. Life and work of Henry Ward Beecher : an authentic, impartial, and complete history of his public career and private life from the cradle to the grave : replete with anecdotes, incidents, personal reminiscences and character sketches, descriptive of the man and his times. ear an Overcoat.—A, B, C School.—School-girls cut His Curls.—The District School.—Not a Bright Pupil.—Difficulty in Memorizing.—No ElocutionaryAbility.—Sent to School from Home.—Rev. Mr. Langdons School.—A Student of Nature.—Boys Debate on the Bible.—Miss CatherinesYoung Ladies School.—His Brief Career There.—His PracticalJ
. Life and work of Henry Ward Beecher : an authentic, impartial, and complete history of his public career and private life from the cradle to the grave : replete with anecdotes, incidents, personal reminiscences and character sketches, descriptive of the man and his times. ear an Overcoat.—A, B, C School.—School-girls cut His Curls.—The District School.—Not a Bright Pupil.—Difficulty in Memorizing.—No ElocutionaryAbility.—Sent to School from Home.—Rev. Mr. Langdons School.—A Student of Nature.—Boys Debate on the Bible.—Miss CatherinesYoung Ladies School.—His Brief Career There.—His PracticalJokes.—The Umbrella Story.—The Grammar Contests.—AmusingAnecdotes.—Back Home. In such a numerous family as that in which Henry Wardarrived, a baby is not the novelty and attraction that thefirst-born always is, and so throughout most of his lifehe had to take care of himself. As Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe says in a sketch ofher brother Henry Ward, in her volume Self-MadeMen, The first child of a family is generally an ob-ject of high hopes and anxious and careful are observed, watched, and if the parents are sodisposed, carefully educated, and often over-watched andover-educated. But in large families, as time rolls on. HIS BIRTH AND BOYHOOD. 4I and children multiply, especially to those in straitenedworldly circumstances, all the interest of novelty diesout before the advent of younger children, and they areapt to find their way in early life unwatched and un-heralded. Dr. Beechers low salary, and sometimes slowpayment, made the problem of feeding, clothing, andeducating a family of ten children a hard one. Thefamily was constantly enlarged by boarders —young ladiesattending the female academy, and whose board helpedsomewhat to the support of the domestic establishment,but added greatly to the cares of the head-manager. Theyounger members of the Beecher family therefore cameinto existence in a great battling household of older
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