The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-10-03

| iu oOCl6ty u6AL Winter.
American editors lit is well Fknowp, scare
IuSt SO easy. One morning Mr. w. f. Storey
OF the chicago Times, on his arrival at the
once found man waiting for him, who as he
seppeo from tho elevator, rendered him a
copy OF the Times folded to show one bright,
particular item, and said sternly. 81 will give
you Just hVe minutes to retract that article"
Inc eoltor ErIerused it deliberately. handed il
DacK ana sa' d. 81 will give you Just five sec
ondS 70 get cut of this building" The man
SCOT"
'oun'o June, in one of her gossipy letters
uuuei' Axes 70 explain why, it is that so mapv
Soun ( women marry elderly men. She looks
d" AZ from money-which has been so peper-
sAy brought into consideration Of such alli-
/ ancestor the principal reason. The young
man of to day, according to this authority. ia
not the desirable young man of fifty wears AGO;
he is not 80 thoughtful sober, panstaking and
conscientious; he lives at club, has no love
of home life nor desire to build up character
and reputationias man and citizen; his ideas
of life are bounded by the theatre and the do
ings ot his little set; and in too many cases his
ambition is to own racer and be on intimate
terms with the ballet. Naturally mothers
shrink from en- trusting their daughters to such
youths as these, even if they have the opportu-
nifty, and are better pleased to bestow them on
older men,-neu who have sown their wild
oats; who know how little of real value there
is in the temporary excitement of pleasure who
have, perhaps, been married once, and have
learned to value home and the guarantee it af-
fords for permanent happiness
The Rev. Joseph Cook is described with odd
appreciation by Virginian in Boston. This
writer calls the clergyman colossal and dis
courses concerning his large head, broad face,
bushy and tawny beard, forie complexion
clear, bright eyes, and his movemements re-
minding one ''of the awkward. heavy gait of
an elephant" But he goes on unfolding hi
splendid argument for over c.n hour, holding. his
audience with the grasp of a giant Els voice,
acquires power. His arms fly about like pon
derous Halls. His great feet ONE down at
times on the plseform with force enough al
most to crack the foundations. Now and then
he stoops Forward with hands upon thighs
head TRUST forward, and eyebrows elevated
almost TO the roots of his hair, while with bit,
ing sarcasm he makes some tremendous thrusts
at the adversaries of truth. He thrills, melts
q
rolls majestically on; and when the last word
has been spoken we turn away with the crowd
agreeing with everybody else that this man is
giant intellect"
"a photograph direct from Rome" says
correspondent in New York, 'has enabled me
to make study of the face and features of Miss
Dudu Fletcher, the much talked-of author of
'Kismet' A blonde of medium stature, Miss
Fletcher's frank eyes look out;from Iunder the
jauntiest TyroleSe hat in the world, set on a
frieze of thick light hair. About the pleasant
mouth plays an arch SMILE and the tiptted
nose gives additional piquancy to face that
ha1 in it every indication of candor, brightness
and fun-loying spirit The attitude is free,
and neatly-gloved little hand shadowed by
quite a profuse array of bangles points para
4 sol as though it were some alpenstock, and
sDudu' (whose papa, by the way, besides being
clergyman, is prolific writer, mountain
eer par excellerce. Finally, the inscription on
the back is written in a dashing coarse hand
that shows the fair donator's character to be
precisely what her face implies
The way they haze new girl at Wellesley
College, in Massachusetts, is to give her a
bouquet invite her to reception, and kiss her
all around. No doubt the young men at college
will agree to treat new girls in the same way.
The following mud portrait of Gambetta is
drawn by writer in the London World: "The
low jerkipgsDf the numbering shoulders, the
rough leerngs OF the boodshot eyes, the fabby
waddlings of the swinish lips the uncouth ges-
lures of the heavy arms, the dictatorial conceit
of the rugged hair, the turmid sponginess of the
pandulous ears, the arrogant complacency OF
thesdoughy fingers, the swabbY awkwardness of
the hulking body, the husky brawling of the
beery voice. the soVenly clownishness OF the
ill-made clothes; and above ALL perhaps the
hippant donineering, staggering, contumel
| iousness Of the entire attitude aud tone make
up total of offensive believing va lgarity from
which educated natures shrink away with re-
pugnauce."
Olive Logan writes that Mr. Tilden is two or
three yards shorter than Bigelow, which makes
him, from the back view, look like his little
boy whom he has brought to Europe to put to
school at one of the German universities.
When they turn right about face, Bigelow's
more youthful features make him look like the
young son who has dragged his diminutive
father over the briny, so as he may have nc
end of good time in Paris.