The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-21
OUT AND ABOUT.

ton Will hear with regret that the IA
nous old church of Bow Bells-St
Mary-le-Bow, in Cheapside-is showing
signs of structural weakness. For over
year the little cockneys who have first
seen the light within that time have
had to forego the lawful right of being
born within the sound of Bow Bells, y
for since Ascension day last year the
peal of the old church has been silent.
Cracks of ominous size have appeared
in the walls, and the tower has list of
about seven inches at the base, which
means, 1t is said, an incline of about
two feet at the spire. OF course, this
incline is not per Sc perilous, as witness
the leaning tower of Pisa and numer-
GUS leaning towers in Europe that are
less renowned, but the fact that con-
temporaneous with this the cracks have
appeared in the vestibule, running from
floor to ceiling and of such size that in
one of them it is possible to insert the
finger, while another crack on the west
side runs up to a beautiful stained
glass window, certainly gives ground
for alarm.
This sad state of affairs is said to be
due to the excavations of the new Cen
trail London railway, which, in tunnel
ling under Cheapside, have undermined
the tower. That is to say,
they have undermined the north
side of the tower with the
result that the great wall of masonry,
finding its support gone on one side,
has settled toward the street. In such a
state it would be obviously unwse to
set the bells. which weigh about II tons,
a-ringing.
st. Mary-le-Bow is the most famous
church in London. It's foundations are
Norman, and below these is a Roman
causeway. A sacred edifce stood upon
its site in the days of the Roman occu-
patton of the island. The present
building is the third probably the
fourth, which has occupied the ground.
1t was designed by Sir Christopher
Wren, and after St. PauPs, is consid-
cred his best work.
1t was Bow Bells that called after
Wilmington to turn again! turn
again. The biggest bell-there are u,
weighing from 900 to $500 pounds-flg-
ures in the pathetic ballad of Cock
Robin. Persons born within sound of
Bow Bells" are cockneys, and have the
right to drop all the his" they want
to without being held amenable to the
law.
Mrs. Retaliation is getting Helm
rich Schuecker's harp into condition
for the festival. This is a lengthy
process, requiring a fortnight, as the
strings have to be let down during the
summer, and then cautiously brought
UP again to concert pitch. Mrs. Law
ton is one of the very few women in
the country who knows how to tune a
harp. She performs this friendly office
every season for Mr.. Shuecker, thus
ciN in -,
rope, where he invariably spends his
summers.
Miss Aagot Lunde will be up from
Boston for two days of the festival
The Friday Morning Club will give
an at-home Thursday afternoon of
festival week for the festival artists
and the friends Of the members. Some
of the artists will probably sing. 1t
has been voted to make the reception
in festival week an annual thing in the
club. The club has voted to buy new
grand piano.
President Charles M. Bent of the
Worcester County Music Association
will entertain for the festival Mr.. and
Mrs. William Bent and Mrs. Cleveland
Bent of Taunton and Miss Kennedy of
Milton.
Mrs. d. II. Eames left Tuesday to
spend a few days with her daughter,
Mrs. Cushing, of Lowell Mrs. John
McGraw Foster of Boston may come up
to the festival for a few days.
Mrs. Albert Frost of Boston, sister of
Miss Evangeline Florence, will come up
for the Tuesday and Wednesday con-
certs of the festival
Clearly, the modern woman with So
eial ambitions must not neglect to hold
fast to the old and everlasting truths of
life in her struggle toward the stars,
sympathy with, and capacity TO, pro-
mote new ideas are essential to her
progress, but only by allegiance to the
eternal feminine, to the behests of love.
and motherhood, and beauty of mag
nation, can the development of society
on the lines of broader and wiser hui
mainly be effectUally established =
Robert Grant in ''Seachlight Letters. !"
People who have not been to the Isle
of Man are amazed at the name of
Glory Quayle the heroine in "The
Christian" They think Mr.. Hall Game
made it up and they conclude that his
inventive ability runs in queer chan
nels. There probably never was a Glory
IN Man, but of Quayles there are plenty.
Quayle and Quilliam are two of the
original Manx surnames, and families
nave borne them for generations and
sun bear them. But, odd as it is, GLORY
c n
cause it is so strange and piquant: and
somehow it is rich sounding, as BELTS
a girl Of Glorys vivid personality, a girl
all hair and eyes and bosom, as some
one described her.
No fear that the reading, world of
America will be ignorant of the forty
second annual Worcester music festival
Al least three important publications
will contain articles upon it. One by
Mrs. Jean Pardee Clarke, the wife of a
Yale professor has already appeared in
the Metropolitan for October. It is
pleasantly written, gives the pivotal
facts in the history of the association,
and is profusely illustrated. Among the
pictures are capital ones of the exterior
and interior of Mechanics hall. of @
M. Bent, George r. Bliss, Paul B. Nor
gan L. M. Lowell, Daniel Downey, Geo.
w. Chadwick, Franz Kneisel, Gwyllim
Miles, Ffrangcon Davies, Miss Flo
renee, H. Evan Williams, F.S Converse.
de Pachmann, and Nine. Schumann-
Heink. As the article was written be-
fore it was known that Nine. Sehu-
mann Heink would not be able to fiji
her contract, the scheme of the festival
as first planned is given. This, of course,
was changed later. e. l. Stevenson Of
New York will have an article on the
festival in Harper's Weekly, and Mr..