Arizona republican., 1892-01-13
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS.
She Passes Much of Her Time In the City
 of New York.

She Passes Much of Her Time In the City
 of New York.
 Correspondence. of THE REPUBLICAN.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 6.--The widow of the late Jefferson Davis, ex-president or the short lived Confederate States, is the mistress of beautiful plantation home, Beauvoir, in Mississippi. She spends most of her time of late years in this city at the New York hotel, where am for a few hours the guest of a dear old friend, lcaught glimpse of Mrs. Davis and her daughter, Miss Winnie, as came up the staircase. Miss Winnie and her mother are almost inseparable. They are the quietly and politely observed of all the we'll bred southerners and others who make this hotel their headquarters or their homes.
 That observation pronounces the moth CT and daughter equally charming in their different ways, the older woman possessing in the mellowed beauty of mature life the same fascination of ex. pression and manners which makes Miss Winnie so wondrously popular, Mrs. Davis has grown stout. Miss Win nie is still slender. There is a suppressed murmur of admiration-suppressed by respect, sympathy and good breeding whenever they enter any of the parlors or public rooms. Both are always dressed in the best taste, so quiet and subdued as to be only observable by not attracting any particular attention. Mrs. Davis magnificent dark eyes make diamonds unnecessary to light up her toilets. She is brunette of the true, typical Louisiana stamp, although she was not born in that state or it's iso- | therm.
 Mrs. Davis has been so much occupied with her book and other literary and business pursuits during the time she has made her home in the New York | hotel that she is not so accessible to her friends as Miss Winnie, who frequently represents her mother in society and at the numerous social functions which are given 'in honor of Mrs. Jefferson | Davis"
 The quality of the literary pursuits which occupy the attention of Mrs Da- wis and keep her in the seclusion of her rooms while her lovely daughter repre- sents her in society may be gathered not only from her own Life" of her dis tinguished husband, but from such arti- cles as one which lately appeared in a leading New York daily in the column headed "The World of Books" Over | the signature V. Jefferson Davis was | printed two column review of that wonderfully entertaining and instructive book, At Susa." The article would have done credit to the pen of an old, trained reviewer of books. The discriminating critic, the lover of archaeological re- search, the habits of thought of the woman of letters, of clear judgment and fine taste are displayed in every line. Mrs. Davis would make a capital book reviewer for Sunday newspaper if she had nothing more compensating to ab- sorb her time and powers.
 The four sons of Mrs. Davis-Samuel, Jefferson, William and Joseph-have all passed into the silent land. Her two daughters are Margaret (Mrs. Hayes, of Memphis and Colorado Springs, and | Varina, shortened to Winnie, once called "The Daughter of the Confed- eracy" by the enthusiastic southerners who are the admirers of her lamented father and cherishers of his memory and of their Host cause"
 1 But there is little Jefferson Davis, or rather Jefferson Hayes Davis, the son of Mrs. Hayes, lovely, bright and "good little boy" whose name has been changed byspecial act of the legislature of Louisi- ana from Jefferson Addison Hayes to Jefferson Hayes Davis. It is needless to say what worshiped little boy this is by his grandmother.
 BELLE BELAIR.