The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-01
OSCAR WILDE'S HOME.
How The Apostle Lives in
London.
Els PRETTY YOUNG WIFE.
An Atmosphere OF Artistic ideals
HIS LiberAlity as an Eater
tainer-Lady Wilde.
Copyrighted. 1881


! The exterior is utterly wanting in III
interest which attaches to display.
dimensions, and magniicence. Once
inside. you breathe an atmosphere OF
artistic ideals. The household ap-
point men harmonic with the gospe
he breaches Perfect taste tempers effects
in hue and design. which are shot
through and through with his inmate
love of 6isQrrerie. Each chamber is a
fragment of the inmates, and no.
merely the result of costly upholsterer
inspiration Every thing in the esthetes
establishment is Coptase u faut, without
ostentat on or extravaganza. Dinner
are never too large or too long; th'
dishes are the best of their kind; guests
are discrlmlnately selected. Pertec'
sim plicity is combined with delicacl
and merit. The dining-room, in whici
these young people reciprocate the
compliments of their hosts in London
society is study IN pure white deco
ration. The furniture, drapery, ano
cupboards are dazzling in their i'm
10 acuIateness, and rare and unique
0eslgus of French .tatenco emheiilsh
walls similarly guiltless OF color. q
dainty apartment betting the hos
| Dit ole festivities of the standard bearer
| of q cause that demands rose-leat-
| streWn fl Jors. lamp-lights glimmerlne
through the crevlces of palm fronds
| nearly, skinned women in Greek vestEre.
| canoes caressing their shoulders and
! Jewels pendent from ne giIdle.
| As a host Oscar Wilde is agreeable
| cordial, and sumptuous in his ideals OF
| hospitality. at his hands and upon
| his hearto Americans find a gracious
| Welcome; ne twits the ladies upon tneu
national peculiarities, and tells a smir
story for every service OF soup, hsh, or
entree. While he declares tue culture
! of our great republic to be N petticoats
| he piayfully rebels against the twenty
exactions which, ne asserts, replace th'
| Decalogue in the Am rlcan woman's
code of ethics. He affects the society
of our fair barbarians from the weste-'
| world for lively epigram, and at such
| times of yiyaciouS banter he Is con-
spicuous for the absence OF those aztec
| tetions. sconceits, and vanltleS which
| strangers sup .oss constitute the COM
plete stock-In trade of this high priest
of Hstheticism. AS he appears mos
radiant in intercourse with women, b.
also furnishes tbs crucial instance OF
the service feminine assistance may
render in the establishment OF pro-
fessional reputation and saccess oil
Young authors in London.
To The general public Oscar Wilde Is
q greatly misunderstood young man
He has had some difficulty in inducing
| neopIe to taRe HIM seriously. To fully
realize that he is something more than
a drolI herald of his own mental gyra
| mons. he needs to be first met and then
read.
Mr.. Wide Is no longer the apostle OF
knee-b.seches, lace wrist falls, and
1 flowing tresses, which received many
an impatient TOSS in former days. AS
| first saw him under the Ma0ras drapery
| of a dividing arch in South Kensing-
ton drewing-room, the evangeli't of the
sunfower doctrine who has bsen sc
widely identified with the movement
that espouses the theory of PERCEPTION
by the senses. and who has been sc
| deplorably misrepresented, presented
the figure of an exceedingly prac'lca
| and commonplace person. AS he come'
Il nHt0TP u9 Jay Jul ShLASN "a AiS
| tic friIls and foibles, he scarcely fulils
The ideaIIzing fancy of young maiden
hood that. still retains sight OF thu
traditiouarv nimbus Of ardent word
painters. He is undeniably vivlt
suecimen of John Bull; a well-knit
thrawnv giant of sig foot, with a heav.
Dhyslognomy and ieshly .proport ons
| giving evidence of an easy stnsualIsn
and o7er-induIgence of the anima
tendencies for comfort. But durln
| the years since he was first rendere'
, | familiar to the American public, whicl
have given rcundDess to the creature
have given also point to the scintilla
| tons Of wit when constantly illumIn
kis conversation. He is never hahite
with extreme care, but he is ever slee
aud silken-mannered, and his voic
flows on IN velvet cadence. He is
Geek scholar. and a master of tbs
graceful Eng ish rhythm that indie ate
q facile familiarity with the academl
discipline of q complete unlvelsit
education. His habits are student Tx
, and his comradeships selected onl
from among the ilk of arts.
But his attempt, aforetime, to ming
q Barnunism with the gospel of ees net
cism spdja boudoir religion, the prima1
object OF whose worship was OSc'
Wilde himself, has left q grotesque al
trivial impression on the pubic min
Few Englishmen are so widely know
9 His fame Is spread throughout Americ
And despite the gentle truth that he
now engaged editing London period
!, cal whose harmless columns are Il
. uocently devoted to pabulum concu
ring with feminine digestion and receip
for making infants caps, he is reckon
among the Literdtj of the town.
.v he Is more popular. however. by n
cessity of the personal eccentricities
practised In the days of pristine &C
ebrity than by the intellectual abllitl
to which he can justly lay claim. n
ture intended Oscar Wilde for DRAWN
room yoluptuary, but a curious tw
In his temperament. and yearni
after notoriety, transformed him into
sort of Piccadilly st. Augustin.
The most conspicuous features OF
Wilde camp are the Wilde women,
Id may readily be seen. :.
The pretty girl who is the wife OF I
Apostle of the Beautiful is an accer tt
. ted type of Irish beauty. wide bl
~ eyes. soft brown hair, brows and last
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