We find Dr. Winthrop
now past the meridian of life surrounded by an interesting family of
sons and daughters, whom he is endeavoring to train for spheres of
usefulness in this life, as well as for happiness in the "life to come."
His graceful and dignified wife still gladdens his heart and home. Time
has dealt very gently with her; she is quite as good and almost as
beautiful as when we last saw her twenty years ago. The two eldest of
their family are boys, and this is their last year in College. Mrs.
Winthrop has thus far attended herself to the education of her two
daughters. Along with many other useful lessons, she often seeks to
impress upon their minds the sin and folly of treating with contempt and
scorn those who may be less favored than themselves in a worldly point
of view; and to impress the lesson more strongly upon their young minds,
she has more than once spoken to them of her own early history, and of
the trials to which she was subject in her youthful days. But what of
Mrs. Ashton? She still lives; although her once active form is beginning
to bow beneath the weight of years, and her hair has grown silvery
white. This year Dr. Winthrop has completed his preparations for leaving
the city after more than twenty years close application to his
profession.
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