Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-10-30
MRS, A LESLIE.
She Passes Through Mexico
From Columbia.

Mrs. Frank Leslie, the charming
journalist and popular lecturer, was
Mexico last night en- route to
st. LOUIS where she lectured. To
!. reporter Mrs. Leslie said:
cts hard work, this lecturing,
out | love work; | must work. 1t
was as much TO set the country and
Western people as anything else
that | consented tn make the tour.
Just think of ms leaving my ele-
CANT home to go lecturing about the
country. My agent is surprised
with the endurance | show, but l
never had a backache, aheadache,
a toothache or any kind of sickness
in my life. | attribute this to the
fact that l use dumb bells, just like
a man, and always take a cold bath
every morning. The first thing !
do when l get up is to plunge into
the bath, and then after a brisk
rub down l use the dumb bells.
This fits me for any kind of work.
Il am preparing new lecture,
something on the same line as my
syndicate work-advice concerning
marriage and such things, that |
think will be popular. l think
perhaps that people would
like my present lecture better if l
talked about America instead of
Ebrope--I don't get down to Ward
McAllister; but then American
society Is too new and uniformed
to lecture about. Who are the
leaiers of American society?
Where is tine center of American
society? Washington is not its
center, although the foreigners
there give it tone. New Yo,k
society is only a society Of wealth.
There is no center of American
society. We have no social
leaders,"
Mrs. Leslie appears in full even
ing dress upon the platform and
wears a great number of diamonds.
Any woman will appreciate wha,
] have to go through" said she,
when I say that l often have to
get out of my evening dress and
into a travelling dress in half an
honr il l.. Ter to catch a train, es.
peeially as it takes q large part o
that time to put away my dia
monds."
She has a number of elegant
dresses with her. One is {
vision of richness black satin
gold embroidery, seed pearls
and lace. 1t is made will
a train of black satin, brocadet
with gold thread. The front of tn
skirt is plain black satin, embroid
cred with gold thread and seet
pearls, combined in a bewilderlng
Frenchy way with the finest lac
run with gold thread. The cor
sage is decollete, with fancy puffe'
sleeves of lace and gold. Anothe
costume. and one of the prettiest
is white satin, hand embroidere'
with the finest jet and draped witt
Chantilly lace. The corsage i
white satin, trimmed with lace ant
bands of the satin embroldere'
with jet. 1t is made decollete
with pulled sleeves. An exquisit
dress is yellow satin brocaded witt
two lovers knots. 1t is made witt
a court train of satin. The petit
J coat is of yellow crepe de chine
, There are bows of turquoise blu
velvet ribbon here and there an
bands of gold lace studded wit
turquoise and saphires.
The handsomest dress of all
and the one that she appeared il
at Columbia is white satin, EN-
broidered with gold and see,
pearls. 1t is made with cou1
train, solidly embroidered wit
hand work in gold. The petticoa
is of crepe de chine, embroldere
with gold thread, seed pearls il
floral design and has long pear
l pendants. The lace that is her
, and there on the waist and form
; ing the sleeves in point de'Alencon