St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-15

out all night. He looked pale and weary.
but Stih he hung out his SOCKS before he
went to bed. This sort OF thing went on
day after day. | saw the actor at the
theater and on the street. He was truly a
masher. His attire was always the perfec-
ton of fashionable elegance. But L could
never look at him without feeling an uneasy
consciousness that | was aware of terrible
secret and knew the existence OF skeleton
which. if chose to reveal, would have
made the fashionable English actor the talk
of the town.
Il know an actor. though he is an Amer
lean" said young man to whom L told
this story, who has the reputation of be-
ing quite swell-Owner of large ward
robe. and always dressing in the height of
style-while in reality he has only one de-
cent suit of clothes to his name. 1t is
dress suit, and cut in the most fashionable
style. He is an all-night sort of an actor,
to be found about town as late as 3 or
o'clock in the morning. after the theater
always, and he does not rise until about 3
o'clock in the afternoon. Then he drinks
lot of hot water, takes the needed exercise
with the dumb-bells. and at 5 o'clock sits
down to an elaborate meal, which is served
in his room. If any persons happen to
drop in on him he receives them in his bath
robe and slippers. Then he shaves himself
and puts on evening dress. He is very par
ticular in the matter OF gloves, and he has
a fashionable cape coat. Thus equipped he
starts forth. and drifts about Delmonico's,
the Brunswick and other fashionable re-
sorts, until it is time to go to the
tbeater. There are always men enough
who are willing to buy drink for an actor,
and as he is a pleasant and talkative man,
he not only succeeds in keeping his thirst
from annoying him before the play, but is
usually asked to supper afterwards. There
is method in all this. He receives $125 d
week, and his expenses certainly fall below
$40. He has all the reputation of being
rounder, and more or less of a bowling
swell, without any of the attendant eX-
pense, and he is laying by pretty pot of
money
FOR THE SUMNER SEASON.
sit isn't meanness, p" he said, in discuss
ing the matter frankly with man who
happened to know him well. because I
know I'm not mean man by nature. l
ran through very considerable fortune in
two years and was obliged to take to the
stage for livelihood. A man who is able
to keep up swell connections, and who has
the reputation of being in with society peo-
pie. can always get an engagement with
New York manager if he knows how to act
at all. But occasionally he will get caught
like | was last summer, when | spent rather
a miserable existence on nothing week for
four or five long months. 1t has taken me
a long time to learn what economy means,
but | know now and am going to practice it
IL II fba
world would not atone for the inconveni-
ences and the humiliation of last summer"
The ancient Greek and Roman women
and their modern imitatOrs, the French
women of the first republic and the first
empire, are the only women on record, save
among savage and barbarous tribes, who
have not worn corsets. Not precisely the
corset of the present day, OF course, but an
attempt at garment taking It's place, and
performing for the female form what our
modern French OF American corsets do.
The same primitive waiStband found amid
the antiquities of Greece and Egypt was
discovered on female figure. in bas relief,
in PoIenqui, one of the prehistoric cities of
South America. II represented the waist
Of the wearer, or the space between the
hips and ribs, compressed as in wise.
Mamma tells Tie that she can remember
when the corset was a very different gar
ment from the corset of to-day. The change
has been gradual but sure. Thirty years
ago, what with steel. WhalebOne and a
shape that put the wearer in fortunes to
lace it, whether loosely or tightly. the cor
set was the sure destroyer of the health of
women. 1t was much longer garment
than the corset of to-day, and its SteelS and
bones We're of
ALMOST UNYIELDING STIFFNESS.
Now corsets are made short on the hips
and low in the bosom and back. They
follow the lines of the figure, and are in
tended not to support or suppress it, but
merely to afford an underwaist which will
prevent the unseemly wrinking of the body
of the dress worn over it. Very little steel
is used. and that is as flexible as a watch
spring, though, of course, a little stronger
Cords and fine Whalebone stiffen French
and some American corsets, but of late
years q new textile, the strong elastic fiberS
Of the Mexican ixtli plant, has come largely
into use for that purpose.
\ veteran society man was talking
to me about Mary Anderson the other day
with more OF less vehemence. More non
sense has been written ard spoken about
that girl he said. than about any other
woman in the world, not excepting Sarah
Bernhardt Apparently the people are
willing TO swallow any sort Of story about
Mary. The wilder it is, the more
agerly they cry fer it. MGdjeska's saying
hat Anderson would never be great act
ress until she was in love has gone over the
world everywhere. People smack their
lips and say Cad. how she will act after
she has been in lover and they never seem
to suspect that she has not gone through
the world. been on the stage eight or nine
years, and met men Of all sorts, and come
out of it all heart untouched and fancy
pleased, Any actor who has played with
her will tell you that While she is and al
ways has been as pure as the driven snow,
she is nevertheless as subject to the darts
of Cupid as the most gushing of boarding
school maidGnS.
SHE IS LIABLE
to fall in love at any time, and she has been
in love with four or five men to my per-
sonal and absolute knowledge. It's known
in the profession, but it is not known out
side. because Miss AndersOn's five or six
hundred relatives and her talking manager
are constantly on hand to watch the girl as
though she were convict under suryeil-
lance
| don't know anything about the heart
of Mary Anderson in sentimental way. and
the subject of corSetS suggested her. | take
it for granted that she carries it somewhere
to the left of her wish-b0ne-which is plain
enough to see, goodness knows, whenever
she wears low corsage OH the stage. We
have been getting her in roles like Galatea
and Pauline. when her aesthetic and