Year: 1879

When Loolie DR. aper was not asleep
she was remarkably wide-awake baby.
She attracted general attention by the
beauty of her luminous eyes, and by her
tendency to jump and spring and smile
in answer to any notice that was taken
OF her. As soon rs she could run alone,
her lively gesticulations were great
source OF amusement. She waved her
hand with an air when she said, "How
do you do sirp" and in all her ways she
was very dramatic little person.
. Everybody said, What pretty child
What a bright little thing"


She had twin brothers but little older
than herself, her parents were poor, and
before che emerged II ON childhood sew
eral other babies were born; so she w:e
saved from being spoiled by engrossing
the whole attention of the family. Her
natural activity took the form of help
fulness, and she early manifested both
the disposition'an the capacity to man.
age and arrange everything for her
brothers and sisters. She had moth
erly way of washing their faces, combing
their hair and giving them talking, and
sometimes shaking, when they were
naughty. These domestic cares pre-
vented her being too much occupied
with exhibitions of herself; but her
temperament was too elastic to be rem
dered sluggishby any amount of pressure.
Shewas always very much alive in Ter
spirits, very pronounced in her opinions.
apd very prompt in her decisions. Her
father, who had very little of such quail
tiles himself. admired them greatly in
his daughter. He often looked after her
when she passed into the street, and
would remark, with smile of satisfac-
tion, Doodle always walks off as if she
was going somewhere" And her walk
was indicative of her character. She had
definite aims and she went straight
TO ward them.


In personal beauty her maturer years
surpassed the promise of infancy.
Everybody had said, "What a pretty
baby!" and everybody said, "What a
handsome grill" Her large hazel brown
eyes had long silky fringes; her abund-
ant hair was of the same color; her
cheeks were like the sunny side of a
peach, her lips were as ripely red as the
interior of pomegranate, and her form,
though inclining to be robust, was
admirably proportioned. A painter
might have chosen her as a model for IA
goddess of health. The dramatic ways
of her babyhood developed into an
amusing facility of initiating everybody
and everything, from the fizz fizz of n
mosquito to the groan of trombone.
Luckily, she was very good-natured, and
there was no malice in her mirth. OF
course, she was a favorite with the
young men of her acquaintance. The
girls generally liked her less, partly
from a consciousness of being somewhat
eelipsed by her brightness, and partly
from an underlined fear of those observ-
ing eyes, which seemed instantaneOusly
to daguerreOtype everybody's pecu-
liarities on her mind. She had more
than once heard it said, "That girl
would make capital actress" But she
knew very little about the theater, and
she had by nature more practical COM
mon sense than romantic love Of adven-
ture. A sea. captain, who was friend
of her father, used to say "Though
Loolie carries so much sail, she has
plenty of ballast aboard" Instead oi
studying for the stage, she helped heI
mother exc out their small income by
making stocks and vests for the mer-
chant tailoTs. This industry enabled
her to procure pretty ribbons, and 8
feather or flower to adorn the bonnets
which her own skillful- fingers manu-.
factursd. Nobody knew how she
learned millinery or anything else. HeI
mother said, "She can always do what
ever she sets out to. 1t seems to come
bynature." AS for singing and dancing
she took to them as a duck does to the
water, or bird to the air.


The straitened circumstances of hel
parents formed barrier to social dissi
patton; and moreover it was not so mucl
the fashion of those times as it is at tht
present day. She did, however, some
times go to small dancing parties; anC
no young man danced with her so fire
quently as Robert Norton. He was tai
and good looking, played on the flute
stepped well to music, and the expires
sion of his countenance indicated tina
he was on jovial good terms with him
self and all the world. He was accus
toned to say, g go in for having goo
time, and for helping others to have


good time" He very naturally though