The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-05

Nervous Prostration and the Festi-
val
Two conventions and a music festival
inside of seven days, is enough to
make even the Heart of the Common
wealth palpitate,
With the formation of a new class
in mycology, the hunting of the mush-
room will become more of a passion
than ever in Worcester. Local my
cologists have contrived to make
stir in the community quite out of pro-
portion to their numbers, for the peo-
pie who cherish the mushroom in these
| parts are and always have been few.
a more widely diffused interest in and
knowledge of the subject would react
very favorably upon the cult The
time should come when families who
care for mushrooms to eat will raise
them as now they raise cabbages
or cucumbers. In Europe the mush-
room is a common vegetable, to be
purchased in abundance in the markets.
and only the absence of a demand on
the part of the American public makes
1t less plentiful and available here.
Those who join the class now being
formed by DR.. Francis will prosecute
the study under exceptionally Fortunate
| auspices.
Invitations went out yesterday for
the marriage Of Miss Edih Jourdan,
niece of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H. Nor
gan, to Mr.. Francis Horace Bigelow,
Tuesday, Oct. IS, at O'Clock at 28
Catherine street After the wedding Mr.,
Thursdays, Dec. l and is, from 8 until
10 o'clock at q Institute road.
Next to pity for the ,oss of her young
life. what stirs us most in the death Of
poor little Caroline Miskel Hoyt is a
feeling of rage, of Indignation, that
death should have struck at such a
tender, helpless thing. Endowed with
all the graces of personal loneliness
and with a charm and winsomeness of
manner that few could withstand
there seemed a fitness In the dainty
| clothes and the superb Jewels that she
| liked to deck herself N, and indeed,
she had natural affinity for all that
is soft, graceful, luxurious, that woula
have made ordinary garments seem a
| sort of DESPERATION. She was exactly
as well equipped for conflict and dis
aster as canary or rosebud or a
snowflake.
I
none who saw her but will recall her
arch beauty and almost inconceivable
mildness, her f-conscio BUSINESS and
| little affectations. Perhaps the scene
| which remains most wildly in memory
| is that in which she appears after the
| collision with her female constituents,
in the tattered fragments of the once
delicious pink dress and bonnet 1t
seemed as If no problem more serious
I nf h "A
ever scratched the mirror of her
child's mind; and now to have to face
| DEATH
Cases of nervous prostration are not
as common as one would expect after
the rigors of festival week. The festi-
val is hard work however you take it,
\ and the more fun you mix with the
music, the harder it becomes.
| The people who, not contented with
the concerts, took in che rehearsals
and to the sum of those added half q
dozen of the parties and dinners that
were given, burnt their candle at both
ends with a vengeance for q few days.
| No one could stand it for long. Not
only has the human frame it's lmita-
tions, but the mind also becomes after
a while so fatigued that 1t refuses to
! accept fresh impressions. Once the
saturation point is reached, the Bos-
| ton symphony orchestra can kill it.
self playing, and the chorus can shout
itself hoarse, and it is like pouring
water on a ducks back Enough is as
| good as q feast, but it requires uncom
mon strength of mind to believe il
when the Worcester music festival has
the floor.
/ Mrs. Shepard K. Robbins has at her
home, 21 Sycamore street, rare lily
in bloom, which has attracted much
attention from her friends and from
members of the horticultural Society
The bulb came from Florida, where
they called it the Australian lily, and
it has been five years in getting ready
to blossom. 1t is q gigantic plant,
with a stalk as thick through as your
wrist, and leaves from one yard and
a quarter to one and a half long, deep
/ ly grooved and slightly ruffied on the
edges. In form and manner of growth
they bear @ strong resemblance to In
dian corn, and some have called it the
corn lily, but Mrs Robbins thinks this
is a mistake. When full grown, the
leaves frequently break of their own
weight.
The flower stalk appeared at the side
of the parent stem, and from it have
come 16 blossoms. The long, slender
buds seem to be fastened together al
the end with a hook. which, at the
proper moment, gives way with jump
while the petals split open at the OPP
posite sides. They are pink on the
outside, white inside, with a heavy
southern fragrance that is compared
sometimes to tube-roses, sometimes tc
magnolia blossoms.
The lily is a decided curiosity. Mrs
Robbins is interested in showing 1t tt
any person who cares about such
things, and hopes that some one will
be able to tell her the botanical name
for it.
ELLEN EARLY DISAPPEARS.
Ellen Early, 10 years old, disappeared
rnysteriously yesterday evening, aut
| M q late lOllr nOtbino had baar