The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-01
A GAY GIRL OF 65.
Cincinnatrs "She" Carries Of
Young and Beautiful Leo

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Young and Beautiful Leo"
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
People in the west end have been gossip
ing with ceaseless activity over recent
marriage. 1t is that of Mrs. Matte A.
Hood, aged 65 years, to David A. Swift,
aged 81.
They were quietly married on Feb.
%, without any fuss and feathers, by
Rev. J. 2. Tyler, the pastor of the Gem
trial Christian church, of which she is a
mem Der.
Mrs. Hood is a wealthy widow, whose
bright b ack eyes have flashed their lightning
chances on the young men of the West End
for a score of years or So She is the young
est antique lady that probably ever tripped
along Fourth street as sprightly as maiden
of sweet 16. She had no hesitancy in
openly avowing that "she never would
marry an old man, and she'd have a young
husband half her age or none. Widow
Hood Is the mother of three grown children
two married daughters and a son-and
the grandmother of eight, yet in the grand
matrimonial scramble for man she did not
propose to get left, nor was she.
Her husband is David A Swift, a can
vasser for sewing machine company, and
young man of fine appearance and great
manly beauty. Mrs. Hood possesses a ward
robe that would be the envy of any lady in
Cincinnati. Eighteen months ago she had
forty-three dresses, and now it is said the
number has swelled to a hundred. They
are cut bias, polonaise, low neck and high
neck, of silk and satin, with and without
pasSementerie and in the latest Partisan
mode known to the dressmaker's art. She
wears elegant diamonds and possesses a pair
of earrings as large as ones thumb tnat
flash out upon paSsers-by as she promenades
Fourth street, casting their Illuminating
rays with the lavishness of a 300 power
Brush electric light
1t was Mrs. Hoods proud boast that she
had the spirit of girl. She would only read
Indian stories and dime novels, as she said
they did not weary her.
The young people of the West End will
sadly miss her, for all last winter she was
the gayest of the gay in a coterie of young
people who met at each others houses
TO dance and play euchre, and they always
said:
younger than any of us.
Ponce de Leon went from the old to the
new world to find the fountain of youth. as
he felt the repoSe of old age crawling slowly
over him. but Mrs Hood found it right here
in smoke-begrimed Cincinnati. For by as
ISOLATION with young PEOPLE, allowing moth
Ing to worry or harass her, studying care
Iully Gne CneOry ana DrdcClco OF makeup"
she has succeeded in preserving her youth
and beauty long after other women have
quit thinking Of beaus and dreaming of
balls and turned their attention to beads
and prayer books.
She is one of the best euchre PLAYERS in
the West EId and is passionatey fond of
the theater. She has not missed a play in
three years, and was always familiar
figure at maUinees. To a young law stu
dent Of 20, who was once devoted to her, she
said he reminded her so much of her hus-
band, who was but boy, and when the
student had finished the course of studies,
and was going away, she said:
Now you are going, do write me.
You know | shall miss you SO much
wheD you are gone, and l shan't hear
your merry laugh il the room next me any
moren
She had so trained her voice that it was
musical as ripping waters, soft as
purling brook through meadows green,
and everybody said, in contrasting her
musical notes with the piping tones of
others:
How sweet and lovely her voice is.n
That Fourth street people have lost a
Treasure and Mr.. Swift gaineda prize is the
universal verdict of everybody who knows
the happy couple. Mrs. Hood was the
daughter of the late John Waggoner, by
whom she w left large wealth.