The evening world. Newspaper, June 19, 1916, Page 11

Twins Born 86 Years Ago, One Widow, One Spinster, MRS ELIZABETH HAVWXHURST Mrs. Banke Is Glad She Married, but Her Sister, Give Views of Wedded Life MRE MARIA HAWXKHORSTEGAN: Miss Hawxhurst, Says She “Never Had a Chance” to Try Matrimony. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Two very old ladies stood close together on a sunlit patch In front ra,'8 Mineola to meet him, I'll G of a vine wreathed cottage in Sea They were having their pictures taken, and as they were only eighty-six| Elizabeth never took that drive to years old it was inevitable that they should be in a] ™!neola. feminine flutter about it. The street had a thousand eyes, all focused on|™ the oldest twins in the fore. undaunted, their ate RSM Miss Elizabeth Hawxhurst stood # Wettle in advance of ‘hor married sis- ter, Mrs. Maria Banks, whose hus- band died six months ago, after sixty years of married life, which his widow told me were an unbroken idyl of happiness. Maybe memory gilds the Pioture and maybe not, for David Banks was a steamboat captain, and Robert Louls Stevenson declared tong ago that a sea captain makes the best husband, It was natural for Miss Elizabeth— Aunt Libby her nieces call her—to stand in front of her smaller, softer, more plastic sister. “I came into the world fifteen min- utes before her,” Aunt Libby told me, “If we had been born in En; dy Ladlitng Be Pain Darken You cannot be young and attractive looking. it our hair is gray, faded. duil and and lifeiess, n't wait until re entircly gray — keep your bair dark, glossy apd lustrous with economical ing costs 424 Broadway to Irving Place S124 West 42 Str ay Hair 126 Delancey Street Cliff, L. 1, late yesterday afternoon. Clad in their best black silk Mghtened by their | p real white lace jabots, they stood erect, unpropped,| , their hearing more} , alert, all their senses keener than on their first June] younger than I, and I morning they spent together elghty-six years ago. shad een vinedldatetadied eyes brighter, her and inherited all the property.” the moment, was hair that might, she thought, “hurt the picture.” |had said to myself: ers, olphty-six years old; | were school teachers; dropped from her. whether Maria, handed, chose the better part.” Miss FE | garden when I came upon her. Whittier,” bad given her as a birthday present. ;Hawxhurst. 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I drove the buggy to Min ola to meet him.” “But,” interrupted Miss Elizabeth beaming benevolently on her little roly-poly sister, “she was too shy to et out of the buggy to greet him or even to call to him that ahe was there, So he passed right by without aecing her and took the stage. He beat her home, and when I went to open t }door for hor he was already here 5: ting in the parlor. “"Where's your intended, Maria? T° asked her as pened the door, ‘He didn't come, said, an I thought she was going to cry. And then th THE EVENING WORLD, that they are birthright members of the old school teacher who had moth- | ut interest, without bitter- Quaker poet, well, and they were Bho iment Rave told ime the friends of William Cullen Bryant and { ednyc y sister ts poor,” she continued. | his estate at Roslyn, Miss Elizabeth (She lives with her two daughters. once saw Lincoln, house, And the Home lets me come! here for the summer months. * me. “He appeared but did not speak, y the window while Aunt Libby talked, ‘Andy’ Johnson mide a speech in- Woke puddenly to a question of but later he disappointed me. I could y, daughter keeps house,” she not follow him, And L remember one but f do dhe brenktast dishie! bugsy pack from Mineola with the (Ragconine and I make all ey own) mail, He had a newspaper in his ” who had won the race for life by a “Abraham Lincoln is shot,” he said, i ' And I didn’t belleve him. I flared up 1 make lace for the Home, |‘Give me the paper!’ And he gave it pe ee |to me. ‘There's nobody in the world coln.” holp,” added elghty-six-year-old Miss! She paused. Hor bright blue eyes piisabain’ Tego. to lectures, too evident they saw again the simplest, prouibition r ehe questioned earnest. | | wigest, tenderest American, ly. “E hot T hope you will prohibition ticket, I sf fluence tleman in church the other day. | ha sald, ‘Are you going to vote for the sect. They know Whittier, the ¢red two families, She said it oim- tthe day of the week, {lived for many years in a cottage on \ One teaches and the other keeps “It was at the Capitol,” she told Mra, Banks, si quietly stead, I was enraptured with bim, housekeeping. A pper dishes and L help with | |day when our colored man drove the (no frente end! Tmaie all any hand, “T can sew, too.” said the twin Jat him, ‘It's no such @ thing,’ T said, | pe ia ee, I don't want | mean enough to kill Abraham Lin- tj°be any more depen 4 looked back—far back. It was quite temperance lectures, Are. you tor ” pe you “I drove to Mineola once,” Mrs. get the men you knor you for prohibitions” asked a ge |the Prohibition candidate for Preal- |dent? I asked, ‘No, I think Pll have to vote the Democratic ticket,’ hi answered. And T answered, ‘If you don't vote for salvation you are not for it. A vote for rum ts a vote for damnation!’ I and.” “Elizabeth, Elizabeth,” reproved the | high plaintive voice of Mrs. Banks. “Thee ts too severe.” "T don't care,” replied the eighty- six-year-old crusader with a tom- boy toms of her old gray head, “I'll| say what I mean.” | Miss Elisabeth, I thought. you. have always said what you) meant. i And so you never took that drive to Mineola for your intended. | “And so no flowera of your own flesh | 'grow about your tottering feet and, guide them. | But you mothered two familles not | your own. | You warmed two alien nests with | your love and carried food to the, little ones of other women, You were a mother in the mont splendid, the most universal sense, And now you are left alone to knit lece for pillow cases in the Home for the Aged and to bewail the fact that a eighty-six you must be, in some degree, dependent. Whoen I think about your fate and the fate of other noble women I a: quite ready to worship the Chine: for worshipping their ancestora. came out of the pi tn his arins and I eal im! But tall, rugged, smiling, Miss “Are you sorry you neyer married?” | T asked her, and then turning to} Banks, “Are you glad you did?” fy question quite frankly bewll- Banks. You see, I had for- 1865 they did sun- | | religion, wars or epidemics, and simply as the will of God. glad,” snid the very old lady. y husband was a good man—al- He was a year n't see why he had to be taken. Her voice dwindled to a little painful whimper of grief. “And you?" I said to Miss Buza- beth, facing me with her quiet, ecour- ageous smile. 1 never got a chance to find accepted matrimony light CHARITY. ilies of children and Maria bi brought up one, You see, we went to Virginia because my brotner lived there. We were both teachers. My t| Sister met her intended, Mr. Banks, there, and marred him the ne: mer. I kept on teaching and tl brother's wife died, leaving girl Just a few weeks old. I had to \give up teaching and take care of bh family. There were seven chil- dren “After a while my brother married again and I was not needed any more, but I kept the baby, Lizzie Ella, and brought her up. I took care of her alwa And then she married and had four children of her own and died when they were very little, and |I did my best to take care of them. {They are all married now and quite happily situated, At times thetr cir- es were not all that I could | But they are all right | now, married and with homes of their, at trouble of ar aged. You aro; | mot needed any more. protested, “Oh, but you are,” I | plundering. “You spend the summers here. What a lovely place It 1s and how much your sister must enjoy having you! 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