The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-04-25
Virginia BFLLES.
A Description Of Some Of Them While at
Old Point Comfort.

FORTRESS MONROE. April PIT is
good thing that there is only one more
day Of this naval rendezvous. There
would be trouble If ii lasted longer. IL
would be serious and it would all be the
unconscious work Of half a dozen young
women from Richmond. OF all the
dazzling. soul-charming, heart-smashing
girls now in America, II does not seem
possible that there can be any that excel
these Richmond misses. The sun does not
set until they leave the Hygeia Hotel
at midnight 10 go TO their private car, and
then It is as If pail had been thrown
between Old Point Comfort and the lights
Of heaven. These enhancing young
American princesses have no rivals here.
All the other women admit that they are
the most beautiful creatures who have yet
been here The other women do not admit
this I'm so many words. but they show
their own inferiority by picking the Rich
mOnd bellies TO pieces. They say that
this ones nose is so large and the other
ones ears are queerly shaped and third
ones dress does not fit in the back All
the men in all the naval vessels and at
the hotel are Of one mind. They stand
around the fair Nireinians six rows deep.
drinking in their beauty, hopelessly en-
shaved.
The mischief these peerless creatures
are doing is really serious. Even Mr..
LanghOrne. who has the young ladies
under his wing. has been reproved by his
wife for talking idiOtically about beam
ing eyes and silken tresses. subjects
which Mrs. Langhorne says are silly for
a man Of his age TO discuss. But that Is
not the trouble thar these girls have un-
consciously set afoot. The chaperOn Of
the party is Mrs. Chiswell d. Langhorne,
n brilliant society leader in Richmond.
The young ladies' are Miss Daisy Rives,
a sister of the novelist, Mrs. Amelie Rives
Chanler. Misses Irene and Martha Ragby,
Miss Bessie Martin. Miss Parke Bagby,
Mrs Harry Frazier, Mrs. MOncure Per-
kins and Miss Anns Howard. The trou-
bic Is the dispute that is going on over
the question which is the prettest Of
these girls. The Virginians. who are as
callous as II there could be a surfeit Of
pretty women and they had them all.
are unqualihedly In favor Of Miss Daisy
Rives as the queen beauty. Miss Rives
is very young. She does not appear to
be above sixteen. She is as fair as lily
with hair the color Of a wheat field at
harvest time when the tassels seem 10
have enmeshed the whole summers sun
shine. She has large. dreamy blue eyes
that are the verltable windows Of a glad
some soul. Her mouth has pouting pair
Of full red lips that guard regular teeth
Of Immaculate pearl. She Is short and
slender. but very buXOm. She is a per-
feet Marguerite But saven-tenths of the
naval gallants and of the citizens who
are not Nirginians strongly insist that
Miss Rives is not in the competition.
They declare that Miss Bessie Martin
ought 10 be crowned queen Of Old Point
Comfort. Miss Martin is Of regal stature
She is a brunette. tall, proud. rounded at
every womanly point with those superb
lines to which Hogarth gave his name
She Is perhaps eighteen or nineteenth II
be fair 10 guess her age-a woman full
grown in person and In mind. When she
is calm her soft dark eyes are those Of
the deer. They are the eyes OF a goddess
when the men surround her and challenge
her wit She has great arched eyebrows,
rounded cheeks and a mouth that is
cupid's bow. Hundreds and hundreds OF
men declare her the most beautiful girl
who has been here.
AS for the Sun. II IS not able 10 take
sides. Every evening the six misses float
into the Hygeia parlors. throw Off their
heavy satin opera cloaks and stand about
in the full glory Of six fashionable decol-
lete frocks Of exduisitely delicate Hight
Southron hues. Their modestly worn
Jewels flash. their eyes sparkle. their
tresses ensnare all hearts. Then. and not
till then, does the dancing really take on
life and magnetism. Four hours later the
by nearly all Of the men I'm the place.
OF that happiness which. since Adams
fall. has ever been tinged with the pain
Of envy and discontent.-New York Sun.