Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . Bulfinch street, Boston, but the war wasover then, and she had quite *forgotten her Montgomeryengagement. Mrs. Semmes was a queen among hostesses Miss Myra Eulalie Knox,of Montgomery, she hadqueened the bellehood of herown and other cities. Whenshe married the rising andbrilliant lawyer she held herconquests in New Orleans,the watering-places and inthe capitals of the old andnew federations. Gracious,quick-witted and diplomatic,she had been educated in themore solid as well as theshowier was a born actress andan admirabl
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . Bulfinch street, Boston, but the war wasover then, and she had quite *forgotten her Montgomeryengagement. Mrs. Semmes was a queen among hostesses Miss Myra Eulalie Knox,of Montgomery, she hadqueened the bellehood of herown and other cities. Whenshe married the rising andbrilliant lawyer she held herconquests in New Orleans,the watering-places and inthe capitals of the old andnew federations. Gracious,quick-witted and diplomatic,she had been educated in themore solid as well as theshowier was a born actress andan admirable musician, play-ing the harp with especialgrace and excellence. These . MRS. T. J. SEMMES gilts quickly and easily car- (from a portrait by healy) ried her to social leadership in Richmond, and there herhouse was a center for the most distinguished of the men ofthe hour, and no less for that young set whom she enter-tained to their hearts content, and used to that of her addition to the traits named, this matron had another. 114 BELLES, BEAUX AND BBAIN8 OF THE SIXTIES and a better one. She was a real and unaffected altruistlong ere that word grew to be a fad. So there was no moreopen house than the one opposite the executive residenceand it held a singularly notable mess: Vice-PresidentStephens, her husbands colleagues, Senator Sparrow andSenator Garland, of Arkansas. Another habitue of theSemmes household and almost a member of it was Soule, of their state, former senator and minister toSpain. This statesman, advocate and orator had a handsomeface, introspective and rather priestly, that suggested littleof the hot blood that would have spitted the Marquis deTourgot, French ambassador to Spain, because the youngDuke of Alva let a too glib tongue suggest an unpleasantlikeness to Madame Soule. The cause celebre of that challengeand of the resulting and harmless duel of young NevilleSoule with the Duke of Alva was laughed out of becoming aninternational complica
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