Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-21

pldQ 10 let MS DetrQ grow. Ou, great.
If you were to ask me the very best way in
the world for storekeeper to draw attention
to his windows would say put in COM
plimentary mirror. One must be very care
full, however, to secure a mirror that softens
blemishes. The public is very conceited,
and when you prove that it's nose is in
famed it becomes your enemy. By all
means secure a complimentary mirror.
"a
Beauty Behind Footlights.
At a theatrical benefit given at one Of the
city theaters on recent Sunday night, "a very
famous comic opera singer of truly splendid
beauty sang q song. She was attired in
street costume and she had not painted her
face.
"Why, she looks positively ugly" said
young woman in one OF the front seats to
her companion. "I always imagined she
was SO lovely"
The singer was, in fact, as lovely as ever,
but in leaving off her makeup" the foot
lights of the stage threw glare across her
countenance in such manner that every
line was accentuated ten-foId and her COM
plexion was rendered CHASTITY. The actual
beauty OF Mrs. Langtry or Mrs. Potter has
never been seen by those people who have
merely witnessed them perform. Both of
these women make up badly, and cannot
possibly preserve the extreme delicacy of
coloring and texture that is noticeable in
them when viewed in the light of the street.
If Lillian Russell were seen on Broadway
at noontIme as she is when acting she would
have crowd of small boys following her,
she would look so like freak, with the
purplish-red spots on her cheeks and
temples, the marble whitepess of her nose
and chin and the heavy cakes Of charcoal
that cling to her eyelashes. Yet Miss Rus
sell is one of the most skillful women at
making up that the stage possesses and she
obtains an effect of almost perfect beauty.
Ladies who sit in proscenium boxes suffer
sadly from the effect of the footlights
There is Mrs. Grover Cleveland, who always
occupies a box when she goes to theater,
and who looks SO pale and peaked that
everyone in an audience remarks upon the
decline of her reported beauty. Now, the
face of Mrs. Cleveland is in reality as fresh
and pretty to-day as it ever was In the
full glare of daylight the skin is delicate
and white, and the lines are as soft as could
be desired. Her beauty is remarked upon
by strangers who do not recognize her. one
lady who sat opposite her in an elevated
train the other day observing to companion
that the tall young woman who just got on
has the purest complexion I ever saw"
This same lady would have been impressed
in an almost precisely opposite way had she
seen Mrs. Cleveland IN a theater box.
A young lady in society was conversing
on this very subject with man some even
ings ago. "Oh," exclaimed she, II don't
believe it is quite true that you cannot look
beautiful in theater box. Why, THAT is,
1 have seen a lot Of my pretty friends in
boxes, and they looked lovelier than ever"
"Yes," replied the gentleman, "but Mrs.
Cleveland, YOU see, probably never antici-
pated the effect of the footlights;" and as he
spoke he busted from his coat sleeves the
powder that had lodged there in some mys-
terious manner during the last waltz.
CLARA BELLE.