The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-19
AS LIKE AS TWO PEAS.
Strange Likenesses That by Accident,
Art or Nature Have Been
Produced.
Mrs. Cleveland's Fine Features
CAST in Ono Of the Favor
tie Moulds.
Mrs. George GouIa's Double Sings In y
Metropolitan Church-Miss PRESCOTT
Resembles Mrs. Astor.

Metropolitan ChNrca-M Miss Prescott
Resembles Mrs. Astor.
Especial Correspondence of THE INDEPENDENT.
New YoRK, Jan. 12.--"lhere goes ono
of the doubtless" said tho chief of a we'll
known Broadway fancy notion store, as I
chattod with him over IL baskst of photo
graphs of stage beauties and society stars.
lie referred to n tall. rather angular
woman Of twenty-eight with auburn hair
why had just left the store.
"One OF the whnt?' I asked. -
Doubles" said he; don't Won know
what thsy are? They are women who look
like somebody else, or think IL sy do. That
woman thinks she is the living image of
sara Bcrnlatdt. Sho Was buying Sara's
photograph. She took tivo, showing diff
ferent aspects Of her her face. She will
study them right along now, and make up to
look like har model. / would wager a din :
ner at Del's she WAS to see Bernhardt last
night, and the resemblance struck her. It
ia really there. In nine cases out Of ten
the doubles are III fact like the person
they make up fort may be this build. the
pose, the cast of features or some turn of
expression-that there is a real foundation
to build on. You might have noticed that
the lady just gone out was very like sa ra
her face and the color of her hair
saught the trick Of sucking in
her cheaks and giving that almond shaped
pinch To her mouth which ID so character
istic Of the actress. Her figure was not
very much in harmony. but she will make
tho dressmakor remedy that in short
order"
Then q double is a woman who dresses
and makes up to look like some celebrity?''
Eyes, or a man. There are lots of men
who havo tho same fad. 1t is not always n
deliberate thing. There arc always strik-
ing resemblances among people who are al
There is Isaac II. Bailey, OF the Union
League club. He is the image of Napoleon
iii. There is a strong resemblance be-
tween James Gordon Hennstt and Senator
Mcpherson, of New Jersey. John Russell
Young might pass for Gen. Grant. Jon
ard, the F.ench baritone who sang hete
mary seasons, was famous for his resem-
blanco to the portraits Of Moliere, and
ussd to make up after them
"And among women?"
"Well, I confess [ think when a woman
gets tbs idea that she is like this or that
leading actress, or Eoclsty woman, or
princess royal, she 10 apt to cultivate the
empty compliment. Sons man may say
to her at a party: You look charming to-
night. You romind NC of Mrs. Cleveland.
OF, perhaps, it is the princess OF Wales
She'll answer: oh, nonsense but the first
chance that woman gets abe goes off to a
~looklng-plass and studies out the resem-
blance. The next day she comes here and
buys the photograph Of the other woman.
We know them the minute they come in.
I say to myself: All. Mira. Double, there
you are. Yes, | can Let you see a picture Of
Mrs: Langtry, Mrs: James Brown Potter.
Sallie Hargous.' Bless you, l know just
whose picture they're going to ask for be-
fore they open their mouths
"Who are the prevailing models?'
"a great many foolish young men are
ambitious to resemble actors Of the roman
Edwin Booth, or even Harry Lacy. SO n
great many women, too, make up for star
actresses. Adelaide Nelson had u host of
imitators in her day. For four or five years
Mary Anderson Was all the rage, and Mrs.
Iangtry had dozens Of women cultivating
a resemblance to her. Ellen Terry and Sara
Bernhnrdt have had q smaller number, be-
ing less conspicuously beautiful, Ada Re-
han also has had many doubles. But, in n
more limited way, there is a great deal Of
imitation of leading society women, espec-
tally since the newspapers have taken to
printing their pictures and personal de-
seIlnt1oas OF N them; yorl suppose there is
nous position and who enjoys n reputation
for beauty or attractiveness who
has not a regular series of replioas reach
ing from a somewhat less exclusive social
grade down to the ranks of the salesgirls
and dressmakers' models. Sometimes. OF
1t~rr AL~ o,r1 ~, M Sr ,rt,~r ~-.a
times it is forced; but when it exists at all
you will find nine times out of ten that it is
carefully cultivated"
You seem to have made a study OF the
subject" + remarked.
''Oh, yes" WAS the reply, sit is business
to us. We keep watch on suoh things care
fully. This fad means q small fortune to
US in a year" W."
And who seems to have the largest num-
Der of doubles just at PRESENT."
Il think that for the last five years Mrs.
Cleveland has been in the lead for this
fotm of hattsry, which 10 ths sincerest, you
know: suppose the lumber Of women
would run up into the thousands oil over
the country. ! have heard of or met some
very remarkable casss OF resemblance to
her, in several cases wholly unconscious on
the part OF the double, too-at least at the
outset. Have you not noticed. within a few
NNyb oil ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS II WIG papers Ol Luo
approaching marriage Of Miss Roxanna
Wentworth, daughter of Long john Went
worth. of Chicago, to Clarenos Bowen. of
Brooklyn, coupled with an ~allusion to her
extraordinary likeness to Mis-. Cleveland.
l can testify to the fact myGelf, for | have
Miss Wentworth. She is. | should say,
twcnty-seven years ole. She has q full face,
with delicate features and a dark
complexion. Her figure, while
we'll rounded, is eminently graceful.
There is something in the expression of her
eyes which reminds you of Mis-. Cleveland,
OF course this resemblance has never
been cultivated. Miss Wentworth's father
ls many times a millionaire, and made his
money in Chicago real estute. He is. be-
the direct descendant Of Gov. Went.
worth. the last ~coloninl ruler of Massachu-
sets. Bowen, whom she is to marry, is the
of Henry G. Bowen. editor OF tho indie
You see she is socially beyond
tbs temptation of initiating anyone; besides,
she is of q very retiring disposition, and ia
n girl of natural ability and superior educa-
ton, altogether above any such nonsense.
Another girl. who found out accident
ally that she was Mrs. Cleveland's double,
is Miss Hattie kimnnll, the daughter of u
high official in the pension bureau at Wash
ington. She was constantly mistaken for
Mira. Cleveland in her walks about the cap
ital. She had only to ride through tho