8 9 
DEC 7 1923 
IN WESTERN LETTERS. 
now at work on a 
very striking frieze, 
on a $3000 contract, 
for a private library 
in Pittsburg. 
•• * 
Charlotte Perkins 
Stetson was mar¬ 
ried at Detroit, 
June 11, to Geo. 
Houghton Gilman, 
her cousin, a lawyer 
and another Beech¬ 
er — which is al¬ 
most a religion by 
itself. Si non e vero 
e ben trovato that 
his own brother, 
once “ filling the 
pulpit ” for “ the 
great Congrega¬ 
tional preacher,” 
prefaced the ser¬ 
vices with the re¬ 
mark : “Those 
who have come to 
worship Henry 
Ward Beecher may 
now retire. We 
Copyright by C. F. Lummis, 1900. 
CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON-GILMAN. 
will proceed to the worship of God.” The marriage of two 
Beechers should satisfy all the demands of piety and love. 
That Mrs. Stetson is a philosopher has come to be admitted 
by the most unwilling minds. That she is human, no doubt 
need now persist. At any rate, the loose-reading and unrav¬ 
eled who have held her a Foe to Home because she is hostile 
only to inversions of home, should now be estopped. That Mrs. 
Gilman will not be a Submerged Half, goes safely unsaid ; 
that she may find in love and comradeship a surer foothold and 
inspiration for her broad work, here’s hoping. In any event, 
she has promptly and satisfactorily answered one query as to 
“ what she would do with her brains.” 
C. F. L. 
