THE LATE MRS C. PHARAZYN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1432, 17 July 1883, Page 2

THE LATE MRS C. PHARAZYN.

•' Writing of the death of Mrs 0, Pharazyn at Florence, "Silverpen 1 ' (the lady correspondent of the Auckland Herald at San Franoiuco) writes aa follows" One brief year ago she came hero with her husband and family, en route for Europe; and in her brief sojourn we renewed the unbroken, friendship that had subsisted between us for twelve years. Our! was one of those rare friendships which sometimes exists between women, "What she loved'me for I cannot tell, but I loved her for the marvellous beauty of her character, her refinement, her purity, and her domestic graces. In her beautiful home at Lorigwood, in the Wairarapa, she'shone like a star, and graced itß hospitalities like a queen. Generous to a fault, she made everyone happy around her, Indeed, it was beautiful to see her in her home circle, where never an angry word was spoken, where peace roigned like a whito winged dove, and where a courteous welcome was ever extended to all who approaohed that home of lnve, Idolised by her husband and children, she went about her household ways with an ever smiling and contented faoe, diffusing happiness within and without. ■ Mi'fl Pharazyn was a woman possessing an extraordinary mind. In the midst of all her household duties, she cultivated art with untiring assiduity, nnd was never content with resting in the hollows of : life, but rather olimbed the'hills, with ' Excelsior' for her motto. What a home hers was!—the artistic rooms, beautified by her hand, the long verdant carpet around tho huuse overspread ky a mosaio pattern in rarest flowers, the design of her hand; tho arches, arbours, parterres, all so deftly faahioned keneath ber gddanoe, that it seemed like a fairy scene; and overall the spell of purity and peaoe. When auch a woman is taken, we bow our heads, yet marvel why. Why she should ho chnsen and so many left who wore not worthy to tie her shoe-strings, ' God's will be done,' is all we can say,"