The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-08
THE VANITY OF MEN.
1t Leads Them Into Queer Doings
That Are Faithfully Chronicled.
From the NeU York Graphic.

From the Ne,O York Graphic.
There are very few men in the world
without some vanity. Perhaps it is par
donable for man to be a little vain of some
great achievement for which the rest Of
mankind is willing to accord him honor,
but a man who is affec ed with a peacock
kind of vanity Is quite another sort of per
son.
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 ele-
CANT Inustache. He invariably carries
comb and a looking-glass, and very often,
forgettul of the eyes of the world, he will
take out his glass and comb and proceed to
to caress into curs the sweeping ends Of the
upper lip adjournment. the same ma i7would
sneer at woman and her little powd r
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 hiai
marked attention, and he at once began
entertaining the tailor to adorn his persen,
until he won reputation for being an ''oid
dandy"
Roscoe Conkling, with all his brilliant
attachments, was vain man as we'll as u
proud one. He was proud of his position,
his influence and his record. and vain of his
personal appearance. How often his
hand wandered to that hyperian curl that
hung over his broad forehead, and h Jw ten
derby he caressed it when posing for effect
in debate.
An old maid is generally subdued and
Inundated by the fact that she has passed
the heyday of her youth without finding
some one Of the male persuasion that ar
preciates her enough to wei her. but wtl
an old bachelor it is diffe, ent. He is vain
of the fact that be has been able to With
stand the Establishments and winning
graces of the fair sex, and sail past the port
of matrimony without landing. He laughs
at the discontinue OF Cupid and vain
gloriously boasts that his heart is too
tough for the little archers arrows to pene-
trate.
Kyrle Bellew, the actor, who supported
Mrs. Potter last season. is so vain that he
goes into Mysteries in case any one guys
him. Last season a member, OF Mrs.
POtter's company wrote a song to the air
of Tommy Dodd," the chorus running like
this:
He rides in the palace car
With the star, with the star,
Kyrle Bellew Kyrle Belew,
He's as ugly as an ape,
But he is stuck on his shape,
Kyrle Below Kyrle Below
One night in Chicago, while Mrs. Potter's
company was performing there, ono of the
actors was humming III Tommy Doddn
parody i'll the dressing room. Below enter ed
and heard it for the first time. His vanity
was so mortified that he would not go on
when his cue was sounded, and toe curtain
had to be lowered in order to give him time
to recover his mental equilibrium after tho
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 ad-
mired by the ladies; but ono night in the
old Winter Garden theator no was cast for
the part Of Osrick in Hamlet" II was his
first appearance in tights, and when he
came on the stage, spoke his lines and posed
for the admiring gances of the ladies.
some one In the front rows-and Mackey
declared it was a lady, too-said to her
companion loud enough for the actor to
hear:
"Oh, look at Mackey's legs. Amt they
funnyp
He was so mortified end confused that he
left the stage and the theater and never
was seen on the stage in New York again.
He sailed for England the next day.