Putnam patriot., 1914-10-23
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 the vain endeaeof f9 llad seme society or individual b undertake the pubii' cation. Again and again as her san Ruine hopes were about to be realized she was doomed To disappointment. She had q fine intellect and in her day was quite a social leader. She wrote some verse, and also letters that have the peculiar flavor of the epistles of polite writers in the eighteenth cen- tury. On the death of her brother she wrote to his widow:
 "My fathers baleful destiny reserved for him the mouruful spectacle Of his dying eldest son and who can express his afIliction. His weeping eyes are as the dropping clouds, his meltin2 breast as the thunder storm, clouds which break not away, tempest without knowledge Of calm
 William Mowry was among the ear ly land owners of His tract of 900 acres descended to his granddaughter,:E Eliza. beth Pierpont of Boston. When she married Captain Cunningham she per suaded him to give up his seafaring life for a quiet one on her estate in Ab- ington Parish The coming of this grande dame of Boston in her chariot, as all four wheeled vehicles were then called, her rich brocade gowns, fine sil yer and elegant furniture, all com bined to create quite pleasant ripple Of excitement. She built digniied three story house the one enlarged and beautified by it's present ownert Dr. Goodfidge. She set lout on the ample lawn numerous young l elms, now grown to stately trees. The wheel Of fortune turned and brought to thisi as, indeed, to other families, heavy losses and bitter adversities.
 l mention the following triiiing epi. sode simply because it affords a little glimpse Of former days. Two young women in Abingdon about to become brides wish for their wedding gowns something pretty and choice direct from the metropolis 70 they set out for Boston each mounted on her own horse They avail themselves ofithe escort Of Priest Lyon who was also rid ing to Boston Town. They purchase some lovely silk, and one of them a dainty china tea set. These they pack carefully in small brass studded lea. ther trunk and bring Oil horseback with them.
 In 1913 the Abingdon Ladies' Libra " was formed. Miss Della Goodell, clerk; Miss Alathea Lord, librarian; Miss Mary Cunningham, treasurer. Fee for membership, $500. That one hundred years ago, a quarter of cen tury before there was any move tow srd the higher education of women, that the women of Abingdon should establish library and manage il suc- cessfully for seventy years was regard. ed as so unique feature in woman s work that the Connecticut Board of Women Managers oi the Chicago EN- position asked to have copy of the constitution placed on exhibition in inc Department of Woman's Eduea- ton. In 1879 this library was made over to the Social Library inAbington,
 some one has asked what did the women do when there were no wom- en clubs, no whist parties, no after. noon teas We simply marvel at the amount ard variety of work required in a household hundred years ago or so in a rural community such as Pom fret.
 There was little division Of labor. Women carded, hatchelled, spun and wo>e for
 The hum of the reel and the spinning
 wheel
 Are relics Of old time womanhood
 Mrs Lemuel Ingalls raised the silk worms, spun the silk and netted q shawl for each of her three daughters There was the usual neverending, oft, repeated round of duties for large fam flies of from ,siX to len children, and the care of the dairy and the meats apples and berries to be dried, root, and herbs gathered for the summer ill, and winter colds and the brick oyer filled with the weekly Of semi.weeklY lY baking Why, it took more eNecuuv, ability to conduct a household than {, nun two or three ilouHshing women clubs or trolley suffrage campaign.
 We turn 10 our artists and writers The first woman in Connecticut, al most the first in America to reeeiy, public recognition as an artist wa Miss Anne Hall who lived on tn south corner as We turn from tht street to go to Putnam. Some of vol may recall the large wood-coloreI house and the flowers that grew in th garden. There may have been man. in the country of local reputation bU Miss Hall was by election member c inc National Academy of Designs. O her mothers side she belonged to promlnent Newport family and | Newport her native genius was trair ed and developed unier the best In strnctors of the time, among thet Washington Allston. After 1920 Nils Hail lived in New York and devote h..rt talent fo miniature painting. He