St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-12

persisted of modification. AS it was,
you thought the dear girl looked UNI
commonly brilliant. Caroline Hill does
not make up off the stage. or if she does
it is In that entirely pardonahe way
that SurpasSeS detection-here the sin
emphatically is in being found eut--but
her attachment TO white veil is as con-
slant as her devotion To Kelley himself.
When she is in town that white veil of
her's,a pretty thick one. too. is as much
a part of theatrical first night as Nym
Crinkle's gray head OF Mary risks
black lace dress.
The gentle Mrs. Fisk wears veil.
too, black lace like her dress, but that
eminent writer has many moments III
which she rises above petty conSldera-
tons of appearances, and 1t Is always
on the cards that she will get tired hav-
| ing her nose tickled OF her eyelashes
pulled and will take the offending arti
Gle off and stuff it in her pocket.
Agnes Booth, who belongs to the
| same generation. wears a thin black
| veil. put Oh with a very swell touch, as
| are all her clothes.
| During the last year of the Union
| Square stock company Sara Jewett,
| whose health was already failing. was
in very bad spirits, and. rs she always
did in such case, she took to thick gauZe
wells. Her wells were infallibly indica-
tive. not of her looks, but her spirits.
| She always had wonderful knaek o
putting on her clothes, and she made
the pearl-cOiOred gauZe wells look so
charming that every blessed woman i'll
the place, from Mrs. Phillips and Miss
Harrison down to Nellie Wetherill, went
and got them pearl-colored gauze wells.
Miss Jewett had Il silver pin which she
wore in her hair, and around which she
wrapped the veil in way of her own
she turned it up in a border at the bot
tom in a way of her own: the ladies to i
man got them silver pins TO wrap their
wells about, and turned their wells up in
border at the bottom. They all looked
as much alike as they filed out OF the
stage door on to Fourth avenue at mid
night as so many nuns.
You won't believe this story unless
you yourself remember the way thai
company was dominated for years by Its
leading lady; how, for instance, they al
swung down to the fOotlightS and turned
their backs to the house at crucial mo
ments. regardless of whether they haC
the dimpleS that begat that method OF
not.
Annie Robe delights to 60 without {
veil. showing face washed as clean a;
milkmaid'S. She attracted more atten
ton by that course i'll Engl; I'D thar
here, for there the veil out of t-ors il
daytime is considered imperative.
Selma DOlarO wears her little piece q
net-SometimeS light, sometimes dark
night and day and all the time. Ther,
is superstition that she sleeps i'll 1t
She certainly looks very fascinating il
her Oriental way beneath it.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is another cOnstan
devOtee OF the veil, and she manages Il
get them with big dots, or broad borders
or other ingenious cOntrivance for Gov
ering her up very much indeed.
: Mrs. Fannie Merrill, of the World
never wears one, and never needs to.
!. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett wear
, light, thin ones in the daytime, never a
: night.
In cold weather Edith Thomas wrap
! her head gracefully about with lonl
I gauZe ScarfS.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox tries all sorts
, and sticks to none.