The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-13
Out & About

reminded her that The Spy printed a
story about her S0th anniversary, and
Mrs Fay brought out an apron which
Mrs. Fletcher made at that time, and
which has since been exhibited at the
New England fair.
| Mrs. Fletcher was born in Sterling
Nov. IL, 1911. She was daughter of
Polly Wilder and Gideon Beaman
Gideon Beaman was a soldier of the
revolution, and was among those who
were detailed to guard British prison
ers at Rutland. He had three broth
ers who fought at Lexington. These
facts became known to the Daughters
of the Revolution some years ago and
Mrs Fletcher was made an honorary
member of Old South Chapter, Boston.
, She was also presented with hand
some gold spoon by the National So
ciety, Daughters of the American Revo-
luton. The spoon is suitably inscribed
and is one of her choicest possessions.
Mrs. Fletcher has always maintained
an interest in patriotic societies and
only yesterday morning received GER
tificate of membership in the Betsy
Ross Memorial Association.
Except that her vision Is not so good
as it used to be Mrs. Fletcher shows
| few traces of her advanced age. Her
memory is clear and as retentive as it
always was. The IS quilts that she
has pieced in the last few years have
| been favorably regarded at the fairs
where some of them have been exhib-
tied.
The subject of Leon H. Vincent's lee
Iture last night in the course delivered
at Union Church chapel was Carlyle
and His Wife" The lecturer was at
his best and without notes delivered a
mastery discourse on the great English
essayist with many little glimpses of
Carlyle's life with his shrewish wife
that were very humorous.
! The speaker said from his own early
boyhood days he had regarded Thomas
Carlyle as a literary hero, one of the
giants of literature, towering above the
others like one of the rugged Morse
gods of old. Selfish and fault-fnding in
little things, the nature of the man was
grand under the stress Of great circum-
stances, as for instance when the man
uscript of his French Revolution" was
destroyed by the carelessness of a
1 servant of a friend.
! Mr. Vincent dwelt at length on
Carlyle's painful struggle with poverty
and the gradual rise to affiuence after
the publication of the French Revolu-
ton" Carlyle did considerable lectur-
/ ing although 1t was sorely against his
personal inclination to appear In public
and address an audience. At the
moment Of his great triumph, deliver
ling a lecture at the University of Edin-
boro, as Lord Rector, his wife, while
riding in her carriage, suddenly died.
/ This was a great shock to Carlyle and
he never ceased mourning her
J The speaker told of the girlhood of
Jane Carlyle and described her as
coquettish, sharp of tongue, and ready
/ to take instant retaliation for any in
Jury. She led Thomas Carlyle a merry
dance Doth before and after marriage
with her raillery and 1ests at his eX-
Ipense. The two frequently quarreled
and although Carlyle was no saint, the
temper and disposition of his wife was
much the worse. AS James Anthony
Froude puts it; Both the Carlyles were
noble and generous but his was the soft
heart and hers the stern one.
| The date of the concluding lecture is
at present uncertain and will be an
inounced later through the papers.
Kingsley Assembly of the Webster
Square Methodist Church gives an en-
tertainment and concert tomorrow
night. The program as arranged is as
follows
II o. go.
August Anderson.
1.-The Mountain Tragedy" Dickens
Henry Church Sanderson, reader
Whistling SOLO. Selected
! Miss Mary E. Lane.
/ The Darda March-...............
| English High School Banjo and
Mandolin Club, Albert Fowle, leader.
Tenor SOLO. ........--.. Selected
Walter Stanley Knowles.
,Reading-"Our Church Choir"
Miss Mary z. Lane.
iSelection-Lk dies' Quartet,
/ Miss Clara MilHken, list soprano,
Miss Mira Campbell, I'd soprano,
! Miss Charlotte Campbell, LIST alto,
Miss Nettie Guy. I'd alto.
IReading-"The Debating Society"
Henry Church Sanderson.
Miss Mary z. Lane.
Tenor solo. Selected
Walter Stanley Knowles.
tReading ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Selected
i Miss Mary E. Lane.
Selection-Male Quartet.
Fred Guy. LIST tenor; Leonard Tink-
| ham. I'd tenor; Robert Ferguson.
| Isl bass: Andrew Dreghorn, I'd bass.
liz. II. s. Banjo Club-"The Kentucky
| Thoroughbred
Albert Fowle, leader.
Mrs. Homer Gage will give a dinner
party tomorrow at 7.S0 p. m. Covers
will be laid for ~.
4 -
Miss Pratt, Ashland Street, and
Mrs. James Green will give a coming
out tea next Wednesday afternoon,
from 4 to s o'clock. for Miss Elizabeth
II. Pratt and Miss Mary Sprague
Green, at the house Of Miss Pratt
The Bancroft Chapter. Daughters OF
the Revolution. met yesterday after
noon with Mrs. stephen c. Earle. y
Kendall Street. The members pau