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Show . Mrs. Harriet Beeclter Stowe. Mrs. Stow e has been . described as a brilliant, fluent conversationalist, and withal for that kindlinessof disposition in society which she transmitted to the world through her pen. Her smile has always been especially winning. Giving to tho world so much fiction, it is to be expected that she would be subject to fits of abstraction. On one occasion a party of young ladies was invited to meet her at luncheon. Mrs. Stowe appeared, ap-peared, but not the expected flow of entertaining en-tertaining words, the outpouring of the wealth stored within. Her principal remark re-mark was a request for some one to pass her the bread. The ladies were disappointed disap-pointed of course, and it was subsequently discovered that she was at the time in quite different company from that which really surrounded her. She was having a tete-a-tete with the characters of "Old Town Folks." |