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Show 'MORE THAN QUEEN - . WA3 DOLLY MADISON IN THE LONG AGO. I RuIeJ Long Over American Hearts the First Lady of Tre Land I Marriage vKh Madison Wn ' Her Second. boityj'tadlson! Trulj tho name It self U one to conjure with. To pn even wio forgets all the dates, and battles and great generals and bthei momentous events of hlstdry. It cllngi with persistence like the lingering per fume of some oW sweetness, wrltei Cora A. Moore In Hioadway. ltmeani dimples and coqiretr) and laughlui eyes and all the cltami and witchery that make syne women wonderful Air this Dolly was. tho deniUre Quakei maiden from Philadelphia, who,burst from the cluysalts of a somber girl hood to the brilliant butterfly exist ence of a wonianlioi.il that found hei the absolute qneen bt joclet), the'arbl ter of thexposltlons of the day, the flrsl lady of the land! " Her parents, who vere Pi lends, haa moved from Vlrgln'a to PhlladerpblE for the advantages of the religious associations here afforded. Dorothea theycalled her Dorothea then used to wajk on Chestnut afreet In that afternoon piomenade wjilch ChestnUt street Bttll celebrates, jtnd she wist fully watched the ladle? of fashion Ir 'their gay brocades and bright-colored .'Ilk stockings that peeped beneath 'their petticoats; for .her hea.rt dearly loved all the sinful, pretty fineries thai bcr faith rebuked. At 19 she mar rled, aa her parents wished, John Todd, a staid and proper Quaker, a lawyer of Philadelphia. At 3 she wai a widow, and then 1t was, that she began be-gan to develop as herself. ' Aaron Burr had asked permission' to bring to call on her one of the rlslni statesmen of the day, and all In a flutter flut-ter the gay young widow wrote a.wora-an a.wora-an friend that the "great little Madison Madi-son U coming to-fcee me this1 evening." She got herself up In a mulberry satin gown that set off to advantage the pearly white and dellcato rose tlnta of1 her complexion, and when. In her mother's candle lighted parlor, she extended ex-tended a sort, dimpled hand to the unimpressive un-impressive little man In a suit of black, with ruffled shirt and silver shoe buckles, he was almost overcome by the radiance of her beauty, the laughing eyes of Irish blue and the saucy black cutis that escaped from the demure xa of white tulle. She was the loveliest woman ho had ever met, and he wont at once about hit wooing. In a few months tho rumor of an engagement was afloat In society. so-ciety. Maltha Washington, with the privilege of a family connection, made bold to ask Mrs. Todd how matters stood. When the widow blushlngly admitted the truth, she was assured that It was all right and that the match should have the blessing of President and Mrs. Washington. There followed a splendid wedding. The dun colored Quaker abode in Phil-a Phil-a delphla was not grand enough, and so It was celebiafed In Virginia, at Hatowood', tho home of the bride's sister, and It was a very different scene from the first wedding that took place In the Friends' meeting houre. |