Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 February 1896 — Page 2

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'A- NEW YORK, Feb. 27,1896. All the new books, that is, excepting the analytical novels or those that bear the startip of the Beardsley sohool, are falling back on that old, if somewhat trite, saying, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." There must be a demand for beauty, or rather a demand for the means tending toward beauty. In one book shop I discovered many books, wise ones, that told how to care for the complexion many others that explained how angles could become

Garves,

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dull eyes could be made bright, and how inferior brains could be developed Into brains far beyond the average. Then there are innumerable pamphletH of the olden day, in which the seeker after the beautiful, as depicted in her own person, is advised to get up early and breathe the first air of the new-born day if she wishes to be "sweet of face, sweet of breath and sweet of skin." This may answer for August, but any,would-be beauty who attempted it in March would be apt to get the chilblains, a red nose and a violent cold of the order that shows itself in its demand forten handkerchiefs a day. Hence, it would seem as if the pamphlet of yesterday or the day before is not always suited to general use.

TO INCREASE WOMANLY BEAUTY Two are before me at present one is paper bound, brown of color, has'Ts for s's," and is altogether homely looking, The other is quite new bound in springlike tint, in cloth, with a disagreeable looking young woman for a frontispiece. It tells, notwithstanding its modern binding, much that is true, but It doesn't tell all that the pamphlet of the olden days set forth as necessary to the increase of beauty. The old-timer «ays that, if a woman wishes to be beautiful she must have dainty food, beauti fully Herved, that she should be unacquainted with grease or vinegar, and that she should learn the value of a rich dish that is, at the same time, not a heavy dish. This wisdom boiled down means that one should live well, and take care of one's digestion. Then it goes on to say that she who aims at beauty should sleep well and often that, put into plain English, signifies that the mind should be free from care. She is not advised to walk much, which to all intents and purposes, is equivalent to saying that something masculine should love her well enough to earn for her a fine coaoh and pair, in whioh to take her walks abroad. For she is to have fresh air without exertion. To 'keep her hair beautiful—now don't raise your bands up in horror—she must braid it smoothly before going to bed, and over it she must put a nightcap. You may not fancy this, but it is well known that most of the women of to-day who have beautiful hair wore nightoaps made •of fine mull when they were tiny children.

Let us see what the book of to-day «ays. Not very much in the way of helping the plain woman to become a beautiful woman. A good bit is said about the sort of clothes that should be •worn, and this is sensible: "No propeny ^understood hat or bonnet can afford to be anything but simple and singleminded in the impression it produces

Over-abundance is the abomination of desolation' and confusion -of idea has been the death-warrant of many a blameless bonnet. For oonsider: The objeot of its existence is to surmount, to crown •and frame a human oountenanoe. And if that faoe be beautiful already, what possible collection of beads, straw, fur, moss, plover's eggs, pink roses and plumage is likely to draw closer attention to the lovely and delicate lines beneath? And If the faoe be irregular in shape, faded or muddy in color, unfortunate in length or size or breadth, what concatenation of the animal, mineral and vegetable kingdom is oaloalated to lead away the critical eye to some happier point in the wearer's anatomy?" If this would only teach one woman how to buy the right sort of hat I But no, until the end of the world •THE SMALL WOMAN WILL OVERTOP HER­

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with a cart wheel hat suoh as Nell Qwynne wore, laden down with plumes, heavy with flowers and trioked out with ribbon bows, while the large, stately matron will crown herself with two rosettes of laoe oonneoted by a band of pink velvet, in the oenter of whioh Is a «mall forget-me-not in rhlnestones. As If one could forget that bonnet on that woman! The dotlet on the eye is large beside it. If I were learned, I should •ay, "O Tempore! O Mores!" but, as I am not, I simply say. "Goodness gracious 1" and wonder when the right bonnet and the right woman will meet, and what the result will be.

To retarn to the book of to-day. It makes another truthful statement. It says: "English women are, as a raoa, smitten with a strange passion for trying on things." That this is true nobody who has ever seen the English woman abroad oan doubt. She buys a pleoe of ribbon at the bargain oounter and manages to ptn it at her waist she possesses a bit of laoe, and it appears* at her throat. Flowers and ribbons and laoe meander at their own sweet will over her bonnet, and she is never satisfied to leave her gown as it was when it ©atne from the hands of an artist. She puts some tags of finery on It and thinks she has improved it. The English idea of dressing oan be damned with faint praise by reminding yon of one thing? It was the English milliner who first put trimming on a sailor hat. The hat that of all others should be either E pluribus unum or in purls naturallbis, whioh is it? The stiff, somewhat ooquettlsh straw hat which demanded nothing but the straight band about the orown, had flowers and buokles, laoe frills and stiff feathers tied on it by the Engliih milliner and lost it. individuality, and became A HAT WITHOUT A RKAfJOH FOR BWtiSOB, whioh is, I oan assure you, much worse than a man without a country.

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that In addition to hew lanoy lor trying «timng.r might be,

things on herself, the English woman has the greatest yearning for hanging things on herself. She jingles with a chatelaine, she is doubtfully decorated with a necklace sufficiently long to permit its locket, heart-shaped, to rest upon her heaving bosom, and then she wears bangle bracelets, chain bracelets, watch bracelets and every other sort of bracelet that can be gotten at a reasonable price at what she calls the shops. Her brooch is sufficiently large to announce it as thing of use, even if it isn't one of beauty, and yet, and yet, here's where this nice little house of cards tumbles over, the English woman looks the handsomest and dresses the best for a ball or for a dinner of any woman in the world.

Of its own freewill, that book turned over a page as if to exploit this bit of wisdom: "The wife does not exist in order to contribute to man's happiness yet she continues to exist, because bhe does contribute to it over her dressing table should be written, 'Beautiful women can do as they please, but a plain woman must please to do a great deal.'" I suppose that is true, and yet who would want to marry the Venus de Mllo, and have her posing about the house all day? By the bye, that reminds me that we thought of sending our fox terrier to the dog show as the oanine Apollo, but ever since he heard it he has been so glad about it that he has eaten too much, and his shape is more that of an apollinaris bottle, or of an elderly Hercules than the gentleman whose figure was supposed to be'only equalled by that of William Muldoon. But, after all, and this is my last quotation, the book of today gives hope. It says, "In the merol ful scheme of nature there are no plain women there are women who dress badly, women who take too much medicine women who take too little food. But given fresh air, exercise and the same contented mind which follows and above all, given large enough looking glasses there can be no excuse for women not looking w9ll and being attractive iyM&s

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THE GIRL WHO DOTES ON ACTORS. Speaking of women invariably suggests man, by some queer law of opposites, or whatever you choose to call it, but anyhow it does. Por a long time the young woman who appears on Broadway about quarter to two Saturday afternoon, with a box of sweets, her opera glasses and dressed in her very best suit of clothes, has not been altogether happy. She has not really had a matinee young man. There was no doubt in her mind that John Drew was getting old that is, old to girls who are nineteen, and then at his best nobody ever accused John Drew of being a beauty. Of oourse, there were many worshippers at the shrine of Kelcey, but the news started and quickly got about that he was mar-ble-hearted that the matinee girl might love him to the extent of violets, even to scarfpins, but that he would not long to know her in fact, would prefer to buy his own violets and his own scarfpins Mr. Bellew had a great following, but the matinee girl who adored him is now a wife and a mother, and has forgotten whether his first name is pronounced in one syllable, or whether he is ignominiously called "Curley." But now, the one so eagerly longed for, so earnestly hoped for, so often dreamed of, bas come. Ee is far and away ahead of the others because he is manly looking his voice is sweet but deep, and the M. Y. W. says that it has suoh a lovely effect on her that

SHE DREAMS OF LOST CHORDS and organs and angels every Saturday night. He is handsome. Even elderly women, who cannot be oalled M. Y. W.'s do not hesitate to say that, and some gushing ones are quite willing to be mothers to him. This greatness (that involved in being the joy of the M. Y. W.) has been thrust upon the gentleman in question. I do not know him, but I do know the M. Y. W.'s, and from their behavior I am sure that the man for whom they have been looking so long, the modern King Arthur, Launcelot and Prisoner of Zenda, all rolled-Into one, is here. He is Mr. James Haokett, who, last year, was the delightful Austrian gallant that led Napoleon's wife into all sorts of trouble, but who this year is playing the "Prisoner of Zenda," and Ss a girl who was eating gumdrops said, "Playing it so my heart goes thump, thumps t^jnmp, and I am afraid the strings of my stays are going to break." That is one of the signs of winning the M. Y. W. Jesting aside, Mr. Haokett is a young, handsome actor, charming to look at, pleasant to listen to, and who, I hope, will be wise enough to grow into his proper place, i. e., become the leading man of the Lyoeum Stock Company. This is a great thing nowadays for an aotor. Everybody from the learned pig up to Sarah Bernhardt and Mr. Brodie stars henoe there is nothing individual in it but to be one who goes to form a perfeot picture, one who is a grouping of good artists, has his niohe and fits it perfectly, ah, that is something!

Speaking of the theater, a good many woman this winter have kloked in their pretty way, and as only a woman can who wears a No. 1 slipper with a high: heel, against.

THE KXPHWaH OF SUPPERS* A few years ago one oould ask one's friends to drop in after the theater, offer them something hot from the oHafing dish, something oold from the sideboard, anything to drink that happened to be handy, and the supper didn't oost muoh and everybody had a good time. Then the nouveaux riohe took possession of London and New York, and oounting everything by dollars, announoed that there oould be no hospitality without champagne. Try to have eight people to supper and give them enough good ohampagne to satisfy them and see how muoh lighter your purse ia the next morning. Foolish women, imitating those with more money and even lees brains than themselves, furnished good champagne in small quantities, instructing the servant to deal it out with care. A glass too many to this guest meant none to the next, and this sort of supper bore the stamp, not of hospitality, but of meanness. Sometimes a poor efcaimpagne would be offered in sufficient floods to make the drinkerillfora week. The wise woman continued to invite her own set and offered them what she wished but no matter how pleasant a he wasn't asked sinoe

NO WINE UPON THE TABLE. A woman who oonld afford it, set the fashion in London to oblige a woman who couldn't but, after all, what a coward a woman Is when she is afraid to ask her friends because she oan't give them ohampagne. We think, we who live in the "Hut," that, when the theater is over, if there is some terrapin from the Baltimore market to be cooked by the Bear and some dainty salad to be served by the hostess, with whatever' masculinity may want to go with that divinest of dishes—the tender terrapin, that there is a supper fit for the gods. Yes, after the terrapin is all eaten up, and we are disousning the play, the men do smoke, bat the women? Well, no. Women who like it oan do it, In the Hut, as the hostess arranges the menu, there is nothing for women to smoke.. It may be pretty to see a woman smoke, but I doubt it. In early youth there is imprinted upon my mind two lines of an exquisite piece of poetry that began in this fashion: "God never made that pretty mouth

A smokestack for to be." Those lines may be crude, but they are truthful, on the word of BAB.

Mr. Wm. H. Moore, 307 S. Charles St., Baltimore, Md., a Commission Merchant, recommends Salvation Oil for rheumatism and ohilblains. He writes: "My wife and son have used Salvation' Oil for rheumatism and chilblains with marked efficacy.

The Drummer's Dllemm#.

I was born under an unlucky star," said C. E. Jameson, a Baltimore knight of the gripsack, to a reporter. "Over in Maryland there are two men named Curtis doing business in adjoining towns. One of them has been a customer of mine, while I could never sell much to the other one. I was told that the one whose trade I wanted and could not get had beer presented by his wife with twins. A bright idea came tome, would seal his trade forever. I sent him the best baby carriage I could buy. Then in a few days I went over there. He was the maddest man I ever saw. It seems that he is a bachelor and every h£dy in town had guyed him.

Then I went to the other town to see my customer and he was mad. It was he who was father of twins and a rival had given him a carriage, with the information that he had seen me buy one for another customer who had a baby. I haven't straightened it out yec, and I'mdoubtful if I ever can.''—Wash ington Star.

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iiiil Slavery in Great Britain, Slavery survived in England muoh later than is generally ropposed. The Word "bondage" in Northumberland •till means a female farm servant The coolies and saIters—i. e., salt miners—of East Lothipu were actually slaves till 1775. If they deserted their service, any one harboring them was liable to a penalty of £5 if he did not restore them In (4 hours. The last slave in England was not freed until 1799, and in 1842 there was a cooly living who, as well his father and grandfather, had worked as a slave in a pit at Musselburgh ..

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champagne oould not be on She menu. The London woman struck. She proposed to have her jolly supper at her own home, and she didn't propose to spend all her substance on that charming Wine made of the crystaiized smiles of the peasant girls of France. Henoe, in the swellest houses, you get your supper and a drink with it, but it is counted smarter not to have champagne. Have whiskey with ginger ale, soda, or whatever you may fancy you oan offer thfe ginger ale alone, you oan have brandy and soda, or if you prefer it, plain iced "polly," but there is

An Error About Cats. about cats, and a truly vul­

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Manuscriptd by Dickens.

W-hafc have become of the jpanuscripts of Dickens' earlier works? Souse light is thrown on the question in Mr. Shooling's paper in The Strand. The manuscript of "Our Mutual Friend" was giv en, as is well known, by the author to his friend Mr. Dallas, and subsequently bought by Mr. Ghilds, the publisher, of Philadelphia. The manuscript of "Pickwick" was, Miss Georgina Hogarth states, never preserved in its entirety, though stray fragments have turned up, and are dispersed about the world, but it was not given by its author to any one. "I don't think," adds Miss Hogarth, "he attaohed much importance to his manuscripts in those early days." Portions of the original manuscript of "Oliver Twist" figure among the numerous interesting facsimiles which aooompany the article. They are taken from a fragment of the manuscript still remaining, which begins with the twelfth ohapter and ends with what is now oalled the forty-third ohapter, "wherein is shown how the Artful Dodger got into trouble." "Oliver Twist" was written in a much larger hand than wore most of the later works. The manuscript shows some notable variations. The manuscript of "Nicholas Niokleby" is one of those which have vanished, but a facsimile is given of part of the revised proof of the preface, whioh shows a long passage struck oat by Charles Dickens.—London News.

The Voice of a Child.

'Professor Druinmond tells the story of a little girl who once said to her father: "Papa, I want you to say something to God for me, something I want to tell him very much. I have such a little voice that I don't think he could hear it way up in heaven, but you have a great big man's voice, and he will be sure to hear you. The father took his little girl in his arms and told her that, even though God were at that moment surrounded by all his holy angels, sounding on their golden harps and singing. to him one of the grandest and sweetest songs of praise ever was heard in heaven, he was sure that he would say to them: "Hush! Stop the singing for a little while- There's a little girl away down on the earth who wants to whisper something in my ear."—Barn's* Horn.

Wagner and Schumann.

Wagner, writing in 1846, said of Schumann: "He is a highly gifted musician, but an impossible man. When I came from Paris, I went to see him. I told him of my Parisian experiences, spoke of the state of music in France, then of that in Germany, spoke of literature and politics, but he remained as good as dumb for nearly an hour. One cannot go on talking quite alone. An impossible man!" Schumann gave an account of this interview which practically agrees with that of Wagner. "I have seldom met Wagner," he said, "but he is a man of education and spirit. He talks, however, unceasingly, and that one cannot endure for long together."

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