The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-03

handsome and intellectual face and
compact voluptuousness of form are
unerring denominators of ideal sex
ual equipment. Gail would have been
hoodlum had her surroundings been less
elegant and elevated, for she was simply
an overgrown and averaged maiden, with
breath like new-mown hay and an i'm
partial kiss that compelled Emma Abott's
oscillations to take balcony seat. Anna
was as well-rounded as a Hebe, and she
wore her hair short and carried a face that
was surprisingly intellectual and beautiful
She was great favorite with President
Lincoln and Senators Sumner and Fessen-
demand all the great Republicans, in fact,
Of 1861-5. She talked like a politician; her
language was good and she never wanted a
word. She could rise to heights Of elo-
quence, yet betrayed little of the poetic in
her nature. She drew great audiences for
five or six years, as a lecturer, and made
bushels of money, and then got stage
struck and became an ''angel" for a COM
pany that supported her In Hamlet"
which cost her pretty sum. 1t shocked
her friends and surprised all others to see
this modest Quakeress, who had always
illustrated extreme simplicity of dress, ap-
make "a palpable hit" as the melancholy
Dane, 1t required no attenuated apparel to
encase those substantial anatomical mem
bers that had never before been seen out
side the sacred precincts of her own bou-
doir. Olive was passably fair, embonpoint
and approaching 49, She dressed la mode,
and used neither stand nor notes. Her
voice was clear and musical, her manner
f,.o,, IL ft,,er io11x
without losing her platform dignity, and
as effervescing as a freshly opened Moet
and c. In 1887 one day after the celebra-
ton Of the Queens jubilee, was walking
along Oxford street with George Alfred
Townsend, when we came across Miss Lo-
gan standing in front of the Princess the
alter. who quickly informed us that she was
doing the press work. for that place of
amusement, which had been leased by
Mr. Irving to Miss Grace Hawthorne, a
young American actress of more than or
binary promise. She took us upstairs,
wrote out pass for a box and then bun
died us out, willy-nilly, on the top of an
omnibus to tea given by Miss Braddon,
the novelist, where we met young Charles
Dickens, Wilkie Collins died in 1880, Rider
Haggard, Millais, George Augustus Sala,
Miss Agnes Huntington of Boston. Miss
Mary Johnston (NIlle. Decca) of Washing
ton, and a host of London actors and
actresses and writer's for newspapers AMI
magazines. / perceived that the tea" it.
self was not of that unsubstantial, Peck
snffian order that masquerades under the
patronymic of Russian" that can get the
drop on a superb stomach quicker than d
variegated circus lemonade; but that it
was an artistic blend of ambrosial ingre-
dents that made the eye more lustrous the
tongue more eloquent and the ensemble
more rapturous and divine. Grace was
also a large woman, with an avoirdupois
and form never delineated in fashion plates,
and she lectured as she wrote. making you
feel all the while that she was good and
refined mother and wife. Cora was gentle
and overlooking with tenderness for the
'noble red man." with never a teardrop
for the pioneer" that had fricaseed on the
plains