Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-28

lONeu DV l1tlon, lOr tnlS was Vne lui"
preston | had received Of her from
what had read of this far-famed Nir-
| ginia beauty. l have scarcely recov-
cred from the surprise | experienced
| when saw her, and | was in doubt for
some time rs to whether | was not be-
| ing imposed upon. Nearly everything
| | have rend about her seems to be n
| complete contradiction, or else she inn
pressed me differently. In the first
| place she is short, with pretty figure,
| and her hair is yellow. Her eyes is her
most noticeable feature, and she alone
| possesses the power to describe them.
| They are dreamy, unfathomable eyes
| shaded by such long, curly, dark
| lashes that their color is lost.
| Beneath their brows they shine out like
firefies, yet betrayiug nature tender
| and sympathetic. Every feature is ex-
| pressive. Her mouth is rs sensitive as
| u child's waiting to cry or to smile.
Whether speaking or listening, every
emotion lights her face. 1t is said that
| she is dramatic and self-consc!ous.
saw no trace OF either during the mo-
ments | watched her and talked with
her. For everyone who was presented
TO her she had pleasant greeting, and
| IN her speech she was not at all affected.
| Could YOU have heard, as | did, her
| conversation with two young girls, you
would not have recognized in her any
thing theatrical. Her horse, with its
| great, knowing eyes" her ch-loved
| collie, the long, dreamy rides through
the old Virginia hills, and her girl
| friends were the subjects which she
talked about as simply rs any child. l
asked her when she worked, and she
said: "In the silent night hours, when
| everything is still. / cannot work in
| the daytime: | want to be out in the
fresh air." Her next book will be-
called white Slayes," the plot being
| taken from everyday life. This will
not be completed for two years, as she
| is going abroad soon to be gone n long
time. She and her husband propose to
ride horseback through, England, for
| which purpose her favorite horse will
be sent over the ocean.
Miss Sallie Hargous is pronounced
brunette, somewhat pallid of face, with
large eyes of n deep violet, shaded with
sweeping, coal block lashes, and
wealth of soft, wavy hair, says the New
| York Epoch. She belongs entirely to
the Spanish order or beauty. wherein
she differs from Miss Wright, who is
purely Scandinavian. Miss Hargous is
not tall. yet anything but short; not
thin, yet anything but stout, Her
| shoulders are round and shapely as
those of the Venus of Milo. Her figure,
in word, is perfection. She inherited
$500, 900 from her father, who made his
pile in Mexico, yet she is noted for
the unpretentiousness of her manners
and the simplicity of her frocks, and If
she dances trile slower than the rest
she is none the less graceful, She is
unquesticnnbly the belle of the season,
and although it is her first season she
has already refused some seven differ
ent offers of marriage. She is also the
sister of Bobby and will have seen
two decades of life on her next birthday.
Before closing this letter your cor
respondent must not forget to describe
a girl boomer, who is located on Il claim
near the old site of Ewing City, says an
Oklahoma correspondent of the Kansas
City Times. Miss Nellie Bruce is the
daughter of an old boomer. For years
her father has been a boomer, but Nell
| lie has been sent to school until short
time ago, when she taught a term of
school in "a Kansas district. Several
months ago her father built a neat
frame house out on a claim near the old
Jack Wantland horse corral and then
sent for his daughter. The day before
Nellie arrived some Indian scouts found
| old Bruce's house and burned it down.
When the girl arrived the poor old man
with tears in his eyes told her of the
destroying of his little home, but that
| ElTl WIS CledT Bflt, anu Silc SIloWcu HeT
nerve by getting out and going towork.
She located a claim, dug out home in
the side of a hill, and there she lives,
surrounded by flock of chickens, q
couple of dogs, and armed with a couple
of large-sized revolvers, she is holding
the fort. She is the idol of all the boom
ers, and any disrespect shown to Nellie
Bruce will be answerable with death.
Probably there Is no man in the
United States who enjoys more extern
| sive acquaintance with working MEM
bers of his party than Mr.. Clarkson,
says Washington letter to the Phila-
delphia News. But there is another
person in this room who knows almost
as many politicians as Clarkson. There
are women who have gift for music,
poetry, painting, society; Mrs. Clarkson
has an aptitude for politics that amounts
almost to a gift. There is no more
popular woman among the politicians Of
the country than she. They all know
and admire her. Probably she knows a
greater number of political secrets than
any other woman in America, and holds
them closer. That woman can keep q
secret is we'll exemplified in her. She
is n fine representative Of that admira-
BILE class of American women who ac-
| company their husbands everywhere,
share their labors and condolences, and
shed over the activities of business or
political life the light of woman's
sympathy, cheerfulness and refinement.
Mrs. Clarkson has been among poll
ticians all her life. With her husband
) she has attended three or four national
conventions and has been present at
many Of the innumerable conferences
held in their rooms. When Mr.. Clark
son went to New York last summer to
: labor in the national committee as q
campaign manager Mrs. Clarkson ac-
companied him. No secrets were kept
from her and none were ever lost
through her. In Iowa she is known and
/, loved by all the politicians Of the state.
They go to her for counsel in politics or
love. So as she sits here for an hour in
her husbands Office public men by the
/, hundred, statesmen, orators, men oi
success in politics and law, eagerly
grasp her hand. In her politics, as in
her husbands, there is no selfshness
! They are ever assisting others, never
seeking for themselves. She is entitled
! to place with those other American
I women politicians, Mrs. Logan, Mrs
Mcdonald of Indianapolis, and Lady
! | Randolph Churchill of England. Like