Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . that onlylove and religion can bring. Those of the younger sister havebeen brightened by the fine maturity of three sons, but deeplyshadowed later by the loss of two. Captain Edward ,chief of the Electrical Bureau, United States Army SignalCorps, was laid at rest atArlington in the fulness ofa brilliant and useful Frank J. Ives, whowas surgeon on Chaffees staffin China, was later in thePhilippines. He was men-tioned in General Batessreport of the Cuban cam-paign; and years ago inIndian wars won the title ofthe fighting doctor. Onlyin No
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . that onlylove and religion can bring. Those of the younger sister havebeen brightened by the fine maturity of three sons, but deeplyshadowed later by the loss of two. Captain Edward ,chief of the Electrical Bureau, United States Army SignalCorps, was laid at rest atArlington in the fulness ofa brilliant and useful Frank J. Ives, whowas surgeon on Chaffees staffin China, was later in thePhilippines. He was men-tioned in General Batessreport of the Cuban cam-paign; and years ago inIndian wars won the title ofthe fighting doctor. Onlyin November last, he waslaid to rest beside his elderbrother, at Arlington. The ° . MRS. CLARA SKMMKS FITZ-GERALD youngest son, a lawyer, lives (from a portrait by sully) in Arizona. And so, amid soft lights and gentle shadows, sunset was awaited by the tender twain. It came first to the elder sister. Mrs. Clara Semmes Fitz-gerald died at the Ives home, in Saratoga Springs, on Sep-tember 7, 1906. In the supreme calm of her great faith hey. 120 BELLES, BEAUX AND BBAINS OF THE SIXTIES sister now awaits the new meeting with the loved ones gonebefore. In all the mad rush of that pre-hellum winter in Washing-ton, 1860-61, when grave heads shook ominously and lightheels danced over a powder magazine and recked little whenthe fuse might reach, one handsome woman was constantlyin evidence. Colonel A. C. Myers, of the quartermaster-generals department, had married the brilliant and pictur-esque daughter of old General David E. Twiggs, of MexicanWar fame. Grave and reticent as he was polished and ac-complished, the husband was much older than his , he had as perfect a contempt for what he calledsociety as his wife held delight in it. No Othello in character,Colonel Myers was willing to let the young beauty dance andfritter the hours away at will. For several seasons prior tothe war she had been the reigning queen of Willards and afavored guest in every fashionable house. Her dan
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