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A Recollection (Os Owen Wister) It is always a saddening ex perience, this seeing’ ones con temporaries gently fade out of the long familiar picture of one’s life. Owen Wister, aside from being very near my own age, was one of my favorite writers of that time-, and was doubly interesting in that he was '“a sort of cousin”, as she expressed it, of mv step mother, who was a granddaugh ter of the famous Sarah Siddons, and thus was also some relation of the famous Fanny Kemble, as well as being related to the cele brated Mary Scott Siddons, who was also a Siddons of that same line. . It must have been when on his visit to Germany in 1882, that Owen Wister called on Excellenz von Zglinitzki, nee Wilson, and daughter of the Sanserit Profes sor Horace Haman Wilson, of Qxford. He was ushered into the drawing room, and my hostess re ccived him, waving rather indefi nitely to any chair that seemed bandy. He was a tall, very ele f ant young man, faultlessly dress ed, one might say, a typical American artistocrat. He was rlightly self-conscious probably uncertain as to which language to address his hostess - in, and, while shaking hands with her, be gradually backed toward the fra gile . little • gilt chair that stood rear the hearth, and, before his hostess could more definitely wave him toward a more suitbale chair, he confidently seated himself on bhis-ornamental little affair, and crash! he promptly splashed right through it onto the hearthstone, and ..rested among gilt legs and other members that go- to make up a -purely ornamental, perfidi ous , gilt chair! My step-mother although English, as one is wont to say—had a keen sense of humor, as well as of the ridulous, but she was far too wellbred to give any expression of either, in the face, of his keen mortification. She tactfully reproached herself for having “such a silly little fool of a chair about.” And he gradually arose from the debris. and straightened himself out, and then they both laughed openheart-' edly at the mishap, and all was well. He showed himself the cavalier which his birth and his education and travel had made him, and my step-mother retained a most delightful memory of him. Many years later, in response to a letter of introduction,’ he called on me when I was in Philadel phia, en route to my home. He smiled roguishly after the first greeting and said, “I have a never-t O-be-forgotten recollection of my call, in Hannover, on MSad ame von Z. —my cousin, in some way;—and shall always recall her hearty English, laugh, when we both recovered from the first shock of my sudden downfall.” —Hilda Von Siller. Tryon, N. C. W. M, Mtbane has arrived ini Tryon to. spend his vacation with his family. Miss Katherine Holmes of Spar tanburg is spending part of her vacation in Tryon as the guest of Mrs. S. T. Wood. Robert H. Millikin, Jr., of Spartanburg is spending his vaca tion at home in Tryon. B. K. Couper of Charleston, S'. C., .is visiting his mother, Mrs; B. King Couper at the Rock House Art Gallery. Negro Methodists Meet Here The Charlotte district of the Colored Methodist churches will open their district conference on Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at St. Luke’s C. M. E. church. The conference will continue every day through Sunday with services morning and evening. Rev. C. R. White is pastor of St.. Luke’s church and Rev. C. R. Galphin is the presiding elder. MAID WANTED to do gener al house work and cook for family of two. Apply at Bulletin office. -—Advertisement 26. WANTED to rent three or four room apartment, unfurnished or -artlv furnished. Apply - at. the Bulletin, office, or phone Woodrow Hague, 128. —Advertisement 26, 27.
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