St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-18
PRETTY AND TALENTED.
The Pretty Young Authoress Whom
Washington is Lionizing.

Washington Letter.
Miss Amelia Reeves, the author of A
Brother of Dragons, which occupied the
opening pages of the March Atlantic
Monthly. is in this city on a visit to the
wife of Representative Randolph Tucker OF
Virginia. Believers in the theory that lit
erary women are necessarily ugly or unat-
tractive in appearance will forever aban-
don the idea when they see the new liter
airy star, Descended from one of the ''firsi
families of Virginia." she has all the per-
sonal charms and grac9s of manner which
have long distinguished the IF. +. w
She is little above the medium
height, slender and willowy. She
has one Of those figures whose
very lines are poetry. Her
face is longer than the strict laws of beauty
allow, but it is faultless in contour. She
has large brown eyes, whose expression is
roguish rather than intellectual; an olive
complexion, and black hair which falls in
waves about the prettiest little pink ears in
the world. The chief charm of the young
novelist, however. lies i'm her conversation.
AT recent reception given by Mrs. Tucker
she proved herself to be the most versatile
talker that society has met with in many
years. In the beginning of the evening she
was the center of group of girls who list
ened as If facinated to her description of
the court dresses she had seen in Eng
land last season. A few minutes after
wards she was sitting in a corner
with the mother of Attorney General Gar
land. delighting the aged woman with an
necdotes OF some old Virginia families.
Later in the evening she was holding a
spirited discussion with Randolph Tucker
and Senator-elect Daniel on the merits of
the Blair educational bill, of the provisions
of which she showed a very comprehensive
knowledge. Only TO the young men was
she reserved. She dealt entirely in the Do
lite society nothings when circumstances
brought her into conversation with any OF
them. The handles were disguised when,
after her cold ives" and mo" and indeed
to them, she would enter into an eager
talk with some old law-maker, heI
beautiful Southern face glowing with az
citement and her dark eyes flashing forth
her thoughts before they are uttered. 1t is
said that more than one son of a distin-
guished sire is already smItten with her
charms. 1t is to be feared, though, that
their love-longings will be vain. Miss
Reeves has the reputation of being invul-
nerable to the shafts of love. With heI
ample fortune-said to be 5000. 000-hel
DcdutA anu HcI ldleulS, Sne might nave Sc
lected long ago from several distinguished
Virginia suitors, but she has steadfastly de-
cllned all offers of marriage. 1t lis said that
she has announced her intention never
to marry, for the queer rea-
son that ''she thinks too much
of all men to center her affections in
one" Like all brilliant women Miss Reeves
has her eccentTicities. She will dress only
in black. What is more surprising still. she
dislikes flowers, and will not wear one un-
der any circumstances. She is as fond OF
diamonds as an actress. A diamond hair
brooch, diamond breastpin and several
diamond rings are only part of the pre-
cious stones on her person. Though she is
only % years old she eschews the prevailing
fashion of bangs and frizzes. Her hair is
always combed in waves from the middle OF
the head straight down TO the ear. A few
wandering curls on the forehead would GER
tainly add to her beauty, but she thinks
otherwise. Those who know her intimately
say that she has less vanity than any beau
tiful woman in Washington.