The morning news., 1891-02-01

gained her sway solely by her beauty, il is
ODD that they do not realize wnaI an enor-
nous 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
coldest steel. while as loving as the hottest
fire, does not seem difficult to them. The
rage for representing Juliet seems 70
have subsided. and every amateur wants to
picture the woman who had CRsar's aud
Marc Antony's love as well as the alteration
OF the Egyptian populace They had better
remain content with Juliet" for, after all,
most of us have endured such agonies In
seeing the sweet maid done by amateurs
that we no longer mind the dose.
COMING NEW ACTRESS.
II is announced that Miss Elsie de Wolfe
is going on the stage-professionally, l
mean. What courage some women have
She is tolerahly good amateur, she is not
good-looking and she is not young, and yet
she is brave enough to face an audience who
are expected tc pay for their appreciation,
or lack of it, OF her attempt to try it on
them Certainly the American woman has
beautiful belief in the patience of the
American people. but We have had a little
bit too much of this, and even a worm will
turn at last, and the down-trodden Ameri-
can. when IL does turn, in a body, turns for
good.
THE NEW KIND OF FEMININE STA rIoNERY.
What kind of paper do you usel The
very latest is card-like in shape, being the
ordinary note size, but not doubled. 1t is
| tolerably stiff, and pale gray and your
| cipher must be wrought in gold at the top Of
1t, while your address is in gold at the foot
of the sheet. This is written on with Ink,
and In the largest handwriting imaginable.
| The sheet goes into the envelope without
| folding, and when the letter comes to you it
looks like an official document. A messen-
| ger boy can't get it into his pocket, SO
| he usually marks it with hand deco
rations. The postman can't strap it in with
his other letters so he carries it by itself,
and considers you a great swell to got it,
| and the person who wrote 1t somebody with
more money than he has. Nobody ever
makes 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.
CHARACTER TOLD IN STATIONERY.
| Itisn't much, after all, what the paper n
as what the envelope contains, though you
almost know before you open it.
| That MISUNDERSTANDING envelope,
directed in a running Italian hand such as
was taught in the schools forty years ago,
comes from somebody's mother; you can
| beo Juo S1EudbuTc, WurCn lS 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 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 hus-
band she is using one of his business envel-
opes, and the letter ends, "Always your af-
fectionate wife," and below that is a post
script which tells that baby has put a
kiss in the corner.
That severe-looking envelope, with the
name Of a collection agency on 1t, Is some
young mans tailor bill; poor chap, proba-
bly, 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 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 letter of thanks
for word Of coincidence that came in q
time of trouble And that square white en-.
velope. with cipher in gold aud the motto
"Litera ScriptG manet," that announce
ment that what write Imean," is from