Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-26

zee when the originator Of it returns TO
New York. II ie worth noting, bv the
way, that the popularity of skirt dancing
10 greater than that Of the Suanish
school, after all. Skirt dancers were in
the full swing of public support before
the queer and somewhat ridiculous Span
ish dancing began. Spanish dancers are
now rapidly dropping out .of sight, bus
the expert skirt dancers are still in
eager demand. IN. Y. Sun.
Miss Gertrude Potter stalked the stage
at Hooiev's yesterday afternoon in doub-
let and hose. Miss Potter is the dauch-
ter OF o. w. Potter. She is an heiress.
She is a belle. Thousand persons
prominent in society and finance ap-
plauded her. Big bouquets with long
tails of writhing ribbons rolled at her
feet. She doffed her plumed chapeau.
and smiled and bowed while the curtain
sank. But the crowd was not appeased.
The big canvas, with the clean peasants
dancing on it, was hoisted. And then
the applause rolled up and beat about
her and cracked long after the curtain
had descended and ceased to flutter.
Miss Potter did not appear in her strik-
ing costume until the second piece was
put on. Itwas poetical comedy in one
act, and was called Cupid's Messenger,
laid in the time of Queen Elizabeth OF
England. The costuming that the Eng
llsh gentry wore in the time of the vir-
gin queen gave Miss Potter the oppor-
tunity OF displaying her charms in doub-
let and hose. Society drew its breath.
She wore q doublet of garnet velvet.
Hose OF the same material, laced like
leggings up the side with gold cords,
bound her shapely limbs. A little cape
with golden fringe swept her shoulders.
Gold braid cleaned brightly all
over her doublet. On her curls
knightly cap sat jauntily, with DASH
ing plume nodding over it. And a
sword in scarlet scabbard clanked at
her left hip. Arrayed thus one of Chi
cago's social queens strobe across the
stage. The spectators quivered, but
after the first wave Of applause curled
over the costly bonnets, a modest
silence was maintained. Miss Potter
was impersonating the part of courier
to a nobleman, and she was playing it
exceedingly we'll. The part fitted her.
There was dash OF comedy in it, which,
with the costume, made it delicious to
the Four Hundred. The plot was soon
unraveled. Miss Potter told her brother,
Sir Philip, that she had letter from
her-or his-lord containing proposal
of marriage to the gentle Miss Walsing-
ham: Immediately Sir Philip got angry
and found that he loved her. He and
1.-The boy' were about to fight with
swords when Miss Walsingham entered.
Sir Philip, after cursing himself for his
own backwardness, immediately pro-
posed to Miss Walsingham. the con-
spiracy was revealed, and the curtain
cleaved its way through red cloud of
bouquets, while society clapped its
gloved hands. The curtain was hoisted
again and again, while Miss Potter, in
the garnet costume men wore in the
sixteenth century, smiled and bowed,
and bowed and smiled over and over.
Hell debut as an amateur actress had
been a pronounced and artistic success.
Chicago Herald.
When the apple is fully ripe it falls,
and when the chrysalis is mature it
bursts, and behold the,butterfiy. When
tights and gauze had done their work,
the time gave birth to more gracious
dispensation. We were ready for it,
though perhaps we did not wholly ap-
prehend it's Significance at the outset.
Perverted training, like bad habits, is
not rectified in q day. The medicine
that makes us whole sometimes discom-
modes us temporarily. 1t was evident,
at all events, that either these Spanish
senoritas did not know what dancing
was, orwe did not. Ii they were right,
then we had all along been wrong. But
the sefioritas not only had beauty and
grace on their side, but it was perceived
that their performances meant some
thing. Nobody has ever pretended to
extract any mentiOnable meaning out
of tights and gauze. The se1oritas,
without ever opening their lips save to
smile, uttered a new language-a Ian
guage more captivating even than their
native Castilian, and which could be
understood without any dictionary or
phrase book other than Mother Nature
gives to all her Children language
old as history, and as winning as beauty
beautifully moving could make it. But
though the vocabulary was simple
primitive, indeed-the combinations
were endless and of unending interest;
they constituted study worthy the at
tention of civilized man, and of truly
aesthetic influence. Hawthorne
in Lippincott's.
Nine. Patti, the famous singer, is
philosopher as well as an artist. "Good
looks, which are nothing more than per-
feet bodily health" she says, "are wo-
mans stock in trade, while her talent,
whatever it may be, is her capital. I
have treasured both, but in doing so l
had to forego many of the pleasures that
the multitude of women enjoy. When
do not sing 60 to bed as early as an
infant, and l always sleep in room
without fire. Ihave the window open,
because do not think it wise or safe to
breathe again the same air. In getting
fresh supplies for my lungs frequently
experience bodily discomfort. Then l
rest, not momentarily, but whole days
at time. Our clothes and furniture are
protected from wear by not using them.
AS don't care to wear out, adopt the
plan of q good housekeeper and save
myself. don't rock; l don't fret; l
never read nor allow people to tell me
about the horrible or gruesome, for those
things distress and worry me, which
agitation can do nobody any good and
does me great deal of injury. 1 not
only believe, but know for certainty,
that women fret away their youth and
beauty. Care is a disease of the mind,
and as insidious as any that preys upon
the body. l have no home cares to
bother me, and don't permit ny
friends to provide any. Mind, like
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