The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08

costumal eXtravagances Of their y orth
ern sisters. They dress simply and in
expensively; but, from the earliest day.
Of our Republic, the verdict OF the
world has been, as it is to-day, thai
they dress tastefully and well in keep
ing with their climate, their circum
stances and their surroundings.
SOUTHERN BYGoNE BELLIES.
'What are the Martha Washington
tea parties" that are still fashionable
and popular in every part of the coun-
try, but reproductions of the simple
and picturesque costumes Of a lot of old
Virginia danes and damsels of cen.
tury ago? Dolly Madison was scarcely
| more famous for her cleverness and
grace than for her exquisite costuming
Betsy Patterson, of Baltimore, could
not have captured the brother of Ma
poleon and of Pauline Bonaparte if she
had not been as well dressed as she was
beautiful and ambitious. The three
McTavish sisters, of Maryland, married
English noblemen and bewitched all
Europe three generations ago. They
could not have reigned in the worlds
society as rivals Of the crowned and
coronetted beauties if they had not
been we'll dressed as we'll as handsome,
gifted and novely.
The old world and the new have
united in crowning, as queens by right
of every social realm, Sallie Ward
Hunt, Of Kentucky; Octavia Walton
LeVert; of Florida, and Virginia Tun-
stall Clay, Of Alabama. They could
never have won their sceptres if the
tawdry and glaring tastes ofthe negress
had fingered in their attire or the
slovenly dialect Of the plantation chat
tel on their lips. Lucy Holcomb, of
Texas, as the wife Of Governor Pick
ems, of South Carolina, was toasted and
feted by all Continental Europe, and
Nicholas, CZar of all the Russias, stood
godfather to her only child. whom he
christened 'Douschka,' or Ny Darling,
as a testimonial Of his regard and adj
miration for the mother. Could these
things have been if she had not been a
well-dressed as we'll as well-bred wo-
man?
THE BELLIES OF YESTERDAY.
Fifteen years ago Matte Ould, of
Richmond, was the undisputed belle of
every assemblage, great or small,
Northern or Southern, where she
CHANGED to be. Her brilliant WITH
cisms were published around the Globe,
and her career is a memorable part of
the social history, not only Of the
hemisphere. No garish dowdy could
ever have achieved such celebrity.
jamie Southerlin, of Virginia, was
the subject few years since columns
on columns of deserved rhapsodies in
Northern, no less than Southern news
papers; and, lovely as she was in per-
son, character and manners, her cos
tunes in their dainty perfection shared
with herself all the glorification of
journalistic genius.
"Nellie Ha2eltine, Of St. Louis, was
only 81 years old when she died, and
yet bulletins of her health were pub
lished from New York to San Francis
co--the only instance on record where
such tribute has ever been paid to
one so young. She had queened it at
Saratoga as we'll as White Sulphur, in
New York as we'll as Missouri, and she
was scarcely more noted for her beauty
and accomplishments than for the eX-
quisiteness of her taste in all matters of
dress and the toilet.
"This country has produced few
more beautiful women than Mrs. Ben
ton McMillin-Marie Brown, of Ten
nessee-whose untimely death in
Washington last winter was shock to
all Capital society and loss to our en-
tire half of the world. Her form and
features were fau!tlessly perfect enough
for sculptor's model, her complexion
was like the petal of an apple blossom
or the pearly heart of a deep sea shell,
her eyes had caught the celestial azure
of summer skies and heavens own
sunshine seemed to nestle in her soft
brown hair. She was universal ia,
vorite, admired, beloved and praised by
everyone who knew her, and her cos
tunes were always the daintiest setting
for rare and radiant jewel.
THE APOTHEOSIS LONELINESS.
"No young girl, in the last three o.
four years, has had more enthusiastic
ppans chanted to her charms by
Northern papers than May Handy, O
Virginia. She has been Il belle, al
uncrowned queen at Saratoga ant
Bar Harbor, in New York, Baltimore
and Washington. She is as lovely il
face and form as the faircst houri in al
Oriental poets dream of paradise, anC
all her lOvelinesS finds fit draping IL
robes delicate and becoming as wer
ever woven by the fairies for Il rosebuC
queen. Three of the special favorite
at Saratoga during the season just pas
We're Lottie Rogers, of Baltimore, An
ma kcitt, of South Carolina, and Len:
Jackson, of New Orleans. No SuTda,
paper sketch of the American Baden
Baden WAS complete without lnen
ton of them and their tastefully sim
pie and becoming garbs, and, lik
Abou Ben Adhem, their names prett.
generally led the rest