The Portland daily press., 1879-05-23
GOSSIP.
About Men and Women.

The San Francisco artists gave ball the
other evening, and one of the city papers says
that ''an exhibition of original design that was
an artists ideal was the notable tout ensemble
OF Miss Nellie Hopps." The notable tout en-
senabte was a kilt skirt of garnet silk with a
| polonaise of pale blue satin, and ''there was q
| beautiful harmony in the whole contour that
| appealed to a high sentiment" Some of the
| other ladies danced in such way that their
| trains bore ''a semblance to the section of a
windmill" but ''the whole affair, although
stately and grand, was cold and cherries in its
brilliant scenic display"
1t is sight, writes London correspondent
of the Newark Advertiser, to see a Chinese
Ambassador at an English play. The repre-
sentative of the Celestial Empire attended a
performance of "The Rivals" at Haymarket
Theatre, the other night. Never was there
more perfect self-possession. He was more re-
served than Boston audience. Watching
every movement on the stage, he vet seemed
to have not the slightest emotion excited by the
play. The audience roared with laughter at
Bob Acres. The Chinaman sat without NOV
ing muscle of his face. Mrs MdIdprop did
not even puzzle him. The dplon1b was the
! most perfect L ever witnessed. The Celestials
beat the club swell for self-command. The
club swell yisibly expresses ennui. The China
mo n dane not ouen raveal that he is bored
Mr Labouchere says that when ne was an
attache at Washington an Englishman died in
the state of New York. and it became a oues-
ton whether the legation at Washington or the
consulate at New York ought to bury him. So
he, or rather it, passed its time journeying be-
tween the two cities. 81 myself directed it."
he says a dozen times to the consulate. This
side up with care Whether this uneasy corpse
is yet buried or is still lurking in the lug
gage vans of an American railroad company /
know not"
Whenever anybody is arrested in a Russian
city the fact is kept secret and everybody who
calls at the arrested PERSONS house is also put
under arrest. One of the persons recently
arrested at st. Petersburg was physician in
good practice; and it so happened that at the
time he was captured child was taken i'll in q
family which he was in the habit of attending.
During the night the childs illness became SO
alarming that the father went to fetch the
doctor; but on arriving at the doctors house he
was seized by the police and carried off, in
spite of his protests. The mother waited an
hour or more, and finding that her husband
did not return, went herself to the physicians
house, where she too was arrested Mean
while the child remained alone in the house.
and on the following morning it was dead.
The courtship and marriage of NJ. Blanqui,
the French revolutionist are said to have been
very romantic. When only nineteen he be-
came tutor in an aristocratic family living
near Toulouse. He fell in love with a
young lady also residing in the chateau, but
she was wealthy and he did not venture to dis
close his devotion. For six years he remained
silent, when at last she discovered his
feeling, and returning it became his wife.
Six years afterward she died. Blanqui still
wears mourning for her, In 1913, at the Radi-
cal club he presided over, he never took off the
black gloves he habitually wore. These
produced curious effect when he used gest-
ures to emphasize any remarks he made in his
somewhat shrill voice. These gloves are of
peculiar make, and come high up the wrist
like those of lady. The reason for this sim
gularity is that the determined conspirator
still wears on his wrist the bracelet of her
he loved and still mourns.-Gush.
A colored sexton has been arrested in Alba
ny for insisting upon the abatement of a flirta-
ton in church. During the services a young
man was observed paying marked attention to
young colored woman who sat opposite. The
sexton put heavy hand upon the offenders
shoulder, saying: "Boy, am you aware dat
dis am de Lords house?" The youth replied.
X es, san, am aware OBJ de character oh dis
mouse, and was informed bluntly dat no
such work am allowed here" The Young
man insisted that the lady was an acSuain.
tance OF his, but the sexton dragged him out
OF his seat and threw him ON the sidewalk
Mr.. Beecher, in the course of q lecture de-
hvered at Cincinnati the other night
spoke OF the grievances of working people and
alluded to a perversion of an utterance of his
which seemed to require some notice mas
much as laborers were holding ''bread and
/ water meeting on his account even while he
was speaking. He said he had taken pains to
correct the Misrepresentation by word uttered
and written, but it was still repeated. He had
said, in speaking of the change from the in
fated to the solid financial condition that
everybody was bound to feel it, to sufYvr-tbe
merchant, the manufacturer, the banker. the
middleman, the workingman, ALL but il was
better to bear it manfully than to whine about
it. 1t is not manly thing, he thought for
the workingmen to go about making an ex-
ceptlon of their share of the burden, for in his
opinion 1t was better for man to live on bread
and water than to go about whining. The re-
mark applied to all, and not to any particular
class named or even in the mind of the speak
er. lie added humorousy that if there were
more water drank there might be more bread.
Mr.. Francis Grundy is an Englishman who
at one time in his life was introduced by his
friend Patrick Bronte into the domestic circle
at Haworth Rectory. Thus he describes the
members: "The father-upright, handsome,
distantly courteous, white-haired tall know
ing me as his sons friend, he would treat me
in the Grandisonian fashion, coming himself
down to the little inn to invite me, a boy. up
to his house where would be coldly uncomfor-
table until could escape with Patrick Bran
well to the moors. The daughters distant
and distrait, large of nose small of figure, red
of hair, prominent of spectacles showing great
intellectual development, but with eyes con-
stantly cast down, very silent, painfully retir-
ing Branwell was very like them,
almost insignifcantly small-one of his life's
trials. He had mass of red hair, which he
wore brushed high off his forehead, to help his
height, fancy; q great, bumpy, intellectual
forehead, nearly half the size of the whole fa-
cial contours small, ferrety eyes, deep sunk and
still further hidden by the never removed spec
tacleS; prominent nose, but weak lower fea-
lures. He had downcast look, which never
varied save for rapid momentary glance at
long intervals. Small and thin of person, he
was the reverse of attractive at first sight"
1t is a little remarkable how calmly, and
with almost total absence of nervousness, a Sc
ciety girl will ''appear in public on the stage"
The actress who has walked the boards since
babyhood is never free from the dread of stage
fright, and always suffers from it on the first
lAlSiO Vi q hSW part. Dut our young LADIES IN
the tableaux had no fear. True, they had moth
ng to say, yet one would suppose merely stand
ing up to be gazed at by miscellaneous crowd
would have set their nerves jumping. Amateur
theatricals also they attempt with the utmost
nonchalance. They turn Josephines and even
Juliets without tremor. What is the expla-
nation? Is it found in the fact that failure to
the professional actor is a serious business mat
ter, and that acting to the amateur however it
may end, is only lark? The amateur, how
ever, If she plays on the regular stage, does get
touch of stage fright. Here she is alarmed
at the outset by her surroundings, and filed
with terror of the opinions of the professionals.
And more than that the amateur very seldom
tries the regular stage without a hope and am
bition of doing so well that she win be allowed
to remain there.-Forney's Progress
The father of Miss Maria Edgeworth, the
once celebrated English novelist, had grim
ideas of moral training, and singular ways. to
say the least of carrying out his lessons at
home. A contributor to the Chicago Standard
relates the following among other instances Of
his harsh discipline: Charlotte Edgeworth,
half-sister of Maria Ghe daughter of the famed
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