The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-10-17
NUMBER AZ.


public picture galleries we find them in the
characters of nymphs, vestals or sylphs.--
We suppose we shall see them before long
''done" at full length inmarble, as Venu-
seS.
the conversation in good society is occa-
slonally rather commonplace, and the wealth
er or the parties of yesterday and to-day
form the principal topics of polite small
talk. A fresh subject of interest, therefore,
In world where there is apparently so lit
tie that Is interesting must necessarily be n
boon. Formerly, such observations as
"What crowd there was at Lady AS last
night! and II am afraid it ia going to rain"
brought the average fashionable man pretty
nearly to the end Of his conversational teth-
er; but now the remark that "Mrs. b. is
looking very we'll this morning" increases
his resources so per cent Tho approach
in the park of one of the beauties attracts
an attention which used to be accorded to
royalty only, and the privilege of being un-
blushingly stared at is no longer confined to
the blood royal. Professional beauties have
class of journal specially devoted to their
glorltcaton. Here their sayings and do
lnSs are faithfully chronicled. Occasion
ally long article is devoted to descrip-
tion of their charms, and they generally
monopolize prominent paragraphs. No de-
scription of a race meeting in any ncwspa.
per is complete without the description of
the dresses worn by the professional beau
ties, and d 5asaar Or fancy fair is unnoticed
unless they are present. For time our
ing the late London season, the sayings and
doings of the celebrated French actress who
was received with so much enthusiasm by
the once straitlaced English, threatened to
obscure our national beauties Columns of
the so,called society journals" were de-
voted to her, in which she was briefly dcs.
cribed as "she." But "she" has now left
our shores, and the crring dcvotecs have
returned to worship at the shrines of the
beauties. The appearance of the goddesses
is again chronicled with the same accuracy
as the price of consols or tho rainfall, and
their proceedings and whereabouts are more
faithfully recounted than those of the reign.
ing sovereign herself Writers in the fash
ionable journals seem to attach more impor-
tance to the blowing of the nose of pro-
fessional beauty than to general engage
mont at the Cape
Old-fashioned people marvel much at tho
homage paid to the professional beauties
IN society. If ono of them stays at the
house of a lion hunting old peer she is TAX
en- in to dinner by her host, in proceed ,nce
OF ladies of far superior rank 1Ier wishes
arc law as to the arrangements and amusc-
ments of the whole party, and cyery.
thing is made subscrvient to her wbims
She generally has little court of ladies'.
and gentlemen in waiting, and if you in.
vlte her to your house you must ask some
OF these to meet her or she will be bored
and sulky. When you have succeeded in
persuadng beauty to stay with you, YOU
must OF course be prepared to take the con-
sequences. Her will must be yours. You
will be lucky if her favorite amusement is
simply to pose herself in graceful attitudes
and look beautiful. If less interesting, the
statuesque beauty is far preferable, rs a
guest, to the lively beauty The latter,
when in playful humor, is apt to become
overpowering. She exhibits her light
heartedness by examining pieces of ice in.
side gentlemen's shirt collars and by throw
ing glassful of champagne at an admirer
on the opposite side of the table She
hurls peaches, which have cost you a shil-
ling apiece, at the heads of her friends,
scramblcs with her neighbor at the table,
and breaks one of your best dessert plates.
But you must not mind this is merely the
little fee of the great professional She
proposes ride, and astonishes the inhabi.
tants of your well conducted and quiet vii
lage by riding one of your horses through
it at full gaIlop, accompanied by her court,
whom she compcls to ride at the same pace.
She volunteers to drive your phgton or
four in hand, and will think it good Joke
to drive into somebody or something, and
if she smashes your carriage it is all done
in fuu, and she expresses herself as SO
thankful that nobody was hurt" When
you are sitting with your men friends after
dinner, you will probably congratulate your.
self upon your temporary respite from the
pleasantrics of your pretty guest, but per.
haps you would scarcely feel so satisfied if
you were aware that she was at that mo-
mcnt engaged in paying private visits to,
the rooms of each oi your male visitors,
making an apple pie bed for one, pomading
the sponge of another, sewing up the night
shirt of third, p.ppcring the pillows Of
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