Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-24
An Interesting Story.

AN interesting story IN cOnneCC1O1
with the new silver dollar has just come
to light at Philadelphia. The secret
has come out, through the Record news
paper, as to who the young lady was
that sat to Mr.. Morgan. the designer.
as model for the head which appears
on the coin. The lady who has thus
been raised to fame, and whose name
will be chronicled in history, is Miss
Anna W. Williams, residing with her
widowed mother at 1923 Spring Garden
street, in this city. In 1876, when Mr..
Morgan was making designs for the
coin, he was introduced to the lady by
Mr.. Thomas Eakins, friend Of the
family. He desired to have true rep
resentative of American beauty en-
blazoned upon the coin, and the pro-
file OF Miss Williams appeared to him
as the best approach to it he had seen.
The lady, who is Of very modest and
retiring disposition, was induced to sit,
and after four or five interviews, suf-
ticient sketches had been secured to
proceed with the work. The artist
wrought up the face afterward to its
present appearance, as it is shown upon
the coin. It would be impossible to
recognize in it any resemblance to Miss
Williams. The Grecian nose and deli
cate lips had their foundation in her
features, but the full rounded chin re-
sembles more that of the wife of Mr..
Morgan. Miss Williams is blonde
and considered quite pretty. She is 9
teacher in the girls department of the
House of Refuge, and about Is years
OF age. This sets at rest the numerous
stories which have been in circulation
as to whom the face on the coin be-
longs to.
AN OLD-FAsH1oNID LOG SCHOOL,
HoUsE.-It was built of small tamarack
logs, chinked between with moss from
the swamps. The floor was of rough
oak boards, laid loose, with cracks be-
tween, that were standing threat to
jack-knives and slate pencils. The
seats and desks were of the same ma
terial, roughly planed and rudely put
together. The seats were arranged
around the room on three sides, and all
the scholars sat facing each other; the
girls on one side and the boys on the
other. The seats across the end were
debatable ground between the two, but
finally came to be monopolized by the
larger boys and girls, who, by some
strange attraction, gravitated together.
Between us was an open space in which
the stove stood, and where classes were
drawn up to recite. The teachers desk
stood at the other end, facing the
quadrilateral, and SO enabling the
teacher to take in the whole school at
glance. Standby afternoon.
Lord Beaconsfeld is remarkably
careful in his dress, although he no
longer appears in embroidered waist
coats, festoons of gold chains, silk
lined coats and light trousers. He
goes now to the House of Commons
mornings quietly dressed in a frock
coat, black necktie and pair of
bronze-colored trousers. But when he
takes his walks abroad, he dons a won
derful light overcoat, with trousers .
shade darker, blue necktie, and when
the east wind blows, white silk
handkerchief loosely tied round the
throat. In strange contrast to the
white silk are the sunken, wrinkled
cheeks, and the dead, unmoved
expression. His face shows his
age but from back view that cum
ningly.cut overcoat would seem to sur
round man OF forty.
UP MOUNT B1ANC.-Three ascents
of Mount Blanc have been made this
season. The first was by young
American, DR.. Bryant, of Boston, who,
with three of the guides, returned to
Chamounix and was Hospitality enter
tanned at dinner by the hostess of the
Pension de lUnion. The villagers
celebrated what was to them the most
important event of the year by firing 9
startling salute in the market-place and
by exhibiting at night very respect
able show of fireworks.
To my thinking, there is not single
noble character to be found through
out Homer, though many worthy and
estimable. In Shakespeare is to be
found one pair of noble characters
yet not so in a supreme degree-Cor-
della and Coriolanus, hardly any more;
the rest are made of the same stuff as
Homer's folk. Put all Goethe's works
together, and you cannot find sirgle
instance of the magnanimity portrayed
in Schiller's Marquis Posa."-
Sclopenhauer.
According to Anna Dickinson, there
are audiences and audiences. Some,
che says, are stone, against which you
strike and rebound, angered by their
hardness. Some are spongy, and alb.
sorb and absorb, until you feel d
though you had had six hours of the
Turkish bath. Some are like cham
payne, or vigorous tea, or clear cognac,
or aggressive coffee, or whatever it may
be that most quickly and. enchantingly
stimulates your brain and nerves.
To REMOVE HAIRS FROM ANY PART OF
THE BoDY.-Take quicklime, ten parts;
starch, ten parts hyposulphate of soda,
three parts. Rub in q mortar and mix
we'll into powder. For use add lit
tie water to enough of the powder to
form paste, which lay on the hairs for
two or three minutes. Scrape off with
a wooden knife or anything dull, and
the hairs will be removed.
For THE HAIR The application Of