The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-10
Men and Women,

Mrs. Key. the wife o. the Postmaster Cen
eral, is very youthful looking and very graceful
In her movements. She ia highly accomplished
and refined. She dresses handsomely. At the
dinner given by the President to tn Grand
Duke Alexis, she appeared in a combination
dress of myrtle green and c;el blue-said to be
one of Worth's creations.
Parson Brownlow's face was lean and high
| checked, with sunken but broad jaws, and a
month brought up by ever-alert will to look COM
bat when it was naturally kind. He had a
square, large head and broad forehead; eyes Of
grey, warm color, and splendid, straight,
not over-lengthened nose that ruled his face
like sceptre. He was good to those who
loved him, playfully, grimly fierce to those who
hated him.
Toronto girls are very pretty. There are two
distinct types-the petite in figure, with Amer
ican feet and compilations, and the tall, stal.
wart, fresh-lookiDg girls, that remind me of
the Kentucky women. Some of them have
the most beautiful red hair-Titianesque Is,
believe, the polite thing to call it-and it is
really very soft, glossy and luxuriant The To-
ronto girls dress more like Americans than any
other Canadian women, and though once in
while hear a jbe or two at our expense, they
uncousciously, in speaking of something in
dress matters or energy, often say American
styles and American goaheaditiveness.-1o-
Tonto Cores.
Mr.. franklin Simmons statue of Gov. King
of Maine is nearly completed. This figure up
on which he is at work is the second of the
same subject, the first having,been nearly fin
ished in marble and accepted by the state. when
he conceived the idea of an improvement in
the action of the figure The work was imme-
diately stopped, and the sculptor commenced
the entire design anew, thus deliberately
| throwing away the labor of many months, and
thousands of dollars in material, in the earnest
desire to reach more perfect result. Person
ally Mr. Simmons is a silent and preoccupied
man, often neglecting to answer ordinary ques.
tions.
The graves of the Bonapartes are strangely
distributed. The first Emperor's father was
buried at st. Leu, near Paris and his mother at
Rome At St. Leu also were inferred Louis,
who died in 1876, and Napoleon Charles, his
son, oh, 1881. At Viter5o lie the ashes of Lu-
Glen, who departed this life in 1902 and at
Florence those of Joseph (1S44), Pauline QS25
Caroline QS39), Ch harlotte (1S39), jerome Napo-
leon, son of Jerome QS46), Catherine of Wur-
temburg-Jeromes second wife-and Julie,
wife of Joseph. The "King of Rome found
tomb at Vienna as did Charles Jerome and
Cardinal Fesch One of the Bonapartes,
Achille Murat. left his bones in Florida; and
Murat himself had his grave dug by gan of
Caabrian assassns, Josephine reposes be-
meath the pavement of the little church of Ruel
at Mamason, where her happiest and unhap-
piest days were passed; Marie Louise at Par
ma, and Christine, first wife of Louis, at Du-
Plesss. The late Emperor sleeps at Chi.el.
hurst Of the Beauharnas pedigree it is noted
that Francois Alexander, the celebrated
'Count," and Fanny, his wife, were entombed
at Paris; Eugene, his son, at Munich; Hor-
tense with her mother at Malmaison; the Duke
OF Leuchtenberg at St. Petersburg and Angus
tus, son of Eugene, at Lisbon. So the record
runs on, carrying US at times even as far as
America, with Zenaides Alexandrines, Jo-
sephines. Joachims, and Elizas.
History is full of the accounts of the fasci-
nation of women who are no l0Bger young.
| Thus Helen of Troy was 40 when she perpe-
trated the most famous elopement or record:
and as the siege Of Troy lasted q decade, she
could not have been very juvenile when the i'll
fortune of Paris restored her to her husband
who received her with unquestioning love and
gratitude. Perioles welded the courtesan AS
pasta when she was Sc, and yet she afterwatd,
for 30 years or more, welded an undiminished
reputation for beauty, Cleopatra was past 80
when Antony fell under her spell, which never
lessened till her death, nearly ten years after.
And Livia was 80 When she won the heart Of
Augustus, over whom she maintained her as
tendency to the last. Turning to more modern
history, the extraordinary Diana de POctisrs was