The Portland daily press., 1877-04-06
Men and Women.

AAOh anu VVOAuCus
Pers Hyacinthes boy is beautiful. A gush-
ing correspondent says he has the clustering
curls, the great eyes, the sweet mouth, and the
rapt seriousness of the cherub in the Madonna
del San Sisto.
Sarah Bernhardt, the Partisan actress. is of
medium height, not handsome, but having an
interesting, expressive face, long and thin, with
high cheek bones, aquiline nose, small mouth,
fine deep blue eyes, dark hair and pale trans
parent complexion.
A lady who saw Buffalo Bill at Cincinnati
writes: without exaggeration he has the
finest face have ever seen-features as fault
less as those of Greek model, and eyes whose
expression is marvelously excellent. He was
not cut out for border hero, but for higher
place In society and civilization"
England is to have notable double wedding
June 1, when Elizabeth Thompson, painter of
The Roll Call, and Balaklava is to marry Major
Butler, the traveller and author of The Great
lone Land, and her sister Alice, author of
volume Of poems called Preludes, is to be
united to Wilfred Mennell.
Mrs. George Alfred Townsend is either too
sensible to read her husbands letters, or else
he ID . very brave man. This is from his last
Polygamy is the domestic practice of majority
OF the human race; in man it is an instinct.
whilst monogamy is an institution. Polygamy
is the natural mans condition; monogamy is
an art and unity.
A Paris critic speaks with considerable en-
thusiasm of daughter of Charles Fechter, the
actor who lately made her debut at the OPERA
Ccmique. He finds her pretty and apparently
expressly designed for the role Of Mignon, in
which she appeared. She is small and graceful
In figure, and natural in action. Her method
g good, and she conceals with skill the weak
ness OF her voice, which, though weak in the
lower notes, is remarkably pure in the upper.
This is the portrait Lucy Hooper draws of
the Empress Eugene: "She has grown i'm.
mensely stout. dresses in ugly English-made
black gowns, paints her face pink and white,
blacks under her eyes, and wears very palpa-
BILE wig of light yellow hair. 1t is sad to have
the image of grace and sweetness and delicate
beauty once called up by the mere name Of Eu-
genie-name replaced by such a vision-a
painted and bewigged old coquette, sort of
royal Mrs. Skewton.''
The Presidents gallantry led him to say to
the st. Louis lawyeress when she spoke of
being at his Inauguration, "My dear Miss
Cozzens, in that case should have kissed
something besides the book" Next morning
Mrs. Hayes was surprised, on looking from the
window, to see q tramps crawl out of the
straw back of the executive barn and shake
themselves. Then they came to the door and
asked what she was going to do about it. They
were divorce lawyers.
The many-initialed Mrs. Southworth, the
writer OF profuse tales is described as a quiet
retiring little person, with slight, youthful
figure. intensely black hair and dark ewes that
look from behind their half closed lids with
peering expression, as if searching among the
living for the ghosts that are said to be her
boon companions. Across her forehead are
deeply craven lines, and she is silent to
marked degree, except at her own house.
where she is described as genial and pleasant,
Hon. Richard G. Mccormick, the new assist.
ant secretary of the treasury, has had an active
career. He was born in New York city in
1882, and early in life was broker in Wall
street. During the Crimean war he visited
Europe and wrote a series of interesting letters
to city journals, which were afterward issued in
book form both here and in London. In the
carly part of the civil war he acted as cores
pondent, and in 1862 be became chief clerk in
the Department of Agriculture. Mr.. McCor
mick was secretary of the Territory of Arizona
from March, 1868, to April, 1866, when he be-
came governor. he was delegate in Congress
from 1868 to 1874, and later was prominen
member of the Centennial Commission. He
was delegate to the Cincinnati Convention
last year and a Jealous supporter of Mr. Blaine.
During the late campaign Mr.. Mccormick was
secretary of the National Republican Commit.
toe and took prominent part in the canvass.
This is the way G. P, Cranch in the New
York Tribune describes the Rev. Joseph Cook.
He is blonde, stoutish gentleman of average
height, with large forehead, and beard worn
only under his chin, which be shakes ipces.
sanity when excited. He is fluent and scholar.
ly. His voice is strong but not sympathetic.
with now and then an unpleasant gutteral rasp
when he wants to emphasize something-like
that OF ranting actor. His gestures are fire.
quent but ungraceful, and often unnecessarily
violent A singularly discordant effect is
sometimes produced, when uttering some SEN
tence which he wishes to makes particularly
forcible-a sentence which one would wish tn
hear spoken almost in reverent and subdued
whisper Mr. Cook slaps one of his hands vic.
lently into the other. accompanied by stamp of
the foot. His tone at such times is almost thai
OF an angry, certainly of very disputa-
tive man. One gets the impression of chron-
ic state of rather excited and aggressive mental
action. 1t one only saw him and heard his in
donations, without catching his words he
might think him type of Southwestern
member Of Congress in the palmy days before
the war-and BY no means graduate of Har-
ward.
Magazine Notices.
The International Revieao almost in its begin
ming gained position in the forefront of peri