Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-12-14
Popularity of Society Specialists.

Society, which is always ready to divert
its dizziness with any fad, however puerile or
inconsequential, last winter developed veri-
table novelty in the person of buxom and
comedy widow, who possessed in an emil
nent degree gift that does not commonly
fall to or receive cultivation by her sex For
a whole season Mrs Shaw's abilities as a
whistler were the talk of the five o'clock teas
Wherever you went you were greeted by the
melodious piping of this substantial nightin-
gale, who really did whistle very tunefully,
and who contrived, somehow, to not look
ridiculous when she puckered her lips and
faced her audience. At the end of the season
Mrs. Shaw took a benefit, and went to Lon
don to whistle her way into the good graces
of the nobility and gentry. The result is
that she comes back to us graduated into
full fedged siff1euse, and with the Bow Bells
guinea stamp of merit to recommend her
for further social encouragement.
During her absence nav star in the
drawing room armament had arisen in the
person of a young woman whose talent for
that humorous distortion of the features
known to the English as ''mugging' is said
to be only surpassed by that of Marshall P.
Wilder himself. This fair artist, with table,
couple of screens and rejecting lamp OF
two, makes up for all manner of familiar
and unfamiliar people, and as she artfully
caricatures some of the odd men and women
in society and its immediate outskirts, it can
be readily understood that her performance
is not without interest. There will be more
money spent than ever this season in the
direction of these society specialists, who are
getting to be as popular here as they are in
England-possibly because they are popular
F,,n1anI hot !, ito,.e.
performers and pianists, fidders, face
makers, whistlers and what not else, there
ought to be variety enough to rendor the
average luncheon or tea almost bearabIe to
the person of average intelligence. -Afred
Trumble in Pittsburg Bulletin.
Women's Studios in Paris.
On ordinary occasions this is what you see
on opening the door of the studio in the Rue
de Berri. A long and extremely lofty apart
ment lighted from above: at one end is low
platform on which stands model sun
draped" save for the red cloth round her
loins; at the other end is ''draped" model.
The former sits for the ensemble, the latter
for the head and bust only. Before each,
forty or fifty pupils are grouped, some sitting.
some standing, brunettes and blondes, girls i'll
women in bonnets, some welding the brush,
others working in charcoal. Between the
two divisions is a young woman sxetching
out rich hued bunch OF particular blossoms
that happen to be in season; the flowers from
which she is painting icing arranged on low
table, seeming the air with their fragrance.
Lifting a drapery. you pass into an sinner
room, where modelling is being carried on A
fair young girl is sitting beforea group Of
female sculptors, many of whom are repro
ducing her soft, rounded limbs in clay, nob
unskillfully, while a tall young woman, her
hair cut short, is doing the same for 1.-the
youngster. who might personate John the
Baptist. / must not even whisper to you the
name of this tall woman: when noble DANES
assume the sculptor's blouse they leave their
title with their fine manners in the vestibule.
1t is Chapu who hspenses praise and blame
in this department, and a good deal of the
former commodity faAs to the share of Prin-
cess j. Overhead there is another and q
larger room, which is reached by private
staircase, and is extended for those whose
prejudices exclude them from the study OF
the nude.--R. Julian in Kansas City Journal.