Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18

cross-eyed, but her manners are amiaDie,
nleasant and unassuming. She dresses
very Handsomely. sometimes on the street
ga pied~ in a rich black velvet walking suit
trimmed in elegant fur, and sometimes
otherwise.
Mrs. Colfax Is truly a charming woman,
slender and graceful, with an agreeable
flow of conversation. She resides near the
White House on Lafayette Square, in quite
a small and plain dwelling for Washington.
She receives with great ease and urbanity.
Mrs. Bowers. the sister-in-law of Secre-
tary Belknap, and who is supposed to do
the honors of his house, is the true type of
the Kentucky woman, handsome, cordial
and lively; she is immensely afraid SIZE will
lose her Southern manner and pTOnlHlciG-
ton, and seems to be quite proud that she
is a Kentuckian.
Mrs. Delano, wife of the Secretary of the
Interior, is very plain woman, from the
far West, who is not quite ''au fait" yet
would like to be considered so, and has
great deal of the gaucherie of a 'provin-
cial.n
Mrs. Blaine, wife of Speaker Blaine, is a
large, fine looking woman, stiff and formal,
a regular New Highlander in taste and man
ners. Some one asked Ben. Butler how he
liked the receptions at Speaker Blaine's; he
remarked that after he left he always felt
as if he had the "chill Blains." They live
in very good style.
Mrs. Ben. Butler, and her daughter, Mrs.
Senator Ames, receive, if with not all the
elegance and grace of French women, yet
with great ease and cOrdiality. Mrs. Butler
is a very large woman and exceedingly ugly,
and like her spouse has something
the matter with one of her eyes.
Mrs. Ames, her daughter, is very fine look
ing and by every one considered beautiful.
But her features are very irregular, and she
lacks grace and that nameless something
which the French call "Je ne SdiS quot"
They live in very good style, have a hand
some house, entertain handsomely, and dress
handsomely.
Mrs. Senator West is a native of New
Orleans, is small and slender, with the
physique of a Southern woman, and the
manners Of one also. She has handsome
new house, very elegantly furnished; speaks
fondly of her native city, but does not ever
wish to live there again on account of poll
tics.
Mrs. Admiral Porter is one of the leaders
of the ton. She is fine looking woman,
neither handsome nor ugly, and dresses
handsomely.
Mrs. Conkling is tall and slender and not
near such a Venus as her husband is
an Adonis. Conkling is really avery hand
s )me man, and is perfectly aware of it. He
has beautiful blonde curlS, large blue eyes,
a Grecian nose, and q fine person. His
hands are small and white. He is scrupu-
lousy neat in his dress.
But ''the glass of fashion, the mould of
form, the observed of all observers" was
the superb Madame Catacazy-the blonde
the graceful! the Parisienne Sitting, the
very pose of her charming head would at
tract admiration; but when she throws you
a glance full and penetrating from her large
and full grey eye, you are bewitched. She
rOuges highly, has a decidedly acqujline
nose, a graceful person, and during her
reign here, she drove all the men mad with
and the women mad with envy.
But she is gone; and her house that was
furnished with Partisan taste, elegance and
is occupied by another, and all
her furniture and Uertu sold at auction;
"And so fair,
She takes the breath of men away
Who gaze upon her unaware"
Odiu Allos DLOh ling VI oOLnS OLcJ anu Sut
would have said it of Madame Catacazy,
had she beheld her.
Conkling is the handSomest man in the
Senate; Carl Schurz, the most intellectual;
Nye, the commonest; Sumner, the most
pedantic, and there is not really very dis
tinguiShed looking one in the whole body.
Mrs. Aulick, now Mrs. Robson, IS really
a distinguished looking woman. There is
not much beauty in Washington, but there
is intellect, cordially, amiability and ease.
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