The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-19

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GOSSIP ABOUT WOMEN.
How Rachel, the Famous Tragedienne,
Discovered the Mystery of Beauty.
A Partisan letter writer tells how the
noted traeedienre, Mile. Rachel, be-
fame beautiful, for which gift she was
as noted as for her histfiohid ability:
Mile. Rachel told me one day, at the
Due de Morny's. where was speaking
of her beauty, You don't imagine-all
Of yol. who think me beautiful now
adays how ugly 1 was at the beginning;
/, who was to play tragedy, had comic
mask. was laughable, with my horned
forehead, my nose like comma, my
pointed eyes, my grinning mouth. You
can supply the rest. I was taken once
by my father to the louvre. I did not
care much for the pictures, although he
called my attention to the tragic scenes
of David But when came among the
marbles change came over me like
revelation. I saw how fine it was to be
beautiful. Iwent out from there taller
than before, with a borrowed dignity
which 1 was to turn into a natural
grace. The next day looked over
Collection of engravings after the an
tique. I never received a lesson SO ad-
- I
have ever effectively addressed the eyes
of my audience by my attitudes and ex-
pressions, it is because those master
pieces SO appealed to my eyes Rachel
said this 80 admirably that we
we're all moved by her words; for she
talked better than anybody, when she
chose not to talk like Paris gamin.
ooh, forgot, she continued, Il must
tell you that if have become beautiful
as you cay, though I don't believe a
word of it, it is owing to my daily study
how not to be uglier than I am. have
eliminated what there was of monstrous
in my face. As I was in the season of
sap when I took the idea of making
myself over again, after the ancestral
rough draft, everything, with the help
| of Providence. went well. The knobs
of my forehead retired, my eyes opened,
my nose grew straight, my thin lips
we're rounded, my disordered teeth
were put back in their PLACES Here
Rachel smiled with that delicate smile
which was SO enchanting And then
I spread over all a certain air of intelli-
was interrupted by 60 many compli.
| ments, which were the simple truth,
that she could not continue the story of
her imperfections. WE'LL" she still
said, the good thing about it is that
I did not try to be beautiful for the
sake of man, as other women do, but
for the sake Of art. disclaiming the
"com cree of love-" as the philoso-
piers call it. Rachel WAS applauded
that evening as never before. There
were not more than fifty persons at M.
de Morny's, but they were the top of
the basket of all Paris, partere of
dilettanti, which is much better than a
parterre of kinds. And yet she had
not been acting"
woMAN's sTRATAaEM.
During a recent debate in the British
house of commons on the Irish home
rule bill, Maj. O'Gorman related an in
cident to show that the reports of law
1essness in his county were without
foundation. ga gentleman living in
the county of Westmeats," Maj. O'Gor-
man said, " and very fond of field sports,
had daughter who was very anxious
not to live in the country she found
the country very stupid and dull, and
repeatedly asked her father to remove
fused to do SO, as he was very fond of
of his field sports, and was much be-
loved by his neighbors. Soon after ward
he received threatening letter. A few
days later he received another, but he
thought little of either. Some days af-
terward there came another threatening
letter, and not only that, but one in
which his coffin was delineated. He
then became alarmed, aud set for the
stipendisry magistrate, the county dry
nurse. He attended at the gentleman's
house, saw the letters, and placed him.
self in communication with that sink of
iniquity, Dublin castle. Scores of de-
tectives were sent down to the district,
and domiciliary visits we're paid to the
houses of the poor people, who we're
mostly treated by the stipendiary and
his myrmidons. But nothing could be
detected. Still these letters came
pouring in. Nobody knew anything
about them, however, and the gentle
man became seriously alarmed. He
try and removed into Dublin. His
daughter was a very beautiful girl
just such girl as could only be pro-
duced in his own Green Isle-a girl all
blood, bone, and beauty, and plenty of
it. She was universally admired, and |
had not been long in Dublin before |
proposals of marriage were made to |
her by a man who was fit for her. The |
wedding came off, and after the break |
fast, when the young lady came down
to take her departure, she threw her |
arms around her fathers neck and said |
to him, Go down to the country
father nobody will touch hair of
your head. You are beloved by every
body around you. Nobody wrote
those letters but one person, and that
was I. I found the country dull aud
wanted to go to Dublin. and, as it was
thought I would adopt
the ribbon scheme, and it completely