Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09


society, called the National Society of Colon
Danes of America is "Stenton" in Philad
phia built by James Logan in 1913. James Logo
the young secretary of William Penn: what 10y
laden "reminiscences the name recalls as one wand
in this home he erected wherein to live happ
ever after! This swain of colonial times it seen
fell in love several times and perforce fell out befc
really settled at Stenton. First he had fascir
ton for Letitia Penn, daughter of William Per
but she appeared to have amorous eyes
another he often talked over his unhappy 10
affairs with Hannah Penn, sympathetic mother
his much wanted sweetheart. But even Mater
suggestion proved poor salve for the shafts
cupid, for Miss Letitia, with a mind of her ow
married one William Aubrey, whereupon the jilt
James Logan is recorded having said me
things in colonial phraseo1ogy, calling Aubrey amo
other things, tiger for returns in affairs finance
The matrimonial tables turned on young lam
Logan again; for when his bleeding heart beg
to be soothed by the balm-like presence
Rebecca Moore she suddenly welded Govern
Evans.
But in time the crooked course of true love /
came straight fower-laden path leading direct
to the stately home of "Stenton," though befc
claiming his lady-love his bride he penned
admonitory epistle to her, which is as familiar
Colonial Danes in Philadelphia as their official b
laws. In the quaint language of the day he in pa
pleads but presses not his suit:
Yet, my Dearest | cannot press it furth
than thou with freedom canst condescend to
and enjoy Peace and Satisfaction in thy own mir
for without this, | cannot so much as desire
obtain thee"
So to "Stenton," indeed a presentable
mansion of the day, went James Logan and
his bride; and to-day Colonial Danes, in the
same hospitable spirit with which the mistress
of the house passed the cheering cup
than hundred years ago to such notabes
Washington, Jefferson and Madison who
gathered therein to swap political stories, do
they serve as hostesses at colonial tea-parties
and betimes open the old home set in colonial
style, to the sightseeing public.
Then there is Whitehall near fashion
able Newport in Rhode Island. This old
time house which enterprising Colonial Danes
of the State actually have leased until the
year of our Lord 275o, and thus insured it to
a considerable stretch of posterity, Immediate
ly suggests, on the other hand, the religious
life of colonial times. Newport, the
scene of midsummer social splendor, was
once, with its six thousand inhabitants, the
foremost city in America. In those days
Dean George Berkeley favorite of the crown
heads of England and the whom Pope swee
ingly described as possessed of every virtue und
Heaven, attempted to keep the Colonlsts the1
about in the straight and narrow path and "Whit
hall, which was his home, was naturally popul
rendezvous for clergymen. Upon the return
this distinguished divine to London, so Colon
Danes familiar with colonial lore say, he UNIV
tingly presented an organ to church in Berkele
Massachusetts, the town named in his honor,
the gift was respectfully declined on the plea tn
an organ was an instrument of the Devil for e
trapping of mems souls; and SO this melodio
of he Evil NV,
Trinity Church in Newport where summer
sorters," who happen to worship there, may see
with its ancient inscription.