The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-25

ance with an older woman, and / wonder
ii Mrs. Hauksbee had prototype in India,
and if Rudyard Kipling ever knew her well.
II is q complex face YOU can keep on look
ing at ii; and YOU don't seem TO solve the
riddle of il; but when you remember il is
the face of a man who wrote Danny Dee
YER" you feel like taking off your hat and
bowling to it. That's the way the pictures
OF three wellknow men affected me,
and | think you will agree with me about
them.
How soon, under the cloak of charity,
will game OF chess be played with the
pieces represented by the handsomest
of women and the best looking of men,
with small children as pawns? It is the
last fsd in London, and the crush TO see
the game was something marvellous. The
costumes were founded on dresses of the
Tudor period, were perfect in every de-
tail. while the red queen and king were
absolutely superb. The game was PLAYED
by two expert chess players, and long
gold wands were used 10 touch the pieces
AS a cue for their moving, This was done
in the most stately way, a peculiar slow
step being chosen and adhered to by all.
IL - u novel idea, and whoever first gets it
up here will cer,ainly make much money
for whatever charity il NAV be played for.
The most religious person in the world
can't object To 1t, as they might to game
OF poker, while the artist who delights in
picturesque effects in seeing beautiful
women beautifully gowned will have a
marvellous treat Tor his eyes offered TO
him at what seems n marvelously low
price.
Madame Sarah, as she has announced
she prefers TO be called, is once more with
US, and once more her marvellous person
atty has to be acknowledged. Putting
aside for a moment her great genius, for
getting for a while how she really makes
you feel that she is the character she rep
Tesents, what woman Is there today who
has such strong individuality indeed
that extends over the world? People who
have never heard or never thought OF
the czarina of Russia read eagerly every
word that is said about Madame Sarah.
People who don't care about the topping
of thrones or the uprising OF nations seek
for the last new criticism OF play in
which she has performed, of the last book
she has approved, or the last picture that
has pleased her. Ii is the woman who
commands this, and this very fact ought
to bring her greater delight than il it were
the genius, for it proves that, different
from all other women, she yet has king
uOll--Lildk Oh the NOIlu-dllNl ICI SuDltCl5
are all over it. No woman has ever con-
trolied the fashions as she has, and that is
saving more than much She has been
written OF by the greatest writers of the
day; she has been painted by the best
known artists, and though they come and
60, they are here today and there tomor-
row, Madame Bernhard like the sphinx.
is the same. Except that she is better
looking row than when she first came to
us, there is but little change in her, and
the report OF the fat, one is pleased to
chronicle, is simply a filling up OF the
angles that is most becoming.
man asked me if / could understand
her: he might as well have asked me if
had secret of that woman who looks out
on the Egyptian sands, who was old when
Cleopatra was young, and who has never
opened her lips TO disclose that which she
knows so well. There never has been a
woman like Madame Bernhardt before.
She, like the orchid in its finest state Of
cultivation, is the product of the nine
teenth century. People talk about Rachel
of her wonderful genius, OF the tragedy
that her life was but it can never be said
of her as it is of Sarah, that she is mistl ess
of anything she wants TO control. | am
firmly convinced that if tomorrow Sarah
concluded to 90 in for grand ODera she
would rival Patti, and the whole world
would be convinced that there never had
been such a voice. Madame Sarah is a
woman OF successes, and TO success every
human being in this world must bow
downfall is, this sort of success, the
success of the intellect.
It's the time OF year when people don't
feel very we'll and complain of being tired 4,
when the massage woman tells you in
broken English that all the people In this
country are $50" and raises her hands up
high and then puts them way down, and
YOU realize that she means that one ex-
treme or the other, as far as health or hap
piuess is concerned. But we all do get
tired.
! am tired hearing the weather DIS
cussed. You are tired of discussing it.
am tired OF hearing people who don't
know the first meaning OF consideration
wonder whether other people live up to
their creeds. You are tired OF knowing
that they don't.
am tired of hearing women talk. talk,
talk about nothing but themselves their
gowns and their admirers. You are tired
Of being among those women.
| am tired of clergymen who trouble
themselveg about everything but the poor
of their parish. You are tired OF being
the poor.
am tired of men who talk well and act
badly. You are tired of knowing the
truth about them.
am tired OF politicians who write their
promises in the sand. You are tired of
seeing the great ocean come up and wash
them away.
am tired Of seeing children who don't
respect their parents. You are tired OF
seeing parents who do not consider their
children.
But there, we will get over the tired
feeling after a while; we will take dose
of quinine and sunshine combined, and
we will discover that there are things in
this world that are good and of which We
never tire-books, babies, sweets, dogs,
pictures, music, and good acting, We
agree about this. Please don't say you are
tired of Bah.
lIFE-SAVlNG SKIRT.
The Device Of n Lady To snve Herself