Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . a little brown Crum! One of Mrs. Kings best remembered witticisms was theintroduction of the twoelegant Rhett brothers,Alfred and Edmund, in theoft plagiarized words: The Lihes! They toilnot, neither do they spin;yet Solomon in all hisglory is not so arrayed! Yet, Charleston never hadher salon, despite her havingMmes. King and Simonds andJames Conner, whom sheborrowed from her twinstate. With its many comingsand goings, Richmond offeredopportunity for Americanimitation of a salon, but the social leaders were not soinclined. The receptions at the White Hou
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . a little brown Crum! One of Mrs. Kings best remembered witticisms was theintroduction of the twoelegant Rhett brothers,Alfred and Edmund, in theoft plagiarized words: The Lihes! They toilnot, neither do they spin;yet Solomon in all hisglory is not so arrayed! Yet, Charleston never hadher salon, despite her havingMmes. King and Simonds andJames Conner, whom sheborrowed from her twinstate. With its many comingsand goings, Richmond offeredopportunity for Americanimitation of a salon, but the social leaders were not soinclined. The receptions at the White House, at Stanards, Mrs. Semmess, Mrs. Macfarlands, and, in their quieter way, at Mrs. VirginiaPegrams, were the perfect mixture of easy elegance andbrains in evening dress. But, at the executive mansion,the every evenings of Mrs. Davis took on this hkenessrather than those public—and necessarily mixed leveeswhich contemporaneous error insisted upon misnamingher salon. They are well worthy of a passing retrospect,. MRS. JAMES W. CONNER(SALLIE ENDERS) 196 BELLES, BEAUX AND BBAINS OF TEE SIXTIES for they were the most remarkable aggregations of distinctionand commonplace. Gradually, as she melted the social frost about her, collected the more important of Richmonds societyleaders, making of them, unawares, a sort of informal were always present, after the first few Washingtonimitations—as the bi-monthlies were at first called. Theyproved very attractive to the better posed and more distin-guished visitors, and weremost useful in letting thePresident and his wife devotemore attention to the plainerpeople. A military band was alwaysin attendance, generally dis-pensing popular music, butsometimes classic. Cabinetministers, congressmen,heads of bureaus and de- partments, new generals and ^wBP / ^^^^^r old admirals, fresh-faced ^^ - young recruits and distinc- tively foreign types from thecoast South, all mingled to-gether. There was more va
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