The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-08
Men and Mamen.


speaking of it to an interviewer, the other day,
| he said: "l never get second call to a town.
bat l haven't got around yet, aud nsv towns
Toledo Blade.
Bismarck, according to DR.. Busch's book, did
not share the general veneration for William
Tell. "From my boyhood," said he, al never
could bear him-frst, because he shot at his
| son, and then because he murdered Gessler in
| such cowardly fashion. II would have been
more natural, as we'll as noblsr, had be, in
stead Of shooting st his son-whom the best
marksmsn might have bit in place Of the ap-
ple-sho Gessler dead at once. That would
have been just wrath for such cruel demand.
do not like the hiding and lying In wait; IL
does not become hegoes-no, not even francti-
reurs."
The trials of managers with their young
eyed seraphim are proverblal. Minnie Hsnk
lately had q bout with Colonel Msplsson, In
which she cxms eff victorious. She clears all
obstacles, says an admirer, as the best English
thoroughbred would clear sx-bsrred gate In
| a steeple-chase. Madame Pappenheim. who
lately left this counhy after . sad misunder-
| standing with her managing partner, las had
"tiff" of another kind with The tenor 9, Her
Msjesty's Theatre in London. Itwould seem
that, whereas with Titiens, Nilsson aud other
great artists, II is their custom, when pro forna
rehearsing familiar works, only to "hum their
songs. With Madame Pappenhsim this was OBJ
| jscted TO by II. Gillandi, who was understood
| to state that he could nos "le&n. his part" in
the grand duet unless she 'Isang out" Madame
| Pappenheim, who knew her part, declined, for
| nhuiO IN nh
| NJ. Gillsndi put on mis- hat and walked OF,
thereby stopping the rehearsal.
This is Mr.. Smalley's portrait OF Lord Bes-
| cons6ed: L never saw a human yisage so
SCARED and scored with strange lines. Not
| the least strange thing about them Is that they
are as full Of power as they are Of fantastic
meaning. The parchment which hides his
skull is strained tight ~ a drum head over the
proirudiDg bones beneath the eyes, and hangs
In angular wrinkles Just below. Beyond doubt
Ii is q thoughtful face, and beyond doubt also
profoundly contemptuous Of other peoples
thoughts. There is strength In the jaw ard
| genius 10 the forehead with a mocking glitter
in the CLASSY eyes which bellies both; which
almost suggests that he despises himself only
less than he despises the race whom he gov
erns. With all that, the face has an immense
fascination for the bebolder. Lowell said that
| the Venus of Milo made all other Vsnuses
seem ispoble. This man, with his incomprs-
/ hensfble mixture Of great qualities and iDcredl-
| .NleflppaDey, makes the greatest Of his rivals
Sc, ,m commonplace.
What an interesting man Story 10! Ths
| Knowledge Of what he has achieved in lisets-
ture and art of course. lead a powerful charm
| l. ifu hut xuif thath l..
so pleasant, so cultured, and SO manly His
usual lounge fof the beach is a rough gray suit
and gray Oxford hat, very becoming to his
clear complexion and almost white hair. In
bowling he invariably raises his hat, though
meetings be dozen timeS dsy-as they must
be when people lodge at tl,. same hotel, dine
| at the same table d'hote ard frequent the
same casino. Mrs. Story is with him, . very
sweet looking matroD, with soft dark hair
slightly tingsd with gray, worn over her fore
head in the Mrs. Hayes style Their son. an
Oxford student, and very stylish youth, ac-
companies them, aud this pleasant family par
ty is completed BY maid aud two Of the fun
niest dogs ever encountered-one an English
pug, the other Q peculiarly squat, big-bodied,
\ short legged dog Of unkn ogn nationality
whose like l never saw out Of France. and
much like some carious dwarf men I have
| sean.-French Letter.
81 tell you what it is,' said one of q small
coterie of wealthy men who had met in the Of
fee Of ope OF their number, "ihey mar say
what they please about the uselessness Of mod
ern women, but my wife has done her share in
| securing our success in life. Everyb knows
that her family WAS arstocrAtic, and exclusive,
and all that, and when married her she had
never done days work in her life; but when
! W. & Co. failed, and had to commence ut the
foot of the hill again, she discharged The ser
wants and chose out neat little cottage, and
did her own housekeeping until was better
off again." "And my wife," said . second,
"wss an only dazgh.er, caressed and petted 70
death; and avery body said. We'll, If he will
marry q doll like that. hs'll make the grsstess
mistake Of his life;' but when came home the
first year Of our marriage sick with the fever
she nursed me back 70 health, and I neysr
knew her to murmur bscause 1 thought We
cpuidn't afford any better style or more luxu-
ries'' "Well, gentlemen" chimed In third,
"I married asmart, healthy, pretty girl, bui
she was 9 regular blus-ssooking. She sdored
Tennyson, dosted on Byron, read Emerson,
and named the first baby Ralph Waldo and the
| second Maud; but tell yoa what til" and the
1 speaker's eyes grew suspicously moist, when
| We laid little Maud in her last bed at Auburn,
DOOR wife had no remembrance of neslsct
~, I'D moihsrly care, and the little dresses
esaa OF SUM-. -, tu the locked drawer were all
tnat still lie Nsads.-JourpAl of Com merce.
made by her own =. -h;.h 4. rau,.,r-
There is class of p. = Of fair hsau,iss.
able for its steady partisanshi. W. ,r.di-
Whenever one finds q popular ss. An.
| tiOual ballad IL Ia Land In
Scotch ballads, without exception Of yellow
nair. foas tint, We bsleve, Is rare in modern
Greece, but In love songs and short dtties Of
the people OF the Morea and the islands the be-
loved has always golden hair and eyes Of
sapphire blue. The deserted bride sinss how
her lovers hair "shoue like the sun'' about his
shoulders. In the French "Volkslisdsr" the
girls are almost as invariably blonde as in the
songs of Heine "Blonds 10 with us syno-
nyme for belle," says NJ Laisnel de Sale in
his interesting book on the legends and customs
OF the people of Berry. The villsefies say OF
young man "il va voir sa blonde" though the
blonde" has hair Of intense black. There is
even such an expression as caller en- blonde"
ito go wooing," which proves the univer-
salty of the belief in fair beauties People de-
scribe child or agrown-up person with red
dish hair as "blonde CONNIE un bassin''-a
secured copper basin, bs it understood. This
saying is as old as the time Of Guillaume de
Lorris, who uses il In the "Roman de Ia Rose"
The peasants retain the ancient taste Of the
court and the courtly poets. NJ. Just vsills.
says that the Trouvsres used to ask forgiveness
from their audiences when they sang the praises
of a brunette. We coufess that we remember
no example of this practice; nay, in the latsr
semi-ep'o songs, ths Soldan's daughter (who
was sure to be dark) always won the knight
from her rival, the Christian lady. In Bran
tonnes time the fashion for yellow hair pre-
vailed. 1t may have come, with other ideas Of
the Renaissance, from Italy, where the vene-
tan ladies used to stretch their locks out over
the vast brims of q peculiar sort Of hat, aud sit
on the housetop exposed to the full RAYS Of the
sun. 1t was natural that painters should pre-
Ter and help to keep in fashion the Vsnstian
locks which seem to have caught 8 sunbeam on
their coils, and even now hold IL prisoned on