Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-07-31
TRICKS OF LONDON DUDES.
They Make up Like Women, Garry Fans
aud Wear Bracelets.

Painted men exist. They aro 10 be
seen IN London. They are tho newest
frcaEs Of melancholy. They have OK.
hausted oil other forms Of beauty aud
would now entertain the world with
their frenooed visages, says u writer In
the Boston Herald.
The ilfst Of these species that / On.
cOuntered diilused soft scents. He eat
opposite ms toying with a soup spoon
and murmuring the platiiudes VI Pc
csdilly to an amazed epinster at
his right. Before the dinner
was finished he had whipped out n
silvet.mOunted fan and WAS waving II
gently before his ornamental brow.
over the coffee he produced puffumed
cigarettes and the atmosphere became
like that Of u perfumer'a on u hot Jay
Ia August. His hugcrs were covered
with Jewels, and he wore a dainty
bracelet on his left wrist. He was
creature OF most exquisite decoration,
and watched him throughout the
courses IN client wonder.
The creature WINS iuaiItble and he
purroi At the company, never openly
addressing 10. he hau perhaps, three
ideasin his head, but lac adrUitly con.
ctalud them. His finert accomplish.
ment was ia looking at the ladies.
Soon inter this / saw another specl-
men OF this new fashion IN trUusuIDd
humanity. strangely enough the
second painted man wac encountered
at AN OratOriO. They were doing
Gounod's "Redemption" at the Albert
hall, ana the thing was la the
box adjoining ours. What II wanted
there, what Subtraction II could cap.
tuTe from an OfRtOrio | can never
gucss. IL did not listen once In the
three houtp. IL gabbled. Ii was for
all the world like a hybrid OF turkey
ana peacock. Itgabbled anu chuckled;
II spread It's superb tailoring; II tx.
tended It's hinged hands; u admired
Itself IN packed mirror; II posed; u
lhnguished; It never emilcd, nnu II
was 30 years old n DAY, aud fat.
| Having encountered two Uf these
creatures, | kept vigil for others Of
their kidney. Was 1t possible that a
new fashion In man had been pro-
jected2 Evidently yeg, because my
watch has revealed companions o.
the primary pair. At u reception
the other night / espled a being more
wonderful than either Of tho two who
started my quest. He was "made
up" like secoud.rate primn donna.
His cheeks had an even pinkneas most
doIicatoly laid on. His neither uyolids
were penCiled, his hands were uuIe.
| niably lined. He was 10 pattern In
rouge, and he looked for oil the world
like one OF Nine. russand's wax
| Images, except that he was
much better dressed than any doll In
Marylrb0ne road; lie Is, 1 am Ina.
! formed, man OF wealth and forty
summers. IL Is alleged that he has
culture aud that he shows II In his
writings about art and music. Where
! fore the wonder Increases that any
cultured being can paint himself.
Hut it II ~ this that tho dundiflod
are coming. | have seen dozen
painted men Of an evening Mt the play,
and they were not on the stage. stroll.
| ling in plccadilly OF an afternoon
these gentleman dispOrt themselves.
IL IL getting to be, IN tho language OF
the time, quite the proper caper for
| danny mcu " paint themselves. A
new horror waits on metropolitan lie.
And the worst OF 1t Ia that these 10
dizened males are now 81 numerous
that they are tolerated. In Whit IL
called the "dmurt sep they VIII soon
ceAso 10 be conspicuous because they
threaten 70 Become general, Two
years ago half the women In London
society were painting Themselves out
Of oil semblanCe 10 respectability,
but they seem 10 bo giving up that
trick, now that alleged men are aoquir-
ing II.