The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-03
ABOUT WOMEN.

| nlh5s ELLA OrfUII MEAN 10 btOpDluH
at the Riggs Warrington, with Ken
lucky friends She is the Lady Joaquin
Miller pronounced the mot beautiful
person he had ever seen in any cline.
She is tail and stylish and bright and
agreeable in manner. Her eyes are
dark brown and her hair a golden
tint. Her complexion is a clear cream
and her features are classic aud slight.
lysquiline.
SENATOR SHERMAN and his wife are
entertaining a great deal this winter
in consequence OF the Vice Presiden-
tial horrors that fell to him, and in ad-
ton TO long series of Monday
evening receptions they are giving II =
Vulnerable dinners. Judge David
Davis revived the old cust)m Of the
Vice-President dining all the members
of the Senate upon his entry into the
Office, and Mr.. Hendricks planned
noble ho FATALITIES for his winters in
the chair.
MRS. JAMES Brown POTTER, the
ambitious amateur actress, is not vet
twenty-four years old, and still has
time enough to win a name for herself
on the professional boards il she
chooses. She has some ability, but
owes most of her celebrity to her
social position, a pretty face and per-
sistantcy in her work. She has been
80 constantly before the public for the
past few years that the public has
been led to think she must be I'M
usually endowed with histrionic tai
ent. She ia the best advertised woman
in society.
SAYS the New York World: at is one
of those strange inconsistencies for
which no one can account that while
the men Of New York are universally
courteous and polite in public, the
man are rude and selfish, conduct
ing themselves with an aggressivenets
and bJldness that is simply astound-
ing A policeman on the corner of
Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street
being a'ked if he was placed there 10
keep the horses from running over the
women exclaimed: Indade no; sure
I'm kept here to prevent the women
from runnin' over the horses He
spoke wiser than he knew, perhaps, of
the manners of New York women"
ELLA WHEELER Wilcox, suthor of
Poems Of Passion, and recent novel, is
described ss a very pretty woman.
What first struck the publishers was
her business promptness. When she
was dependent upon her pen for liv.
ing her note was considered as good es
any mans. Once she borrowed money
at bank for ninety days. When she
paid it the banker refused to charge
interest. She insisted upon paying
it, saying she could not accept a favor.
She desired to feel that she had paid
the highest market price for the loan,
as she might want to borrow again. 1t
was the same way about furnishing
copy. She always had her work done
on time. All this gave her standing,
and she is to-day one Of the most pop.
ular literary women in New York.
MRS. JOHN SHERWOOD, who has
quite local reputation in New York |
rs a writer, is another woman who has
made an easy step from the top round
Of the social ladder into a good pos ton
IN the literary world. Some years ago
she was willing to sell her manuscript
ior what it would bring, but by keep
ng herself well in the public eye as a
woman OF letters and a woman of
Jociety, she is now able to set a price
If $3.50 week upon her time, and
makes the editors pay her accordingly.
She is a very clever woman, and de-
erves great credit for her untiring
industry. She is a student and a
raveler, and one OF the most enter
aiming conversationalists in New York
ociety.
MAUD MILLER, Joaquin Miller's
laughter, about whom so much has
'een written and said of late, is very
looking person, with
lothing about her to distinguish her
rom fifty other commonplace women
kept a pretty, doll-like face. She is
light of figure and a little below the
Medium hight, with something of the
kittenish, schoolgirl man
erism in all of her motions and ges-
1res. Her face is fair aud pretty, but
xpressionless, and she has a lovely
cad Of fine, soft, blonde hair, which
be wears plainly coiled, without
rimp or curl. Her hands and feet
re small and shapely, and she is quite
pleasant picture to look upon, but
he is net brilliant.