The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-11

statesmen who are gathered here from the
four corners of the United States-the
highest compliments that can be paid to
them is the simple truth, l. e., that every
star on our flag sends samples of its fair
est to Washington. Among the several
hundred acknowledged beauties. space
limits the mention here to few, and that
in the briefest terms. Miss Kitty Reed
daughter of the speaker of the House. is
a pronounced blonde, with pink complex
ion and fluffy hair Though she has been
out several winters she looks like a
schoolgirl, especially when tripping along
by the side of her huge father or sitting
in his shadow in a theater box. Senator
FauIkner's several daughters are all very
pretty and attractive, and when the whole
family goes out a wheeling, it is a sight
worth coming far to see One of the most
beautiful girls in Washington is Miss Su-
san Foote. sister of the Hon. Wallace
Turner Foote of Port Henry, n. Y Her
classical face very much resem bles that
OF her brother. who is known as the
Adonis of the House-and who, by the
way, is just 80 years old well-to-dO and
unmarried. Miss Edna Cecelia Spalding
only daughter of the assistant secretary
of the treasury, is an end OF the century
girl in all particulars. After graduating
from the public school of her home town
in Michigan, she took the full course at
Wellesley and was graduated therefrom
with honors. Then she went to Texas and
taught for two years in the young ladies
seminary at Dallas; and last fall accept
ed similar position in New York city
There are also three sons in the Spalding
family. The eldest, Oliver Lyman, Jr,
is a graduate of Ann Arbor, and now
practicing law in Chicago. The second
son, John Cecil. also graduated from Ann
Arbor, and eqjoys the distinction of being
one of the ydlngeSt men who ever did it,
as ne finished the full course when barely
Is years old. The other lad is only Is
and still in the high school at st. Johns
At present all the Spaldings except the
general are in Michigan, but the family
will return to Washington in September
and take permanent quarters for the re-
mainder of the administration
Public Printer Palmer of Illinois has
very beautiful young daughter, Miss Jen-
ME, who has recently finished her studies
in a Chicago seminary and Joined her
father at the capital She has dark eyes
and hair and a bright, expressive face
and is said to greatly resemble her lovely
mother, who died here while MIR. Palmer
was the public printer under President
Harrison. The new Mrs. Benton McAlll-
lin, wife of the Tennessee legislator, is
Louisiana lady, daughter of James M
Foster, the largest cotton planter in the
world. Within a single fence he has II, 600
acres of rich alluvial land, and his annual
children have had every advantage that
money could bring. One son graduated at
West Point, and died soon afterwards
Miss Lucille now Mrs. McMillin, was ed
ucated al the same school which gradu
ated Mrs. Cleveland, and every element of
culture became hers by right of honest
hard work. She is prospective heiress
to the extent of half a million, and the
Tennessee congressman is to be congratu-
lated on securing a helpmate who is both
Intellectually, financially, and in point of
appearance, SO far above par
Mrs. Rockhill wife of the newly ap-
pointed minister to Greece, is another
bright and beautiful woman. The hand
some home of the Rockhills not far from
the British embassy and Brazilian lega-
ton, is also one of the coolest in this city
of homes. The only daughter, Miss Dor
othy, is a clever young lady, more fond
of her books than her bicycle, and with
a taste for travel inherited from her father
whose journeys in the most remote and
unfrequented portion of the Flowery
Kingdom were so well described in the
book he wrote a few years ago. Miss
RockhilI is spending the summer in
France, and is busy as bee studying
art.
Miss Alice Belknap, daughter of the late
Gen. Belknap, who was a member Of
Grants cabinet. enjoys great local fame
as a beauty. Like her well-remembered
father, she Is tall and blonde, with blue
eyes and yellow hair; but like her hand
some mother, she is slender and 1.-THE of
figure, with the daintiest hands and feet
to be found outside the Chinese legation.
The Belknaps live very quietly in a lovely
home near Eighteenth street; and not
long ago Miss Alices engagement with
a young gentleman attached to one of
the legation of Japan was chronicled.
Mrs. Phil Sheridan the generals widow,
is still bright, trim-figured young wo-
man, who would take high position in
any society by force of good looks and
charming manners without the added
prestige of her husbands fame. Her twin
daughters, lately "out' in society, though
very pretty girls, cannot hold
candle to their attractive
mother. She is a typical American
product, born and bred beneath "Old
Glory" and within sound of drum and
bugle. AS a girl she was the idol of
all the post where her father Gen. Ruck-
er, served; and since her residence at
Washington her house has become a sort
of army and navy social headquarters.
Fannie Brigham.