Show BEECHER arf HIS YOUTH great man compelled to own to corn mon failing I 1 remember a delightful little supper which took place at the fields residence while the war was still in progress the guests of the occasion were mrs stowe with one of her daughters henry ward beecker and myself mr beecher had occupied part of the evening with a stirring lee ture on some topic relative 0 o the crisis of the moment there bad been talk of a new federation ot slates from which new england should be excluded the lecturer had said I 1 take it that there will be patching and darning on our national map when isea england Is left out in the cold he had also humorous ly commented upon the grandiose style of yankee lying in comparison with that of our english relatives at the supper which followed mrs blowe said to her brother henry when you were a boy you used to lie in that lordly yankee fashion of which apu spoke in your lecture just now to this accusation mr beecher laugh angly pleaded guilty amusing some anecdotes of his youthful mis chief julia ward howe in the bead er magazine |