The morning news., 1891-02-01
GAY CARRIE CARELESS.
A LOOK AT WOMEN THROUGH
MAGNIFYING CLASSES.

The Things That Insure Success for q
Woman Who Wants to Please-A
Budget of Personal Gossip-Frederick
Gebhardt and Madame Patti as Mr.
and Mrs. Santa Claus-Eow a Con-
test Between Inclination and Duty is
Likely to End-Some of the Trials OF
Newspaper Women.
CCopyri0ht)
NEW YORK, Jan 31.-''She knows just
how to talk to all kinds and conditions of
men," was the recommendation given for q
bright woman who makes her living
as much by her ability to please as by her
actual labors.
Seeing that woman afterward and obs
serving her closely, one could not but be
impressed with the truth of what had been
sara. She was gay with the gay. silent
when any one else wanted to talk, talkative
with the shy, always good tempered. never
too animated, and never, never visibly In
pam nor in tears. She was always charm
ing, bright, sympathetic and sweet. She
was witty, too, but not terribly so. She
kept her wit to lllumine Conversation and
TO tighten dull spirits; not to burn hearts
nor scorch sensitive feeling. Everybody
went from her presence feeling comfortable
in spirit and with reasonably satisfied hearts
She was a peacemaker aud a courage
strengthener. There are two or three dozen
of such women in the world, and when you
find one she will tell You that it is almost
impossible for her TO get an evening TO her
self, because so IraDy dear. kind friends are
apt 10 drop in Il an evening. And she will
add: "Im glad IT'S so, for should not be
able to get through the day without the
prospect of these pleasant evenings. wish
the DAYS might be all evenings with time
table that never crept beyond the limits Of
s TO II p. m.
No one knows as well as the woman of
the day how much she herself depends upon
the newspapers and magazines for the charm
and hrilliancy that seems to be all her own.
She must read the papers. and she knows it.
And the more she reads the better IL will be
for her. Whether in the crowded horse car
or seated upon her luxurious couch in her
own dainty boudoir, she seeks and eagerly
scans the latest and best that is in print, for
well she knows that she must add a charm
of mind to a beautiful face and stylish dress,
OF the very ones whom she would give her
Lie and soul to please will turn from her
with yawn.
Signor aud Madame Patti Nicolini are in
dulging in veritable dissipation of gift
giving 1t is Madame PATHS vacation, and
she has taken her auburn tresses and her
Wales, way over the sea. At holiday time
she gathered nearly 1000 children together,
and gave them each something good to eat,
aud also a gift as a remembrance of herself
and of the merry Yule time "Welcome to
the Queen Of Songl !" Long life to Signor
and Madame" aud appropriate greetings
for tie season we're erected upon the bridge
leading over the River Tawl, which flows
through the domains of Craig-y-Nos.
When Madame Patti sets out to do nice
thing she never does it half way, and when
she works herself into a nice frame of
mind, there is sea rcely anything she isn't
willing to do in the helping hand line so,
while she was feeling amiable and lovely,
she penned a letter to Sims Reeves con-
graduating him upon the excellent voice in
which she had found him and assuring him
that she would do all she could 70 secure
pupils for SO grand master of the voice as
himself.
One must, one really must. write a sue
cessful novel if one would be feted, sculpt-
ured, painted and sung. Mrs. Humphrey
Ward, whom everybody will remember as
having brought forth Robert Elsmere, re-
Gently sat for her portrait to Rudolph Leh-
mann. The result is grand, and Mrs Ward
will now have portrait tea aud be newly
honized. There isn't much money in sue
ceSsful novel, for it is the work of years and
Elust he verltable gold mine if it would
yield sufficient back pay to atone for the
months and months OF toll. But there's
lots of fame in it, and lots of notoriety and
lots of honor, so who cares for the mere pay
that it bringsl Nice, ambitious people can
eat. sleep, dream and get their washing
done on almost nothing if it is done to the
tune OF the worlds plaudits.
Dancing in the Barn" isn't a circum-
stance in grace to the new Scotch reel which
has lately come over to us via Paris. The
first hop is taken with the girls right hand
clasping the mans right hand, and the other
pair of hands meeting in back handed sort
of way behind the girls back. Her face is
over his shoulder and her hair ia across his
face Intoxicating his senses with its fra
GRANGE. Then comes a skip, they pass one
another. A swift revolution and they re-
turn and jump together through the three
beats that follow. The girls skirts are all
flowing wildly ami gracefully about her
limbs, and her ribbons entangle the man
in their silken meshes as they twine about
him.
Lillian Russell, Jr. is one of the sweetest
little girls the Lord ever gave into the arms
of q loving, pretty mol her. All the world
knows that the prettiest sight on earth is a
woman with her own darling baby in her
erIns, no matter if neither mother nor
child are exceptionally handsome Fancy
then the lovely, lovely LILLIAN with her fair
golden hair and her eyes like the blue for
get-me>nots, holding against her soft,
round cheek, a little child as perfect as a
bit of Dresden china. "Can they be flesh
and blood" one exclaims, looking at them:
s'or are they but dainty piece Of bric-a-
brac designed in lofty moment by a
sculptor who is able to give to mortals
snatches of human divinity for their own
good cheerT'
Little Lillian is an accomplished lady.
She has much musical talent and is develop
ing it in quiel way all the time. And she
speaks little pieces, walks a stately stage
walk and is thoroughly interesting ia spite
of the spelling process to which she is daily
subject from ner own and her mothers ad-
mirers.
The old-time prejudice against reporters
is fast passing away. The pencil and note
book scribe now finds little difficulty in
gaining access to any and every house in
town. This is especially the case with
women reporters, who are now chosen from
q class of people who would as soon think of
moral suicide as of violating confidence.
Whatever is told thein they respect and
only print that which is actually intended
for publication. People have found this
out from experience and they have gained
confidence accordingly. But some Of this
reporting is terribly exacting work and diff
fcult to manage. For example: Miss Re-
porter goes to see Mrs Interview about