Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-22
A FASCINATING WOMAN.
Time Has Only Ripened the Charms
of Mrs. Chase. ="
From Tie Boston HeraId.

From the Boston Herald.
Mrs. Kate Chase, though now past 40,
is still very handsome and singularly
alluring. She looks much younger than
she is, and number of her friends think
her more attractive in person and mind
than she was 20 years ago, when she was
at the acme of her physical beauty. Her
figure is extremely graceful and elegant;
it has not changed since her early
womanhood, except that it is somewhat
fuller, though not too full to mar in the
least its voluptu0us outline. Her face Is
face that, once seen, is seldom forgot
ten. 1t is full of expression, OF varying
light and shade, changing like che sea, so
that be who admired 1t yesterday dis
covers something new to admire to-day.
Indeed, what it Is one minute 1t may not
be the next. The eyes are a soft, radiant,
bewitching brown, sometimes black,
more times yellow, never quite the same,
but beaming with fascination. Her hair
Is golden brown, rather darker than 1t
has been; fine, lustrous, wavy, a glory to
her symmetrical, admirably poised head
Her nose Is wholly feminine. rather small.
but specially plquant; her mouth ex-
qulsltely cut, ripe, yet refined, and her
smile delightful and suggestive at once
of sweetness and pride, womanly reserve
y.
and an enchanting and dangerous study,
to most men, who are pretty certain to
fall in love with it, independent of any
encouragement. 1t has been compared
with that OF the famous portrait of Mona
Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Louvre.
which / think a fantastic comparison !:
for the picture has faded with time, and
conveys poor impression Of the supposed
beauty OF the original. Mrs. Chase's face
has something of the strangeness which
has been said to belong invariably to
beauty of the highest order. 1t NAV not
strike one at first. | have met men who
could not, or at least did not, perceive it,
and it may require study, like a great
work OF art, for entire appreciation. But
the majority of men are fired by it, albeit
some women fail to recognize IL, or Will
not admit its existence. lhave given the
opinion of others rather than my own in
what have written; but at the same time
/ cannot understand how the lady can ap-
pear anything but lovely. have seen her
when she did not by any means look her
best, and have seen her again when she
seemed ravishing. Within few years an
expression OF pensiveness, almost of sad.
ness, has stolen into her countenance,
which, to my mind, enhar ,es and deepens
its charm. She has lost = good deal OF
that Outgiving OF coquettishness she once
nad, winch 1s so captivating to our sex
generally.
Apart from the unquestlonably fine per-
son, she has the most winning manners,
perfect tact, a strong intellect and liberal
culture, an acute understanding OF human
nature and a thorough acquaintance with
the requirements and conventionalities OF
society, in which she Is eminently quail
fled to shine. She is almost universally
liked, esteemed and admired, the COM
monest rs well as the most exclusive peo-
pie being drawn to her. Although having
distinctly bigh-bred air, she shows none
ofthe distance and ha lghtiness which are
80 often found In women OF her position
and experience. Nevertheless she posses
SEES quiet, serene dignity which nobody
feels inclined to invade. She ia one the, most
affable, yet at the same time one OF the
least familiar, of women. She is, in the
Hottest sense, politician, and II she had
been OF the other sex, she would have been
certain of an extraordinary following. He
would be, indeed, obdurate aud insensib!e
whose vote she could not command. What
a magnificent lobbyist she would makei
Amy measure she should advocate would
be sure to pass. Her magnetism, where
she chooses TO exercise it, is well-nign ir-
resistible. She has so many charms and
gifts that she may be considered one
woman In hundred thousand.