The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-10-24
SOUTHERN BEAUTIES
GALLANT COL. PAT DOMAIN
TO THE RESCUE.
An Answer to the Attack Of a
Northern Writer Notable Ex-
amples of Southern L0yeli-

Col Pat. Doan, well known in news
paper circles all over the country.
Col. Domsn's remarks were ca LED
forth by an attack in the Philadel-
phia Times on the taste OF Southern
women IN the matter Of dress, in
which the writer singled out Mrs.
Amelia Rlves Caanler as an example,
and declared that he never saw well
dressed Southern woman. We make
q few extract from Gol. Donan's re-
ply: 49,
But in behalf of other Southern
girls and women vino can not sling
rcd hot thundeIbolts thick and fast as
peas f,om a Gsltling gun, / desire
10 enter my emphatic priest az inst
this corr spondent's understandable
raid upon heir unprotected clothes
lines. n such case me may we'll
risk a Clover Club broad side Of
chestnuts To deny the allegations and
defy the alligator.
WHERE EVERY WOMAN rs A QUEEN
"When he declares he never saw q
Southern woman well dress, d, | am
disposed to inquire how many real
Southern women he has ever seen.
When be talks of the '.awdry. glazing
drtss of the negress' as type ! of'the
attire Of the Processes Of the land VI
cotton am inrc,d to believe that
his aquainiance among Southern wo~
man has been limited and---pecu
liar II Ger ail ly has not been among
the princcsses Of whom he glibly
speaks, though that term, In my esti-
nation is IA lowering Of rank. In a
land where every man ID u saver ign
every woman is queen ~ least
. There are 40 manif id milIinnair.
fortunes in the South. The gigantic
laDdgrabbers and railroad wrerkers,
with their fifty or q hundred millions
each do not belong down there Tie
mo6strous deylllkh monopolies. trusI
and tariti pin cies. swindllng arm,
Contracts, wheat corner 70 Jberies and
petroleum gushers are MT the PA.
dues of southern so,l. Sou het;
women canno', and never could, In
dulge in the G stumal extravaganza
oftneir Norlhern SISTERS. They drcs
simply and inexpensiyels; but, from,
the earliest days OF or republic, Ih,
verdict If the world has been, as il l.
to-day, that ti,eY Dire tastefully a. d
well-in keeping With their climate,
their Circumstance and their eur
rouBdings. -.-- --....
THE AP III acsIs or D.yELISEss
mo young girl. IL the last III ee or
four years, has had more .enthu j ste
pmans chanied to her charms By North
ern papers thai May Handy, Of yir-
ginia. She has heen q belle. AN un
crowned queen, At Saratoga aud Bar
HarbOr, in New York, Baltimore and
Washington. She is as lovely in face
and form - the fairest houri In an
Oriental poets dream Of paTadise, and
all her lo,t illness bnds it drapIng
robes delic lie and becoming as were
ever we've BY the fairies for rose
bud queen, Three Of the special fay
critics al Saratoga during the season
just passed we're Lottie Rogers, oil
Baltimore, Anna Keitt, Of South
Carolina, aud Lena Jackson. Of New
Orleans. No Sunday paper sketch
of the Am rican Baden.B wal
complete without q mention Of them
and their ,stefully simple and be.
coming gatbs, and like Abou Ben
Adhem. tltir names pretty geherall,
led all the fest. .-s.
[Amone ths Virginia ladies named
by Col. ID an are Mrs. w. II + Lee
Mrs. Lizzi Henry Lyon, Misses Mary
bearing. Ella boswell and Lucy
Buckner. .##
.'But wi y multiply instances when
they are a innumerable ~ the stars
that fill the skies or the q wrrs thai
bloom In Southern groves and gar.
dens! Why prCIong . list which might
be expand i into feminine census
and wardrobe inventory Of the South
With b, tn eyes blindfolded aud my
right hand tied behind my back with
a strip of blue lutte string ribbon
can name, OF my own personal nc
quaiutancp. q thousand women and
young girls south oflhe Potomac aud
Ohio rivers who, IN all the attributes
Of cultivated aud rehned taste in NOR.
als, manttrs, arts, literature and cos
tumery, are the radiant peereses 81
any Thousand that can be found from
Wnnisseogee 10 Yuba Dam. / say
1t. aud am willing 10 leave II 70 any
competent jury Of my countrymen OF
countryaomen, Northern or South
ern, and TO stake my scalp. my
worldly gnuds and ills, my debts and
nv single blessed freedom on the de-
cision.
THE JEwEIs OF TBR SOUTH
"llm fanll,finfling correspondent
Is a NV Yorker, aud New Yor. eg'
Rfc int nsaly 10 aiisliU. To then