The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-15
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-sr LISTEN To a GossIPgR AS
SHE GOsSIPs.


poDe for Our Young Mer-Girls Get
.,rg simple in Their Dress-A Brief
rsssv on AlliEators-The College
D-sd Woman-W oman's Fest School
o,Iesrning-What Man Wants in a
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Nrw YORK, Feb. IA have been told
.,t thew were called "nether limbs" 1t
Nv he true. For my own part was taught
:oask Saxon. and call them legs. The
~ thew impress themselves forcibly on my
ND was because saw Lawrence Barrett
.l,,ute a blank verse tragedy. Understand
.b.t by "blank" l just mean blank, though
h deserves to be called worse.
LAWRENCE BARRErT's LEGS.
While I've watched the various people
tsino stabbed all over until they were
dssd,n and saw the heroine put ga cup of
cod pison in her inside" became fasci-
mated by Mr.. Barrett's legs. They are not
tsndsome legs, even with the addition of
o.lves but they have a pecu liarly fasci-
rstng way of their own that is touching.
Ind in more senses than one, too; for one
tnaa touches another in such pronounced
nav that a frivolous woman would
nronounce the learned tragedian knock
tnsad, When this result is reached
at the knees, the right foot has
a decided tendency to turn in. and I defy
snv human being, especially any woman
baing TO look at those legs and believe that
the man attached to them is a passionate
Italian lover. To be slangy, it won't go.
An Italian lover must have "nether limbs
If the shapeliest, and clothe them in silk of
the glossiess, so that the eyes and the heart
Of the lady of his love are both gratified.
MASCULINE LEGS ON THE STAGE.
wApropos of legs, very few actors have
GOOD ones; their brains and the upper por-
tons Of their bodies may be built for
tragedy, but their legs are intended for
comedy, OF indeed for farce. Mr.. Irving's
legs have peculiar and mauy-sided curves;
these are bought out to the best effect when
a long cloak enshrou6s him. Mr.. James Owen
OConnor has undoubtedly the most in
teresting histrionic legs; but they would
lose their charm if they were not the active
powers in making a walk that is a combi
nation of a hop, skip and a jump. The
only man I can think Of on the stage who
has really handsome legs is
Dixey, and all New York got to know
them when he dressed so that he looked like
bit of Dresden, and sang that pretty little
song, "pm Such a Susceptible Statuette."
Now, can't understand why men shouldn't
have handsome legs. They walk more
than women do, they are greater devotees
at the Russian bath, and consequently they
are oftener rubbed down, and so they
ought to be in good order, not stringy or
muscular looking, but we'll shaped and firm.
The old men Of the stage can very much
better afford to wear kree~breeches than
the young ones, while the average swell
looks as if his legs were pair of lead-pen-
ellis in divided skirt.
HOPE FOR OUR YOUNG MEN.
Simplicity is earnestly endeavoring to
make itself felt in New York. Pretty de-
butants no longer appear at teas in elaborate
ball gowns, but instead high-necked and
long-sleeved cashmere frocks of soft gray,
pale blue, or deep scarlet are counted smart
est The result will undoubtedly be a
boom to the matrimonial market, for the
average young man will begin
to think that he can. by making
great effort dress a woman,
whereas before when nothing was seen but
tulle and chiffon, he doubted whether he
would be able to robeS an angel. In some
other ways, too, simplicity is coming up;
you ask for cup of tea and with it you get
bit OF hot cake not cut, but broken by the
pretty fingers of the hostess herself. and she
Is happiest when she can tell you she has
made it herself. This cake is usually a very
plain one, with currants and cltron in it,
that abominable stuff known as angel cake
having been relegated to the mansions from
which it came long ago.
BRIEF ESSAY ON ALLIGAToRs.
Did you ever have an alligator, and did
you like him2 One came to me the other
day-at least he started to come, but when
ne heard somebody on board ship say what
his destination and who his future parent
was TO be, he stretched himself out in de-
Spalr and died. | didn't know Just what he
thought, but he was wise enough to know
that canary birds and dogs and alligators
WOULD hardly form happy family. He
was buried at sea with high honors; he was
wrapped up in a bit of sail, put on a Single
and thrown down into the blue waters
from whence he had come. That sounds
very romantic, doesn't it, In fact, when
we heard 1T, the dog and the canary bird
and each got up tear as we pictured the
funeral, but | may as well tell you that
tnere wasn't any funeral at all; that it was
hke the story Joseph told his wife. The
aLlgator who was to have been my very
own was brought home to New York.
and is now going through process of en-
balmlng, in view Of making him a paper
weight for me; but the woman who brought
MIN thought it would be nicer to tell about
me funeral first. 1t really did add piquancy
to the occasion.
AM AN ADMIRER OF ALLIGAToRs,
but after making a close acquaintance
with one that was to come and live in artist
lc quarters, scarcely think should care
70 De welded to one. They have canmy
leelng that would down all love, and when
thelr mouths are opened they are 80 express
siVe OF a yawning gulf that you just as soon
tnink OF kissing a coal-hole as the gentle
Dlrd: Then, too. he has an unpleasant
iashlon OF singing all night. 1t may be
mat he is follower of Wagner I don't
know, am not well up in music, but it is
az awful sound, some place between croak
ana bark-that causes you to shudder
Under your blankets and give a fervent
thanksgiving that you and the alligator are
not IN the same box.
THE CoLLEGE-BRED WOMAN.
Have you been overcome lately by the
young woman who has had a college educa-
sIohf She is, without any exception. the
Llost absolutely cocksure woman in the
1morld. Under no circumstances do you
know anything. She won't even credit You
WIN having tolerably good knowledge of
slang, and she talks about ''what we did at
coLege and what we said al college," until
you wish you could take her to a college
Vi physicians and surgeons and have
Some sort of punishment administered to
ner that would be painful, but not danger
Gus. You can't even make her believe that
you know the multiplication tablet don't
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