Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-19
FROM GOTHAM.
A Correspondent Does Clarks-
vile and Her Women PROUD.
Interesting Chat Regarding Famous Per-
sons Mrs. Leslie Wilde's
Unique Reception.

down at a great rate and melting
unbeautifuly as fast as it falls, So
far the Sunny South seems to have
the call on weather. We have had
an elegant sufficiency of bad days
since Christmas, but nothing to com
pare with the slippery, sliding,
frozen times that the LEAF-CHRoNI-
Gle has told me of in good old
GAINESVILLE.
Ifyou, the inhabitants of the Dor.
ough, are not mighty proud of your
local habitation, all | can say is, you
ought to.be. Certainly it is the big
gest thing to the square inhabtant
that / have set eyes on in these
United States. Take it upon any
side-money, morals, climate, cul-
ture, capital, commerce, buildings
public and private, brains and good
fellowship-it is way ahead of any
other place of its size within Uncle
Sans bailiwick. And when it
comes to pretty women GAINESVILLE is
clean out of sight. Walking on Fifth
avenue, or looking around at the
Metropolitan Opera House, where
the -Four Hundred are on dress pa
rade, you see women who are hand
some, stylish and thoroughly we'll
groomed, now and again one who
would pass as a beauty even in
GAINESVILLE. And when such an one
passes do not folks stare and crane
their necks to see. Looking at them
| say to myself: "Good people, if
you were in my town, or had been
there years back, you would be so
hardened to beauty you would pass
this one with a single glance, seeing
that the next turn would show you
her equal" OF course / shall take
the name of no GAINESVILLE belle thus
in point, but / can easily recall TWEEN
ty whose faces would assuTedly have
been fortunes in this town of riches.
Yet | have seen here the most per-
fectly beautiful human creature that
ever delighted my eyes-a Greek
woman, classic in line and curve,
with tn" pink and white colonng Of
crab-apple blossoms; eyes as soft and
liquid as fawns', and mass upon mass
of dark-brOwn, wavy hair. | saw
her at reception, which is the place
whereat ugly women most do con-
gregate. Needless to say she put
the whole roomfull out of counte-
nance; all the more that she sang
like bird, and was wrapped in gar
ments whose pearly-white recalled
the cloudy swathings of Aurora, god
dess of the morning.
Naturally beauty goes long ways
here, particularly on the stage. Lii
Ian Russell has more Of it than any
other of those foot,light favorites
that have come within my ken.
Though she has, beyCnd doubt,
magnificent voice and works hard
and conscientiously in making the
most of it, | very much doubt if
she could command one thousand
dollars a week if she had cross eyes,
snub nose, or in any way less of
personal charm. She is certainly
better to look at than even to listen
to, especially off the stage. l saw
her at MOOre's Park race course once,
in box with only her small daugh-
ter for company, and found that her
good looks were the gift of nature,
not of art. She is a fine bldae with
soft, liquid eyes, beautifully regular
profile, skin like cream and roses.
Off the stage she dresses richly but
in excellent good taste, in fact, there
is no smell of the theatre or adver-
Using loudness upon any of her gar
ments.
Physically, she is a great contrast
to another woman much in the pub
lie eye. | mean Lii Lehman Ka-
lisch, the prilna donna of the Wagner
operas. She, too, has gold mine in
her throat and is truly blonde, but
alack she has all the dimensions of
extension, length, breadth and thick.
ness. In white flowing robes, with
masses of unbound hair floating
about her, she is grand, even heroic
figure throughout the trilogy. But
take away the glamor of rocks,
caverns, death-pyres, and so on,
garb her in the kittenish array
of French or italian opera hero
inc, and she is sight to sea figure
of fun, over which the gods musical
must weep, wall and gnash their
teeth.
New York is surely the best
amused place in America. 1t would
fill half a LEAF CHRONICLE to bare
ly mention what is offered here in a
In fact, you may 90 some
where every night in the year, If so
it pleases you to do, and never go
twice to the same place. But no
show of them all equals the city it.
self. You may study it for two life
times and yet still find new and in