Show ALMOST FORGOTTEN Mrs Theodore Tilton and Bessie Turner Once in a while the question is heard What has become of Mrs Tilton The little woman who was a few years ago the most widely known American woman in the world lives with her aged mother Mrs Morse on Pacific street in Brooklyn in comfort and quiet Ever since the remarkable scandal trial she has lived in the same way At no time I has she inhabited a garret taken in sewing for a living or lived in any of the poor ways rumor frequently declared de-clared she did Mrs Morse her mother is the wife of the veteran Judge Morse one of the first presidents of the Union Ferry Company and now a retired honored hon-ored member of the same wealthy corporation cor-poration The home of Mrs Tilton with her mother is one of taste refinement and elegance Many of the pictures that were made infamous by t the oftrepeated yarns in the courtroom court-room of how Theodore in his nightshirt night-shirt used to go around the house re hanging them at all hours of the night are to be seen on the walls of her present brownstone home In the boys bedroom bed-room is a lifesized photo of their father said Theodoretaken when very young man with his arms folded his head drooped upon his breast his eyes closed and his poetical locks curling on his neok The attitude and the facial expression ex-pression say Look at me and do aught but admire me if you can Rare books and various art works embellish and beautify the home Mrs Tilton is still the same quiet pious little woman that she always was only a shade or two sadder and much older Sire has a rare faculty of trying to be always cheerful and believes fully in the efficacy of prayer and that what God wills He wills and His creatures must follow His law t6 be saved hereafter here-after Her hair is snow white her figure a little more robust and rounded although still childish in stature stat-ure and form Mrs Tilton has never stepped across that threshc d since the trial Certainly not Mr Beecher It would notbe well for either oneto make the attempt The two sons Carroll and Ralph are young men now both occupying oc-cupying good clerkships and live with their mother Carroll the elder is a Tilton in look and nature Ralph is a mothers boy a fine promising young character The two daughters are both married and both mothers Alice the younger lives in Chicago and Mrs Til ton visited her not long since That Mrs Tilton was forsaken by her friends as the newspapers would have it four or five years ago is not true either The fact is there is more intellectual intel-lectual company entertained in Mrs Tiltons home in the course of a year than that of a dozen families best familiesall told Nothing would be pleasanter to Mrs Tilton than to know that the outside world had forgotten her To a certain extent it has but still she has a large circle of friends AN INTERESTING GIRL Bessie Turner is married to a Mr Schoonmaker a scion of a very old Knickerbocker family Bessie was badly advised for a while by a journalist well known as Joe Howard Through his advice and friendship in which he pictured an immense fortune to the deluded girl if she would only go upon the stage she madea failure and a fool of herself Neither she nor Joe made a cent quite to the latters chagrin Since her marriage she has lived very quietly and is now a middleaged fairly goodlooking woman passed in the streets without recognition as a notable New York LetterS F Chronicle |