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Dixie's Fair Daughters

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Day
29
Month
January
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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Lovely vromen abound in the south as thick as the daisies that blossom ia its own Bunny meadows. One sees the fact foreibly deinonstrated at the large wateriD,? places, where so many fair faces are gathered together, and wonders if there has been an act of the legislature to suppress the ill favored! At the White Sulplmr springs, where beautif ui women were as the sands of the sea during the past season, Mrs. Henry Seigrist reigned uneclipsed. Homage and admiration are as the breath of her dainty nostrils - she is so inured to them. lier wealth and attractions have made her the boast of the two states that claim her - N orth Carolina (where she was bom Lawrence) and Missouri - her present home being St. Louis. A ladj in tlie highest official circles of Washington society, looking ai the photograph of Mrs. Seigrist, here reproduced, exclaimed, "I'd rather have that face than the intellect of Mme. De Stael!" The daziling blimdr.ess of her hair and complexion is strikingly contrasted by luminous dark cyes and brows. She counts her diamond and toilets by the score and entertaius m;wiificently. Another giríish matron at the "White," with a belledom uudistanced by any, was Mrs. Richard Willis, of Galveston. She is a study in pink and white and gold- a dainty bit of Dresden china loveliness - blue eyed, 18, and infinitely charming. She was Mignon Casseday, of Louisville, the first Uttle girl that ever carne into the tvorld at the Galt house. She has spent the three years of her wedded lifo in a ceaseless whirl of gayety, flitting from point to point and sipping the sweets of all fashionable resorts, entertaining lavishly. She, too, has "fed on the roses and lain in the lilies of liie," and her cheeks seem to have caught from the contact the tintinas of each. In physical contrast to these fair haired and rat her petite beauties is Miss Belle Greene, of New York, a native of Georgia, who held undisputedsway amidst the same scènes. Miss Greene is superb. Her physique is beyond criticism. Her bearing is regaL She is tall, with the proportions and gait of a Diana. Her fiesh is like ivory, polished and pure, making the starry dark eyes under ber level black brows more brilliant by contrast. Her black hair is wcirn picturesquely tossed back frora her face. She dances, dresses and rides horseback as thoup;h inspired. The idol of ber heart is her own tent nag, own brother to Miss Gertrude Rivcs' fine thoroughbred, on which she penda half her time. She was to have been prcsented at court last season by titled friends, but illness prevented. Pretty Marie Nevins Blaine andllrs. Kendal, tho noted society actress, are among Miss Greene's stanchest admirers. Her father ís a very prominent railroad man. Mrs. Iveson, of Atlanta, a stately and bandsome young widow, possessed of more than her share of the traditional fascinations oí her kind, belled it right royally at White Sulphur, Rockbridge, Alum Springs and elsewhere, The beauty par excellence of the Rockbridge Springs was Mrs. Samuel Regester, of Richmond, Va., formerly Ada Edmonston Higgins, of Baltimore. The Greek chiseling of her fair features Is relieved of any touch of severity by the riante sweetness of her smile. She is tall, with a finely molded figure, which she Eheaths in the most effective costumes. Aa irresistible a bit of femininity as Dixia had ever cause to boast is Mrs. John O. Woods, of New Orleans. She was Irene Pasteur, comes of a grand oíd creóle stock, and is just the piquant, captivating creature that might be expected to emanate from the proudest Franco-American elements. Besides being distractingly pretty, fair Ekinned, blue eyed, straight featured, with a hule head "suuning over" with the Mest bronze ripples, Mrs. Woods is a woman oL brilliant intellect. She is the center of a most charming social and literary circle in her quaint, oíd town, entertains in her own pretty home artistically, deliciously, assisted by her courtly young husband, and is universally voted a thoroughly fascinating little woman. Mrs. Woods bore off the palm of beauty at Alleghany Springs uring the summer, where so many pretty women flocked. Among the most celebrated belles of the south is Mrs. Frank Patrick, of Richmond, Va. - a rival in beauty of the famous Mrs. Willie Allen - who created a furor, as is her wont, at Old Point Comfort last summer, and wherever she went. The picture here given is a photograph taken in Florence some months ago. Her coloring is like the heart of a seashell. Her eyes are a sweet gray, and her hair just the soft nut brown that Icnds such poetry to a face like hers. She has the eweet voice of the daughteir of the south, a darling coquetry of marnier, a graceful poise of figure, and numberless other graces that make her well deserving the laurels she hos won. Miss Kathryn Pumphrey, of Knoxville, Is magnetic, "chic," bewildering and a pronounced social success. An heiress and an only child, she breathes an atmosphere of constant luxury and pleasure, yet never loses the freshness, vigor and individuality of manner that is half her charm. At Old Point Comfort early in the season she was an acknowledged belle, nor did her triumphs wane during her subsequent career at White Sulphur. She gowns herself picturescjuely and always with an eye to the artistic, and is a striking figure in any assemblage, with her pretty hair in a russet halo about her spirituelle face. When to tliis study in feminine flesh tints the glowing coloring is added of Miss May Handy no element of beauty is lacking. Miss llaiuly is one of the most marvelous beautiïs Virginia ever produced - her pre-eminence is supreme. She enters a room and its ocenpants grow breathless with admirution. She lias been the toast and beauty during her short career of Narragansett Pier, Long Branch, White Sulphur and many other places, and is the pride and delight of her home city, Richmond. In closing it may be said that the Unes written by Charles Swain apply to the southern girl of beauty, grace and culture. The poet sings: A violet in her lovely hair, A rose :pon her bosom fair! But O, her eyes A loveller violet disclose, And her ripo lips the aweetest rose Thafs 'ueath the aktes. A lute beneath her graceful hand Breathes music forth at her coramand; But still her tongue Far richer music calis to birth Than all the niinstrel power on eartb Can give to song. And thus she moves n tender light, The purost ray, where all is bright. Serene and sweet; And diada a grateful influei-.cc round, That hnllows e'ea the very ground Beneath her feetl

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