Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-16
BEAUTY TN PHOTO.
Portraits oe Lovely Society Bellies
offered to the Public.
Charming American Girls yyhose
Pictures Sell More Readily
Than Those OF Titled liz
dies and Pr7ncesses.
NEW York NYorld.l

NEW York World
photographs Of English and american
society ladies for sale here, read the card in
a Broadway window up town. Around the
announcement we're hung photographs of
prominent celebrities and weil-known beau
ties. Inside, the store was thronged with
customers, handsomely dressed ladies and
faultlessly attired men, all porting over great
packs Of photographs. A wait Of half an
hour brought the proprietor to the front with
the apology that because of a new departure
in the selling of photographs he had hardly
time to attend to the wants Of his customers.
''What is the latest attraction? Why,
haven't you heard? 1t is the attraction that
beauty-especially American beauty has for
all of us. A number of New York society la
dies have permitted their photographs to be
put en- sale, and this is the result" indicating
the crowded store. 81 cannot supply the de-
mand fast enough and am entirely out Of the
best-selling besuties. knew there would be
great call for these pictures, of course, but
had ne idea that the proffer ola photograph
of few simple American girls would pro-
duee such a craze. Why, sir, during the
short time that the photograph Of Frank
Works beautiful daughter has been in my
window have sold 600 copies of it at least
and am kept busy continually ordering more.
And this Brooklyn girl, too, taking up a card
from which the piquant face Of fluffy blonde
looked out, ''has sold almost equally well.
Why do they sell so rapidlys For the same
reason, I presume, that people go wild over
the mutilated Venus of Milo. know no bet
ter reason"
BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN LADIES.
Further up Broadway, near Madison
square. Charles l. RitZ1nan advertised photo
graphs of beauties and celebrities from all
| over the world. Said he:
II have been trying for years to induce
American ladies in society here to place their
| photographs on sale and am at last succeed
ing. With the advance of cultivation and
wealth this public display of personal charms
was bound to come in, just as fox-hunting
| and Wallets at the opera have been introduced.
! Some people may call it straining after
| English effect, or a kind of Anglomania, but
it is nothing Of the kind. 1t is simply carry
| ing out the noblesse obnge idea of the upper
classes I would, if called upon, put the
matter in this light: The daughters and
/ wives of Fifth avenue and Murray
/ Hill possess wealth. social position and
| beauty. They cannot very easily divide the
former among the hoi palloi-the common
/ peopie-but they can let the public share, III
q certain limited way, in their beauty And
in doing this l think they deserve praise"
''Apart from this desire to benefit the pub
lie, have the ladies no personal feeling in this
departure?'
"fhere is such a sentiment Of vanity, and
our New Y ork bellies, when they place theil
photographs GA sale, are not wholly unin
fuenced by it. see no reason why q woman
simply because she is in private life, should
hide the light of her beauty under bushel.
80 they rather enjoy the innocent noto
rietyp'
''Hhy noss Look at tho illustrious exam
pies after whom they copy. Here are pho
tegnphs Of every royal parsonage in Europe
and should not American queens of society
nave equal priv2egesa
QUEENS OF SOCIETY.
..Who you'd net prefer a photograph O
Mrs. ". L. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Gerald Hoyt
Miss Fannie Swan or Miss Marion Langdon
to one OF the bt.oy- faced Princess Maria Chris
tina, King Alfonso's much-taIled of wife, o
OF The princess OF Wales There are few New
York bellies that are not moro beautiful il
face and form than any OF these whom tn
public delights TO honor" spreading out POI
traits of Lady Lonsdale, Lady Dudley, Lad
| OdStlSIC dtt~i his OO4uHtslllo w eSC
SIT is pity" lie continued, with som
warmth, chat orr native beauties shoul
not be permitted to take rank at the top c
the list where they properly belong, and an
/ feeling which prevents the public exhibitio
Of their charms IS false modesty, to say Ii
$ least. This city will, Of course, take I'll
initiative i'll Introducing this custom, and til
, provincial cities VII naturally follow. .
s few sensible, courageous ladies have opene
r the way, and in a very short time 1 sha
Offer TO the public photographs Of rearl
, | every lady of prominence within Il
t charmed circle. feel really ashamed to Sc
such 9 demand for Mrs. Langtrys picture
when here are a dozen cultivated America
girls with face and figure far outshining til
English actress"
: ''Wiil these ladies receive commission
+ from the sale of their Ii1enessesa'
Il THE CLUBMA1S'S opRo .;'-yTTY.
l Certainly not. The l.ea aasurd.
: the fair ones needed none ,l4.r attituC
towards the public would oe changed, az
their photographs would be worthless"
Resuuing his gossip after escaping from
fastid;ous customer who detained him ha
an hour in purchasing one picture, he SAT-
''There is another good that viii result fro
the general introduction of this English sy
g TEN of public photographs. Young men W.
/. be enabled to possess themselves Of the pc
n traits of their lady acquaintance witne
d embarrassment to themselves or to the Jadi
in question. Many ladies would be glad
d have such a souvenir in possession Of the
,e male friends, but the picture cannot be VIZ
made gift. This, you see, offers a safe W;
4 out of the dilemma"
"a Among the photographs Of American bea
II ties which sold best were those of Hon In
ar Roche, nee Fanny Work, daughter of Fral
n Work, and Lady Randolph Churchill, n
~ Miss jerome, daughter Of Leonard
20 jerome.
V A large demand was expected for the p
lures of Mr. VanderbiIt's daughter, La
Vaudeville, and that Of Miss Chamberlay1
which had been ordered.
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