New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-19
SOCIAL SILHOUET1ES.
BEING THE IMPRESSIONS OF MR.. MARK MAN
HAITIAN
XVII.
r1,r r,ny WHO IS SENSATIONAL.

gro wing Importance OF New-lor as Guy VI A''''
politics but fine eating when my attention was
oddly attra cted By pane OF glass IN Tue "lhuo"
near at hand 1t las of the deepest blood-r ana
i cave me a strange. lurid, unearthy glimpse OF
University Place, lying just outside. University
place "a the mott Needless observer will admit IL
street of excessive ugliness; but this crimson
segment of il that now saw through the dyed pane
transtipnred il into something cuTlonsy repulsfo'
Fascinated by the oddly and qualntness Oh LUG
fiery riouette thus afforded, rose and took nearer
vet broader view. / seemed to be gazing "P'" "
absolutely internal thoroughfare. Inc most co'n-
mopplaee sbop-fronts assumed glaring extraVa.
cance of outline. Everything was violeh'y anu
oppressively red re-seated myself Win s,hhe'
as the companion with whom had oceh iunon'nS
.rrnr,soiIv watched me. lie was MILFORD Oldheld,
man twice my own age, stout ruoici"u' eVn,"',
with n large knowledge of men and habit OF
aaoaa,o,,oI cvnicsn "a delicate as it was unob-
tiusve. -.
sMv dear Mark" said Oldield taking an olive
q have v,.u had your first experience in looking
through a pane of red glass r
aNot exactly.p answered, IN what was perhaps
n muslng tone. Bat that little glimpse just
gained gave me a sensation. an impression.
Reallvf II it dealized the dingness and shah
Illness of University Place should be inclined 10
congratulate you" :,
alt didn't ideaze University Place." replied
"a IL intensified and exaggerated IL. Inc "hole
stupdity and monotony of 1t became senHationai'y
sancuine II resembed a street in the planet MARS
OldGeld. laughed. "fou always were sort u
moot IN embryo. Mark" he said. =" II you'd been
horn to n garrett and crust instead OF how many
thousands is it a year . you might have ed mod
erately famous. One doesn't meet every day man
who would be reminded of anything so eztraor
binary Ly merely looking through bit oil dyed
glass in one OF Soaris windows"
ooh il reminded me of something else,' SAID.
besides the planet Mars"
aWhatfp asked OldGeld quizzically. "The
planet Jupiterp
aNo." returned. "Of Miss Judith Merivale."
Nv friend started looked at me wonderingly. and
then burst nto ono of his full. bass laughs Oldhed
has n laugh which is 80 like his stout. comfortable
body that feel almost privileged to call 1t corpu
lent.
IL see." he said "Aud yet perhaps miss some
pont of your intended analogy. Explain
"You know her as well | do" replied
Indeed. Won ought to know her much better
Olddeld You've been about TOW for a century OF
40. and when | emerged from boyhood only few
wears since Judith Merivae was still wealthy
soinster Of established reputation"
Reputation for what ~ he questioned, with a
twinkle of ms mellow brown eye under Its fat
wrnkled lid.
aFor doing everything with red fire. just like INV
window pane bere.'
OldGed nodded. 81 do see. And take back
what I said about your being an undcveloped poet
Novelist would have been better. Miss Judith -
sensational. She is colored by her convictions"
aAnd burninely" struck in. "Therc some
people whose lives resemble milky. meanderiug
serial by Anthony Troope where nothing more
dramatic occurs than visit OF the new rectoPs
wife upon tho baronets maiden daughter in the
first chapter and visit of tho baronets maiden
daughter upon the rectors wife IN chapter the
eighty-second. There are other people who remn nd
one of the analytical, immoral. sentimental or
lachrymose novels by various other authors. But
Miss Judith Mrryale su ggcsts the story in the
penny dreadtus' She is nothing If not liam.
boyant"
DO Won mean that she is vulg ar. Marki"
"Oh, no. said.
And he was ght She is not. She is simply
dalnbovaut "a certain flowers are such a gaudy
marIcnd or a spotted dahlil which we cannot help
adm ring with discreet reserved sympathes for n
| violet or ta-rose It CHANGED that had an
noon at Miss Judith Mcrivae's house mo one ev Z
| forgot the Orr ntal judith" somehow, IN naming
| hof and this fact may have helped to incite tho
rather uncharitabie fcrvOr of my recent comparison
| | went To see Mss Judith an hour OF two later
| and was received by her with smile full ol
| mystery. subtlety and magnetism. few other
| guests were present, drinSng tea aud chatting
| together, but Miss Judith chose 10 ignore the
presence of these ladies aud gentlemen and devote
| herself, for some time. exclusively "a. myself.
| She ALWAYS receives quite alone. she las n
| IN .thec who never visible, aud stands. rs one
might say. relieved, solitary, original figure ia the
| midst Of Ncw-NOrk social life. She has got IN y
las the coarse phrase puts III among people who
| concern themselves with select surroundings, n
number OF years ago some persons assert that she
made first SUCCESS III Rome; she is very ion" Of
| telling you about her days, weeks or months
| ia Rome However this may have been sbe is now
50 securely iaace that nobody ever thinks of asking
| a word with regard to her antecedents. The
| invisible mother. and the pIetty basement house IN
| Thirty-thlrd STREET and Miss Judith herself. with
| her positive enormous and overw helm ng person
| atty now completely blunt all snobb.s h inquiry.
she is os much taken for granted in active anil
existent society of the yelyet-le roses at
ono of her tasteful little dinner-partes.
You might have thought OF rose ~ you looked
at her; YET If You had done 80 II would have been
one OF those sultry JacqurminOts, with petals not
as fresh they once had been. hut little cured
and G6Iies ut the edges. She had once had n really
brilliant plexion. but few tins aid stcalthy
wrinkles about her large, soft eyes and at the
corners OF her full sweet expressive lips. now some
what this precious CHARM Her nose. in its
abandonment of symmetry. shOuld perhaps not he
recorded of her. so To speak there Gems even n
sort of ungaantry IN mentioning II. since the rest
OF Der face rs u sort of wistful feminine apology for
her having II Ut ALL She has n figure winch can
no better describe than recalling a Hover NC
seems To me that am always in some way compar-
ing her to "A Owerl that has lost the first nat ural
d. nj upon ltS Sltm SNc Is inll OF curves, but teY
are curves that imply undue relaxatol,-a limp
ness. in fact. hardly noticed before controlled aud
corrected. She Possesses real glory OF hair: IL IL
| red in the way that the hair of Rubenss omen is
sometimes red, and she wears it in "A KIND of
| sum- tuOus turmoil over her broad. white forehead
and Acr sheer sybl-like. bluc-veined temples. She
dresses oddly. hut not at al. frstheticaliy Oscar
Wilde and Whistler and Alma Tadcma had not vet
| papably transpTed as motives OF reform whrI she
| began 10 robe herself and think that even # they
had, Miss Judith would possibly have eschew ed
| their tenets.
she received me with burst of corliality. She
had hOarso note in her voice. which was not
unlike the dulcet though move imbre in the vo,co