St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-17
SOME AMERICAN BEAUTIES
Col. DOMAIN Tells Who Are the Handsonl-
est Women in the United States.
CAPITAL SOCIETY sHoDDy.
Too Much of the Bonanza Element in
Washington for Him---Mrs. Cleve-
land Not a Beauty.

now on my way out Of it. am Urea oi
what / saw. | have been there many
and many winter. have seen IL on d
summer dby and seen it in Its glory, puC
never did / weary of it as L nave thiS
winter. tho
land of real beautiful women. am
going to Louisville. Ever been in Louis
Vile? If YOU ever want to see pretty
women 90 to Louisville on Easter sun
day. Easter up here is too cold. But
there-there where the first balmy Wind
Of'the Southwest comes and stops pc
fore it crosses Mason and DiXon's line
on Faster Sunday, there, my dear fellow,
is the place where the heavens seem
rent and the earth is peopled with celeS-
tial visitants." oeoaor
Thus spoke Col. Donan, eX-Confeder-
ate. ex-Democrat, eX-editor, RepuDllcan:
mugwump, man of the world, man n, OF
MANY shrines and no creed, in the chi
cago Herald. The first time the writer
saw Donan was in the ladies' saloon OF d
Mississippi river steamboat. be was
dressed in Confederate gray, ana was
the center of group OF as hahus9lnt
women as were ever seen. he mas 1 I9
none of his graceful sway since. ms
whiskers are getting a llghter slaae
than then, but his storehouSe Oh ,WoroS'
words, words, 1T is lneXhaustl91e.
"Come, tell me-" said the Herald Herald
man; "you have Travelled many iiiies
and seen many pretty faces-Who o, IS the
handsomest woman you ever saw!
81 am an American" he replied, land
snnnose I ought to say that all Ameri-
ca H'P Women are beautiful. But I'll be
doggoned if cam" (That. doggoned IS
one of the Western plants which cum
hers the flower beds of this inceSSant
takers language.)
"Our American girls pose too much.
They lack a certain sort OF abandon,
without which no woman can ever nope
TO he captivating. A little of don't
care-hoW-yOu -like-me-nOt too much.
You know what l said of Langtry when
she first came to this country: that she
was beauty, with the air OF a woman
of the town. Well, sir, our American
girls lack that"
but who is the handsomest woman
you ever saw?" -, To
1You don't mean prize beauties? Ii
Won do. count me out. | am weary OF
y0nr professional beauty. You know
that Miss Adele Grant and Miss Eleanor
Winslow were the accredited American
beauties. They haven't as much eX-
preston on their faces as you can lind
on the face of wooden cigar sign.
They can pose, but what's that? The
first time | ever saw Adele Grant
somebody asked me what L thought OF
her. | said, not knowing then VINO
she was, that she had at some time OF
other rode bareback in a Circuit, and
had jumped through many hoop COW
cred with paper. Well, sir, I'll be dog
goned if l didn't come pretty near tell
ing the truth, for when L came to rum
ming down her pedigree learned that
she owned stock farm down In New
Jersey, and had put in good deal OF
her life in raising colts. she had
horsey way about her that she never
could hide.
"Eleanor Winslow-bah! She can
stand in a room and be looked at. So
can dummy.
"Now. sir, the prettiest women l have
ever seen in this country came from the
South. don't say that because | am
from the South. The South to me is no
more than any other piece of land under
the sun. These women are Saidee Polk
Paul, niece of Mrs. eX-PreSldent Polk;
Anna Glare, Lulie Lyons and Ada
George.
1.-The first two are from Nashville,
Tenn, Miss Clare is from Ole Virginia
and Miss George is New York girl,
but she is now in Florida and Oh her
wav to the West Indies. They have all
been in Washington this winter, and
I'll put that bevy of beauty ahead of
anything that e'er the sun shone on.
%'Miss Paul is a brunette; her eyes
are as brown as buckeyes and as luS-
trous as anything on this earth can
be. Anna Clare is blonde. You ought
to see those two women together
under a chandelier, as | have seen
them. The contrast is bewitching, and
it sends a man reeling to his bed to
think of the angels. Lulie Lyons is a
wee bit of thing: rosebud if you
will: exquisite as snOWdrOp-Well, a
pocket Venus. Miss George is statu-
esque. She has little of that in her
which have just told you about. Yes,
abandon, if you like the word, though
[ confess l don't. l want to see
her when she comes back from the
Indies. When she gets the tint upon
her which those sunny skies will give
her think she will enchant the world.
Next to these whom l have men
toned, | give you two others whose
like is not found in many parts of the
world-Miss Susie Hunt, regal
brunette, who has in her the same blood
which made Henry Clay the meteor that
he was;
she is on her native heath-old Ken-
lucky.
"Then there is Currie Duke, a niece
of John Morgan, that dashing cavalry
man of the lost cause. | never knew
what the word spirituelle meant until
that beautiful figure dashed before my
ewes like a startled deer. l remember
the first time 1 ever saw her. Opie
Reed was with me, and l says, 'Opie,
wher did she come from? Il don't
know was his answer, but she sleeps
in heaven every night She has
that dreamy, far-away expression that
creates the same feeling as you gaze
into her eyes that comes when you go
out and look up at some bright star that
wrinkles in the ilimitable space above
you. !.
''There you have my album of Ameri-
can beauty. have seem them in Wash
ington, and if there be any place on this
earth that will test woman, lis Wash
ington. If she can winter it there she
is good for any part of Gods universe.
''You ask me what about Mrs. Cleve-
land? She has good, common sense, but
she is overestimated when it comes to
the question of beauty. 1t is not her
fault that she is called pretty by many.
You know how prone the American
people are to call woman beautiful.
But the place to test that is in
the presence of other women
who are equal, if not superior.
If Mrs. Cleveland was let alone
called all American woman-she could
stand the test. But she can't entertain
with that grace which woman in her
sphere should command. She does not
compare. have seen her at some OF
the SWEETEST Of reccptions-where the
wives and daughters of the courtliest
families have been-and tell you she
suffers by comparison. She is good
woman--a good wife-but not a beauty"
GLOW is Washington society?"
''Shoddy, my boy; shoddy. There
was time when there was an aristoc-
racV there. I didn't mean to saw there