The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-30
BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN?


Not bit of it, but because as the play went
on the woman merged into the actress, and peo-
pie opened their eyes wide and said, ''Why, this
woman is professional, not an amateur" Then
they remembered the awk wardness of Mrs. Lang
try as she first walked across the stage of Wal
lacks Theatre they were reminded of the fright
full gaucheries of Mrs. Potter as she openly ad-
mired herself and gave the audience the same
privilege, and they thought that, after all, be-
cause woman had been unhappy that was no
reason why she shouldn't succeed and the women
gave little sighs and thought perhaps unhappi-
ness was sometimes an incentive to success.
Mrs. Leslie Carter as an actress is a success.
NATURE HAS BEEN KIND TO HER
in giving her superb ruddy-brown hair, large,
soft eyes, and a slender, graceful figure. The
one defect in her face is her mouth, which is ex-
tremely large, but as her teeth are perfect this
little fault is forgotten and when she is less ner-
yous her mouth will not twitch so, and in that
way will become less noticeable. In the scene
that called for strong acting she was quite equal
to the occasion and used her voice with good eff
feet think that here is an actress who will do
well in comedies that are not quite melodramas
and that are not yet farces. Unknown and un-
knowing, wish her God-speed.
HoRsEY MEN AND WOMEN.
The swagger set in New York this week is
peryading the horse show. The swagger set is
largely inclined to look horsey. The men are
either initiating their grooms or are permitting
their grooms to closely initiate them. This at
once has its advantages and its disadvantages
but 1t was rather funny to see q generous girl
tip well-known clubman because she thought
he was one OF the grooms in her fathers stable
and had given special attention to her rfdinp
horse. Horsey gentleman always suggest
gentlemanly horses. You know the kind that
look well enough to ride for while, are then
given to the children to drive, and eventually
end their lives in the service Of the cabmen.
New York can give very good horse show, but
it must be confessed that New York does not
make a very smart showing of carriages in the
Park. London and Paris are so far ahead of us
in that respect,
LAWS or CARRIAGE BTIQUHTTE
A woman with lovely persstency concludes
she can have a trap any way she wants and SO
she does, with entire disregard of the fact that
there are certain laws, rules, and regulations
laid down for carriage etiquette. In the first
place, the average New York woman sits in the
wrong place; she ought always to be on the
right Of the carriage behind her coachman In
the second place, she is given over to the jang-
ling of chains, which is worse stamp of yul-
garity than claret livery with white collars
and cuffs and gold braid Then the carriage is
by no means immaculate. There doesn't seem
to be any capable body to order the stable peo-
pie just how to keep it, and her footman is too
apt TO want rod applied to him to make him
sit up. He ought to look as if he had swal-
lowed board which had attached itself to his
spinal column, and il there were three thou
sand accidents he ought to look perfectly i'm
passive and be entirely unmoyed. When such
footman is gotten he is a treasure. The most
correct livery is dark one, blue or black being
preferred The boot tops should be white, the
coat have velvet collar and narrow velvet cuffs,
the gloves white, and the hat should shine as if