Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . uch-sought matron and the friend-ship between Mrs. E. A. Wilson and her is as fresh andstrong as when it began in girlhood. CHAPTER XII A BOUQUET OF BUDS The Three Graces, Junior, as Will Myers promptly-named them, made entree into real society later in the a prettier and more attractive trio ever turned the heads of male youth, I surelynever beheld them. MissesMary Triplett, Champe Con-way and Lizzie Cabell were,speaking coldly and afterthe lapse of four decades, aspretty women as ever I in face, figure andexpression, each foiled the
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . uch-sought matron and the friend-ship between Mrs. E. A. Wilson and her is as fresh andstrong as when it began in girlhood. CHAPTER XII A BOUQUET OF BUDS The Three Graces, Junior, as Will Myers promptly-named them, made entree into real society later in the a prettier and more attractive trio ever turned the heads of male youth, I surelynever beheld them. MissesMary Triplett, Champe Con-way and Lizzie Cabell were,speaking coldly and afterthe lapse of four decades, aspretty women as ever I in face, figure andexpression, each foiled theother. In mentality and charac-ter they differed as much asin looks, and the attractive-ness of the trio may have beenenhanced by this variety. Miss Cabell was of the gen-tlest and most dainty type ofwomanhood, conquering by simplicity combined with reigned in the later days of the war, her subjects beingher own sex as well as the opposite, but she never made thesame resounding echoes as either of her girlhoods friends. 146. If mrs. albert ritchie(lizzie cabell) BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE SIXTIES 147 She is now a fair and placid reminiscence of that former time,as the well-preserved Mrs. Albert Ritchie, of of that trio, strangely enough, made her home inthe Monumental City; Miss Champe Conway married CaptainJohn Moncure Robinson, a Philadelphian, who served onBreckinridges staff. Her children are familiar figures thereand her own life has become part of the social history of thetown. She died several years ago. Miss Tripletts career was the most meteoric of the was a veritable daughter of the gods, divinely fair andmost divinely tall; a perfect blonde, classic-featured andwtith wondrous, expressive eyes. She was lithe and sinuousof motion and infinitely graceful. Mentally, she was recep-tive and brilliant, her natural wit running to repartee thatstung sometimes beyond intent, and went abroad with widereaching glare of the searchlight.
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