The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-10-01
Davis, DR. George Reese and daughters.
Misses Stella Williams and Annie
Atchison.
HIrHER AND roSDER.
Talk About People And Things In
General.

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| tive. imaginative, high strung as no was,
| could ever have really loved common
| place girl" yet that has frequently been
asserted of him, and his sweetheart.
| Fanny Braune, is generally regarded, as
| having been ordinary both in point OF
physical attractions and qualities OF mind.
/ However, a person signing herself Rose
| Perrin" has an interesting word TO say
regarding the charms OF the inamorata
OF the author Of "Endymion" and 1.-THE
Eve OF ST. Anges." she says: Miss
Brawne was my mothers great friend,
and : knew her very we'll up to the time
] was almost fifteen, when she left Eng
land. She was very tnking. dignifed
woman, fair. very pale with bright
dark eyes, and light brown hair, very
clever and brilliant in society. l remem-
Der my mother saying she was a most
lovely girl, but that she lost all OF her
beautiful color in an Illness she had after
her engagement with Keats was broken
on THAT mad boy, Keats" as they
spoke Of him then, It's not entirely
Teconciable with the faft that Miss
Brawne, when asked for some reminis
cences OF the fact when w. A. Story had
a monument placed over his grave said
that 1T was better 10 let the memory OF
Keats sink into that oblivion which
seemed to have swallowed his work,
thus dsprecating the proposed tribute
Here's something for those Interested In
the study Of the effect Of heredity upon
character-Daniel Defoe. the author OF
Robinson Crusoe" was an excessively
improvident man. and was frequently i'm
prisoned for debt. He has now a lineal
defendant I'm England. aged seventy
helpless, ad so poor that he is supported
by the parish in which he lives
Mr. Erastus Winan who recently failed,
will shortly tell us "How TO succeed
n book Of that title written by him, be-
ing now in press.
,Tbe Rochester POST Express assures
us that AT last an Englishman has been
found who finds something captivating
IN America The question naturally
arises-What can 1t possibly be? To which
the answer is-our babies!li He writes;
"You could not imagine anything more
quantity delightful than American small
children and babies. They, up 70 four,
wear the dearest little close caps Of all
colors. but general white-the queerest,
prettiest clothes-all Just touching the
ground 1t is easy TO see where Kate
Greenaway got her models for her quaint
pictures; they are exactly here. There
the baby carriage-nothing approaching
our clumsy perambulators. They are
either bent wood or good wicker work;
yellowish wood, like bamboo and open
work all round, on perfect springs and
most Of them rock up and down when not
being wheeled, andhave large parasols
fixed overhead. I'm all colors and pretty de-
vices" He also says that the babies eyes
are usually dark, and" have an express
sion as though there was nothing they did
not know" However, while it's pleasant
10 have the babies done justice TO, as our
| exchange remarks, 'the reference TO Katie
Greeraway IS mistake. The dresses Of
the American baby were patterned after
those Of the little Katie Greenaway child
rem. and not vice versa-just as the poor
| little Lord Faunueroy boys were pattern
ed after the boy in the story"
And apropos Of the children. there are,
in many Of Phillips Brooks letters TO
them, published in the August Number
Of the Century, passages which are de-
! lightful reading for the grown up" peo-
pie. The following we find quoted in the
New York "Churchman" as savoring
spicily Of Thackeray--'T am going 10
answer your beautiful letter which travel
led all the way to London, and was de-
livered here by a postman with a red
coat, two or three weeks ago. He looked
very proud when he came In, as If he
knew that he had a beautiful letter i'm
his bundle, and all the people in the street
stood aside TO make way for him, so that
foods letter might not be delayed" And
once from Denver, he declared In n letter
to his little neice; ''When 1 got here last
night, / found the hotel man very much
excited, and running about waving beau
tiful letter I'm the air, and crying aloud:"A
letter from TODD A letter from TODD
A letter from TODD" He was just going
round 20 get out a band OF music TO
march aound the town and look for the
man to whom the letter belonged, when
I stepped up an told him I thought 1t
was meant for me. He made me show him
my name in my hat. before he would
give It TO me. and then a great crowd
gathered around and listened while 1
read IT,"
The Dean OF Westminster has accorded
the medallion portrait of the Swedish
Nightingale TO be placed IN the Abbey be-
meath the statue Of Handee Jenny Lind
always especially delighted I'm the COM
positions OF this one of the masters of
harmony, so that the position is a pc
culiarly appropriate one.
Madame Recamier was most beautiful
between the ages Of 81 and 81 Mile. Mar
at forty-fve, Mime. De Maintenon was
forty-three when she married Louis and
Catherine Of Russia thirty-three when
she seized the throne. At thirty-eight
Anne Of Austria was described as the
most beautiful woman I'm Europe" Cleopa-
ira was past thirty when she met and be-
guiled Mark Antony, Diane de Poitiers
was thirty-sx when she won the love of
Henry / I. Asposia was thirty-siX when
zenith Of female beauty and charm?