The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-17


~ othen whose years extend beyor
~ sne cataclysmic day when Sumter w;
:, ieu on. Love. wretchedness ar
~ mourning. while the contendin
J, armies marched and counternarched-
.ese' 100. are recalled-as thong
;. .le peiies OF the near but earlier yeaI
II had all vanished from the nation
hen. merged In the victories and de
o shes OF men who SO bloodily filed tn
IS Popular eye -
II Sriinant or obscured, the -rnemor
j ~ those women who most appealed :
n me imagination by their beauty an
n treir wit during the era of the civ
\ var mas not wholly passed away. And
i! as Lending touch OF color to soene
Usually painted only In the most som
r une shadows, their faces and thei
i ..al.s are well worth picturing again
8 II only for the passing day.
/ me eve OF the mighty conflict foun,
! Washington seething with tbe noIitic
5 which We're In reality the preliminarie
or war. Social diversions there wer
, IN p!enty. and as many heartburn;np
! anu heartoreakings as the piping tina,
VI peace can ever produce; perhan,
more. y!
one rivalry. which had endured 10,
SSars IN the political field before tbe
gaze or the whole nation, ended witt
tne triumph OF contestant whom the
s esane quite heartily and sincerely
u .,s The political victory OF
struggle which Mrs. Lincoln waead
curing her residence in tina WITT
house to maintain the dignity OF -bs
administration, with SO much Of a,ri.
ety to support by social prestige ,ba
one man In the whole land whose r,,es
Eed mightlness 1t could only hair d..
| simulate tiaAi us
| EVEN the devotion of Mary lincoln
70 her husband, welding all the move,
oeiohg1ns to the White House as tho
source and centre OF society, co,,ld
u,in lhe social splendor that at
sehoen her old adrnirer. Douglas ,ha
dashtng. the picturesque. tina dis,tr
eulshed, who had stood for ALI Tho,
vas proud and dominant, while rba
..t.,' eWu. plain Lincoln, his living an
s.tnesls' seemed forever fated 70 Va
main the mouthpiece of the mob
Mrs. Lincoln herself was to ba AZ.
counted handsome woman dur;na
Use Use years Of flashing gold lace .nS
~ a,u on oNicers' uniforms and OF i'm.
. nuas silks adjoining the ladies. al
Com,+s oeptions- But the radiant Adele
l.s' whom Douglas married +ai1
stately and simply Unaffected g., 49,
uiess and her dignity. carried all ~
soclai prestige that attached "a ~
sfananiece OF Dolly Madison ava
sssseo all the distinction OF ms, go
.iiaL stamps the woman of tho 80,
world " the social
a sisnlfcant glimpse of wasbi,..
u ha for novelty is affordss NJ ~
n eeai,ihs or the circumstance thar
hv ~ <Auete Douglas-hts second wife.
SO way--who set the fashion Of
hv ~ ming afternoon into eyenins
shutters ,, OF her residence AND ts slia
'itsheihs the gas Jets The effac, da
dshted her when she made the ir;.ta,
: ~ pe4 iHeht. as 1t caught the fancy -
sns guests whom she subseouentI,,
siteo. She seized around the wsist
siri friend who was with her and =,
tutssu IN a waltz of enthusiasm arorna
ne drawing room. .. ouilo
Charming Hoatess.
Douslas may well serve as tbe
:, - - aonired and charming hostess
~ bn,t,II.e just Preceding the outbreak
nada When every woman who {
'oops OF enormous size and bonnet.,
10 coaiscuttle, while the flowers tba+ ,
we're ordered for her decoration a, =
CO. !iieu box as big as those in
'hich modistes now send homo n,ho -
own. Aoii'e "ho4e I
MOST prominent in capital societv |
as MRS. Harriet Lane Johnston. niece !
: resident Buchanan. a woman of !
iueti beauty and very great distlnc- !.
. ~ " manner as well as charm. She ).
rs; .ne laoy or the White House"
- tae administration OF her I'M 8
le' assuming the responsibilities or :,
oless when she was only e6 wears old
me four years during which she +,
eiu sway We're among the most bril-. ~
ant socially In the history OF the s.
llieal, and, In 1860, she entertained the NJ
.te King Edward of Great Britain,
zen FRINGE OF Wales. Her marriage IN
Henry Elliott Johnston, of Bait. E
ofe' TOOK place in 1856. For many "
L, MIS- Johnston was a prominent m
90 influential figure in Washington,
mere mere she later made her home. al
Death, that spared her. waited only Iii
ltil the war was over TO take away w
g most brilliant and most admired m
iiue the South had ever held--Mrs. st
lVer Schoolcraft, who, as Matte Guild, to
rs not In her teens when the war II
gan. She was only Il child when sha tn
'came the most ravishlng debutante ar
clety had known. with wit thot vi
IS quoted everywhere. She was the tn
40 oei!e, anu many girl lost to her
arms the lover whom she made M ur
deavor to take away. They still re- tn
u In Richmond. one of her fam W,
spirit. 800 70
Several lawyers We're present a. III
nner. where she was a guest. One su
them, notorious for his bibu,oms Sc
paclty as We'll IS for his exagrora. un
ms s. heasted th9t he had earned a t sh
roe, y,
7 nigh doubt the stored earn. pc
marked Miss Guild, "but I'm s,,ro III
was equal to that animated hps,sa 49, IN
rh@ women OF the North, to wbnm 1el
sIera Of the Civil War was one no =, COZ
the, battletields l,pa,,' u , Gnu sons bo
70 desoatioh which the var,,, ~ ca
tunes q the campaigns vis,te a ga
= th ,as SOUTH But many OF them -,
ps .ne q vgrst horrors Of war in tho p pe
rises j ~, ,I'sa service as hospital the
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