The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-05-04

Especial Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALD
NEW YORK, May ., 1890
If you don't glory In this sunshine there is
something wrong with you either mentally or
physically. You should not stop to consider
freckles, but you ought, like the dogs, the Eng
lishman, and the Southern woman, walk on the
sunny side of the street. until you feel how
good it is to be alive Sunshine, when properly
INDUCED in, will force the most wretched old
pessimist to be hopeful, and to believe in men,
women, and dogs If he doesn't in a Maker and
hereafter. 1t may be very fashionable among
the extremely ''knowledgable" set to believe in
nothing, but often wonder how men of brains
and heart can live without belief when they
can't without love. How they can see the sun
shine, not only from the heavens above, but
from the eyes of child, and not think some
body greater than any one they know must have
created those CLEANS, is y mystery. Having
great confidence in men, l must confess that l
am inclined not to believe in their unbelief; It's
very much like man taking the wrong side of
an argument at the debating society. He wants
to show just what he can make out of rags and
tatters, and after he is all through he knows
well enough that the garment patched together
is not worthy of wear.
When the rain rains and the sky is dark
little pessimism is permissible. Even a woman
loses faith in her dressmaker, wonders what
cooks were created for, and wishes children
were born with their fig leaves on and that
they increased in size with the small body.
But this sunshine, 1t ought to make you and
me and everybody else so happy that uncon-
sciously the favorite tunes would be sung, and
consciously we would all try to do what little
woman calls "a really nice something"
PRETTY WOMAN AT THE CIRCUS.
The circus has come to town, that is, it's on
the outskirts of the town, and in that beautiful,
blissful way in tents Everybody goes, from
dwellers in marble halls down to those who
never heard of a marble hall, and wouldn't like
it if they saw it. Supreme bliss is reached in
climbing up on the seats, and nothing in the
world ever tasted so good as the pink lemonade
and the large ginger cakes that in Baltimore
used to be known as "Bolivars" Quite entire
nous, wish to say that when statue was
erected last year to Gen. Bolivar half the peo-
pie who had been born and raised in Baltimore,
myself among the number, were under the i'm
preston that he was the man who first made
these cakes, and no other honor equal to that
could be given him. All the swells are out
looking at the elephants, and Miss Murray Hill
quite forgets the fit of her frock and the We're
de We're manner which she affects, while she
walks around with large paper bag containing
apples that are to be given to these gentlemen
in due order.
WHY WOMEN LIKE ELEPHANTS.
The charm of an elephant is wonderful, and
yet he cannot be counted beautiful, only
massive; but l believe that If every woman who
goes to the circus could have her choice of one
of the animals as a pet each blessed one would
want an elephant. / heard girl say that they
had soft eyes. Now, with all due Difference to
the elephant, his eyes look to me like boiled
onions; another one said there was 80 much
comicality in his tail. There may be, but it
has seemed from my point of view to be one of
the freaks of nature that so large a beast should
have so little tail. After all, the most of us
gain our knowledge of the animal kingdom
from Noah's ark and the circus, consequently
when we make few errors now and then we
should not be jeered at.
WOMEN BEFORE THB CAMERA.
There are times in every ones life when there
comes necessity for having ones photograph
taken. have never heard of peoples doing
this for pleasure. Pleasure when il is a cross
between having tooth pulled and being killed
by electricity! The photographer invariably
tells you that he thinks you will be good sub
Ject, and then five minutes after, when the head
rest has you in its clutches, he contradcts him
self and says you seem to have no power To
throw expression into your face You feel as If
there was lot of expression on the end of your
tongue that il wouldn't be a wise thing to give
birth to. He then suggests that you take a
step forward in the natural way; you take the
step on the wrong foot and you don't dare
move for the critical moment has come and
you are told afterward there was an expression
OF agony on yourfa suggestive Of an expectant
murder.
PHOTOGRAPHERS AS DRESS CRITICS.
Nobody ever dressed to suit Photographic
in her life He tells you TO wear something
light. You put on pretty little silk frock, ant
then he objects to the spots; he tells you t.
wear something dark, and you put on blacl
lace, only to have it suggested to YOU tha
straight lines come out better than so man,
frlls and frivols. Then you wear tailor-madi
gown, and with shake of his head YOU art
ominously informed, ''Of course YOU under
stand on account of your dress the picture will
be severe-looking." He refers to your freckle
by telling you that they will spot them out ant
then he gives you glowing accounts of womel
who really know how to sit well; YOU wish yo,
had never been born, for you feel that in hi
eyes you were better when you were only pre-
toplasm and not a small woman who wante
cabinet pictures taken.
PHOTOGRAPHERS LIKE LILLIAN RUSSELL.
By the by the photographers all agree that tn
most satisfactory woman to take is beautiful Ii
lian Russell. She certainly makes an exquisit
picture, and it is said that in addition to he
knowledge of dressing and posing artisticall
she can, just before they squeeze the tube throy
into her eyes that beWitching look that ha
brought all New York and the rest of the Unite
States at the feet of the Grand Duchess Idon'
think there Is anything in the heavens above lik
a photograph Of Lillian RUSSELL so that ther
will be no harm whatever in the average woma
falling down and worshpping it, She is one O
the women, cuTiOusly enough. whose beautv ha