The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-19
SOME BELLIES OF LONG AGO.
Four American Women Famous 70,
Their Charms of Face and Form,

Four American Women Famous for
Their Charms of Face and Form.
In a vision Of fair women the beautiful
bellies remember myself, or who have been
described TO me by my mother aud grand
mother, reach back century. says Lille
Devereux Blake in tao indianapolis NeUs.
First on the list is the famous Emily
Marshall Of Boston. Her picture and a
sketch of her life appeared in recent pub
LEGATION, aud | will only add here an
anecdote related Of her by my grand
mother.
Miss Marshall was an exquisite blonde,
with fair hair worn in natural curls, and
skin tinted like peach blossom. She was
one day walking on Broadway, New York,
her white dress trimmed with blue ribbons,
a wide straw hat shading her lovely eyes.
when sailor hurried up to her and asked
her to please tell him where to find the bat
terry.
With charming sweetness she gave him
the information aud walked on. To her
surprise at the next corner she met the
same man, who asked the sams question.
Thinking she had not spoken plainly, she
again pointed out the direction more dis
tinctly and strolled on. AT the third cor
ner she Cn"e more met the sailor, who
DreathlesslY the thrice repeated query.
ais time I,.e young lady said in surprise:
why, have twice answered that ques-
ton. Did you no. understands
ION, yes. miss, | understood" he an
swered, but would run around block
all day if could see your pretty face a5
the corner"
He had made the circuit of three sides of
the square while she had walked one.
merely in order to gaze again on her lowell
ness
Baltimore, who married jerome BonaparJs
the bret her of the great Napoleon, must
have been a radiant young creature at the
time of her wedding. She was verita BILE
daughter of the gods, divinely tall and
most divinely fair"
Her hair was chestnut, her eyes hazel and
her complexion cream-tinted. Her figure
was perfect, and all the graceful outlines
were plainly disclosed by thu costume of
that day. The extreme OF the empire dress
was then worn, short of waist, with skirt
reaching only to the ankle and so scant that
there vas just room to step in it.
Her wedding dress was Of thinnest India
gauze, heavily embroidered. Entrely
| without starch. it chung to every curve OF
her exquisite young form. as the under
| clothing was of the scanties6 description
consisting, it was said of only one long gar
ment of null. A cousin of my mothers,
| who was present at the ceremony, when
asked what the bride wore, said:
81 could have put all the clothes she had
in my waistcoat pocket
1t should be remembered that the waist
coat of that day had more generous pockets
| than the vest of to-day. Yet never since
classic times has any costume SO scant of
drapery been worn.
So leo us think of the beautiful girl-as
| lovely vision on her wedding morn as
| greeted mortal eyes since the days of Diana
| remembering her thus rather than as the
| deserted wife. whose long life was Swallowed
| to the last hour by the sorrows that wrecked
| her early hopes.
Quite of different type was Maria Lud-
| low of New York, a dainty, laughing cap
tivating coquetto who reigned in the early
| half of the century. Golden-haired and
| blue-eyed, she was one of those beings who
| set all men afiane who see her, drawing
| masculine creatures to her as Inevitably and
as Dlindly as the scintillaunG flash of the
electric light lures all tie flies 10 destruc-
| ton.
Perhaps the most remarkable belle that
our country ever produced was Octavia
Walton of New Orleans. A small woman,
with plump figure and expressive dark eyes,
she had no especial good looks, and yet
probably no girl ever queened it as abso-
lutely as she did. ''Mss Walton has come"
was information that threw men into a
fiutuer, aud wherever she went she was
| surrounded by crowd of adorers
1t was said that the father was repeat
edly offered free accommodations at the
| hotels of fashionable watering places, be-
cause wherever he came wi IN his fascinating
daughter an air of unmistakable fashion
was given to the place, and SO many young
men would flock thither that the success of
the establishment would be assured
|
"GooD MORNING, Mr.. President" said Thomas