The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-03
MRS. WILLIAMS.


HER-HER WONDERFUL LIFE.
A Washington letter to the Cincinnati Ca
zette says, writing of Mrs. Williams: She is
a woman above the medium hight, with a
small, well shaped head, crowned with wavy
black hair; straight, rather thin nose;
large, melting. dark eyes, arched over with
delicate eyebrows; rather too much color for
the proverbial spirituelle of American wo-
men; long, white, full throat, and neck,
bust and arms bordering on the superb, with
slight touch of Cleopatra voluptiousn ess.
She carries herself easily, gracefully, proud
Iy. Thus she appears at the age trembling
Somewhere between the late thirties OIL early
forties. Her manners are unexceptionably
cordial and her dressing rich. She must
have been very striking girl, of the pro-
nounce type, with startling boldness of beau
ty given by the contrast between black hair
and dark fringed eyes, with clear, fair skin
and heightened color. But age and associa-
ton have toned the contrasts down to mel
lower tints, and her wonderfully quick in
buttons have adapted her to the various con-
spicuous positions which she has easily and
naturally filled.
Her early history is as full of romance as
one of Dumas novels, and 1 dare Rhoda
Broughton to produce story to eclipse it..
At sixteen she married against her parents
wishes a man whose subsequent treatment
of her vindicated the family's disapproval
aud her application for divorce, These
were the days when her headstrong, inn
petuous nature was strong within her and
her own will her only law. Following its
dictates, she drfted westward, perchance for
adventure, peradventure- in hopes of a for
tune. There, girl-woman as she was, with
the waves of self still surgilg unsubdued,
after teaching music for awhile, she con-
1 .nal-
| to an unhappy matrimonial yoke. Her
second husband, Mr.. George, was a driver
on one of the lines of stages crossing
the plains, and proved to be a goodior-
| nothing fellow, who frequently abused her,
and had nothing to recommend him but a
sort of devil may-care. handsome face. A
| pretty picture his wife often afforded the
| tourist, as, standing before their log cabin,
| she stood with her white arms, bright face
| and simple dress, hanging out the family
linen. Her husbands treatment became at
last so uncomfortable that friends procured
for her the services of Judge Williams, then
a auiet Western lawyer who Embossed her
medium of divorce. Mrs. George still
westward pushed her way TO California, and
taught school in San Francisco, where many
years afterward Judge Williams met
and married the woman, the mem
ory of whose peculiar beauty had never
left him. When she heard her hus-
band, Mr.. George, was sick, she Travelled
miles to watch over him in his last hours
and was with him when he died. The
woman has marvellous ability, and spirit
and nerve, and ambition enough for Agrip.
pima herself, and, Wt.hal, the tact and exec
utive ability to raise herself along with the
advancing fortunes of her husband. 1t may
be that her ambition has o'erreached itself
and that it would have been better for bel
had she rested content with her husband a:
attorney general, Tor in that position the
cobra society inflated not its venomoui
head, and such whispers as had been float
ing about had been allowed to vanish il
J thin air. Now she lies stranded on TIT
sands of her own high readings, stung t.
death by the asp of social tongues. 1 for on
am sorry that from so brave spirit tn
goblet of luscious realization has been s.
. Il Il.