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Mrs. Lincoln Daguerreotyped

Mrs. Lincoln Daguerreotyped image
Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
March
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

I he persoual appearance of tho future lady of the White Houss is thus given by a reporter : " Mrs. Lincoln is about forty years of age with hair of a dark brown color. - Her head s largo and well developed, presenting the organs of firmness and language in a h.ghly developed ;md well-matured coudition Her forehead is broad, her eye clear and intelligent, and rather bluo than gray ; her nose is - well, not to put too fine a point on it - not Grecian; her mouth is large, well sbaped and capable of great expression, whilo her chin rounds gracefully, balances properly, aud goes iu a quiet way toward the indorsing oí our opinión that sho is a decided - not ebstinate - wonian. Her form inclines to stoutness, but is well fashioned and coraely, while her hands and foet are really beautiful, indieating, as does the well shaped ear, that she has come from a race of people who were well born. Her carriage is good, her manners are pleasant, her gretitiuga are aüable, and without doubt her iutentions are correct. That Mrs. Lincoln goes to tho White Housa verscd iu thegoodly knowiedge of housewifery and substantial living rather than skilied in the cunuiug tricks of politics and llased with the exeitenients of Washington life, is a feature of congratularon rather than for deprecation. She started j with Mr. Lincoln when he was a poor ! young man, with no more idea of being ! called to the Presideucy than of being a j cauuibal, she has pursued a quiet homo life, rearing and educating a happy family, cheering the man of her choice as he passed through the stormy scènes of life, and ooutent if in all things she made, what but few women do make, a good wife and a competent mother. She has suddenly been called to fill an unaccus tomed Ifeition. To it she goes, taking with her, her sound substratum of moa sense her natural tact, that great aider of us all, the esteem of all who knew hor at her old home, aud the beat wishes of every docent woinan in the land."

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Old News
Michigan Argus