ger hospital idea Of hers. 1t appears
however, that the extent to which a
man can use stimulants with perfect
proprlety was also a subject for discus
sion.
1t was on the 18th of August that
Mrs. Lathrop completed q three
months term OF observation at the
New York Cancer hospital, Central
Park West and One Hundred and Sixth
street. Obtaining in May the consent
OF Dr. w. I. Bull, vice president Of the
institution and one of it's consulting
surgeons, she entered the chronic ward.
and for twelve weeks acted as minor
assistant to the attendants.
1t may be that the loss a little while
ago or Mr.. and Mrs. Lathrop's only
Snna, boy, turned Mrs. Lathrop's
neart toward works of charity She
once contemplated entering a convent
near Montreal, 1t is said. Perhaps
the sight OF sufferer from cancer
supplied the suggestion upon which
she acted. AT all events. she applied
TO DR.. Bull for permission to live fo,.
White In the cancer hospital #
was the poor she wished to helm and
IL was In the chronic ward, where the
poor live out their lives, that she took
her post of observation.
MRS. Lathrop may have had in her
mind before she entered the hospitaI
the establishment Of free Institution
Tor the treatment Of the cancerous
poor. If so, her experience in the
chronic ward strengthened her conyic-
ton of her duty.
She criticised pretty freely, and when
her promised three months were IN
her permit was not. extended.
IN A NURSES GARB.
When her intention Of entering the
hospital was made known to her hus-
pand ne made visit of inspection to
the institution. While there Mrs.
Lathrop made no secret Of her identity
She spoke Of her father and of the
articles for magazines and newspapers
she had written about him. his works
and their family. With her husband
she maintained correspondence.
Since Mrs. Lathrop emerged from the
hospital she has been living with
friends near Fifth avenue, not far from
her husbands quarters at East Sew
enteenth street. Their home has been
at New London. Just now she is IN
Boston to see a sick friend.
For two or three weeks Mrs. I,ath-
rop has been looking for house, pref
erably in that wide region known by
the generic name of 1.-The slums'-for
a house suitable for her free cancer
hospital. 1t Is understood that she
has had the advice of DR.. Bull and
his approval Of her plans.
Mr.. Lathrop said yesterday that he
was disposed to cooperate as for as
possible with Mrs. Lathrop in her char
table work. That, he insisted. had
been his attitude all along, and there
was a possibility that matters would
be arranged In some way mutually
agreeable. AS evidence Of the place
I'm his heart which Mrs. Lathrop holds.
her picture and that of their dead child
stands on the mantle next Our Lady of
Perpetual Help and the head of
Christ.
NO HOPE OF RECONCILIATION.
1t is said, however, on the authority
of one of Mrs. Lathrop's most intimate
friends, that the lady not only regards
the separation as permanent and final,
but has carefully eyaded her husbands
efforts to get within speaking distance
of her. 1t Is reported that she took
pains to leave at the hospital no ad-
dress by which her husband was able
to trace her after she left it, She is
Of the father who has been her spir-
itual adviser since she was received into
the Catholic church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lathrop had a beauti-
full home in New London, filed with
treasures Of art and literature and it
often sheltered the bearers Of famous
names. They were hospitable people,
though Mrs. Lathrop never was so fond
of society and of entertaining as her
husband. They moved to New London
from Concord, Mass, where they had
gone to live soon after their marriage.
Mr. Lathrop is a member OF the Thames
club, the swell social organization of
New London. He was at one time
president of the club. He is also
members of the Players, Authors and
the Reform clubs of this city and Of
the Sons of the Revolution
Rose Hawthorne was born in Lennox-
Mass. on May 20, 1857 Soon after Ma
thaniel Hawthorne died, in 1864, Mrs.
Hawthorne took Rose to live with her
in Dresden, Saxony, where Julian. the
only son, joined them In 1859, having
left Harvard in 1868 without taking his
degree with his class, which was grad
uated that year.
THE LATHROPS IN LITERATURE.
Mrs Lathrop's latest literary work
has been some articles on her father
for the Atlantic Monthly. which. pres
emily. will be published In book form.
Her verse furnishes better key to
her life than her prose. She has that
sense of the supernatural which was
left out of her brothers makeup Her
rhymes turn suddenly and ha5shly.