The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-03

| carefully padded on the inside of the latter
IS the lambs wool that gives shape and
| beauty to many an otherwise ungainly-
/ looking leg. By carefully padding the inside
tight legs can be made larger all over
| but they oetrGy the pOs,essor by the lack
! of proportion to the other limbs. Few
] women appear In one pair of tights. because
| an accide t, a sudden rent would expose the
| flesh to the audience. But the under tights
| are not worn especially for thai reason.
| They help to keep tie wearer warm and
! prevent the outside tights from getting
soiled By perspiration.
desire to protest against the criticism
| directed against the women who appear in
| tights, because 1 think, with oil their
| alleged vanity, men are more vain and pad
themselves more iudicrously. Not long ago
! L was surprised and amused to see an actors
arms padded until they looked like those Of
| Ajax dsfying lightning. OF course his neck
and body were too small to match such
huge arms, aud he looked ridiculous.
Men on the stage are careful about hav-
| ing the calves of their legs bulge out suffi-
| GENTLY, and l presume if varicose veins
| were popular few actors would be without
| them. There are many exceptions to the
rule. Comedians who have made reputa-
lions do not care to pad to any extent I'M
| less some garlng personal defect exits. We
have bow-legged. thil-shanked, short and
| obese, tall and stout and emaciated come
dians who rather like the peculiarities Of
their ungainly anatomy. The comedian is
| fond OF applause and is not eaten up
with vanity about his looks. Whenever
a comedian prideS himself upon looking
| ike an AdonlS, as rule he is not much of a
| success. Ienors are apt to be either too
| thin or too stout and have romantic DISPOSE
| tons. Often they call in tae aid of art and
| try to do something to assist nature. l
| know a tenor now singing in England who
| a M lad mis- lxNOly
If 1t had been thrown upon his face and only
the nostril end stuck. He had q regular
swayoack nose, and in singing romantic
parts of course the illusion was
destroyed by his realistic proboscis.
One day he hit upon the happy plan of
building bridge, making his nose perfect
| aqulllne. 1t worked like charm and made
him appear very handsome. One fatal
| night the comedian got to skylarking and
interpolating, and dashed water on the
tenor's nose. The bridge on his nose was
swept away and the audience roared with
| delight. They thought 1t a part of the
| opera, but the tenor wanted to fight the
| comedian. Now. | think the tenor was
| Justlhable in making up perfect nose, be-
cause his face in its natural state would
have destroyed the romantic character he
| essayed.
What can equal the vanity Of man who
wears corssts? l am told that some few
men have been known TO wear corsets in
order to give shape to their bodies. These
mel, am happy to state, were not profess
! siolals.
Men on the stage wear many varieties of
dress and costume themselves regardless of
| cost, but I've never heard of one VINO had
| the temerity to appear on the boards wear
ing a corset. And talk about shape and
malformstions! Why, very few men have
perfect physical proportions. The Apollo
Raj yiH or hot
handsome actor, fine physique and all that,
| appears, he becomes the rage whether he
! has much talent or not. Personal beauty
| therefore, cannot be scoffed at either in
male or female. Aad what pessimist or
dyspep'ic critic can object to few layers
of lambs wool if it is intended to create
| proportion and charm the eyes | do not
wish to convey the impression that my
| associates of the stage are more vain than
those who are in private life. We have to
appear to the eye, the ear and the mind of
our audiences, and certainly some excuse
should be made if an artist, in his or her
anxiety to please should invoke the art of
| the professional padder. Yes, there are
professional padders, and they, of course,
are costumerS.
The ethics of tights is q question that
occupies the attention of people off the stage
more than those who ere forced to wear
abbreviated habiliments If the people who
are eager to condemn would be as generous
as Hamlet when he said There is nothing
good or bad, but thinking makes it so,n
they would find little to take offense at in
the sight of a pair of tights. An artist
who has her heart in her work is not trying
to create an effect with her tights alone. for
her sole idea is to portray truthfully
the character she may be essaying.
Tho characters in the opera are imagi-
nary and the artist is trying her best to
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auditors. Why then should some moraliSt
cry out against tights, and declare they in
tend to demoralize and not elevate2 The
purpose of the artist is genuine, and her OBJ
ject is to entertain and elevate by depicting
the foibles and weaknesses of human
nature. Anything can be carried to
a harmful excess. One can eat too
much and suffer from it, A young
lady can go to a ball and dance
too much for her health. And even shows
that make speciality of displaying tights
and nothing else are, | confess, anything
but elevating. In grand opera the ballet is
considered an attraction and adds beauty,
and frequently many more dollars to the
box office.
An artiste is not demoralized by wearing
tights and an audience can not be demon
allied by seeing an artistic i'll tights
| have often been asked bout complexion
and cosmetic. The best way to get rosy,
healthy complexion is to take proper exer-
else. walk several miles day, and ride
in the evening on my bicycle And, Blythe
by, bicycle riding Is becoming more popular
! among the ladies, for meet many in my
rides in the park. I never use patent
cosmetics and advertised creams and l am
vain enough to fancy that my complexion
has not suffered from The omission.
Bad skin or blotcbes on the face cone
from the stomach, and seas of patent
creams would not take them away. l see
great many suffering from stomach
tlotches. and the mora they try cosmetics
the more hideous they look. Be moderate
in eating, indulge in no excuses, sleep
enough, do not fret, have faith in yourself,
love your profession, and if success III life
does not crown your efforts then consider
that you were born under an unlucGy star
and try to be happy anyway.
PAULINE HALL.
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