The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-12
b HOME OF PAYNE.
| ACE OF THE AUTHOR or
|sluNS" osT FAMOUS BALLAD

writes reeiingiy About
Cls'el''' ,.., John Howard Payne
last rl''' III, YrIome, sweet Home
you cusa' Amagansett charioteer
Ny guam '.itS bis whip in the direction IN
nted w .i"ne mansion half hidden IN
. shadows ah that the elm ''''' '''
o.. its portal. 20 old East Hamp-
h'a u', autumn afternoons pieasur,
for ,s al i its elm .embOwered street Oh
salOns 81 Stretching from one antique
year, ,,'' 70 s'a another e.oh the 'ouOe e,
indnll - y graves, each the warden OF
Iadlsn ' - cemeteries. this grand
! S S,% street Of East ha ,n.p"~s the the
D. A; ~ green ribbon OF verou, .e the
ll' " .hs little town and tempt' the
nsiS u to lazy lovely lettering nsn IN ;ms
'I ls c y sunset in the san nv ;,,
sny ' .a.. Altar the boom OF the In,
Of sea' called. The arms OF the OLD
pie su ellis tipped with the last tapestry ;.a;s
s sar warning aloft above the NUS s
day. . ys suggested the forever be-
preyaru'', a ter white line Of frozen
crrOv far below. !. mrmp
Yes s. ,U oopsenting, my charioteer
no. ..d At the antique threshold OF the
opp' usmpton dwelling. 1t was the
'S' ,rhsre John Howard Payne au.
s 'u'' Of the ballad that has sung user -;
n ass t n heart of the world, passed his
ghOCd Am ..orv dwe,linp.
,. n a little way back from the
i ;IIage street. of frame, shingied ana
. D1Ie rooted Though it has received
, aD,' time to time, some smart sdorn-
lO w., ,he old house keeps its ancient,
u ,'tS SMELL as you face it from the
v.in street know of nothing SO quaint
r"tof old New England. On one side OF
tss doorway board placard, weather
sa.,sn nv time, mellowed by the years,
suoered BY the masses and pecked ut by
.hs little birds flying out for aye from
tbeir home, sweet home beneath the old
sray caves The quaint placard tells you
that within are
Tho town clerk,
The Bank Of East Hampton.
The village notary.
and, as learned afterward.
The undertaken
and
The furniture dealer.
all in one piece, or in one person-the
genial owner today Of the old house BY
the wayside. :,
Step in--but You won't 60 far adeld
or afoot, for the old staircase blocks thu
vsy. II winds and beckons up. 1t II
thoroughly Revolutionary. 1t winds ny
90 that you wonder it doesn't go OF a
once and play a tune. All, you are IL
the upstairs now The house is double
house, as we say. But then all the OLE
dwellings of long ago were double.
Did you ever think of that7 Home
sweet homes" and married loves ant
hearthsides. Not apartments, like pi
amos, on the installment system; no
skysrspers attempting that old plail
Of Shinsr's tall ambitions; not "homes'
whence you sailed to get your very din
ner and when you got back thanked
God up IS flights that you didn't di
from menus and messes. But it is dow
stairs in the kitchen that the mos
charming bit is found. This kitchen
seems older than the Revolution. It
Cindersllan. In one moment, as 20
step across its threshold, You are trans
ported with fairy watt and a fair
wand into the days and the ways tina
are older than that dear Mother Goose
into the days Of Mother Wise. Mothe
Wise made all the fairy stories in til
beginning. do you known And Mothe
Wise lived in Egypt 5000 years befor
weopened our wise eyelids. And Mothe
wise knew Cinderella by heart and b
nead and wrote down all about her dea
,lttie slipper in the vocabulary of th
rnaraohs. older than the great pyramit
AS you step into the antique kitche
In the house Of John Howard Payn
you almost expect to see an ancieE
egyptian stalk around the corner an
Oneops sacred pussy cat in q hier,
sVpnlc attitude on the hearth. Ho'
yuaint-how quaint it isl Didn't het
,,'ue Oinderella's laugh and see thol
usai little plump hands clapped togeth,
WIN !oyl And 10 that glow f1oodir
WINDOW and wall the silver ether tn.
nUats around the fairy and dissolve
:.Uw'y, In revolving, radiant rainbow
- ~" coiors that the fairy takes and sta
a. 'ne blue OF her eyes and the fran
'esh cherry Of her lipsr
neatly 1t Is all 30 unreal that il fire
.u 70 De told that that is Revolution
g.. muSKet hanging over the old, O
aepiace' You mistook it for a club tn
' .1O's grand old Bible fellows brandish,
h %u'n .ney went down into Egypt al
''u : night, How pert and new l776
,,a'.s sorrowful to think that, after
FUSED s"s the latch of his old sweet hon
tbo s i heard Tor the last time the clink
,hs ..os,ng door aud went out to IA
bo o world John Howard Payne had
E". c Lucy Cleveland in New 70