Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-10

ALWAYS PRETTY

Whether our presidents have been men
OF opportunity or men of determination.
they nave certainly had chosen or thrust
upon them. very pretty wives. And. in
looking into a gallery of White House
DANES side by side with one of Eng
lands queens, one is struck by the love
illness of the former in comparison with
the usliness of the latter.
Martha Washington was one of the
most attractive Of all women, for NOT
only did her first husband. Col. IIustis.
ieaVe her a large property, but nature
iiau given her a certain bewitching rus
TIC beauty She had nut-brown eyes and
hair, a well-shaped tiny figure and the
most engaging manners 90
Her successor in the White Ho,,so ,,s
scarcely less gifted, for Abigail Adams
was OF the frail, ethereal type of face
that gains the name of ''beautiful,, ar
sisht. She was not unlike Mrs. Mckin-
ley, who has always been called q varv
pretty oma One writer, giving a pen-
picture of her four years ago. saws. uT
must allude again to Mrs. McKinley's
f1oWerlike face"
A FLATTERING DESCRIPTION.
washington Irving described Dolly
Madlson and her sisters, Mrs. Cults and
MIS-. washington, as like the merry
wives vi WINDSOR Mrs. Madison" he
says, was a fine. pretty, buxom dame.
Win q smile and a pleasant word for
everybody" Though born in North
Caarolina. Dolly Madison was one of tho
Paynes of Virginia. a family famous fnr
It's beautiful women. She was married
to James Madison when she was %
years old. She was at that time , o,,,.
widow with a child. At the time of ba,.
death she was "a very CAV old ,od,,
with much rouge on her cheeks" INT
lovely of character.
Less Is known of Elizabeth X. Monroo
tnah or any other White House ladv
Inc records say of her that she wo
dlshliled, stately. and the possession of
a Face upon which beauty was undeni-
ably stamped.
Or Louisa Katherine Adams If was
said that she established the ezra Of
good feeling in London. While her hus-
band was minister to England she set
a hospltable table, to which all ware
invited, and at which she discoursed
on music. painting and sculpture. I
lights coming and going in her intel
lectual face"
Both of President Tyler's wives were
W~ell-faVored women. The fir i. Letitia
|HiiolidH' NdS one OF the bellies of east
ern Virginia. The second, married near
the close of the presidential term, was a
Miss Gardner, well known to the present
generation of Washingtonians. She was
educated abroad and was the loveliest
woman of her day, 1874, when she mar
ried President Tyler.
A VERY RICH FIRST LADY"
Mrs. Sarah Polk was born with a gold
spoon in her mouth. She was the richest
and most accomplished woman that ever
entered the White House. An English
novelist made her his heroine, thus de-
scribing her: Her hair is very black
and her dark eyes and complexion re-
mind me of the Spanish donnas." And
a graceful writer of the day said:
Modest, yet all a queen shou d be,
I love to keep thee in my m nd.
Abigail Fillmore followed her, and OF
her an enthusiastic writer said: she
is commanding in person. for she is
nearly six feet tall and Of exceeding
fairness of complexion and delicacy OF
features. Her light, luxuriant hair falls
in flowing curls around her head"
Mrs. Franklin Pierce was the OIL,
White House lady whose personality ha-
little nance to assert itself. On the way