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Show BELLES OF BALTIMORE. A GROUP OF RARELY- BEAUTIFUL MAIDS AND MATRONS. The liveliness of, Three Charming Gillrf Coutrnsted with That of Tlirwe Married Ladles Ilaltimore Is tike Paris In On Respect. : :i MRS. JESPIK TTSON. Although the Monumental City has numerous numer-ous superb beauties, there are a half dozen to whom society with common consent awards the palin. They are the three young matrons, ma-trons, Mrs. Jesse Ty? on, Mrs. Alexand; : Brown, Mrs. Frank Brown, aud the three maidens, Miss Adele Horwitz, Miss Rebecca Williaais aud Misa Lota Robinson. Other loTely Baltiinoreans are Jlrs. Alfred Ritchie, he who was Virginia C-abell, Richmond-! famous Ixiauty ; Mrs. John Van Bibber, one time Moilie Lusby, with amber eyes and rich brown hair; Mrs. William Yates Perot, bru-natte, bru-natte, and dashing Lillie May, once tho fiancee fian-cee of James Gordon Bennett, and Louise Morris, the loveliest debutante of the past season. Baltimore is like Paris in that young married mar-ried women rule society aud receive tho homage hom-age of the tremendous swells, who pass the artiest debutantes by. A younjf matron whom no maiden can rival is Mrs Jesso Tyson. Ty-son. Tennysoa saw no lovelier in his "Dream of Fair Women." As Mi.-s J'oh.is, of a family pacrician aud old. she had hardly the successes suc-cesses of a modern belie. Every oue kww rr f mmMm MRS. ALEXANDER BROWX, her rt t-s wonderfully pretty, but she wai hy, and !t. wus n':t until her engagement to the wealthy bachelor, Mr. Jes Tyson, was announced that they awokfc to the fact that the loveliest maidon of the season was to be wed. Mr. Tyson w.;s worth a million or two, and two groneratious of U lies would willingly have 'aid their hearts at his feet. Miss Johns was scarcely IS when tho mar-Huge mar-Huge took p!nce. There was a year's sojourn on the continent, nnd when a year ago Mr. Bad Mrs. Tyf.o:i returned to their staU-ly home, Baltiinoreans f'Hind that tho bride was even loveiier than the debutante. Rathor short, but with a perfect figure, an oval faco, exquisitely modeled; masses of black hair, dark eyes, soft rather than sparkling; a mouth tender nnd nitful, of a manner matchless in its dignity that is the picture of the yoim matron whom men admire and women cctpiiiend. ITerve.ice has the frankness of i child's and the peculiar controlled quality of a high bred woman's. The pie; ure of her given bore it by a London artist, and in It her chief beauties, color and expression cannot be shown. Her cheeks are of as glowing red as MRS. 1RANK EROW.V. the rare Uli ich Brunner rose, and her expression expres-sion is at oueo modest and appealing. It has been said that Baltimore's leautiful women look alike, either bein.j fair Rnd lily like or unfathomably brunelte. M:s. Alexander Alex-ander Brown, though not reseml .'; ; Mrs. Tyson in feature, produces the same eifj-ct on the eye, for they both h ave tho sume blaclc j hair, dark eyes and rich coloring. Mi-s. j Brown has been married seven years and has ! two lovely little daughters. She was Miss Bessie Montagu, Baltimore born and bred, but many men outside her own city were lmr suitors, and it was said that two or three New York millionaires felt chagrined when they he.ird that the belle of Baltimore had chosen to marry iu her own 1 city. Mr.. Alexander Brown, is connected with the w'idelv known bariJring house ot Brown : Co., ami i. the only son of the senior member. Mrs. Alexander Brown looks lik& a girl of 13. Her figure is fairly perfect, her arms and throat being white, firm and rounded. round-ed. She wears her black hair a la Bretoune, uncurled and shaped to tho forehead. Not satisfied with dowering her with beauty, Nature has given her quiok wit, and she is a most excellent dinner companion, quick u lightnlue in her repartee nd a strange quality fn a woman a good raconteur. Mrs. Irauk Brown, wie of the postnaastar ef Baltimore, has for several years been considered con-sidered one of that city's prettiest woman, Bheis of medium height, of a beautifully rounded figure, with a face fair, dimpled and humor loving. Some of tho finest entertain-mv-its ia Baltimore have been given at her tnagnifloeut. Lorn-! ou Charles street. She is a perfect hostess and popular. She leaves euortly for Euiope, hT she will remain eighteen months, The most talked of beauty in the Monu- mental City is Adele Horwitz. She has a reputation as assured as that of Marion Langdon or Sallie Htirgous in New York, ami she has won her laurels as th6 Baltimore Bal-timore beauty par excellence in Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, Narragansett Pier and Bar Harbor. She is the only daughter of B. F. Horwitz, a prominent business man of Baltimore, and through her mother, who was the daughter of the world kuo-rn physician, Dr. Gross, she is connected with the best Philadelphia and Kentucky fumiiies. Sbo is tall, fairly slender, slen-der, and royally carries a head of marvelous beauty on her white shoulders. The coloring of that head is equal td its grace, for it is produced by the palest rose of the cheeks and the golden brown of the hair. Hor color is never high, but always of that pale tint seen in the hedge rose. Eyes blue and well opened, brows arched, nose fine and " MISS ADELE HORWITZ. small, and a riante mouth make up the bther attributes of the beautiful Miss llorwits. She has tho well groomed look of a high bred English Eng-lish girl, but dresses in tho quite fetching fashion of a French maiden. Two years ago, when she made her debut, even Baliiinors was taken by storm, for her mother, a witty, brilliant womun, gave a series of entertainments entertain-ments iu her honor. There was a luuchcou for ladies, a large theatre party the same night and a baj poudre the following evening, and by the three was Mile. Adele successfully launched She was seeti last winter ut tho Assembly iu Philadelphia and at several other balls in the Quaker City, aud was also one of the ridort at the Dumblaue hunt in Washington, whore several little dinners were givsn iu her Louor. A girl who is considered Very lovely iu Baltimore is Miss Roboccu Williams, -the daughter of au old and wealthy family who have lived for half a century in a fino browu-stoue browu-stoue on the historic Mount Vernon Place. Miss Williams has been an invalid for a year past, but her illness has only seemed to idealize ideal-ize and make her more lovely. She is of the MISS REBECCA WILLIAMS. second Baltimore tj-pe, that of the pxrie blonde. In addition to the beauty of soft blue eyes and fair hair, she has as lovely mouth and teeth as one ever sees and a peculiarly pecu-liarly winning expression. She is one of the few lovely American firls whom the great French portrait painter, Alexander Cabanel, consented to paint, and the picture used here is copied from it. At the timo she posed for the portrait she was ill, and it snows her more fragile than she Is, and with dark circles under the eyes. Miss Williams inherits her l)cauty, for a nealy portrait of her mother shows her to have beon a rarelv beautiful woman of the sama soft, refined typo as the daughter. Both hpr father and mother are dead, and it is through the former that she is related to the Bona-partes. Bona-partes. A younger sister, Miss Charlotte, is counted among Baltimore's pretty girls. Her face is piquant and charming and she has an exquisitely rounded figure. - tfli!w MISS LOTA ROBINSON. Not strictly beautiful, but with an arch and vivacious manner that makes her particularly par-ticularly attractive, is Mies Lota Robinson, daughter of Mrs. John M. Robinson, one ot the most famous society lead erf Baltimore has had in many a day. Mice Robinson is toil, gracefully formed, and dresses in a style peculiarly becoming to a brunette. She is a Lit dashing and daring in her dress, but her conservative city seems to like the change I from more demure beauties, and she is uni-j uni-j versally popular. I Carolina Sirrojr Pipph |