The Portland daily press., 1878-10-04
Men and Women

when L come home from the theater-a nice
underdone steak-and not very small one at
that But after my midnight supper L go to
bed and sleep with the most perfect quiet ude.
A young couple of LIE Roy, N. Y, had their
wedding-day selected, and then got nto
squabble over which church the knot sho uld be
tied in. He wanted to go to the Presbyterian
edifce because it was the fashionable one of
the village, and she wanted to go to the Bap.
tist one, for she used to sing in the choir there,
The quarrel snapped the engagement
j. o. Pierce went from central New York to
st. Louis during the war, where he coined a
fortune baking "hard tack" and built one of
the best-fnshed houses in the city, which was
dubbed "Cracker CASTLE" Pierce spent S1OO,-
600 on this house, the front door alone costing
$500, but he went down with the collapse of
his speculative ventures and the other day the
sheriff sold his magnificent castle for $4,000.
With women, marked, irregular noses, q. @.
with deep indenture of the bridge, or with con-
cave or convex archiugs, or with fdcettes at the
knob, etc signify far more talent than with
men; and Except in the case of a few, whom I
myself have seen,) beauty must always sacri-
fee something to genius, although not so much
as afterwards the genius of others sacrifices to
beauty, as we men in general have, unfortu-
nately. perhaps, done,-Richter.
The famous Prussian painter Menzel has his
studio beside the larger hall in which are as
sembled his students, so that he can drop in ,
correct and suggest, and moment thereafter
seat himself at his own work. According to
not improbable legend, one day the door of his
studio was opened by a very much fright
htened pupil, who cried "Eerr Menzel |!
Herr Menzel! The model has dropped deadr
"Che devil he hasp' exclaimed the painter.
II hope some of you had the sense te sketch
it,
A Florence correspondent of the Philadelphia
Bulletin writes; ''Ths prince imperial 1 have
often met walking alone or with some friend on
the Coli. 1 do not believe that Victor Hugo is
correct when he states that he is neither she
son of his father nor the nephew of his uncle
His figure is exactly like that of Napoleon Ill.
with long waist and short legs. His counte-
nance much resembles that of his mother.
which is unfortunate fer a man, as it does not
convey the impression of strength. The re.
public may be at rest. This youth will rot
disturb it,"
MaSart, the great Vienuese painter, is even
more taciturn TIL Won Moltke, the man who
is silent in seven languages. An American
who bad beea told that the best way to get on
friendly terms with the artist would be to play
chess with him at the cafe to which he resorts
nightly, watched his opportunity and when
Makart's opponent rose slipped into the vacant
chair. At last his dream was about to ba real
ized he was to spend an evening in Makart's
society. The painter signed to him to play
and the game went on with no other sound
than the moving of the pieces. At last the
American made the winning move and ex-
claimed: "Mater' Up rose Makart in disgust
and stalked out, saying angrily to friend who
asked why he left SO early: "Oh, can't stand
playing with chatterboxp'
AL the social upheavas in Mexico for the
past sixty years have failed to mingle the blood
of the Indians with the blue blood of certain
element of their c0nquerors and descendants of
their conquerors. This is the guerra element,
which has held its own iuviolate amidst the
surging passions surrounding it, amidst tempta-
tions which nothing but naughty pride of
race would or could have resisted. There are
two types of the gueras. The first has some
very distinct characteristics. The face is spir-
ituele, and has that subdued expression which
invariably results from religious meditation,
ou0 III CUlUT 10 WAltc DIS dldD6SL6I. Iuo uHSQ lS
fsultlessly white, tinged with a refined bnt
healthy pallidness. The eyes are usually dark ,
large and lustrous, and the hair abundans and
black as the ravens wing. The teeth are per-
feet, and white as sn0wfakes. The "rubias,"
the second type, are superb specimens of wom-
anhood, and are SO called because they have au-
burn or golden hair, which ia some instances
runs into flaming rich red color The eyes
are often deep blue, and soft and entreating n
their expression. The flesh has a sunset tinge
to it which indicates more warm and sensuous
nature than that of the paler-hued women.
Near the town of Agur Caliente, State of Sima-
loa, there is q village of rubias, the young
women Of which are matchless In their style of
beauty. Tall and graceful, they move about,
the very symbols Of the poetry of motion. They
have something in their manner and style SINH
lar to the higher classes of Russian women, and
whom they greatly resemble. The rubas, like
the gueras, live mostly ia the interior, whe re
the climate is more mild AMI genial while
the dark races inhabit the hot regions alo ng the
coast.
The last Celebrity at Home" in the Lon don
World, sketches Alexandra Dumas in his spa.
ciOus house at Paris. "The room in which he
works is the house in miniature, perfect nest
of bric-d-brac. The large table in the middle ls
seen at glance to belong to methodical
craftsman. It is piece of furniture contrived
a triple debt to pay-a writing-desk, pigeon
holed bureau, and a row of drawers in one. He
has himself published description of it in a
letter adressed to a friend. 1T is stored, he
says, with paper of every form, and of varied
tshts, which spread in profusion about me to
give me the taste. for work; for, as L take it,
nothing is more appetizing to writer than fine
paper. 1t is the Kittens saucer of milk; it is
rres istible. Below are my letters. I keep ev-
cry one receive; there are some that are thirty
years old. And how many dead ones already !
They are in an immense receptacle with parti-
tions, which 1 call the Common Grave Don't
be astonished If should one day publish book
with that title. When L have thought out a
play, L take twenty sheets of paper for each act
but the last, and away I go. As L near the
twentieth, begin to think it is time to finish
the act. The last act is limited to seventeen
sheets; it ought to be shorter than the rest. L
have fixed the quantity of matter by long expe-
rience; the public WON'T digest more In the
smaller, as in the larger surroundings, he shows
himself fully sensible Of the influence of associ
alton; bis paper-weights are models in bronze
or marble of the hands of his friends-it need
not be said that his choice is vigorously con-
fined to one sex. Every hand is a souvenir, and
one of peculiar beauty is that, and mystery as
well, for all but the owner Of the model. I'm
agine,' he says, 'that in 1S43, on the 11th of
April and here the history breaks off. fine
crayon portrait that he used to have constantly
before him is that of the Jeannine of Les Idees
de Madame Aubrey: he has lived all his works"
Prof W. G. Sumner, in Seribner for Oct.l
The Methods of Socialism.
Socialism, as movement, does not move by
discussion. Its programme is violence. Its
tone is: No argument; let US have our way, or
beware! Modern violence consists largely in
voting, aud when this kind is available and
sufficient, the social democracy asks no more