Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 September 1895 — Page 6

HE MAII!

A PAPEK

RUK THE

PEOPLE

BAB'S LETTER.

[Copyright, 1896.]

This is just about the time when one "begins to feel the influence of olothea. That in, the influence of not having the right kind. Summer lingers in the lap of autumn, to such an extent that one doesn't want to buy new frooks right I away, and yet—and yet, one doesn't •want to look dressed unsuitably. That's -where a man's oritiolam comes in. He doesn't know whether your frook is made after a certain epoch, or after a design worn by some light-hearted lady of long ago but he does know if it is adapted to the occasion. He knows -whether you are right, and can't he look a woman down when he thinks she is wrong! I rather agree with men in their opinion of what constitutes good dressing. They like trig-looking things, but they don't like the severe tailor made. They think velvets, feathers, ribbons and laces are suited to a woman, and they find no place for horn buttons, and stiff, masculine-looking belongings iu a feminine wardrobe. All the world over a man likes to see a woman dressed in black.

BLACK THE CHIEF ATTRACTION,

A Frenobman wiil refuse to go on the street with a woman who isn't dressed In black. A Russian will decline to promenade between the acts at the opera in the grand foyer unless the chosen lady wears a toilette of the sombre hue, while an Englishman always prefers his womankind to wear black in public places, and I think even an American would like to *ee the feminine part of his household gowned in it, but he is considerable of a coward and don't dare to say so. A party of women I know once set out to find out what their chosen men thpught the most desirable of frocks. Said the first to her husband: "What shall I wear to that dinner tonight?"

And he answered: "Oh, that handsome frook with the falling stuff on it." This explanation meant a blaok velvet dinner gown with a black tulle train.

The second said to her young man, with whom she was going out to drive: "Now, darling, I am going to dress to please you. What shall I wear?"

And he, being an ungrateful somebody, announced: "Oh, you have only got one real pretty frock, that crlnky thing with frills." She bad three gowns from Worth and two from Felix, and .the cLosen one was a blaok orepon trimmed with frills of French lace and made by a dressmaker at home.

The third one had just married the dearest fellow in the world, and away from all their loving relatives and friends, she, wisely enough, desired to appear as if she bad been married for .. several years, and considered a wedding nothing of any moment. So she said? "Dick, what shall I wear down to dinner to-night?"

Her trousseau bad been gotten in Paris, and she was supposed to have frocks for every occasion in life and every emotion that a woman could possibly feel. And this lion-hearted Rich ard, who had dared matrimony, shoved his hands in bis pockets, stretched out his legs in the way men do when they #xerct8e their brains, and said: "Well, •you certainly have one and that's that one with sleeves!" So passeth away the glory of the French modiste! The frock referred to had been made by my lady's maid out of two old ones, a black cloth and a black velvet, and, horror of horrors! it had not been deemed worthy o? a place in the new trunks.

A LITTLE MIXRD.

The last trial was made with an elderly Friend —whose religion taught him that dress was as nothing, and whose wife paid six or seven dollars a yard for dove-oolored silk, that she might not look like the people of the world. His daughter said, "Father, we will go out for a walk, and I'll dress to please thee what shall I wear?" He looked at her critically, and then he answered, "I have admired thy clothes very much, though they seem like vanity, but of them all I like best that one thatseemeth to glitter with spaikling jewels, and that other that was not unlike the oolor of the bright flowers in thy mother's garden."

Cross-examination

proved that the one

with the glittering jewels was a blaok crepon trimmed with black jet but the one like unto the flowers—shades of Hicks and Fox and all by-gone Quakers! it was a bright scarlet yachting dress decorated with gilt braid. The old gentleman's eyes were healthy, but like the gayer ones, he also leaned toward the rich black toilette.

American women have never had the appreciation of black velvet that the Russian women, whom they most re semble, display. It Is certain that a more becoming gown cannot be worn, and its soft pile frames and brings out the delicate flower-like beauty of the American aa no other fabric ever does.

Speaking of tUe Quaker gentleman** fancy for red reminds me that there is a certain vogue just now in being redhaired. For, If there hadn't been that little leaven of hereditary burning locks, why should that most fascinating of Englishmen, young Rudolph Raasendyll, have gotten into so much trouble during bl» stay in Zenda? What charming play that is!

DELIGHTFUL, MYTHICAL LAND! When, last winter, I picked up the little book, and for one evening forgot about everyday life In America, and lived In a romantic country where great deeds were possible, where true love

existed, and where, for dear love's sake, and beoauae it was right, a man and a woman were willing to do their duty aud Huffer, I thought it a pleasure to live for a little while in that country, even if that country and all ita people were bound in a tiny volume. But the other night, when the ourtaln went up and showed that beautiful German forest, and I listened to the sturdy, loyal friend, who stood by the king, no matter what happened, when I looked at the beautiful prinoess who to-day found Rudolph more attractive than he was yesterday, and yet couldn't tell why, then I realized that if Zenda wasn't on the map it was the fault of those stupid people who draw maps, and who are, after all, very inoorreot in their geography. Why, the whole thing was there.

I saw that gentle lady who, so muoh younger than her husband, loved not wisely, but, oh! so very, very well, that good-looking German prinoe. I saw the duel fought betweeu the husband and the prince, and I knew that in the next geceration there would be somebody with Titian red looks because, as the French say, "enfant d'amour rassemble toujonrs le pere." And it showed a prettylsentiment in the Rassendyll family that always there was a seoond son named Rudolph, and a pretty coquetry in native that al xays this seoond son had locks such as made Cleopatra beautiful, such as framed the Borgia's face, and which made Titian's wife the envy of all other women. It wasn't strange that, when this young Englishman visited Zenda, the

ROMANTIC 8IDE GAME UPPERMOST,

for at heart every Englishman is romantic. There was the forest there was the hunting lodge where the king was drinking himself into forgetfulness of his duties, and there was Black Michael, as black-hearted a villain in reality as he was in oomplexlon, but here, why, who is this?

Is it Lord Chumley? No. Is it that Master of Woodbarrow Is it the young rake who was made so unhappy by the dancing girl? No, no it is not any of these men. Neither is it my disreputable friend, Mr. Raegen. It's a blonde, red-headed young Englishman, with manners delightfully free and easy, and who wins my heart and your heart as not one of these other men ever did, and I'll tell you why.

Rudolph Rassendyll, with all his lightness, with all his happy go-lucky manner, is at the same time very much in earnest, and then—and then he is very muoh in love, and it is such a beautiful love! It is a love that is willing to sacrifice itself to that which is right. Men do that every day, and women too, but we don't always see it so well pictured on the mimio stage, nor do we always find that the object is so well worth it as was this dainty Princess. People talk a great deal about elevating the stage.. TEARS OF SYMPATHY AND APPRECIATION,

My experience has been that the people who talk so much have very little time to do auything, but, without saying one word about the greatness of his art, or hi9 ability, or anythlpg else except his desire to please bis friends, Mr. Sothern has made the stage better than before. He has done more. He has made bis audience better by putting before it a romantic picture of life, perfectly framed, with each figure in the picture dressed and posed just as it should be, and the consequence is that, when the curtain drops, you and I and our neighbor feel queer lumps in our throats, and we would rather not speak

8Aid* YYullj vurvnuj) Buvi «yv wvuivi lavuoi uuu opotiA stylish gown, for a minute or two, and we wipe our Lh the velvet eyes, not because there is a tear there

oh, dear no, but because—because—well, because the gas made them burn. To tell the truth, my friend, I felt the choking, I knew there were tears, and I knew what they were for—they were my heartiest tribute to a beautiful story beautifully told. Told by the people who made the play, and to whom I make my beet bow and say, "Thank you. Thank you for showing me something in which there is an honest love, an honest man and an honest woman. Something free from French nastiness, or English flltb. Something that doesn't suggest anything but what it says, and whloh tells the most oharmlng story that has been written since Thackeray pictured Henry Esmond."

By the bye, speaking of books. In these days when twenty-four hours are quite too short for one to do all that one wishes, the short story is a joy. It is a joy that is a transient one, because the tellers of short stories, I mean good short stories, are few. I love books, but I do, above everything else, love a book with pictures in It. Last week, when

I WAS SICK AT HXART

because for a little while life seemed too hard to bear, I got gay and joyful again by reading some stories about a lot of college girls, and the illustrations, I usually oall them pictures, but it seems as if that wasn't a good enough name for these, were all that they should be for they were done by that tran who knows bow to draw the very nicest sort of girls, the really nice girls, Mr. Gibson. I am going to tell you the name of this book so that yon can get it from whatever library you honor with your intellectual tastes, because, between yon and me, they are delicious stories to read aloud either to a nice group of boys and girls, to jfour best young man, or to your dearest woman friend if she happens to be a bit cranky and under the weather—it is "College Girls,"

Have yon seen the article which Mm. Linton bad written abont celebrities? She tells of meeting George Eliot, and bow tiresome she was, and how she seemed to put herself upon a pedestal and expected the rest of the world to tnmble before her. This is my experience in regard to George Eliot. It is a sort of seoond-hand one. One day a long time ago I got a letter from a dearest girl, and ahe said: "I am so nervous

I can hardly write, and the reason la that to-night I am to see George Eliot. Fancy seeing the woman who wrote »Middlemarohr Fanoy seeing the creator of 'Adam Bedel' I am looking forward to it with auob pleasure that I Qan write no more, bat you shall bear from me soon, and have a full desqrlptljm of the great genius." For a week after the reoeptlon of this letter I lived in ji state of excitement, and then—well, and then I had a plunge Into a bath of ioe watef.

DISAPPOINTING IMPRESSION.

The long-expected letter read "When I last wrote I was orazy about seeing George Bitot, I wish I had never seen her. You would never speak of either as an old lady or a gentlewoman, simply as an old woman. Somebody fetohing a shawl for her shoulders, somebody Is getting afoot stool,

Borne

body is dosing a window on acoount a draught, somebody is opening another to let In the air, and she is suggestive of nothing but a cranky, old woman, with ahead shaped like a horse. I am sorry, more sorry than I can tell you, that I ever met her. She is tiresome, old-wo-manish to the last degree. And fearfully jealous of Lewes. Scarcely permits him to be civil to a woman. Lewes waits on her like a trained nurse, and I am told he doesn't let her even hear a breath of dispraise, and himself shoulders everything that is disagreeable or that could in any way offend her." Who was my letter from? Marion Loll Wright, that wonderful girl artist whose pictures were in the Salon when she wasn't muoh more than a child, but who, alas! after having been a happy wife, paid with her life the joy of being a mother. To return to George Eliot. I think all the women she drew were most unoomfortable women. I don't know a single one of them, unless it was poor, sinful Hetty, with whom any one of us would have cared to live, day in and day out. Dorothea must have been tiresome, Rosamond was of the fool variety, that wants aD with a dash put before it, while most of the other women belonged to the list that I oall unoomfortable. Her books may be gieat, of oourse they are, but I like a book that leaves with me a sensation of pleasure, even if it be that pleasure that is born of pain. But I don't like a book that simply makes me realize how muoh unhappiness there is in the world, how many tiresome women, and how little anybody can do to help it.

OARE-DRIVING STORIES.

"No, give me a good, short stoiy or novel, and I can do its author the credit of enjoying it but life is too short, and too full of real woes, to permit one's self to be made uncomfortable. Don't you agree with me? Say you do. Say that you like a real, romantic story, that makes a laugh that causes dimples in your cheeks, just deep enough to bcjld the tears that come when real sentiment is written about, and then you will have the ideal book. I think the "Prisoner of Zenda" is pretty near it, and we all owe some pleasant hours to the gentle clergyman, Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, for having given to us this delicate ohild of his brain. I believe in giving thanks where thanks are due. It is fair and square. And though I am not a genius though I may not be even able to appreciate a genius, still, there is one person who can say "Thank you," very sincere ly, and feel it as she says it, and that person is i,BAB.

THE SOUL

Body, mind and BOUI— Those are tho earthly trinity. •Two parts of it are finite Tho other part is infinite. ,. Tho body and the mind Stop in the grave.

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So it goes to him Unchanged. —w. J. Lampton in New York Sun

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