The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-10
Men and Wnman.

"To fall In love with plain faxed but noble.
msDnsred and interesting girl has become ons
OF the prevailing usages of New York socrety,"
says the Home Journal.
Fay writes to the Courier-J ournal-"Mjss
Lillian Carpenter possesses rare beauty She IA
Of the blonde type, with hazel eyes aud dark
eyebrows and eyelashes, though her hair Is "a
light and hossy as an infants. Her conn
plexion is perfect, being purely white, tineed
with the most delicate pink. The shane and
polss OF her head are so exquisite that aha
wesss ser hair simply parted 10 the middle and
o,s,u5u on1 as tue back, tbs braid turned up as
prs; tiny curls aud waves ss;naa h.s St oa now
Her features are regular, especfes,. hsr ,,,,,,,s
which discloses perfect teeth. She issgr. issr moutn,
um height and well formed" oe-
The Queen thus describes three American
women ''doina" Europe: "They are like uoth-
ing so much as three several flashes Of light
ming, not so much from the quickness of their
movements as for the rapidity OF their minds
aud swiftness Of their conclusions. They un-
derstand you with half word, aud before you
have spoken the other half have taken the
argument out of your mouth-bave turned is
and you inside out-and have left you without
an Inch 1T ground that you can call your own.
or metsphOrcsl leg to stand on. They daz.
zle you by their brightness and bewilder YOU by
the swiftness and su5deuness and Completeness
OF their attacks. You feel as IL the three were
multiplied into thirty, and that you Ar. sssailed
q all points at once But thev are withal the
sweetsst-tempered and most amusing COM
panions that you can find in long summers
dag, and they carry their flag with so much
bility, as Well as honesty, that you can
90 no,s,ng more more thar than rub yonr eyes sosd-
hard across the Ids"
Chief Joseph is said to bs about the most
perfect specimen Of the best type OF North
American Indians now living. He 10 thirty
eight years Of age, about five feet ten inches
high, broad, muscular and solid, but withal
wiry as q cat His complexion. though dark
copper colored, is so clear that one can almost
see flush mantle his cheek as the expressive
eye follows the flexible mouth in giving utter
auce to the well chosen words which compose
his sentences. The face, to match the figure,
is broad without being fat, the cheek bones are
not 80 prominent as 10 most of his race, the
eyes are large, black and expressive; the nose
squilne, but of Sufficient size TO match the
other features; the mouth, iuclosing perfect
teeth, aud the well-defued chin indicate arm
ness, while the forehead, though SLIGHTLY re-
tresting, is strongly marked, and indicates the
mental superiority OF ths man. The full suit
OF iUky hair Is trimmed and plated 10 such
peculiar manner as to show the full contoar Of
the head.
Stress is laid OF the turning of corners, and
grave things augured from the cfeasing of the
card. fierce feud may result from the card
being turned one way instead of another, or les
not being bent down at all. The turning Of
the upper right-hsDd corner every one accepts
as meaning call In person, or bsnding down
the card across the ends signifies visit for all
t1a lad hon tba.o I. - a..
came family together, but there are cabalistic
letters written on them sometimes tha, are bs-
yond the dime book of etiqaette. An amusing
story in this connection ,s told of Admiral
GoldsborouRb, bluff, blunt, common-senss
geutleman of the old style. Sham, nonsense.
aud sffects,ion he abhorree, and bis crushing
speeches and ret0rts are still related bg his old
colleagues. An airy young diplomats, a great
man of society aud fashioD, called on the Ad-
noirsl, and. finding him out left his card With
the letters E p. peuciled on it. The brave salt
was puzzled thereby, and when the Young man
accosted hm on the street and asked, "Did you
get my card, Admirsl?" he shouted out, 'Yesl
and what's the mesdiug OF e. p. that sou wro'e
on it?" "Oh why that means 'en perSonne'
that 'called 10 persou.'" at does, ehp" said
the Admiral, and went off in mood of dis
pust-d meditation. ln q few days be returned
the call by sendiag his ctri rouuf by messeu-
ger. first writing s. B. n IN one corner A.a,p
the 20 met ''YDu received my card, did you?''
Inquired the Admiral. "Yes, AID what does
s. B N mesn?' asFed the polite young man.
"Saot oy a uiggerw thundered the Admiral.
Which, IS story, is even bett,r than ths' of
Bsrsgusy dHtllers, q Matshsl of the old Em-
pire, who, wbeo his physician told him be
coud At most I've but day longer. wrote P. Z.
O.-pour prendre congo, or take lsave--oa his
Carr Aud sebt tnem to bis frisnds
Ex-senator Carpenter, says the Chicago
Times, is alb N, Ave fact ten inches in hei ht,
and Weighs two huodred or more pounds. ais
face. fs.tute, aud he I'd are large, yet 80 sym.
metrical tha hs is emohaticallg a "hssdsome
man" His eyes at times are so lustreles- that
there seems to be no color 10 them, aud
again they burn With their black oess. The
one peculi.ri of Mr.. Carpenters personal ap-
pearance is his hair. Some say 1t makes him
look like lion, others that it mskes him ok
like bull, aud still Others insist that con psri
son can only be made with the wild hore Of
the southern plains IL gives him wild look
anyway. Aud the effect is produced bs the
heavy, straight, gray foreIock which drops par-
TALLY over his forehead, shs hair being always
worn long. As rule, his dress looks disor-
dered and careless and he never fails IS act, In