Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
CLARA BELLIES CHAT.
The Handsomest and, Best Dressed
Millionaire in New York.
MRS. GRANT GLAD TO GO TO VIENNA
Society People Find Pleasure in the Circus
During Lent.
GREEN TO BE THE FASHIONABLE COLOR
rcoRnrsroNDEscE OF THE p1srArcu.J

commissioned 10 portray tne lace OF King.
| Shall he violate his conscience by fatterine
his features, or shall he be truthful with the
risk of displeasing him? Doubtless you
have read some of the historic anecdotes re.
lating to this very subject. Well, one ot
| our American kings of wealth, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, hired Frank Hall, London
artist, to put him on canvas. The order
was given last summer, while the gentle.
man was in England, and he sat to him q
| number of times. The picture arrived in
this city week ago, just in time to be seen
by its original before his departure for Eu-
rope, where he and his wife are to become
again a social wonder. The portrait was
hung in the hallway of Cornelius Wander
bilt's mansion on the morning that the
friends of the family called to say goodby
to them, or to accompany them as far as the
steamer. They were little astonished, I
think, to find that it did not fatter Mr.. V an.
derbilt in the least, but had every blemish
as we'll as every perfection in his face faith
fully reproduced.
81 don't want to be smoothed out" he is
reported to me as saying to the artist; "but
want Photographic llkeness-nothlng set
down in malice, nor aught extenuated."
Suppose try my hand, in that same
sincere manner, at depicting him as he ap-
pears to casual observers here in New
York.
A HANDSOME MILLIONAIRE.
By far the best looking and best dressed
of our millionaires is Cornelius Vanderbilt.
This young man is decidedly attractive to
the eye. He is of excellent figure, and his
clothes, while never foppish, are most i'm
maculate, and exhibit plainly the work Of
as good a tailor. as can be found in New
York. At the theater Mr.. Vanderbilt is in
variably in perfect evening dress, and the
effect of cleanness that he always produces
is truly noticeable. don't suppose there is
better groomed man in the city. His firm,
solid chin and mouth always have the
newly-shaved look of gentleman of leisure,
his tiny whiskers just in front of his ears
are trimmed with exquisite exactness, his
linen is like snow, and his patent leather
shoes look as though they had never been
worn before.
Mr.. Vanderbilt has the face of thor
oughly reliable and shrewd man of busi-
ness. The forehead is broad and smooth,
the eyes kindled with pronounced intelli-
gence OF expression. The mouth set with the
gentle strength of man accustomed to rule
and to succeed. He inherits all that shrewd
and courageous brightness of visage that you
can find in portrait of the old Commodore
I never see Cornelius Vanderbilt but what
I appreciate his capacity for being very
rich. 1t does not bewilder him or dazzle
him. Any man with his personal appear
ance must preforce be at least sensible and
decent. I have seen such faces in serious
and industrious physicians, lawyers and
ministers. 1 never saw man with such a
face who was not to a great degree success
full in a worldly way. Serious, kindly,
courtlY, well-dressed, clean and solidly
handsome, this is Cornelius Vanderbilt,
still young, but with a we'll grown family,
and millions on millions of dollars.
MRS. FRED GRANT IS DELIGHTED.
Mrs. Colonel Fred Grant is ineffably
pleased with the honor bestowed upon her
husband and the triumph that must accrue
to her from four years residence in the
court of Vienna. The fact of the matter is
that the lovely daughter Of Mr.. Honore is
not satisfied with her rank in American So
ciety. In Washington her position was
only negative success, for the reason that
she was too well bred to care for or cultivate
the political class, and since her residence
in New York her honors have been even
less satisfactory True she has gone great
deal, as leader once said in the committee
of the Water Color Society and Decorative
Art Ball, but never see the Grants any,
where. They have not been sought out by
the 400, and while they reigned in Long
Branch as a sort of national curiosity, they
lived at the hotel with Potter Palmer's
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might, with an income equal to the rates of
the house.
Out in Chicago things were vastly differ
ent and whenever the Grants visited the
city Mrs. Potter Palmer threw open her
lake shore palace and allowed the swells of
Rush street, Bellevue place and Prairie
avenue to come in and make their obeisance.
Any distinguished people who might hap
pen to be in town at the time were invited
and the result was altogether delightful.
ALWAYS CONVENTIONAL.
As the world knows, the Honore girls
were convent bred, and, while they have
very beautiful manners, neither could be
called brilliant, and great many times
they have been considered arrogant, i'm
perious and unnecessarily exclusive. The
maiden in "Rudygore" never adhered more
closely to her book of etiquette than have
these beautiful women, and whatever sweet
ness and graciousness of heart the world
may have missed, it can never accuse Mrs.
Grant or her sister, Mrs. Palmer, OF an un-
conventional act. But now the administra-
tion comes to the rescue, and Mrs. Grant is
happier than she has ever been since she be-
came the wife of President s son. Mrs.
Potter Palmer is arranging her household
so as to spend the coming summer, and per-
haps remain in Vienna through the entire
year, as her sisters guest.
1t might interest some of the devoted
mothers of the country to know something
of the really admirable methods employed
in the education of Colonel Grants two
children. Both have French nurse from
whom they have learned the language, which
they speak as we'll as they do English. It
is Mrs. Grants wish that nothing be taught
her little daughter to make her independ-
ent, self-reliant or forcible. Her mathe-
matical training il, limited to the elements;
she must know nothing of philosophy, and
never be permitted to hold an argument
Music, literature, history, art and the
languages are thought sufficient, and under
no circumstance will the sweet little
brunette be admitted to a schoolbouse as
resident or regular pupil. She is to be
gentle, dependent, trustful, sweet woman
with all that. softness and pliability of
nature that the world has always loved and
men have adored.
A LENTEN DIVERSION.
What do you think of 81 as price for a
seat at circus? That is what Barnum is
charging for the best chairs at his current
show in the Madison Square Garden, and it
proves winning price, for it brings the
bellies and matrons of Fifth avenue, who
would stay away from 80 cent circus.
Every afternoon and evening this costly
section of the Garden holds as palpably
fashionable a gathering as you could find at
the opera. By some curious construction
of the religious law of Lent, our modish
people rate circus as permissible, and
Barnum gets the profit.
There was great deal of circus at the
theater, the other night, where the French
comedian Coquelin played little duologue
with Agnes Booth. A long drama was
enacted first, and thus the little play was
placed at midnight. This enabled the
actors and actresses to come from their en-
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