Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29


exploiting himself as the hunchback mon
arch, and made considerable profit by q
more popular impersonation of the other
physical monstrosity. In his own individ-
uality he is a good-looking fellow, ex-
tremely intelligent, and, beyond all things,
confident.
Now for the other member of the couple
requisite for any sentimental story worth
telling. Beatrice Cameron is young
woman of remarkable physical loveliness.
She grew up in Troy, N. Y, her family
name being Hegeman, and her father, a
physician well known there. She visited in
New York and figured in the same set which
contained Mrs. James Brown Potter in the
time when that celebrated lady was our lead
ing amateur actress. A performance for a
charity was ready to be given, and within
several days of the occasion Mrs Potter fell
i'll. 1t was at first proposed to POSTPONE the
affair. Then Miss Cameron offered her serv-
ices, and her beauty and brightness in
duced the manager to accept them. So she
made her debut on the amateur stage and it
was measurable success. Still desirous of
following the example of Mrs. Potter, she
determined later to go on the professional
stage. Her family opposed the project Wig
orously, and her husband-for she had in
the meantime become a bride-refused his
consent.
SHE'LL RETURN TO HER FRIENDS.
But she would not give up her ambition,
although it involved the loss of husband
and family both. Beatrice hired herself
out to Mansfield, and played, with much
sweetness and delieacy, the heroine In sever
al of his plays. They fell in love with each
other, and would have married, only that
the girl was unable to get legally free from
her husband. So the pair, although we'd
ded in mimicry before the audience nearly
every evening, were unable to clear the way
to real matrimony. Lately another cloud
lowered suddenly upon them. Beatrice in
herited consumption, and last winter the
disease developed itself in her. Her last
appearance in public was as the whimsical
heroine of Ibsen's "a Dolls House" I'M
mediately after that she went to Europe, in
the hope that a few months in Southern
France might restore her to health. But
Mansfield has now received the news that
her recovery is quite impossible, and that
her demise is certain to come speedily. She
is about to return TO America to die among
friends.
Don't have your wife's portrait painted
especially. not by a famous artist. That is
my advice to you, OF course, you may do
as you choose. Anyway, DR.. Molair,
sorry he did. About four years ago the doctor
married a girl of South Norwalk, Conn.
Up there in the country they thought her
too pale to be pretty, although they admit
ted that her eyes were large and soulful.
At an evening reception in the Bohemian
world OF art and literature the bride at
tracted the attention of a young artist who
had just finished his studies in Paris.
HER PICTURE A SENSATION,
He offered to paint her portrait for moth
ing, provided the doctor would allow it to
be exhibited at the Academy of Design.
"I've been looking for such face ever
since I returned to America" said the
artist. 81 promise you il will be the most
looked-at picture in the exhibition
In due time the portrait was completed.
1t was dreadfully pale, and set against a
gray background. The common herd of
mortals looked and laughed. but the cog
noscenti went into ecstacies. "Pale
luncheons" were given, and then the whole
party adjourned to the academy to stare at
the "pale lady" Itwasn't a success; it was
sensation. At any hour of the day or
evening you were sure to find crowd in
front of this remarkable portrait. The pale
Yankee girl suddenly became one of the best
known women in New York. She was in
vited, feted, complimented, and, while her
husband was drilling out the cavities of
teeth, she was making breaches in hearts.
DIR. Molair was an industrious man; his
shoulders had grown round in digging and
boring and filing, but he found it expensive
to have pale wife-very expensive, too ex-
pensive. He demonstrated mildly. The
pale Yankee girl listened, but her thoughts
were up town at "pale luncheon" to be
given in her honor. The doctor kept
steadily at work, and he did good work, too,
and his income could have been quite suf-
ficient for man whose wife wasn't so pale;
but as it was Well, among the legal
words: an. against NJ; decree signed"
The pale Yankee girl, they say, is in Paris,
but it is more than likely she'll be back
th the old folks in South Norwalk ere
many years more.
MORE LIKE MEN THAN EVER.
The straw hat, which for some unknown
reason is called the sailor hat, is this year
one of the funniest objects in the world. 81
saw it in its most perfect form on the head
of girl who is noted for being the most
correctly If not the best dressed young
woman in town. She was off to Tuxedo and
was going to the train with some of the men
of her family. AS she tripped down the
steps VI uOueS eye was
caught by the black silk stockings that
cleaned over a pair of russet shoes, the
fuctuant skirt of striped serge, the starched
shirt with its gold studs and standing
collar, and the blue jacket thrown open in
the careless masculine way.
What most attracted me, however, was
the last thing in hats that perched on her
smooth black hair. 1t was a straw with
crown as fiat as a soup plate and brim
fully four inches wide. 1t was not tipped
forward or back, but was worn in precisely
the angle that would be secured by man.
Then two jolly, pretty girls, with hats ex-
actly like it dashed by. To my utter aston
ishment the girls, upon recognizing each
other, lifted their hats in the way that gen.
tlemen do on meeting lady acquaintances.
They laughed lightly as they did this, as
though the idea was a new one.
A laborer who was passing stopped and
gazed at the girl in the extraordinary bat
and said to whoever might be listening that
'the little gyurl have her brothers hat on
her, L shuppaws."
A bright boy, who was coming briskly
down the steps, and who evidently heard
this remark, looked round at the Irishman
and said: "Oh, no she hasn't. You don't
suppose I'd wear thing like that, do you?"
CLARA BELLE.