, 1891-06-12
LATEST FEMININE FAD.
Their Hands, Feet and Faces
Cast in Plaster.
The Operation Painful, But
They Will Do 1t.
Shameful Conduct of a Party
of Harvard Students.


NEW York, June IA beautiful
woman said yesterday that she had just
paid the biggest price she ever paid for
the qualification of her vanity. She said
she had been having a liiework made.
You know" she explained, that we
frivolous ia hionable women for several
years past have been amusing ourselves
having our feet and hands cast, add that
many a society boudoir is ornamerted by
a fine bronze reproduction of its mistress
beautiful hand or hand aud arm. The
feet are usually kept more privately, and
only shown on occasion, unless indeed, the
lady PLAYS at art and has what she calls a
studio, and then you are likely TO see the
counterfeit -presentment of any OF her
members O-rnamenting Its walls | myself
don't believe man women have their feet
cast, for the excellent reason hat very
few feet can survive the fashionable shoe
SO as to be things OF beauty. Well, to re-
turn to my muttOn-which is in this case
most appropriately myself, for | feel
sheepish-l determined to 90 al this one
better and have a lifework of my face.
Lifeworks can not be called u fashionable
fad, because they cause too much suffering,
but still | do know one or two fashionable
women who have shown their proverbial
pluck in suffering for their vanity's sake.
| have emulated t ieir self-sacriice.
Come see the result"
She led the way into another room. and
there stood a bust in plaster, SO lovely that
it was o fiattering to tell her that her
aaif EagriHaa had baan Tor tba f.,, Inrau,r
of mankind rather than on the altar of
mere personal vanity.
You are very wise. ~ she replied. and
I'd thank you to lust keep that up, for it
will take a great deal OF adulation to make
up even to me for the misery that thing
cost me. | never want to hear the word
plaster agar as long AS | live. | am
going to have that cast in bronze, by the
way. What about my misery? Don't
you know how these things are done2
Liquid plaster is pored all over you-tbat
Is, all over as much of you MS is to be cast.
That includes my shoulders and throat.
you see. Then it is banked on you until
the weight is enormous, and you are en-
tlrely cut off from any communication
with the outside world. You breathe
through quilts run up your %nOstrils. The
last thing | heard as the plaster wa put
over me. was the sculptor saying to my
maid: IF anything goes wrong with her
she will throw up her hands Think of
1T and me imprisoned there Tor more than
two hours; the plaster did not set quite as
soon as they expected it to. | assure you
| was more dead than alive when it was
cut off in sections-that is the way they
get you out Some of my eyelashes we're
pulled out, but | did not care for them;
| was glad to be alive at all. Yes, the
bust was quite a success. though the mod
elings are a little pulled out of shape on
one side. That is the great difficulty with
such works; the weight of the plaster al
most inevitably pulls the face a little out
of shape. Mine was very successful, on
the whole, and one side is perfect. At
any rate twill have to do. [ have no in
tention of ever again going into that plas-
ter grave. with the chance OF throwing up
hands if anything happens"