Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-07

beauty OF the sage, MIS-. l1angtrY, VINO can
deny her grace2 Her arms and neck are
perfect, but the lower part of her body is
angular and ungraceful so. for that reason,
she is always clever enough to have her
gowns so draped that as far as possible tho
defects are hidden. Her defects of figure
are simply those of the English woman in
general, for she is by no means, taken alto
gether, as handsome figure as the Ameri-
can woman. although she usually surpasses
her IN beauty of bust and arms. Madame
Bernhardt is a seductive figure, for slender
ness does not of necessity hint of angles
and thinness. A small-boned woman whose
bones are properly covered may be as beau
tifully formed as the woman with greater
height and weight. Jane Hading has essen
italy the figure of the French woman Of
fashion, the small waist, broad shoulders
and large lips. 1t is figure that one is in
clined to call chic rather than artistic
Agnes Booth has grown too stout and ma
tronly looking to be criticised, but have
been told by people who saw her play Cleo
patra that she filed GATHERS idea of the
beautiful Egyptian. Modjeska is angular.
Fanny Davenport is, just now, a most perfect
figure. for. having lost some of her flesh and
being large woman, the amount she still
weighs is only that which should be hers by
right. Ada Rehan always impresSes you
on the stage as looking all right, but you
are not conscious of any of that charm of
curve which is painters delight and the
fascination of so many women.
CURVES OF FAMOUS sOUBRETTEs.
In the world of light opera, Della Fox
may be cited as having the most boyish
figure, Anna O'Keefe, the most feminine
in the dressmakers' sense, but Marie Jan
sen the most. absolutely perfect in all
senses. Just watch her as she moves;
wherever she goes she seems to carry with
her the perfect line of which Dumas wrote,
"a Viii Of oil ie ho 1s,a ~ fac
ton. If she moves her hand, curve is
achieved from the shoulder to the elbow;
if she throws her foot in some careless posi-
.tion the line from the waist to the knee is
almost the same as that famous one which
we call the line of beauty, and when she
stands perfectly still, her feet close to-
gether, her hands by her side, from her
neck&own she is q succession of beautiful
cgg$eS, over which a French artist would
pdvef would do more, would make immor-
etal. Sadie Martinez has a fascinating
fgffe, that, as she moves, beautifully
gQFned, as she always is, suggests to you
Yer intense feminmity; every rustic of her
Silk gown seems to say, Il am feminine, L
am mysterious, but be sure that l am
charming" tombstone Bennett, Jane - is
a girlish figure, pleasing to look upon and
essentially suggestive of youth. Lolita,
well, who ever thought anything of Lotta's
figure! She will look
SIXTEEN WHEN SHE IS SIXTY.
Kate Forsyth has a most magnificent
figure, it is Juno-like; but, if you remem-
Der, it was not Juno who fascinated man
kind; it was the smaller, lissome and more
womanly Venus whom they adored. Chris
tine Nilsson long ago grew too fat, and then
she is not womanlv looking; she is too sug-
geStive of the Vikings to delight humanity.
Mrs. Brown-Potter is bony; but Mrs.
Brown-Potter is so essentially feminine
~ 1, / -
and make the lines of her figure at least
womanly to look upon. Mrs. Leslie Carter
is slender, but well formed and graceful;
all her movements are pleasing. and when
she takes few dancing steps she delights
the gallery critic by her lightness and the
fact that she has no angles. Many of the
women OF the stage have extremely beauti-
too fat or too thin, and very often where
they might use lambs wool advantageously
they apply too much, or do not know how
to use it correctly. Who of us has not seen
q chorus where symmetry was exhibited by
a series of Jumps, presumably fat, and then
spaces as fiat as the desert of Sahara2
TIE FASHIONABLE woMAS's FORM.
The woman who doesn't know how to
make herself look better by the disposition
of her belongings had much better not at
tempt to do anything but let long, lank
nature announce itself. Among the fash
ionable set, good figures are the exception
rather than the rule, most Of the womea9
being too fat. OF course this does not aRyifF
to the young girls, but they, like all AsHeri-ss
can young girls in the North, are sntto kA
at the other extreme, and that is, ilstie
scrawuy. We are of so many natiot8l Ities
that it IS amusing TO hear of a we9san aSho
traces her fine figure TO the different bl5cds
she inherits. She says: Il got my hand
some neck and arms from my English grand
mother, my hips from my French grand
mother, my clear pure skin from an Irish
grandfather, and its smoothness from a..
Spanish one. The smallness of my feRf
and hands 1 inherit from my mother, y1Qa
is an American, and my quickness "a ~
ing all this IRON my father. VINO IS an
American politician, born in ireland" 4
AwoMAS's POLITICS. -
Jumping from curves to politics, shQazd
like to say that 1 am in training fQff the
next presidential election. This maymaasf
not much 70 most people, but it meSHs
great deal to ne, because my political
career has been varied At very early J
age, and under the tuition OF QuakafSI
grandfather, was an old line Wing; ser
on. when 1 learned to read, becaFfe 2ps
ardent follower Of Charles Stuart, ssaS
q Royalist from my backbone. Evidently,
l hadn't much backbone, for after course
Of French history, ] became BonapartiSE
During the Franco-German war / SCENT
three days with some German friendE and