"THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 183, 28 April 1908, Page 3

"THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE."

A; ]adyp whoni'. ; .tlio 'raro date February ,29, gives', :Mdasioa-.,t<> ; reoaU (says the'i l "'West-. ;minsterVGr3zette")' : is shejwhose ..virtues -and graces are enshrined in: Coventry 'Patmoro's poem " The-'Angel in. the House.'.';' She. w<is 'born '.on;.' February 29, 1824, at Walworth; where:.her: a minister,-'and'where' she lived. .omtil his death in-1841. At;/the' ' ; age' :pf,l'twerity:fou'r. 'she', bccame' the', wife .of i Coventry 'Patmoro 'and the. heroine' of "-.■ the .he completed about the - time. 1 of her. death in •;18C2. ', She was- 'ofremarka,ble. beauty, and yet: ••. '■ .-to look,pnVher.'moved^'less"the' mind'. . T0..! say. ',How ■: beauteous!than How •; good and kind!."' With exceptional ihtellectual, gifts' she graced. ■ the gatherings': of stlie great .'ones in' literature and art—Tennyson, Ruskin. Garlyle, Browii'i^^Mniaiijp,'Woolner, Rossetti 'amoiigXthoin ■ that vwero: t :frequent. in .'their.- ;'«wn "little ' drawing-roojjiV ■whileKshe' was' 'also em-' , Jj&diment of all'the humbler domestic Virtues. £Stricken,;. with ,'the,:.disease that -had'..car-' ried, off 'her/ mother.* at'an''early, age, Mrs. Patmoro' made/ a will; in which ;she expressed a desire.{.that;,her.-husband 'should marry again :;;-v , l^ve;. my ;wedding-ring to;.your 'second, wife . with,. my love and ..blessing .■■. v (she wrote)also ;I'leavc'.you my grateful acknowledgment of, your -goodness and. lovo to me, my .last; prayer Ithat.'God may 'bless 'anjcL 'con-' solo first,:-last, and 'only love. If -in a year.'or two, you are. able, t'o marry again, do so, happily,: feeling; that; if my Spirit can 1 watch, you it . will ,lovo her who makes you happy;" , ■ She died; at- Elm-'Cottage,: Hampstead, July. 5, 1862, and a-she .' was buried at .Hendon.• - The house 1 in vhicli' she Patmo're. tfied.'to purchase 'some'years' afterwards,, -but .was unable ■to do' so, and to-day ' another, bearing tho ; namo '' Elmwood, "'.stands in its place. ; • .-•« :■ ■■