The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-29
Men and Women.

1t was wittily said by the medical brother Of
the famous William Ellery Claiming, that he
was not "the Dr. Charming who preached, but
the DR.. Charming who practced."
When young sculptor, in conversation with
Gibson, deprecated criticism OF certain statue
on the plea that it had been modelled in very
short time, the latter replied: people will not
ask you how long the statue took you; they will
simply say it is badges, bad"
A st. Louis critic says that Viola, in Shak-
speare's Twelfth Night gains access to Olivia
by the exercise of beautiful cheek" 1t is pre-
sumed that Miss Nelson represents this fea-
ture imperfectly, since the critic says she
Shoots into the drama like star from some
unknown Deep.
Jonesville,N N. Y, has girl worth courting.
She was sitting up with her fellow when she
heard mysterious noise in the house. excused
herself, found burglars upstairs, got the old
gun and blazed away-and not until then did
the lover suspect anything unusual was going
on.
Murray becomes highly indignant at the
criticism of Boston writer on Rosenthaps
"Elaine," to the effect that she is stout Ger
man maiden who might have died OF apoplexy,
but of love never. In poety and art at least,
says Mr.. Murray, women who are neither dolls
nor simpletonsa may die of broken
heart.
The following story is told in Washington Of
Senator Salisbury of Delaware, which is too
good to be lost: While in Washington he was
accustomed to have two cocktails carried to his
room iu the morning before he arose, and when
asked by friend why he had two cocktails, he
replied, 'that after taking one he felt like an
other man, and thought it wonld mean not to
treat that other man."
Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's early read
ing, she herself said in letter to Mr. Horne,
just published, "When had read the Hebrew
Bible, from Genesis to Malachi, right through,
and was never stopped by the Chaldee-and
the Greek poets and Plato right through, from
end to end-I passed as thoroughly through
the flood of all possible and impossible British
and foreign novels and romances, with slices of
metaphysics laid thick between the sorrows of
multitadinous Celestinas.'
Nine. Mantilla, the wife of the Spanish
Minister, was amazing as usual. She is called
very handsome, and certainly the cream white
satin skin, the lustrous raven hair and eyes
that vie with her diamonds in brilliancy go far
toward giving her the reputation, but the lower
part of her face contradicts all the rest. The
chin projects and lengthens most unpleasantly,
and Madame is already growing 50 stout that
the perfect figure we all admired two years ago
is thing of memory only. Still, she always
makes picture in any room, for her toiettes
are superb. On Monday evening she wore
int II II
cardinal velvet. and some exquisite messy
fringe, while diamonds blazed from breast and
hair and ears Washington letter.
Messrs. "Bu2ge'' and ''Toddie," in their own
proper persons, are described as exceedingly
bright, precocious children, Constructed like
pollywogs, all head, and those heads give hos
pitality to tireless tongues. Toddie is aggres-
sive, not to say pugnacious, while Bulge is
phenomenally devout, spending a good deal of
every working day on his knees. His prayers
are always impromptu, varied and vociierous,
and he prays sguarely for everything that he
wants, and volunteers to assist others who are
needy. Father he exclaimed the other day,
rushing in glow from the bathroom, Il lost
my marble, and it hoped down the register,
and prayed righ! off for God to get it and
bring it up and put it on the carpet right be-
fore the door, where could find it easy, for
Christs sake, amen; and got right up ard
looked, and there it was before the doorr'
And, convinced anew of the efficacy of prayer,
he walked off to trade for his brothers CON-
money. The children have been under the
instruction of their mother, who has read parts
of 'Helen's Babies to them, to their infinite
amusement they having no idea who is re-
ferred to. The innocents still suppose them
selves to have been nicknamed Bulge and
'Toodie' from the ridiculous little fellows in
the story, and their parents are exercising all
their vigilance to keep from them the knowl-
edge that they assisted in those published per-
| formances.'