The Worcester spy., 1899-02-01
MISS E. o. BURNSIDE.
a Few Words Of Remembrance.

Everybody who has been associated with
the late Miss Burnside and admitted to a
place in her friendship wishes today to
pay loving tribute to her memory.
She was a woman to be respected and
loved. and there is heartfelt grief among
the comparatively small, but warmly at
tached, group of friends and relatives who
enjoyed the privilege of intercourse with
her.
AS one and another of the members of
old Worcester families pass away they
leave a gap in our lives. Other good peo-
Pile are born and come here, but they do
not quite fill the places of the friends we
have always known.
do not care now to speak of the out
ward facts Of Miss Burnside's life. 1 can
not help recalling, however, the images of
her father and mother The late Samuel
MeGregor Burnside was kind-hearted,
scholarly, philosophical gentleman,
whose figure was noticeable and is indeli-
bly, fixed in the memories of the older
residents of this place.
Mr.. Burnside loved books, and was a
great friend and promoter of popular edu-
The writer has bright and vivid picture
IN his memory of Miss Burnsides mother
She was blind in the later years of her
life. and one of the sweetest remem-
brances Of persons who enjoyed her hos
pitality In her declining years is of the
cheerful and social spirit OF lovely old
lady, sitting in the corner of a sofa In her
parlor in full enjoyment of the society of
guests and waited upon with affectionate
devotion by her loving daughters
II Milton's daughters were a tenth part
as kind to the old poet as Mrs. Burnside s
daughters were to her, Milton must have
Mr.. and Mrs. Burnside made their home
q centre Of hospitality. The daughters
have been beautifully loyal to the memo
traditions Of the family sympatheticaily
and generously. They have been constant
in genial. profuse and elegant entertain
To the last Miss Burnside entered heart
lily into. innocent gayeties, and, with heI
sister. has liked nothing SO well as to
Widespread table and engage in pleasant
social intercourses.
Even when suffering she was joyous.
Am not noting beautiful trait when ]
state that even to the last she might be
spoken OF in that sense OF refinement
which marked all her actions as frolic-
some.
I know of no persons to whom the praise
OF the epistle, given to hospitality" could
better be applied than to the late Mrs.
Burnside and her daughters.
a distinguishing trait in the characters
OF Miss Burnside and her sisters has been
the marked sympathy which. they have
felt and manifested towards their friends
a birthday brought flowers with the
cards OF the sisters; beautiful present
came (perhaps a pretty poem) when q
marriage was to take place; in numerous
cases of sickness visits were made, and
grapes and other delicacles and flowers
appeared at the bedside. A physician was
employed II required. In case of sickness
no expense was spared by the kind-heart-
ed sisters.
They have always lived so quiet and re-
hned; they have been active, too, and
thought, sympathy and money put into
private beneficence have been enormous.
Few persons probably have known what
beautiful lives they have led, but their
friends loved and admired them.
burnside; nobody ! am sure, ever en-
tered the services Of the loving sisters
without at once learning their kind con-