Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . ung and beautiful. Thesewere met at dinners and allgustatory functions, but theyrarely attended the ballsand still more rarelydanced. The plain gold ringseemed the badge of socialservitude to home andnursery, as inexorable as thewelded collar of the feudalserf. Most of these fair youngtyrants are now grand-mothers, where they havenot crossed the boundaryinto the misty beyond. Andthose then unmated charm-ers, bright-eyed and daring in dance and flirtation, tender ofheart while firm of hand in hospital and sick-camp—alas!some of them are grandmothers, too.
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . ung and beautiful. Thesewere met at dinners and allgustatory functions, but theyrarely attended the ballsand still more rarelydanced. The plain gold ringseemed the badge of socialservitude to home andnursery, as inexorable as thewelded collar of the feudalserf. Most of these fair youngtyrants are now grand-mothers, where they havenot crossed the boundaryinto the misty beyond. Andthose then unmated charm-ers, bright-eyed and daring in dance and flirtation, tender ofheart while firm of hand in hospital and sick-camp—alas!some of them are grandmothers, too. Time whets the re-lentless scythe for Beauty no less than the Beast. Where, where are the Anns and Elizas,Loving and lovely, of yore?Look in the columns of old advertisers—Married and dead hy the score!Few society men from abroad failed to note this undisputedsupremacy of the unmated in all the gayer functions of Rich-mond. To me it constantly seemed that the young peoplehad seized society while their elders heads were turned, and. mrs. thomas r. price(lizzie triplett) BELLES, BEAUX AND BBAINS OF THE SIXTIES 139 had run away to play with it for a time, so I always looked tosee some older ones come in, with reproof upon their brows,and take charge of it again. But I looked in vain, and onenight at a dinner I remarked this to my neighbor, suggestingthat it was only because of the war. She was one of the mostcharming women society could boast, scarcely out of herhoneymoon, beautiful, accomplished and very gay. Visitors always remark that, she answered. But itis not the result of the war or of the influx of strangers. SinceI can remember, only unmarried people have been allowed togo to parties by the tyrants of seventeen, of whom I was married folks do the requisite amount of visiting and tea-ing out. Sometimes we even rise in our wrath and come outto dinner. But a dance or a ball? No, as soon as a girlmarries, she must make up her mind to pay her bridal visits,dance a f
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