The morning news., 1891-02-01

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wright and most thoroughly understands the
possibilities of his gifted and erra.ic sister.
/ Lady Barter brought cut at Toronto.
| Canada, was a howlng success, If one may
judge from the plaudits. shrieks and clap
pings Of the audience. LADY Barter" hopes
to come this way to show US her pretty
I gowns and to treat US TO a picture Of her
perfect figure.
Few people understand the secret Of Miss
Coghlan's shape. This is its history. | tell
/ the tale as il twas told to me. Very firm,
stiff aad long corsets are worn by the actreCs.
/ They are perfect in contour as to bust and
stomach and of just the right waist meas
ure. Into this steel and whalebone armor,
she is laced every night by a maid stout Of
muscle and brawny Of wrist. OF late years,
/ her too exuberant avoirdupois has been
\ difficult TO manage. But a new set of cor
sets, tirmer, higher and longer than the
rest have done the work. When fully
| equipped for tie stage she cannot seat her.
| self in it directly as tho christian might,
but is obliged, forsooth, TO sidle upon a
chair in very much the same fashion that
you and wriggled into one, long years ago.
when we vent TO spend the afternoon with
our best Aunt Polly.
1t is a pity that some less fattening sub
| stitute cannot be found for lager. So
many professional women are addicted 70
| the cups and grow overfat in consequence
that fortune is in store for some one who
will invent q long, satisfying, cooling
| draught. warranted not to produce an ex-
cess of tissue.
When last we knew Frederick Gebhard.
he was rushing madly to and fro up and
down the earth, seeking Langtry, who,
finding his money gone and himself dis
agreeably addicted to liquor, repulsed him
and drove him hence. Then Gebhard
would return to America, and for a time
content himself with his dogs and ponies.
But the spell of the enchantress was upon
him, and its chains bound him TO her feet.
Her voice was ever calling, calling in spirit,
and after wild contest with self, he would
fee to her whom he loved, only to be re-
buffed and bidden go home like a nice
boy"
Now Gebhard is on a different tack. and
it Is a noble one, Just such as his best friends
have always known him to be capable Of.
He is doing his goodly best to help the
church at Newport, where his family wor-
ship. At Christmas he made a model Santa
Claus, distributing gifts with his own hands
from tree chopped by his own sturdy
arms. He is a great success at all winter
festivals and entertainments, and seems to
be more than tolerably happy. Perhaps
be realizes the truth of the Shakesperian
lines:
sweet are the uses of adversity,
Bears yet precious jewel in its head.
Lily, you may go to Jersey, or to Egypt
after Cleopatra, or to the place where the
Mckinley bill originated. or anywhere else
you phase, Freddie, and don't care what
becomes of you.
Ii is claimed that a pretty woman is al
ways pretty, whether she is perched on a
chair decorating the chandelier, or is upon
her knees tacking down a carpet II she is
M a uha 10 al
then, the possibilities for absolute beauty in
a young woman-a new. fresh bride-who
has just gone TO housekeeping in a brand
new fiat. There are the window curtains to
be put up, picture throws to be arranged.
moses and grasses to be artistically punched,
and the thousand and one odds and ends
managed, each Of which goes ever so far
toward making of that flat an Eden upon
the earth, or, beg pardon, between the earth
aud the skies
How does hubby like this daily toil9 He
is simply enchanted. Each morning he
goes forth bewitched, and each evening
finds him full of lmpatience to return to
the bower, that he may see the grand march
OF Improvement that has been going on
while he was away. It's darling old times
every day in the week when fresh young
couple start In housekeeping In a brand new
fiat.
Jay Gould owns box at the Grand Opera
House. and he takes his family and goes
and sits in 1t once in a while. Now, doc
tor Bill" is a naughty play. Ella Wheeler
Wilcox has said so, and the public has
taken up The cry. 1t is common, naughtily
suggestive and low. And yet here sat the
richest man in all America, surrounded by
his children, enjoying himself i'm rensely,
and. shaking Of his sides
Are Jay Gould's tastes com
mon or is the public mistaken9 Is it not
that we common folks are ready to see
naughtlness where none is intended, and
that we are too quick to observe a dis
agreeable suggestivenessl Is it possible
that man who is several times million
aire would take his family TO view a play
IN which, as has been claimed, the Ian
guage is doubtful and the situations
naughty.
w hen does lovely woman appear as lovely
as when clad in sweet dignity of manner?
And If to this she can add honors aud deco.
rations and degrees and titles, there is a
Portia-like grace, serenity and magnetism
about her that is wholly irresistible. The
day of helpless, incapable women has gone
by. Men aud all the rest of the world like
woman who has something to her, who
knows something, and who can sustain
her own in delightful interchange of
thought.
Do not think, dear sweet little girl, that
you must wear calf-skin boots and a divided
skirt and self assertive manner Nor that
you need go clad in the armor of aggress-
slveness, carrying prickly shield of sharp
opinions. But what you do need is to make
yourself attractive, is to cultivate all your
little gifts aud talents and to make the most
OF the womanliness that is within.
Have you seen the lovely statue of the
Princess of Wales as Doctor of Muslc9 IL
you have, you remember the calm, sweet.
stately features, above which the mortar
board" cap sets as royalty as if it were
crown. You know how the long, heavy
doctors robe falls TO the feet in eat digni-
fled folds that only serve to enhance the
queenly tearing of the woman. TIE statue
is powerful one and a strong one, yet 1t is
that of woman and it is all womauly.
Prince Victor of Hohenloe Langenburg. a
cousin of the princess, made it aud he we'll
knew how to draw the firm lines, curved
and sweet, that are part of womanly
womsn'S makeup.
Be good, sweet maid. and let who will be
clever, says Charles Kingsley. But
be clever, sweet maid, aud good also, SAYS
CARRIE CARELESS
A DOG TaAT SMOK s.