The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-02-01

was the monogram of the wearer-that was on
the black garter-while on the yellow was en-
craven Luck comes through me-" The girl
was so happy she couldn't tell whether it came
from the garter or the man who sent it, but OF
course she knew he did, and she intends to thank
him in the prettest way possible-after her
marriage.
A NEW YORK wOMAN's ANCESTORS.
Everybody can't have ancestors-that is, of
course, everybody does have ancestors, but they
are not always particularly vain of them, nor
anxious to introduce them to the public at large
Several times miliionares may not object to
having thieves, and liars, and forgers, and men
who die on the wrong end of the rope among
their progenitors, but plain, ordinary, everyday
people have an idea that they would rather their
parents far back should be more or less re-
spectacle, presumably more. A bright woman,
with no blue blood to speak of, has solved the
ancestral picture fashion in very amusing way.
She herself is q very beautiful woman, and she
earned her living by her needle and her brush;
that is, doing very fine embroidery for various
decorative societies, and by painting menus and
cards for the large shops. man whose riches
are great and whose blood is most cerulean fell
in love with her and made her his wife. This
family had slight inclination to scoff not be-
cause she had earned her own living-thank God,
that is credit to woman nowadays-but be-
cause she hadn't come of gentle folk. She never
in most beautiful manner. At her first after
noon tea the members OF the family and her in
innate friends were invited into her own spe-
cial room to see the pictures of, as she funnily
put it, 1.-The women who have preceded me-"
and there she had, either in colors or photo
graphs. the picture OF almost every woman who
had triumphed through her beauty. She had
Cleopatra, Catherine of Russia, Lady Hamilton,
the three beautiful Cummings, Mrs. Fitzgerald,
Nell Gwynne, Adelaide Nelson, Lady Lonsdale,
Lady Dudley, Mrs. Langtry, and as the latest,
the variety actress Belle Bilton-Lady Dunlo.
| Everybody was delighted, everybody confessed
| to her wit, aud don't think even from the old
| frumps in the family she will ever hear another
word about who her ancestors were.
Apropos of beautiful women, the Cleopatrs
OF Madame Bernhardt has been described to me
| by man who is good critic, and who is an
| ardent admrer of Sarah. He says it is failure
| and 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 womer
| of her race have decided tendency to fat al
they grow old. The Cleopatra of Mrs. Langtry
| is said to be beautiful one, although it is al
English one; the stage-setting is said to be bette
than that in Paris although that shown b.
| Fanny Davenport here far surpassed both of th
others.
| EVERY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
seems to have desire to play Cleopatra, and a
nobody believes that Cleopatra gained her swa.
solely by her beauty, it is odd that they do no
realize what an enormous task they are under
taxing. To depict the woman who was as subtl
as the first serpent, who could use each charr
to its best advantage, and who was as cruel a
the coldest steel, while as loving as the hotties
fire, does not seem difficult to them. The rag
for representing juliet seems to have suhsdeC
and every amateur wants to picture the Woma
who had Caesars and Marc Antony's love q
well as the alteration of the Egyptian populac
They had better remain content with Juliet, fc
after all, most of us have endured such agoni'
in seeing the sweet maid done by amateurs th'
we no longer mind the dose.
A COMING NEW ACTRESS.
1t is announced that Miss Elsie de Wolfe
going on the professionally. / mea
What courage some women have! She is
tolerably good amateur, she is not good-lookir
and she is not young, and yet she is bral
enough to face an audience who are eXpect'
to pay for their appreciation, or lack Of it,
her attempt to try it on them. Certainly Il
|. | America woman has a beautiful belief in Il
patience of the American people, but we ha
had little bit too much of this, and even
| worm will turn at last, and the down-trodd
American when it does turn, in body, tIr
! for good.
THE NEW KIND OF FEMININE STATIONERY
What kind of paper do you use? The We
latest is card-lihe in shape, being the ordina
note size, but not doubled. 1t is tolerably ST.
and pale gray, and your cipher must
: wrought in gold at the top of it, while your {
r dress is in gold at the foot OF the sheet. III
. is written on with white ink. and in the larg
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