The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-28

NEW 1oRK, Sept. %.
l am Just back to town, and l felt as if
would like to do as did the ancient Romans
/. Co. kneel down and kiss the dust of the city.
Newport may have its glory, Narragansett may
be full of JOY, Long Branch may be overhowing
with shekels, Cape May may have been honored
by the presence of the Presidential party, the
mountains may be full of glory and bears, but
first, last, and forever, give me New York l
want place where people seem to have some
thing to do; want place where the men don't
have to get up at 3 O'Clock in the morning
and spend four hours day on the train to
make the where-with all to let their wives airt
by the sea waves, and l want a place where l
can get all my papers and books without hay
ing to pay an enormous percentage on them.
THE LITERATURE OF BANK NOTES.
The seaside newsdealer is an obliging person
he wants you to take all that he possesses in
the way of literary matter, but when your bill
comes in at the end of the week you begin to
think you'd better put that money in a hand
some frock from Worth. He has seduced you
into literature that has covers so famboyant
that you are ashamed to be seen holding it.
You have read papers from all over the country
to oblige him, and you do not feel yourself an
independent woman until your own news
woman welcomes you home and permits you to
have choice in the reading line. AS soon as
you land you ask the particular man who meets
you, whats going on at the theatres p and he
says, being a man, "Just wait until YOU see
Eddie Sothern.n You do wait until after din
ner, and then in your pink gown, REFER, and
small bonnet you trot off to see ''The Master of
Woodbarrow.n All the swells, as you know,
GO to the theatre gowned In this way Just now.
They have left the satins and silks for the mar
ket women, who promenade Broadway in the
bright sunshine with gowns cut low in the neck
and golden beads encircling their throats. The
smart girls, by the bye, drifting, not only to
simplicity, but almost to dowdiness, as far as
the street is concerned, and man esteems it q
greater honor to walk with a woman who does
not attract the least attention than to be with
one VINO, by her gorgeous gowns, attracts the
eyes and the sneers Of all mankind. 1t is not
bad idea this having the very swell set approve
of simplicity, but it may teach the nation that
virtue, which it needs so badly-thrift.
YOUNG soTHERN's NEW PLAY.
1.-The Master of Woodbarrow' is play that
brings your heart right into your throat, and
calls up before you the loving and true ones
who are far away, and the tears come to your
eyes when you see the innocent prodigal return
to the old home where the women folk are
waiting to greet him and give him the best of
welcomes. My friend, the women folk always
do welcome the prodigal and, think more
than men realize the temptation that has been
his, and pltylng his fall, are most earnest in
helping him to stand on his feet again. Mr..
Sothern shows in this character, this good, hon
est, eager, ambitious loving boy, one of the
finest pieces of work he has ever done. The
boys heart and brain grow before you. In the
first act, when he tells his cousin of his great
desire to 60 out in the big, strange world you
know at once the type of boy who sees SO much
in the unknown-just such a boy as yours or
mine, and it is just such boys as go out when
the siren sings; but alas ! they do not always
learn the lesson, and they do not always come
home to the people that wait. The Master
gets the fortune, goes to London, and is feeced
and 1hn nfall l,,th ha Ir11
twice; those Devon lads are clever, you know,
sweet as their own cream, but shrewd, as every
man ought to be without being suspicious
EDWARD soTHERN's PERSONALITY.
Through the story which interests you, all
through the time when you smile at the Mas-
ter's mistakes and grieve with his sorrow, you
do have time to stop and recognize, between
the acts, the artistic knowledge of the man be-
fore you. Everything is easy with Mr. Sothern
Some of this may be inherited but [ do believe
that the most of it comes from hard study and
a great determination to succeed. A merry
hearted fellow, liked by men and women, Ed
ward Sothern has kept his name beautiful and
clean, and to-day, without any doubt, he stands
the foremost among the younger men of the
stage. know no one in London who is like
him; they have very good walking gentlemen,
men who are easy on the stage men who wear
their clothes well, but all of them who have
reached anywhere near the top of the ladder
are much older men than the Master of Wood
barrow.
NEW WORKERS BACK IN TOWN.
If you think there is nobody In town because
the houses are closed up, just ride out to the
park about O'Clock and see the people who
are out. There is Mrs Burke-Roche, looking
like an orchid in gown that is a combination
OF faint shades, with one OF her pretty children
beside her, and, as thoughtless young woman
said, with her photograph smile on" There's
some OF the Nanderbilts as demure and quiet as
possible; there's August Belmont, driving alone,
with an air as if he had seen so much of every
thing that he bit tired OF 1t; there's lots Of
pretty girls on their horses, with the smartest
of riding habits, and there's q noble army of
young men driving tall carts and wearing col
lars that nearly choke them, yet looking as il
We're going TO get all the pleasure possible out
of it. Then there are the other people-the
people that nobody apparently sees, but at
whom everybody stares at in the blankest way
possible
WOMEN WHO ASSUME THEIR CoLoRs.
Two ladies are driving in Central Park who
have evidently been driving around the lake in
Paris, and who have learned the ways OF the
Partisan demi-monddine; they are gowned in
m2gpie fashion. One wears an all-black broad
cloth froek that fits her as if it were an armor.
II has cufis, collar, and pointed giiet of heavy
white corded silk: her gloves are black, and SO
are her shoes. The bonnet seems q coronet of
black jet, with tiny white bird Just In 'front.'
and at her throat aud in her ears are black pearls
The other one is in white cloth frock exactly
matching in design that of her friend; 1t is
trimmed with black silk and black Jet her shoes
and stockings are white, the gloves are white
stitched with black, and her bonnet is a white
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