The Temple Daily Telegram (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 37, Ed. 1 Monday, December 30, 1912 Page: 3 of 16
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' "Meg- and "Amy," In "little Women.-
Plltfit* >»jr %VU4i«.
,day* at The Orchard el! the year round. Th*y even ,-epait.ced it the ugly yellow
j It i» by a peculiar fortune that the old which it hud worn before.
houae should be standing iu almost tfcej "It would have beeu prettier white,"
fame condition as when the Alcotts iived commented a visitor.
there. When they bought it the buildings' "Ob, but we ere eo accustomed to see-
were considered nearly worthless, but tnej'ng it this color that we should have felt
Aicotta remade it iuto s rate home and itj had loat a friend if they had (hauled
fc>oH that to-day, in spite of year* of replied a Concord neighbor. "It'e
nejlect. The Aicotta "moved the barn nlwaya been yellow, juat aa the Kmerson
•cross the road, cut the a hop in two end
put a half on each end of the house," as
Mm. Aleott expressed it. On each L
ao formed was a piazza with • door open-
ing iuto the front room, ss well as one
j into the L. There were eight outaide
doors to the houae and Mr. Alcott used
to say that when a rap waa heard each j tts w'""u tourists have
inemier of the family stsrted for s door, j wa*ei' 10 cou,e- He ia likely to be di-
In the west 1, each of the two older girls, "'c,ed ftrsl ,0 ,bo "»»»» oW bouse *Iler*
house has always been white, and ws like
them that way."
Tboreau's Old Home. ^
The pilgrim to 'The Orchard may find
it a little difficult at first to locate the
famous old houae if he goea aa late in the
Aon* and Louisa, bad • studio. Louisa
iw*zn
t.» ..
Prtisilt View.
| ||af* ^^.§1
Jar nuw carefully pre-
oas# with other prop-
It OS.
lagedy" was produced
|ient to performers aud
Birls witnessing it from
|d aa the dress circle,
is episode, to say noth-
|au who had heard of
morning meal and
ndibg in luxuries un-
llcott house, including
and bouquets of hot-
|rty there were gala
could not bear to be disturbed when writ-
ing, and this studio, in which she could
shot herself off. wus highly prised by her.
8iuce the Alcotts moved froui The
Orchard no one has iived in it, except
the Harris family, who \wer» there for a
few years only. For a long tia.e after-
ward it stood idle and deserted. Many
wbo went to view it turoed away, sorely
disappointed at the sight of its closed
doors and barred windows.
Finally, a body of Concord women took
up tbe matter, bought the old bouse,
painted It and pot it iu repair without
changing any of its general features.
the Alcotts lived with "Meg," Mrs. 1'ratt,
after they left The Orchard, and which
is still occupied by the widow of one of
the "Little Meu." It's n famous house,
too, not only because of its asaociatiou
with tbe Alcotts, uiany of whose posses-
sions It shelters, but because it was, be-
fore that time, Tboreau's home
If one la directed there by miatake,
therefore, he will not fe»l that he hi*
lost anytliiug by it. TBe Orchard i*
far down the old Lexington road, beyond
the town and the colonial Wright's Tsv
eru aud Kniereon's Houae, lu Winch live
two school ieachers now.
A placard in the front yard announces
that this is The Orchard, kept up by
tlie Louisa May Alcott Association. As
if any one wouldn't have known what
house it was! l is so exactly like the
photographs, to any nothing of-the book*.
The very elm tree remains, spreading its
branches all over -rte front yard.
A neat card on the door says that one
must go back to tbe next white house u»
And tbe custodian of tbe place. That is
because It is so late in tbe season, aud
from now on one will not be able to get
in even by going "fter the custodian, not
until next spring, when the tourists begin
to include old Concord in their itineraries.
"There .'ould he few tourists whose
teal would carry them down tbe Lexing-
ton road in the winter," aald tbe custo-
pa ">
An admission fee of ten cents Is charged,
but many a visitor takes no change from
a larger coin, feeling a pride in being a
participant in the maintenance of Tbe
Orchard. The house ia a little bare in
side, for tbe aasoclation is still hoping to
get back more of tbe Alcott furniture.
The families of tbe "Little Men" have
given some precious relics, but others
they are still hoarding. When the asso-
ciation has been long enough established
to assure a permanent' care of the bouse
perhtps tbe descenrisnts of "Little Men"
may give up more things that belonged
co "Aunt to."
Fortunately, there were a fees pood pict-
ures made of tie old library when the
Aicotta lived theie, ene with Mrs. Alcott
sitting in it and oos wUh Mr.' Alcott at
his desk, . ut none of the author wbo
brought moat fame to the houae. There
are, however, reminders of her and th»j
other girla in u long glass case.
Above all there are the leather
"given her by a friend who knew
who knew an actor." And
other atage properties and a
di 'I s trunk with some faded dgty^.
There is the Ink well that M fa» ,
uaed, too. and a number of t^
nected with her literary career. M
so faaciuatiug aa the actual play
which tbe Alcott girls made real,
pi«y H—.
May'a Paintings. *1
t>ver the mautel in this
linea written for the place UfMJ
Cha lining and painted by May. or r
aa she la better known. I
"The hit!* are raared, the valley i
In vain
If learning's altar vanish from l
There ia more of her work up
so very artistic as looked at
vastly more interesting becsa
her early work. She made gay
dow casings with her paintings i
where she willed in this pieaa
The girls were always wam^
changed, and it may be owing
tendency that a peculiarly hrigf
frieze was painted about Amy'a
and his never been changed iu
eratlon that has passed.
In one of the rooms upstairs !
thing that, next to tbe stage
will attract most attention—the
whieh Miss Icott sat for Ion#
shut off from the family and all the j
to Interweave charming fancies wi|
photographic descriptions of the
scenes with which she was eo faa
It Is a poor little desk, showing
signs of its long use, but visitors >{
stand before it as it it were a
shrine,
"It doesn't look iuapiring," aigb
girl, a little disappointedly.
"Why, it looks nothing else," erie
Concord woman. "It is the esse a
plain living and high thinking. Co
it with the writing studios of tie ]
writers of t*-day with their artifiq
niosphore."
Yea," agreed the vieitor, "th
artificial," aa she walked over
plank's in the floor, put down for ]
not for ornament, and looking
cramped "studios" of "th# glrh
hroug'h Total Abstinence from
of meat very much., v e .ead such names us Hesiod. i'lato, of each other. Those who have learned
^fter I had beguu tojZoroaster, j.risiotle, Oiid, Swedenborg,|to be just teethe lower animals will not
| meat I had it pre-
fer others, but
My friends must
It I feel thst it
[eat, and it must be
seem dissatisfied
et in this bouse,
find it difficult to
tutfs for meat
lioblic certain facta
jrJW* Cook Book.'
t dislike of settkut
of that and'fco
and simmering
| tedious detail and
for the aake of
»t I emphasised,
|a this mevcuient,
who is one be-
emns Che eating
|different place iu
tbe one wbo re-
simply to cure
'meat substi-
l^onardo da Vinci. Voltaire, Franklin,! fail in their duties to man.
Shelley, Hicbard Wagner, Tolstoy, Ber
uard Shaw, Maeterlinck and Genetal
Booth."
"What about cooks, Mrs Slisrpe; don't
you find it difficult to get their co-opera-
tion T
A shadow crossed her face.
"1 have had usy difficulties," she ad-
mitted, "and tbey hsve been so acute
| I do not think that the millennium is
some distant event for which we have to
wait; aa soon as a person begins to lead
what he believes to be -the ideal life be
has entered upon tbe millennium, bowever
far short of perfection Ue may fsH."
Mrs Sharps recently had made ia her
bouse more than twenty sets of fur substi
tutes of plush and mohair, aud tbsse wi
bloomed in a pqf exactly tbe I
flower. As tea wax pi
caught hy the • ly
i hum. Hindi for Mrs.
In this great
hall, lira. SL_,
idea of the Tree
decorations. It
rug and
mural
tree C
that I har# been forced to do my own;W>l<l to members of the guild.
cooking. Indeed. 1 never ask «ny one to
do a service for rue that I am not will-
ing to do for myself. Of bourse, 1 can't
do it alwaya. because tbara are too msny
more important things repairing my at-
tention.
"At present I have a Japanese cook.
The gentle, capable Oriental solves the
domestic problem beautifully. 1 am will-
ing to pay a few dollars a month more
wages to have my table sapplied as I
want it.
"( feel thst this is the fundamental re-
form necessary to raise human beings to
a higher plane, and I have tried man
hers. When 1
white, black, gray and taupe,
effective.
"They wear well, too,'
Sharps, showing a silk
she ksd carried for four yea
"Of course, tbey do not
some as the best real f
can afl
finitely
looking
not
for
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Williams, E. K. The Temple Daily Telegram (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 37, Ed. 1 Monday, December 30, 1912, newspaper, December 30, 1912; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth475431/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.