Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-01
oOOD-LOOKING AUTHORS.
A List of the Women and Men VIII,
Are Handsome and Yet Write.

n A1BB Oh tine ~ 0nSn ana Nk0n WhO
Are Handsome and Yet Write.
From July's Current Literature.
Time was when all literary women were
supposed to be homely. To-day beauty is
becoming fashionable in the clan. Maud
Howe, Amelie Rives Chandler, Dudu Fleteh-
er, Mrs. Burnett, Blanche Willis Howard and
Madame LAMA are all handsome women
Maado Howe, or rather Mrs. Elliott, has a
Juno figure and eyes and hair of rich, warm
brown. She is much given to aesthetic
gowns of sad-colored green, and tangles up
water lilies in her hair. She has the carriage
of an empress. Amelie Rives Chandler has
blue eyes, golden brown hair and a pretty
complexion. She disdains gowns upon ordi-
nary occasions and winds herself up in yards
Fletcher has wonderful head of golden
hair, black, flashing eyes and gets her gowns
from q French milliner. Mrs. Burnett Is q
striking brunette and also affects the esthet-
ic. Blanche Willis Howard is described as
having an unusually fine presence and attrao-
tive face. Madame LAMA CDR. Hsmmond's
dauRnter) is a blonde of the purest type
Her hair is reddish, her eyes dark gray, her
skin fair and her features strong but femi-
nine. She wears her hair abort and much
frizzed. She dresses like the average society
woman and is addicted to white furs.
Julian Hawthorne, Marion Crawford,
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Henry James and
6uXor SAlluR are the Deet looking OF me
men. Hawthorne is nearly six feet and
measures forty eight inches about the chest.
He has strong, dark, rather stern face and
wears his hair long. Crawford has black
hair, blue eyes and good figure. He was a
great belle [sic) before he was married. Al
drioh has a splendid pair of dark eyes and a
carefully waxed nustache. James has dark
hair end beard, fine, calm profile,
thoughtful eyes and an intellectual head.
Saltus is dark as an Indian and wears his
hair as carefully straight. HiA head is re-
markedly we'll shaped, but he has a spoilt,
pouting, boyish face. He does not look
twenty-five. All of these men dress like
rational individuals. Bret Harte used to
be one of the good looking men of fiction,
but his method of living has put beauty
away forever.
The gossip regarding Amelie Rives Chan
der is on the wane. Still there Ii inter
est. There is q slight reactionary move
ment on the question of her beauty. Il
may interest those who have seen her pic
lures to know that she is Just Eve feet
two inches in height and inclined to be stout.
The following is from letter written by
Mrs. Chandler to the author of this gossip
just previous to ner marriage, and when the
music regarding her Was at concert pitch:
s'I think that one reason the critics fail to
annoy me more is the fact that what / have
published seems to me so Insignificant and
small portion of the work that I have al
ready accompanied Dramas are what care
most to write. I will probably write serial
for a certain magazine to appear two years
from this time. do not know I never
take orders. may write more old-time sto-
ries. I don't know. Since people have
taken up the idea that mean to pose as an
Elizabethan scholar 1t has startled me 80
that find no zest in the thought of writing
more of that period. The extent of my
erudition in that quarter consists of having
read Bacon, Shakespeare, some old glossaries
and some of Wercester's dictionary This is
all that can really tell you, except that I
don't smoke cigarettes, don't receive men in
my bowers of roses and couldn't jump a Eve
barred gate If I would"