The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-17
Men and Women.

Mile. Sarah Bernhardt's face is very pale,
and lighted by scaIle. lips and hsavy-lashed
dark hazel eyes. Her mouth Is large, her nose
slightly Greciau, her forehead so low that the
hair sometimes fringss her brows. She can
never play more than twice week, and often
at the close of performance tails irto a swoop,
from which it is difficult to arouse her.
Mrs. Hayes is said to take IN uufailing in
terest in brides. "Why," she Is quoted as ex-
claiming, ~ never in all my life pu. together
saw so many brides as have during my short
occupancy of the White House, and each new
one is Just as great an object of tender interest
as the last one." 1t is said that all women
feel this interest
The editor of the st. Louis Times-Journa.
comes right down. Witness this. "If we
we're Ingomar, and if Mary Anderson were to
roll her great juicy eyes around us, and hold
out her plump white arms, and tell Us about
the two souls,' etc., we would be ten thousand
times worse than the most irrevocsble demon
if we did not forget our ferocity and crouch
like quail on toast at her No. 3 sandals"
A Washington correspondent says that Mrs.
Kate Chase Sprsgue is like the perpetual csc-
tus rare that blooms far up the sides Of the
oveItowerDg Andes, not solitary and alone by
ostracizstion, but blooming only at the grand
height because God had said, "Bsauty shall
crown the hilltop as we'll as the vallev." 1t is
needless to say that Q man wrote this. Tho
lady correspondents only drink tea and coffee.
Boston Transcript.
Mrs. Marian Evans Lswes would not at first
sigh. attract special attention. for she is small
aud slight in person, blae-eyed, gray-hared aud
plain. Bot presently one discovers that she
has the sweetest of sweet voices and the loveli-
csc smile in the world. Her late husband was
a small man with long, fair hair, a homely
face, and fascinating gift of conversation
which was not excelled.
A United States Senator says: "No man
and his family ever enjoyed the presidency and
the White House so much as Hayes aud his
family do. To them the whole thing is like
the first reading of Robinson Crusoe' to boy,
or a first jack knife or first pair Of boots
They are an innocent. harmless people. aud If
they gush Little aud give it away, 1t is because
they are callow and green"
The emperor Of Austria, at his summer re-
treat at Ischl, is an inveterate smoker, and has
on the writing-tabe of his bedroom number
of coarse Virginia cigars. The emperor is tall
aad spare, with close-croppsd, sandy hair just
turning iron gray; regulation military whiskers
and mustache; small, restless gray eyes; blunt
features and heavy lips and he wears the light
blue uniform of a general. He speaks six
Languages.
A correspondence OF the Baltimore Sun writes
"a Dublin belle is as much unlike any other
belle as a Dablin dandy is sui generis. Very,
very few of these dear delightful bellies are ever
seen in America, aud more's the pity. She Is
often remarkably pretty, aud always so in pert
ness-in Paradise sense. The beauty CT the
Dabln girl-'in socisty'-is very charming. As
rule they are 1.-the and somewhat long-for a
dumpy' woman in Dublin Is as much hated by
all men as ever Byron could desire" The cor
respondent is little mixed, but he means welll
The pleasures Of wealth are shown in this ex-
tract from New York letter:-"Rumor has 1t
that Mrs Stewart has decided to dispose Of her
money while she is living, and to do it in per-
son. This resolution being known, has opened
a Pandora's box. We have at least one thous-
and persons 10 this city who have little schemes
of their own for benefting the race. They are
sure that if Mrs. Stewart could only know
what they are about and look int) their little
schemes she wouldn't hesitate a moment to
help them along All the avenues to her home
have to bs guarded. Her steps are tracked
every where, even on her way to church"
Madame Anderson, who has just completed
the great walk 10 New Yort, is thirty-Sx years
old and is of mixed pareotage, her father being
Germaa and her mother Eoglish. She is Of
stout build, weighing 14O pounds, and is five
feet one inch in height. She is quite prepos-
sessing in appearance, having pleasant face
and bright eye. When she began her walk
she was dressed in red and vhite striped
satin tanic, pink tights and pair Of stout
laced boots, bat later On in her walk she
adopted costume better adapted to her work.
consisting of loosa fitting garment extending
from the throat to her knees, which gave full
play to the muscles of her body. These gar
ments were made by her husband, short, fat
German, who was 10 constant attendance upon
her during her weary tramp. Her quarter