The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-04

the old frumps in the family, she will ever
hear another word about who her ances-
tors were.
Apropos OF beautiful women, the Cleo
pGtra or Nine. Bernhard has been de-
scribed to me by man who is a good
critic and who is an ardent admirer of
Sarah. He says it is failure, and a most
dire one, and what do you think he
ascribes the failure to? That Sarah is too
fat. It's little curious, but | don't doubt
it, for the last time she was over here she
had increased in flesh, and everybody
knows that the women of her race have a
decided tendency to fat as they grow old.
The Cleopatra of Mrs. Langtry is id to be
a beautiful one, although it is an English
one; the stage setting is said to be better
than that in Paris, although that shown by
/ Fanny Davenport here far surpassed both
of the others.
Every beautiful woman seems to have
desire to play Cleopatra, and as no.
body believes that Cleopatra gained her
sway solely by her beauty, it is odd that
they do not realize what an enormous
task they are undertaking. To depict
the woman who was as subtle as the
first serpent, who could use each charm to
Its best advantage, and who was as cruel
as the coolest steel, while rs loving as the
hottest fire, does not seem difficult to
them. The rage for representing Juliet
seems to have subsidized, and every amateur
wants to picture the woman who had
Caesars and Marc Antony's love as we'll as
the alteration of the Egyptian populace.
| They had better remain content with
Juliet, for, after all, most of us have en-
dured such agonies in seeing the sweet
! maid done by amateurs that we no longer
mind the dose.
1t is announced that Miss Elsie de
Wolfe is going on the stage-profession-
ally. mean. What courage some women
have. She IS a tolerably good amateur,
she is not good looking and she is not
young, and vet she is brave enough to
face an audience who are expected to pay
for their appreciation, or lack of it, of her
attempt to try ii on them. Certainly the
| American woman has a beautiful belief in
the patience of the American people, but
we have had little bit too much of this
and even worm will turn at last, and the
! dOwn-trodden American, when it does
| turn, III body turns for good.
What kind of paper do you use? The
very latest is card-like in shape, being the
I ordinary note size, but not doubled. 1t is
| tolerabiy stih. and pale gray, and your
| cipher must be wrought in gold at the top
! OF it, while your address is in gold at the
foot of the sheet. This is written on with
| white ink, and in the largest handwriting
! Imaginable. The sheet goes into the en-
| velop without folding, and when the letter
| comes to you it looks like an official docu-
ment A messenger boy can't get it into
| his pocket, so he usually marks it with
| hand decorations. The postman can't
strap it in with his other letters, so he
! carries it by itself, and considers YOU a
| great swell to get IT, and the person who
wrote it somebody with more money than
! he has. Nobody ever makes a mistake in
writing on plain white paper that folds
/ once. For myself | have a liking for
! large-sized sheets, but the little billets to-
| day are sent on very small ones.
1t isn't so much, after all, what the
paper is as what the envelope contains,
! though you almost know before you open it.
The old-fashioned-looking envelope, di-
| rected in running italian hand such as
was taught in the schools forty years ago.
comes from somebody's mother; you can
almost see the signature, which is only
''your devoted mother"
That pale gray letter. redolent OF violet,
| closely sealed with white wax. and having
immediate" written far up in one corner,
| is from somebody's sweetheart, and it is
signed "Ever faithfully thine own true
| love"
That business envelope with the name
! and address of John Brown, Lawyer"
/ crossed over with ink, is from wife to
her husband she is using one OF his
business envelopes. and the letter ends,
always your affectionate wife," and be-
| low that is postscript which tells that
| baby has put kiss in the corner.
That severe-lOOking envelope, with the
name of a collecting agency on it, is some
young mans tailor BILL poor chap, prob
| ably his worst fault was vanity, but he
will have to pay the piper now.
That legal-looking envelope is from a
lawyer TO his client, announcing that a
case was lost.
That square little thing, with its gold
! cipher and its pointed handwriting, is
| the acceptance that pretty girl has given
| to a dance
! That black-bordered envelope is from
somebody who has written a letter OF
! thanks for a word of coincidence that came
| in time of trouble. And that square,
white envelope, with cipher in gold and
| the motto "Literd. Scriptd md,ld, that an
nouncement that what write mean"
is from Bah.