The sun., 1914-09-27

TEl lTLANDS, an old COlonlal mouse
Il at Harvard, Mass, where Bron-
son Alcott. the Concord Phlloso-
phcr. and the English mystics
'i.cd th,'r unique experiment years ago,
.t~ been restored.
I'll. complete restoration is made pos
s.hir hy the return Of furniture and
Personal Effects of the Alcotts, Emerson,
'har,rs Lane and the Palmcrs. so per-
fec; ia every detail tha' on" steps across
thc threshold today into a dream Of
hy@ul" days.
Relatives of these early day expert
mcuters from far and near have yielded
f'um their possessions these bits Of
property tina. once figured SO promi-
n'ut.y IN the furnishings Of Fruitlands
t.. beautiful old mahogany furniture.
famuu, pictures OF Emerson. Claiming
aHd Tn.r'au, old samplers. the farming
urru>..s firearms, in fact could the
pioneers step into the house to-day
t',y would no doubt see 1t but little
,,ln-,d from its order Of the days
when they first settled in that commu-
nifty.
!. WIS Of the stay here that Louisa
i,,o,. 1l- written her "Trausccndontal
wild D.'-." as seen 10y one II those
who w,s there.
on, mus, klow the early history Of
.ne founding of the uniqu" organization
FOO appreciate the story. TIL h,us" dates
'trk to the early part Of the eighteenth
injury. The earliest decd is marked
.5i7. The transc,udcntal philosophers
,ok it for home IN which To try
.N.ns as "con-sociatc family" in 1913.
bronson Alcott had gone to Eng.and
20 investigate the workings Of a school
40 Ham Common which had been started
"y Mr.. Oldham. Charles Lane. James
'.crrepont Grcavcs and others along
hc lines Of pestalozzi in Switzerland,
Young minds were TO be especially
.ra!ncd toward Increasing the capacity
'or philosophical thought.
Mr. Alcotts personality and un-
doubted genius 50 impressed these men
hat the school was named Alcott
louise in honor OF him. H. persuaded
'harcs Lane. his son william Henry
Gardner Wright and Samuel Bower TO
.cturn to America with him. These
we're called the English mystics. They
."ma.n"d with him in Concord for a
me, joining the circle of eminent men
aho lived there. 1t was then that
charles Lane and Bronson Alcott looked
for a place n which TO start their New
Eden ana they chose this place on the
-.opc of the hillside overlooking the val
ley Of the Nashua, Ralph Waldo Emer-
son held the deed for a time, lie did
not join the community but he visited
It often, as did Ellery Claiming and
Hawthorne and all the other men OF
letters.
con the first day Of June, 1913" wrote
Miss Aicott, "a large wagon drawn by
4 slow horse and containing a motley
Dad wen numbering over certain New
England hills, with the pleasing ac-
compartments Of much hail and rain
\ serene man with a serene
child upon his knee was driving.
Behind a small boy embracing a bus
uf Socrates was an energetic looking
woman with "A benevolent brow, satiri.
cal mouth and eyes fun Of hope anC
courage. y baby rcposcd upon her lap
a mirror leaned against her knee, q
basket Of provisions danctd against hei
- i-s+ and she struggled with large UNI
br"lla with which she tried to cov,i
every one but herself"
Such was the entrance of the Alcott,
Into FruItlands as pictured by one VIII,
was there.
Among the group Of those pastora
enthusiasts were Charles Lane, an Eng
lishman, whose private means pur
chased the place of one hundred acres o
more and who cV ntuaily returned Il
ais own land, Joseph Palmer, who ulti
lndtcly came INTO possession of TN
farm and who lived there untii hr died
ana Anna Page, a lone female discipl,
Miss Page became ,hc music tcachc
"f the Alcott girls. Miss Alcott in he
book refers 10 this music instructor u
"fuSsy and unpopular"
Here gathered the band" wrote
later author, "and began the work o
forming a family in harmony with tn
primitive instincts OF men, No mea