Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-15

fashioned furniture clocks, china and pic
lures that grow more beautiful and valu-
able with age
The farms stretch back from the houses
LOT long distance, as they were originally
dlIotted TO the first settlers of Connecticut
ana are nearly all planted to onions and to-
Dacco Wethersfield, anancient little town
which lies about as far south as Windsor
is TO the north of Hartford, is the center of
the onion trade, as Suffield is the center of
the tobacco interest
The farmers are wedding their tobacco
and onions now. and 1t is back breaking
WORK. The tobacco plants are raised In hot
Deds ana are tranSpanted as soon as the
farmer is sure there will be no more frosts
both crops are very profitable If the autumn
trosts do not come too soon Queen Nicotine
mas been a fairy godmother to the plain and
plous farmers In the Connecticut valley
She has made them rich She paid for
these big white houses and barns; she is the
source of the money which has founded
and endowed schools academies and col
leges, and has educated generations of great
men.
The Old Loomis House.
Inc old Loomis house is on side street
running out from the picturesque common in
the center of the village past modern
church Of considerable architectural pre-
tensions to which Mrs John Mason Loomis
has given an altar and an organ 1t stands
on the banks of the Pennington river. near
the point where the staid old stream ioins
the connecticut. The house Is low and mod
est, two stories and a half, with a sharp
pitched roof. The exterior walls are ~
clapboards fastened with wrought-iron nails.
with their heads sticking out to TESTIFY IN
their age and strength There Is a porch I'm
the corner, but the front door has no pro-
lection and is flush with the walls Two an
clent larch trees grow Immediately In front
OF II, not more than eighteen inches from
t tle .hreshoid, SO close that the roots must
hn
tons There Is a fringe of trees all around
me sun scarcely ever finds its way TO the
roof or the walls The shadow of the foliage
10 perpetual. The windows are very old. The
grass was made in England and is thick ana
irregular. The back yard is naya6 nit
the house. " &c oio ds
The land was taken I'D in 1890 nv Jos.r,
Loomls, one of the original sett,srs 20
windsor, and the oldest part Of the ho,, %
vas vas putt by him that year of logs. and a
sapboards 'a Tbs the they We're covered with
was dug at the same time and ba .i n useo.
iaiieo; ANOTHER portion Of the house W.
n ,ena by Joseph LOOMS before he died dn
mined a and ti h exact date cannot be deter
in 1885, 'ne main part
The Original Grant
Inc original grant hangs on the wall =,
'he sitting ROOM 1t is written in fine live.
anu the INK is fading SO that 1t is difficult
~ uoeiPher Ihere Is no record Of the
p.opef'y upon the books Of the recorder OF
because the title has never been
II appears frequently. how
ever upon the books of the registrar ~
Wills Tor 1t has been passed down from
generation to generation to the husband ~
MIS- MIS-. i. W. Loomis. WHO occupies It now
with her srs daughter, Miss Jenny foomis she
is a graceful old lady, in a black grena.
dine, who just fits the surroundinss II
could have no more appropriate OCCUPANT.
The furniture. the china, the pewter. the
clocks and ancient mirrors. eli belong
there, having been supplied from time to
| time by the generations Of Loomises who
have needed them. There is no display;
no suggestion of the secondhand shop; it
all belongs there and every piece Is part
Of complete picture Of colonial LIE. The