The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-11
NATIONAL BEAUTY SHOW.
ry,aPETUAL EXHIBIT AT THE Ma
TIONAL CAPITAL.

Some of the Beautiful Women Who
grace Washington SOciety-Every
stur in the Flag Sends Types of Its
Faircst to the Capital-The For
ei=n Beauties.
washington, July S.-The nations capi-
toI is. very properly, the headquarters of
tina beautv and fashion of the country, as
well as Of Its craftsmanship and intellect.
OF course, comparisons are odious"
among the hundreds of beautiful women
who grace the social functions of every
washington winter. and are now scat
tered far and wide in pursuit Of summer
Measures; but we may mention a few Of
them. as space will Notwithstanding
naturally. with the cabinet circle. The
new administration has brought into CAPT
tai society an unusually large number of
pretty girls and gay young men. The
Presidents family has been so often de-
scribed that everybody is familiar with
IL. even to his sisters and his cousins.
and his aunts," in Pinafore parlance. Per-
hans the prettiest of the cabinet young
ladies' is Miss Frances Alger-who used
TO be called FRANKIE and Fannie" out
in Michigan, before Mrs. Cleveland set
the fashion for more dignifed nomencla-
ure. This gentle Wolverine, the young
est daugter of the Secretary of War has
been out of school only about a year.
She is of the brunette type, with dark
eyes and hair, and a clear olive complex
ion. Music is her fad and she had trav-
Gov rrirl
ing twice joined Mrs. Logans parties in
tour of Europe.
Mrs. Helen Long, daughter of the Sec
rotary of the Navy. makes a charming
foil to Miss Alger, her style of beauty be-
ing Numerically opposite. She has dane
ing blue eyes, and mass of Titan red
hair with a strawberry and cream COM
plexon, freckles and ALL which usual
ly go with that capillary col
oring. Being somewhat sensitive
In regard to her brilliant but very
beautiful hair, she persuaded her father
10 buy a pair Of white horses for the
family carriage, in order to be spared the
vulgar looking around for the white horse,
which tradition says should accompany
the red-haired girl. Very slight and will
lowy of figure, she is extremely graceful,
with a sweet graciouSneSs and dignity of
manner which fits her we'll to supply her
absent stepmother's place in society. She,
too, is a musician, and an accomplished
linguist.
Secretary Wilson'S daughter has been
the head of her fathers household ever
since the death of her mother, which oc-
CURED some years ago. Tall and slen-
der, she looks as fragile as a wind-swept
lily stalk; and she has the Irish combina-
ton of black hair and blue eyes with
fecks of brown in them. She has al
ready won some fame as a writer of
stories and short sketches, and is also the
possessor of a soprano voice of remark
able range and sweetness.
Postmaster General Gary Is blessed
with seven daughters-four of whom are
married, and the engagement of the fifth
Miss Lilian-has just been announced.
This eldest of the unmarried girls of the
house of Gary is a belle of bellies in Bal
timore-a city famous for its beautiful
women, you know. AN the Gary sisters
are handsome and musical, and Miss Lii
Ian displays both of the family gifts in a
marked degree.
Attorney General McKenny has two
charming daughters. The engagement of
Miss Isabel. the elder, to Peter Martin.
sturdy business man of the Pacific slope
whose plain name and palmer person are
onset by few millions in money-was an
houneed few months ago. But the mar
rage will not take place this year. per-
maps not during Judge McKenny's official
term. Miss Marie McKenny is an uncom-
monty pretty girl tall, slim and graceful,
with dark eyes and hair of chestnut
Drown She is an ardent athlete, and a
prime taVorite among the young people
IN diplomatic circles beauty is so abso-
iutely rampant that among them Paris
would have found his ancient task of
awarding the golden apple an impossible
cholce. Nine. Lazo de Arriage, wife of the
Guatemalan minister, is both young and
charming, though the, mother of five lit
ue children. She is a Cuban by birth, but
was educated in France where she was
married at the very early age which is
considered de riguer among the Latin peo-
pes, she has a sweet girlish face, with
.oNely complexion and heavy dark hair
Mne. Hegenmuller, wife of the ambassa-
SOi from Austria, is a remarkably fine
Sg3oA'ng woman-tall, erect, with a very
ber ssu ulsned, carriage and patriclan air,
~ uark beauty well set off by her aris-
,'IaIc bearing. Baron Hegenmuller too
handsome man, and as the couple
~ plenty OF money and are always in
pgIlect style and form" they NAV he
riiassed among the best looking of the di-
n ~ matte set. Nine. Dupuy de Lone, wife
VI lhe envoy extraordinary and minister
bsvr5potentlary from Spain, is a strikingly
t, some woman, her face being the pure
A. ol the brunette Castilian beauty. She
utsses royalty. and is one of the figures
H. 'st eagerly looked for in the many rich
ma appointed carriages that appear daily
upon our drives
~ "ne' Rengifo, wife Of the first secretary
be.,uie colombian legation is another
ply OF the first water. She was Miss
r,e.gsF daughter of a rich Washington
bio,,'1Inaht, now deceased. She Is a perfect
eves 'e, OF the bisque figure type, with blue
COM, solden hair, and delicately tinted
i79s ileAlon. The Colombian legation. No
mn street, Is a beautiful home. where
tbe slacetul hospitality Is dispensed bv
MOI lung host and hostess. Mime. Pate
has, the girlish wife Of the French am
bIorS-or Is an extremely pretty woman
tIes 'e slender and yet in her early tween.
mld8t. me ambassador, who Is tall. dark.
mai @eed and aristocratic-IooIsing
bv s. ms delcately tinted consort lools
frag1a' 'Iast more than ever like a bit OF
d9Dgh, Cnina. Miss Margret cana.
igter ser OF Don Domingo Cana. the min.
sntas t ~ 7, Chid was one Of the few debut.
has rc, ~ diplomatic circles last winter. she
assoc,',esot the brunette tinting which one
but N.Y. with the daughters Of spain.
ana i~t. yes are as blue as the tropie sea
and MY ,...H3l r waves softly about her sweet
The My race. Nine. Romero. wife ~
bv hi,eican minister, is n phiioAotnttaa