The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-18

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fellow being, let me do II now; let me not
defer or neglect it, for | shall not pass this
way again."
Various paragraphs have gone the rounds
OF the press stating that Mrs. General
Grant has aged rapidly within the past
two years. According to such chronicles
Mrs. Grants hair has become white. her
step slow and uneven, and her manner
generally one of great feebleness.
Now the fact is that she is, for her age. a
remarkably young-looking woman. She
mas Iived three score years and half of ten,
and she presents the appearance of a
woman not much over 30 IN good state OF
preservation!
Neither white hair, feebleness of man.
ner, nor uncertain gait are visible in Ter
aspect TO those in the habit of meeting her.
w men she draws upon Der memory in IN
tercourse with her friends, her face lights,
her manner is yivaci0us and her fund of
anecdote has a wonderful huency and
charm.
Mrs. Grant recalls impulsively the great
events IN which she has mingled; can call
up minute matters and weave them with
the august happenings which have become
historic IN way to delight and astonish
her auditors.
In such mood she lives again the stir
ring days of the past when she was with
ner great husband in war and peace. She
is now one of the most interesting women
10 be met with, somewhat shy, perhaps.
with strangers, but TO those who are her
friends cordial, gracious and warm-hearted
A very charming woman, indeed whom il
Is singular good fortune to know and
meet.
To recount what Mrs. Potter Palmer has
been as factor in the progress of the COM
ing Worlds fair at Chicago would be al
most an impossibility.
1t is due to her tact and surprising abil-
lty, in a large degree, that many foreign
nations have been brought to manifest so
lively an interest in the coming fair and to
contemplate adding to its success by
liberal exhibits.
With her sister, Mrs. Frederick D. Grant,
wife OF the minister to Austria from the
United States, at Vienna; her influence
with the American minister at Berlin. and
with Minister Lincoln at the court of ST.
James, who is her townsman, she has had
unusual advantages and she has utilized
TO the full every one of them in her skill
full manipulation of those various courts
while lately abroad.
Mrs. Palmer, as president of the woman's
committee OF the Worlds fair, has called
upon all woman sculprors to send designs
for the sculpture to be used upon the
woman's building. The competition will
be open until November 10, by which time
all designs TO be submitted must be deliv-
cred at Mrs. Palmer's office
The designs are to be in the form of min
iature models, and each piece and group of
sculpture should be typical of woman and
woman's work in history. Some of these
are to be large and elaborate. One is to be
a group of figures in high relief, intended
TO fill the pediment over the main en-
trance, Other groups are for the cornices.
These are to consist of central figures and
smaller ones. Explicit directions are
given to all those wishing to enter the
competition.
1t is hoped that the inducements offered
for their work will elicit something strik-
ing and original as well as give an impetus
to the art work of women
Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER.