The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-24
"BABD CHATTERS AWAY.
AYoUNa WOMAN WHO Has SOME
THING TO TILL.

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Feminine Censor of Morals - The
Story of a Prude-Fred Gsbhard's
Looks Are Gone-Rose CoRhlen's
Stunning Gown - Cow Women's
Compilations DECISIVE TO spend
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New YoRK, Nay 23.-Every spring New
York gets wildly excited about the comic
opera that is going to be put on for the
summer months. New Workers, taken in
the mass, like a tuneful opera; one whore
there are pretty girls, pretty gowns and
pretty dancing. The average maa or woman
doesn't care in the least whether the music
is suggestive of something else OF not, pro-
vided it is pleasing. The average man or
woman doesn't care in the least if an actress
is60, provided she looks 16, and in this they
show their sense.
DE WOLF HoPPER's NEW OPERA.
The other night the thestsr-going popula-
tion OF New York crowded TO see the opera
that rejoices in the mellifluous name Of
Wang" 1t rhymes with SANG" and it
also rhymes with ''pang,n and nobody knew
which would suit it best / have always
regarded De Wolf Hopper as a kindly dis
posed gentleman, with long legs and an in
clination to believe the greatest
amount OF amusement was gotten out
of an artificial stomach and q seltzer
bottle. However. l want to see the
opera more in sorrow than in anger, but be-
fore the second song was sung l was i'm
mensely glad that ! was there, and at the
end OF the first act | wanted to apologize
personally to Mr.. Hopper because / hadn't
realized how funny he could be before, and
later on had to confess thsre was no arti-
fetal stomach, no huge buckle, and no
seltzer battle. Instead, there was the best
property elephant l ever saw In my life
and prettler girls than have been in any
comic opera here for many long day.
AN EDITION DE LUKE OF SWEETNESS.
There were twenty dark-haired beauties
who wore blue and white yachting gowns.
and who looked as smart as do the young
women in the swell London shops, where
the requisites are that they must have
pretty faces, good figures and agreeable
voices. But OIL oh! the sweetest thing in
wang" was little Della Fox. Between
you and me- wanted to buy her and put
her on brides cake. She was the dearest
thing in dress clothes you ever saw in your
life, but she wouldn't have been
a woman IL she hadn't put her
hands in her pockets AZ she is a
woman, ! can speak plsinly about her
belongings, and say that il any of the men
In the audience had better fitting trousers |
didn't see them; and if any of them man
aged to keep their shirt fronts smoother
they were not visibly; and that if a single
one among them could have dauced as she
did and still had his high collar in good
shape he had better 60 as an advertiseme Il
for some laundry. have always liked
little women, and now l am convinced,
after seeing this edition de luxe Of
sweetness and small size, that am right
There Is funny little song at the
end Of the opera; it's a bit like a pro-
logue, in which MIR. Hopper asks the audi
ence 10 please let them know whether they
have made a success, or whether they have
got an elephant on their hands, and though
don't know Mr.. Hopper, though feel
owe him an apology for the past, still, do
want to say right here, in black and white,
that it's one Of the prettiest and one of the
most amusing little operas that New York
has seen for a long time. 1t may sound
vain, but | think | do know O good thing
when see it, and don't mind telling
about II.
FEMININE CENSOR OF MORALS.
Not long ago a woman said, az don't care
70 go with that woman. Who is she? Are
you sure she is all rightP' Anothor woman
said to me, THAT woman is prude,n aud
then she said, Listen while 90 over and
lead her on" She asked her If sac had seen
Miss Grey. My Lady Prude announced that
there had been some talk about Miss GREY.
and she hadn't kept up an acquaintance with
her. She then asked her how Mrs. Black
was, and she was told that Mrs Black ives
very well, but added TO this came the state
ment that, Though like Mrs. Black very
much, am told there is something queer
hon havs
one mas to be very careful with whom one
associates nowadays. / wouldn't have the
name OF woman who was the least bit off
color connected with mine for worldsp
Ny friend came back to me and asked
w hat do you think of thatn And l said:
Suppose Christ had felt that way toward
Mary Magdalen. Suppose every one of us
we're ready to push the other woman down,
down, down, until she hadn't even the lad
der OF hope to climb up onq" 1t set me think
Ing, and wondered if, when my Lady Prude
went to church there wasn't some danger of
her getting near a woman who was what
she called of color" and wondered too,
II she ever entered the gates OF heaven,
which l doubted, whether she might and
some poor soul whose sins had been as scar
let. and who yet had them washed as white
as snow. And then l wondered by what
right this woman judged all other women
10 decide this l went to one of those old
ladies' who know everybody In New York
and all about them, and said to her, "Who
and what is my Lady Prudei And why is
she counted the censor of moralsl"
THE STORY OF PRuDE.
The old gentlewoman put up her glasses.
looked at me, and answered: "1as she con-
stituted herself thati Well, my dear. when
you come across a woman who finds no good
In any body else you can nearly always con-
clude that her own life and her own heart
are black. Now. happen to know the story
OF this woman's life, and will tell 1t to Won
to point my moral. She came. l think, from
Boston. She was pretty. healthy. Choking
girl, and her great ambition was to go on
the stage. Sue got there, and during her
very first season, with her eyes wide open
and understanding perfectly we'll what she
was doing, she became more than the close
friend OF the manager of the company, and
she became notorious for her deprayity.
] can always forgive a woman who
slns for love or through ignorance
have nothing whatever else to
say about the one who sins from motives OF
policy. This woman came to New York.
made acquaintance among a lot OF fast
men and became the mistress of the semi
idiotic son Of a rich family. He was given
no money, consequently, while she went
every place with him, the money on which
she dressed and lived came from other men.
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