The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-26

compoop, Mrs. Gen. Campfollower and Mrs.
| Superintendent OF CuspidoFs Fitz- Llcksplttle
| blazes forth as O peerless paragon or tran.
| scendept beauty and accomplishments. Her
| costumes, in all probability made by some
backwoods dress carpenter, with the taste of a
saw-mill hand, are more gorgeous than iTnpe-
rial robes. ana the dazzle of her jewels-rhine
| stones and paste-smites all beholders with
| paralysis Of the eyes and upheaval OF the dia
| phragm. She never SPEAKS less than q
dozen languages, any OF them more flu
emily and correctly than she does her
own; and the rich, mellifluous accent OF
the washtub and tho cook stove, which fingers
on her tongue, has Parsian witchery all It's
own. Her bearing is regal and her smiles win
ming enough to pull up the paving stones on the
side streets. Her painting would turn Raphael
green.eyed with impotent envy, and at her sing
ing all the skylarks OF heaven hush twitterlng
and take to the woods. Compared with her
Juno. Hebe and the Venus de Medlci the Queen
of sheba Cleopatra. the Mother Of the Gracohi,
Elizabeth. Marc of Argyle. De Stael and Dolly
Madison would have nothing left 70 do but 70
pull their blue check aprons up over their heads
and hire themselves out for scrub women to Q
charity hospital, or dalrymalds to flock OF
bllygoats
And every silly, simpering, glRgling, tow
headed, white -eyebrowed. and Ireckled- fac ed
lanky, slab-sided, gangling, gawky daughter OF
pro tempore grnndee, atwo 'for-four year big
panjandrum. blooms out as the rare and radiant
incarnation OF all terrestrial and celestial lowell
ness, a queen OF the fairies, sister OF the
angels with the seraphic strawberry mark on
her N atchiess left arm. Her tallowy complex
ion is fair as the petal Of an apple blossom, OF
the inner lining OF deep-sea shell. Her hair is
the spun floss OF everlasting sunshine Heavens
own enhancing blue 10 IN her soulful eyes. Her
ungainly hguT5-looHing, perhaps. like q her
ring box on two tobacco sticks-~is the exquis "a
perfection Of eculptor's dtyinest dream. Her
manners blend the dignity of a duchess with
the freedom and affablity OF o barmad: and
her converse ton Is a marvellous aud enchanting
mingling OF the profundity of Dutch univer-
sity with the viii OF the whole EliZabethan age,
the poetry OF Burns, Byron, Moore, aud "the
sweet singer Of Michigan" all melted into one
golden challlce OF liquid melody, and the tender
sentiment Of earth and heaven meeting 10 q
Fapt, divine. ecstasying embrace.
Bah All this. and columns on columns more
Of such irredeemable fdiooy and trash such in
effaole slush and rot, day after day, the whole
winter long, the whole year round, the whole
quadrennial through, about few hundred or
binary American politicians, and their wives
and daughters-some of them really good look
ing, clever and charming people; but by far the
greater part Of them commonplace to the last
degree In appearance In manners, In attain
ments, and IN achievements, aud not q few OF
them downright ignorAmuses and blaekguards
There are crimiuals, and men under aliases, In
the Senate; there are barkeepers and hoodlooms
and freaks In the House; the bench holds judges
who should be playing checkera with their noses
on the gratings of O cell and secretaries even
when spelled with big are only clerks.
AS for hsckneYsd phrase. "beautiful and ac-
complished," as used by these capitolne dab.
blers in ink and vulgar tGny. it means less than
nothing. accomplished" women are not as
scarce as honest and independent public men
but It is doubtful whether, 10 all the world :
1900 600, 900 people 20 day, 100 women could
be found whom any competent judge would
pronounce beautiful" ! have seen nearly
every famous woman OF my day, and have
never seen more than dozen who we're beauti-
full. There are many-thank God very many
who are exceedingly pretty, gloriousiy hand
some bewltchingly lovely aud enchanting
women but few in any age Of the world who
rise 70 the sublime standard of beautiful Ii is
the highest word in our language, descriptive OF
personal loneliness. IL is the ne-plus-ultra Of
pulchritude. All earth and heaven together
can boast nothing that is more than beautiful.
II Is rank blasphemy 20 apply such a term 10
every woman whose husband or father happens.
by the blind Niger luck OF our dirty politics,