The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-18
BAB'STALK ABOUT TALKING
BUDGET OF CHATTER AND GOSSIP.
Masculine Limbs on the stage-Hope for
Young 1Ien-Girls Gett ng simple I'm
Their -AlligatOrs-CoIlege-
bred Women Nothing New.

themselves forcibly on my mind was be-
cause L saw Mr.. Lawrence Barrett elocute
blank verse tragedy. Understand that
by "blank" l just mean blank, though it
deserves 10 be called worse.
While I've watched the various people
being stabbed ali over until they were
dead" and saw the heroine put "a cup OF
cold pison in her inside" became fasci-
mated by Mr.. Barrett's legs. They are not
handsome legs even with the addition of
calves, but they have peculiarly fasci-
mating way of their own that is touching
And in more senses than one, too; for one
knee touches another in such q pronounced
way that a frivolous woman would pro-
nounce the learned tragedian knock
kneed When this result is reached at
the knees, the right foot has q decided
tendency to turn in, and defy any human
being, especially any woman being, TO
look at those legs and leieye that the man
attached To them IL passionate Italian
lover. To be slangy, 1t won't go. An
Italian lover must have neither limbs Of
tho shapeliest, and clothe them in silk OF
the glossiest, so that the ewes ana the heart
OF the lady of his love arc both gratitied.
Apropos OF le.s, very few actors have
good ones; .heir brains and the upper
portions OF their bodies may be built for
tragedy, but their legs are intended for
comedy, or indeed for farce. Mr.. lrying's
legs have peculiar and many-sided curves
these are brought out TO the best effect
when a long cloak enshrouds him. Mr.
james Owen OCOnnor has undoubtedly
most interesting histrionic legs, but they
would lose their charm if they were not
the active powers in making walk that
is combination OF ahop. skip anda Jump.
Tho only man | can think OF on the stage
who has really handsome legs is Dixey,
and all New York got 10 know
them when he dressed So that he looked
like a bit of Dresden, and sang that pretty
little song, ppm such a susceptible stutu-
cite" Now, ] can't understand why men
shouldn't have handsome legs. They
walk moro than women 10. they are
greater devotees at the Russian bath and
consequc atly they are ofteuer rubbed
down, and 40 they ought 10 he ia good
order, not stringy nor muscular looking,
but well shaped and firm. The old men
of the stage can very much better afford
10 wear knee breechcst than can the young
ones, while the average swell looks as IL
his legs were a pair of lead pencils in a
divided skirt.
Simplicity Is earnestly endcavoring 20
make itself folt in New York Pretty
dobutantcs no longer appear at teas in
elaborate ball gowns, but instead high
necled and long-sleoved cashmere irocks
OF soft gray, pale blue or deep scarlet are
counted snRrtcst. The result will un-
douhtcdly DO boom In the matrimonial
market, for the average young man will
begin 90 think that he can, by making n
great effort, dress a woman, whereas be-
l.. Soil
chiffon, he doubted whether he would be
ablo 20 robe nm angel. In some other
WAYS, too, simplicity Ia coming up; you
ask for n cup OF tea and with IL YOU get n
bit OF hot cake not cut bat broken 10y the
pretty fingers of the hostces herself and
She IL huppiest when che can tell You that
ehe has mndC IL herself. This cake IN
usually very plain one, with curranls
ard citron IN II, that abominnble stun
known ms angel cake having been rcle-
gated 10 the mansions from when il came
long ago.
Did You ever have m alligator. and did
you like him2 Ono came 20 me the other
day--at least no started 90 come, but when
lac heard somebody on board ship say
what his destination and who his future
parent wat to be, he stretched himself out
In despair and died. don't know Just
what he thought, but he was probably
wise enough 10 know that canary birds
and dogs and alligators would hardly form
u happy family. lie was buried al sea
with high honors he was wrapped up in
"a bit OF eail, put on u shingle. and
from whence he had come. That sounds
very romantic, doesn't it2 In fact, when
We heard IL the dog and canary bird and !
each got up n tear aa We pictured the
funeral, but | may ms well tell you that
there wasn't any funeral 40 all. That IL
was like the story Joseph told his wife
Tho alligator who was to have been my
own was brought home TO New York,
and Is now going through process OF
embalming. in view Of making him pa
per weight for me; but the woman who
brought him thought il would be nicer 10
tell about the funeral frat. IL really did
add piquancy to the occasion.
But, after making close acquaintance
with one that was 10 come and live in ar
tlstic quarters, scarcely think j should
care TO be welded 90 one. They have
clammy feeling that would down all love.
and when their mouths are opened they
are 40 expressive OF yawning gulf that
you just rs soon think of kissing u coal
hole az the gentle bird Thea, too. he has
IN unpleasant fashion of singing all night.
Ii may be that he IL follower OF Wagner
don't know, am not we'll up in music,
but il Is an awful sound some place be-
tween croak and bark-thRt causes
YOU TO shudder under your blankets aud
give fervent thanksgiving that you and
the alligator are not in the same box.
Have you been overcome lately by the
young woman who has had college edu-
cation? She Is, without any exception,
the most absolutely cocksure woman in
the world. Under no circumstances do
you know anything. She won't even
credit You with having a tolerabIy good
knowledge of slang and she talks about
"what we did at college" and what we
said at college" until you wish YOU could
take her 10 a college OF physicians and
surgeons and have some sort Of punish
meut administered TO her that would be
painful, but not dangerous. You can't
even make her believe that you know the
multiplication table, don't after five, so
that she has always got mo there-but
she has a snifty sort Of scorn OF the woman
who has picked mp her education, and she
makes you feel that abe was especially ere
ated. her o,cn college specially arranged
for her, and that her fame Ms its graduate
is world widc.
| haven't word TO say against women