The Minnesota Pioneer

Mrs. Butler Her Appearance--
Dress-Stoutness.--The Boston Mail
has the following in relation to the personal
appearance of this distinguished
lady:

Mrs. Kemble (Butler) has greatly
changed since last the writer of this article
saw her as the fair Rosalind some
eighteen years ago. Then she was the
bright and elegant girl-now she is "fat,
fair and forty," or thereabouts; she is
rather a superior specimen of the stout
English woman, at least in her physical
proportions; at fisticuffs she would whip
Pierce Butler, and give him six for a
start. She looks as though roast beef
and plum pudding had done their perfect
work; but beyond this robust, almost
coarse exterior, the contour of her features
is highly classic-her forehead is
broad, and would be high, did not her
thick, jetty hair grow so far down towards
her nose as somewhat to obscure
the real outlines of her "dome of
thought;" her eyes are dark and lustrous
as though a volcano was burning
behind them-expressive of all the passions,
emotions, sympathies, and "wealth
of words" that press upon her massive
brain.

She was dressed not becomingly-fat,
stout women never look well in white,
tinselled out with lace. Her dress was
cleanly and neat, and showed her taste
to advantage--to great advantage, for in
it she looked almost dowdy. However,
it is no sign of intellect to show a
taste for dress. Fanny Kemble would
detect a want of this taste in others as
quick as thought-in her own person she
would be the last to discover it.