The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-12-30
TIE GATECITY.
me spsaksr,s vvass.

Mn. mary Clsnmss Anss writes % ths
New York Independent iron Warrington.
Ia letter describing the occapants Of the
Diplomatic Gallery st tho opening Of the
House session, shs writes:
s,In the front seat ut the Vice President's
bride and sister. The bride wears gray
velvet haa and plume, win gray ssit, dainty
sloyes, asd blue throat ribbon. There 10
. pretty costume for you, Daisy y Tho
sonevhat numerous damsels who spread
their little transparent hymenial nets for
'Scuyler's' wary feet, lam sure, want TO
know how the woman looks Who q Ast So
cured 20 desirable . prize. Plain Nelly
Wade might have blushed unseen and vast
cd her sweetness on the Ohio air till her dy-
ing day, without any ssketchcrs' troubling
themselves to tell the color Of her eyes or
the expression Of her face. But Mrs. CoIfax
must pay the penalty OF place, and become
common prey to the dreadful Newspaper PEG.
pie, who are paid to satisfy the curiosity Of
all the 'Susies,' sSallies' and 'Lucies' in tho.
land. Fortunately for her feelings, she heees
no antagonisms in her presence to ps6soke
criticism. She Nirs no repnlsion With mere
tricious airs and the elated and condescend-
ing sell. consciousnes which % many people
bring from obscufity to : suddanly exalted
position. Ono sees st glance that she is .
womanly woman, fall Of tender affections
and gentle, household ways. She has low
able face--which il % much more ihAn one
merely pretty piquant little chin; mo-
bile mouth, full Of affection; IN unaggressive
nose brown, smiling eyes, . perceptive
forehead, snd .bonDy brown hair. Ahthese
you see while she speaks but in repose .
deeper expression, thoughtful and earnest, !
comes into brow and eyes from within. II Is
the face OF woman holding in her sonl the
latent capacity for life deeper and fuller
than she has hitherto lived whose heart and
brain are younger than her years, through
lack Of the perfect atmosphere in which they
are yet TO grow and ripen into higher full
fllment.
81 sm glad that al the match making
and Pop,njays have bean disap-
pointed. That instead of q jaded young
lady Of fashion, with powdered face, = per-
verted heart, and very bad digestion, Mr..
Colfax has brought straight from her farm
house homo sweet. true intelligent self |
justsd" wOman 70 FIJI the second social po- |
sttion in the gift Of the nation. While Dollie |
Popinjay was dancing round dances IN the |
small hours Of morning, wasting n dissipa-
ton the FIRST sweetness and purity Of youth. |
Ellen Wade, in IN obscure home, was fulfill
ng her daily round Of loving household cares
nursing By her own hearth the in6rm and
.gedi learning patience, self-forEetfuiness
ind devotion; gaining quiet wisdom, self.
control, she has only to be true 70 that early
lisciplines in the larger opportunity which
God has given her, to let her influence, like
! blessed benediction, widen out over Pill
he lana. How We need such women to
,uard the sanctities Of the household in high
,laces; to open wide the hospitable doom of
'appy homes to the people, that al who enter
ham may realize, more and more, that the
lomes Of the land are the strongholds Of the
atom For you, 1t least, believe, my Inde-
endeut, that it is not in larger Intellectual
fe, nor in the swift coming struggle for the
atural rights Of citizenaAip, that the fsirest
yps Of womanhood is fading put. But it is
eing lost every day in the inI1nity, idleness
nd sel6shness born of the unoccupied and
Unless lives Of thousands of women, to
HON home means only an establishment,
nd husband ~ unfortunate biped, born to
~ their milliner's bills