The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-13
THE VANITY or MEN.
New York Graphic.

New York Graphic.
 There are very few men in the world without some vanity. Perhaps 1t is 1 pardonable tor man to be a little vain of come great achievement for which the rest of mankind is fling to accord him honor, but 6 man who is affected with peacock kind of vanity is quite another sort of person. A great many men are unconsciously vain. To accuse them of such weak ness would be to bring from them an indignant denial.
 Take, for instance, the man with an elegant moustache. He invariably car ries comb and looking glass, and very often, forgetful of the eyes of the world, he will take out his glass and comb and proceed to caress into curls the sweeping ends of the upper lip adornment. The same man would sheer at 6 woman and her little pow der-box, but would be very indignant if some lady should call him to time for fondling that hirsute appendage of his.
 Ex-Attorney- General Brewster with his badly deformed face. like the duke of Gloster, suddenly became intensely vain when the ladies of Philadelphia paid him marked attention, and he at once began entertaining the tailors to adorn his person, until he won . repu- tation for being an told dandy"
 Roscoe Conkling, with all his bril- liant attainments, was vain man as well as proud one. He was proud of his position, his influence and his record, and vain of his personal ap- pearance. How often his hand wan dered to that hyperian curl that hung over his broad forehead, and how ten- derly he caressed 1t when posing for effect in debate.
 An old maid is generally subdued and humiliated by the fact that she has passed the heyday of her youth without finding some one of the male persuasion that appreciates her enough to wed her, but with an old bachelor it is different. He is vain of the fact that he has been able to withstand the Embellishments and winning graces ot the fair sex, and sail past the port of matrimony without landing. ue laughs at the discomfture of Cupid and vaingloriously boasts that his heart is too tough for the little archer's arrows to penetrate.
 Kyrle Bellew, the actor, who SUD- ported Mrs. Potter last season, is so vain that he goes into mysteries in case any one guys him. Last season 6 member of Mrs. Potter's company wrote a song to the heir of "Tommy Dodd," the chorus running like this
 He rides in the palace car
 With the star, with tho star,
 kyrle Bellewi Kyrle Beilew,
 He's as ugly ss an ape,
 l But he is stuck on hls shape,
 kyrle Bellewi Kyrle Bellewt
 One night in Chicago, while Mrs Potter's company was performing there, one of the actors was hummipg the "Tommy Dodd" parody in the dressing room, Bellew entered and heard it tor the first time. His vanity was so mortified that he would not go on when his cue was sounded, and the curtain had so be lowered in order to give him time to recover his mental equilibrium after the shock.
 There was an actor named Mackey in New York years ago who was very } vain of his reputation as handsome man, and used to strut through the } streets to be admired by the ladies but one night in the old Winter Gar den theatre he was cast for the part of Osrfck in "Hamlet." It was his first appearance in tights, and when he came on the stage, spoke his lines and posed for the admiring glanees of the ladies, some one in the front rows and Mackey declared 1t was lady, tOo-said to her companion loud enough for the actor to hear;
 "Oh, look st Mackey's legs. Ain't they funny?"
 He was so mortified and confused that he left tine stage and the theatre and never was seen on the stage in New York again. He sailed for Eng land the next day.