. The street railway review . oratein its entertainments in the Boston of 1850-00, and the anti-slav- was called after her return from Europe, who Introduced intoBoston a much freer and fuller social life, giving her Thursdayevening and Saturday afternoon receptions, serving tea and cakeonly—an innovation on the more formal customs that had pre-vailed in the city. The Otis house was the center of brilliant social life and toMme. Otis strangers of rank and distinction invarial)ly broughtletters. It is to Mme. Otis that is due the making Washingtonsl)irthday a legal holiday. For years on that da
. The street railway review . oratein its entertainments in the Boston of 1850-00, and the anti-slav- was called after her return from Europe, who Introduced intoBoston a much freer and fuller social life, giving her Thursdayevening and Saturday afternoon receptions, serving tea and cakeonly—an innovation on the more formal customs that had pre-vailed in the city. The Otis house was the center of brilliant social life and toMme. Otis strangers of rank and distinction invarial)ly broughtletters. It is to Mme. Otis that is due the making Washingtonsl)irthday a legal holiday. For years on that day she opened herhouse for a public reception. The spacious rooms were decoratedwith the national colors; filled with flowers sent bj friends, andall day long the throng of citizens, high and low, rich and poor,poured through its portals, each welcomed with that high-bredgrace which so distinguished her. With the exception of the great Livermore and of KateField, no woman of this country was ever, perhaps, so ardent a. LONGFELLOW S HOME—CAMBRIDGE. cry excitement flamed, and to a great degree dominated otherinterests. And then the Civil War came on, and there arose a remarkablewoman. A grande dame of society came to the front, Mrs. Harri-son Gray Otis, who took entire charge of the work of the sanitarycommission in Boston. Mrs. Otis the daughter of a wealtliyChina merchant—the species of mercantile activity in which thegreat fortunes of Boston were largely made—and she had re-ceived the most extended education and exquisite culture that thebest masters and opportunities for travel and society could still a young girl she made a brilliant marriage, the OtisIamily standing among the highest in the land. Her husband diedin their early married life, and she took her four yoimg sous toEurope for their better education in art and languages. She washerself an admirable linguist, speaking four or five languages,and she had been presented at half the courts
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