The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-06-01
poLrY ,xAD1soN's BEAUTY



a Daiasy Little Vuakeross with a
Oonplexion all Peaches and
Cream.
Harriet Upton in May Wide Awake.)
Mistress Dolly was not yet twenty.
three. The portrait Of her in Quaker
eap, from . miniature painted at about
that time shows how e~xquidtely pretty
she was. though the lovely pinks and
~pearlinesses Of her complexion and the
ine blackness Of her silken hair anti
brows aud lashes. cannot be given in the
crude black and white Of ink and paper.
nor the sweetness Of her blue eyes. She
was wonderously fair. Her mother, who
would not permit her TO wear jewels,
taught her to take taie of her CON-
plexion. She was sent TO school with
long gloves On her hands and arms,
q close sun-bonnet, and a white linen
mask on her face. 1t is plain to see
that In many ways great care was
taken Of the outward US well as in
ward grace Of the young Friend. Though
born q Quaker baby-it was in 1772,
about half y dozen years later than Miss
Abigail Adams in Massachusetts, and half
9 dozen years earlier than Nellie Gusts in
Virginia, and the same year as Martha
Jefferson at Monticello. little Dolly (who
was SO fond of jewelty that she wore a
grandmother's gift of some kind around
her neck hidden in q little bag) grew up
with a love for dainty clothes; certainly II
more cxluisitely embroidered and frilled
little Quakeress than she of the miniature
has never been seen. There is in exist
ence still. belonging to this period, u deli
cate gray satin Quaker gown, with elbow
sleeves and square neck. worn by the
young beauty. Her mother and grand
mother before her, on one side of
the house. had been great bellies,
and little Dolly was lowered with sweet
looks as we'll as with q Scotch simplicity
and an Irish irrcssistibleness of manner
she shared the Irish wit and good nature
with her fam5ils second cousin, Patrick
Henry.
Her grand niece, wri ing a hundred
Madison. 1t was in Philadelphia, where
she and her little boy and mother, who
was also a widow, had returned. and her
reputation for beauty was so great that
gentlemen stationed them at points she
waste pass in order to see her. Mr..
Madison saw her one day and got Aaron
Burr to call with him and introduce HIM,
and Dolly came down in IL mulberry
colored satin, and o silk tulle hundker-
chief over her neck. and on her headan ex.
quisitely dainty little cap from which
an occasional uncroppcd curl would es-
cape"
She must have rescmb.cd a famous
young Quakercss beauty of the same
period, described by a Frcnchman travel
ing in America, the Prince dc Broglie;
writing to hcr-Polly Lawton, of New
port-he says:
She wore a species of English gown.
pretty close to to the figure, white as
milk, and a tichu very full and firml,
fastened. Her head dress was IL simple
little cup of very fine muslin plated and
passed around the head, which allowed
only half an inch of hair TO be visible, but
which had the effect of giving TO Polly
the air of a holy virgin"
All her friends r, joiced that she was to
be married to Mr.. Madison, though he
was twenty yearshersenior. Mrs. Wash.
ington sent for her to come to the presi.
dental mansion, and then, Dolly
said she, lis it tue that you are engaged
to James Madison?" Dolly was cmbar.
rassed and stammered that she ''though,
not" and Mrs. Washington exhorted her.
to not be ashamed to confess it, for
MIR. Madison would make her a good
husband.