St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

cry one who can, by long thinking and
straining, invent an excuse for going
UP to Castle Hill, where the honeymoon
cepters it's broad, fervid rays, has been
there or is on his or her way, Every
one is talking, and rumors fly UP and
down these Virginia valleys and over
these Virginia hills as fire flashes along
a lighted train of gunpowder.
For fifteen years Albemarle county
has watched Amelie Rives with an in
tense and passionate curiosity. Long
ago public opinion decided that she
was ''caution," to use the vague, but
highly eXpreSsivei local phrase. And
her latest doing has caused universal
chorus OF Didn't lrtelI you she was a
caution?+ Whatever on earth will she
do next?" And as Albemarle county is
little afraid that she has about come
to the end Of her string of sensations.
it is gloating over this honeymoon with
a lingering ardor that suggests that it
is the last happening that will stir the
county blood and keep it from that
stagnant state in which Amelie Rives
found it.
"F. F.'s" OF ALREMARLE.
Albemarle county is one of the finest
old counties of Virginia Here are the
homesteads of a score of the first FAM
lilies of Virginia. In fact, the woods
are full of first families, some of them
still entitled to the name by breeding
and education; others holding F. F. V.
by courtesy in memory of glories long
tattered and faded. Life in Albemarle
county goes. for the most part, as it
went hundred and fifty years ago.
Here the ideal, fox-hunting, bowling
and supercourteous Virginia squire is
to be found in all his ancient pecul-
iarity. And here the ideal Of Southern
womanhood is cherished and main
tanned. The ideal Southern woman, as
you no doubt know. is beautiful crea-
ture who fascinates an indefinitely
large circle of males during her girl
hood and young womanhood, and who
| presently marries one of these admir-
ers and settles into a staid and sober
housewife, with no thought beyond
| her husband, her housekeeping and
her children. ~ az
| You will have no difficulty in imag-
lining how Amelie Rives would i'm
| press Albemarle county She comes of
family than which there is none bet
|
families Of Virginia. Her fathers
house, Castle Hill. is beautiful place,
an ideal Virginia country house. Her
mother was a great belle in Partisan
society quarter of a century ago
and she herself. was educated in
France. But with all her people AL
bemarles county Yirginians, and with
the life and traditions of Albemarle
county all about her and in her, she
developed into something which Abe
marie county, had difficulty in recog-
nizing as type Of which it could
have any possible knowledge.
When she was still a girl she was
much talked about. She rode like a
cowboy. She could take any fence or
ditch in the county, She could walk
all day or run against any man she
knew. She was small and slender and
most beautiful. She was sometimes
full of laughter and of the witchery of
a pretty tomboy. Again she was silent
and gloomy and hid herself even from
her family for days. They worshiped
her for her beauty, for her wit, for
her intellect and for her selfishness.
| Also they feared her. And Albemarle
county was very uneasy about her.
| QUICK OR THE DEAD"
Then she wrote several clever stories.
| and Albemarle county was impressed,
| but not quite certain whether it APP
| proved of women acting that way, and
| then she wrote 1.-THE Quick or the
Dead?" That took the breath out of
Albemarle. All it could say was good
| graciousr' and it presently got breath
and strength enough to add that it
hoped for the best. When she married
John Armstrong Chanler, Albemarle
breathed normally again. Now she
was going to, be a real Virginia wom-
an. Now she would settle down quiet
ly and become a wife and mother, aft
err the old Virginia pattern.
But soon Albemarle county. never
quite treasured, was in culver again
The Caution Vas as extraordinary
as married woman as she had been
as girl. She aid her husband were
separated for months at a time,