The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-11-03
MODERN OSCAR WILDE
His Hair Cut short and His
Trousers Long.
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Letter 81 MsN CREASE A41aaksAs%sA0tEs~
So oz~sr wilde. waa rnaase hsfassaf
t.r<,ss "a AsasYiea = few yesrs aga. y nos
80. ggsear wide u today TIE i9as hsir
- s~~n est ard + nov shsrt ard euFsy
Tas e.sgeexhes hAye assn pr Away
easss4s.y. sac lssxstassAeal asT = 30 sssfaEeT
wara. aa.sf The 1acaf Nsssse u lsaaAoE 20
gav H. . atra git Sssoag siossisasfei
Athletic fssf0w with no nssasensa asoast
hgm asa 81 evlsent determination On his
fsas - mAks fa1ae ard money. The Zoe
craze. 80 ~ as England = esnesfrsssi, ~
ever Hr Wide vii aasstson Ilsiz--Fst
tlssrs are thousands % people. alen and
wamen. who believe thai Wide d. ms5ea
eafs6 IL bis late crusade, SID he hAs
ssHl 4 very respectable si1iio~tig' olit
nothing like shat 0ne weli8s baYs been lei
81 believe from = perusal ef tbs *atsfleei
sillisertss PAtisncs / sAN Oscar Wide
az Flest street today. and w0gzld not have
knawa hfnt lad rot 81 Engsish fsiead
te4sstad him out 80 me lie tucked Is kBg-
i.sb ii his dress a. ia his manner, AID con-
deeasd himself ~ Thousands of ether
bgsati@sis0uideFea y0ang fellows whom yon
vii sad ri oxford or Cambridge, or ~
she Ole commercial houses Ct london or
f4verpo1i he vas looking ia tie window
81 4 sec0na hard book store, lie carried
sa arafat st papers sud thasa osak sth0Fn
ssies IN bic hand There vas nothing
About him to attract attention., lie
miRht. teFbsrA. be picked 99t
~ q srowd f0r a professional nlan 10
recent newspaper hrtiele it vas reported
that MI Wilde had grown very stout ana
very Inartlatc looking IN flie matter oil
dress This does him great injustice. rs
All ttir world kuoWs, he has az artistic caste
al e8untenanue atlI his proportions are
massive. lie 4 not faF0Fite among inef.
Eneiishsneu seem - look apoH him as
something III ii curiualty Aomem take
more ksndly 30 him lie + chiefly known
nov hY his contributions 20 tie magazines,
wosk lst Ahieii ho Is mast aaAidious.
Isa,.eA ealls his latest article Oscar
wilde Mad Fancy His tiGns Is entirely
occupied lie lectures nov and them
writes speclai articles occasionally. does
book Teyiex once in awhile and every
ether aay spends a couple Of hoafa oE so
editing tie fsafsef Wprld or the HoHfs's
Hasta a. he naw calls a. aud performs the
aillicast task ng managing large staff 81
femlntns Contributors IN q mastery fash
son. lie frequently drops ia "a she Lyric
club. although he belongs 30 hall dozen
ethefs ID London. and it vas thsfe that
the writer had a brief chat with him
Your school Of esthetiolsm. Mr.
Wilde. / BEGAN. "seema Ia have died
oatp
oh. nn. vas The quick sejolnder, III
has not There does not seen 90 hs the in.
tsFest III asthetie matters that there was
nasua years aea, bat thc school has not died
out =sut by aly means"
Then The progress has iseen satisfactory
e. yullH
soh. yes, yes. was the reply, perfectly
satisfactory and then he added after a
putt Al his cigarette, perfectly how could
Ia h4 otherwise -
"lt vas said in a leading newspaper not
long slnoe that you had grown tired Of
shat vas calIssi the aesthetic TAD and did