Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1876 — Pen Portraits of Some Noted Women. [ARTICLE]

Pen Portraits of Some Noted Women.

Very intellectual women are seldom beautiful. Their features, and particularly their foreheads, are more or less masculine. Hut there are exceptions to alTrules, and Mrs. London was an exception in tfiis one. She was exceedingly feminine and pretty. Mrs. Stanton,likewise, was an exceedingly handsome woman; but Miss Anthony and Mrs. Livermore are both plain. Maria and Jane Porter were women of high brows and irregular features, as was also Miss Sedgwick. Anna Dickens?n has a strong masculine face. lvatc Fields has a goodlooking but by no means a pretty face. Mrs. Stowe is thought positively homely. Mrs. Burleigh, on the contrary, is very fine-looking. Alice and Phoibo Cary were very plain in features, though their sweetness of disposition added greatly to their personal appearance. Margaret Fuller had a splen* did head, hut her features were irregular, and she was anything but handsome—though sometimes in the glow' of conversation she appeared almost. Charlotte Bronte had wonderously beautiful dark brown eyes and a perfectly shaded head. She wss small to diminutiyeness, and was as simple in her manners as a child. Jalia Ward Howe is a fine-looking woman—wearing an aspect of grace and refinement, and of great force of character in her face and carriage. Olive Logan is anything but handsome in person, though gay and attractive in conversation resembles Charlotte Bronte both pi personal appearance and in the sad experience of her youthful life. Neither Mary Booth nor Marian liar land can lay claim to handsome faces, though they

are splendid foCcimens of cultured women while Mary Cleinmer Ames is just as pleasing in features as her writings are graceful and popular.—Ntv> Haven Register.