The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-14

/ old Can't You see how her figger is
/ kinder settin't" And that Is just the
| way with Agnes Booth, she looks older
/ than she is, for her figure is kinder set
! tim
| About the younger women2 Well, as l
! said, the great enemy to be feared is fat,
/ consequently, the woman who combines
I good acting with a slender girlish figure,
/ IS the one who may hope most for the
/ future. They say fat makes good poll
| tlclaDs IL has finished the career of many
an actress. Nobody likes to see villain
6 feet, 3 inches tall, and thin pro-
| portiOnately. holding up heroine who
weighs in the neighborhood of 200 pounds
| and looks as if she could knock out both
heroine and villain the last slender,
| angular person, in one round. without any
laws. That is one of the funny things in
| The Girl / Left Behind Me- Sidney
| Armstrong, who is being protected by
various people, and who is anxious to be
shot before the Indians arrive, looks big
enough to knock out ten ordinary Indians
| and send them to happy hunting ground,
| where they would comprehend the posi-
! billties of the American woman.
The charm of Efie Shannon is her girl
| ishness, but l think there is one young
woman who is going to make a great
future for herself. She is playing in the
| "Guardsmen," and her name is Bessie
.
on it she is young looking, and she has
| that charmingly, graceful figure, that,
| while 1t suggests no angels, always hints
| of youth and
THE SUNNY SIDE OF YOUTH,
| rather than anything else. This girl is
| clever enough to make up very little, she
speaks with great distinctness. and yet
she is not shrill. That is a girl who will
not grow old. Then there is tombstone
Bennett; she is going to keep young look
ing. OF course now she is Young but as
the years go by, the slender figure will be
| retained, and the arms and neck. while
they will always be plump and curved,
will never be fat. Marie Tempest? | can't
tell Even if have got a magic rabbits
foot | cannot think out her future
She may be knocked over some day like
beautiful china teaCup, and then all the
kings horses and all the kings men will
never put her together again or she may
live on and at 90 like Ninou de L'Enclos
our grandchildren may find her so su-
premely charming that they may be send
ing her pink roses to suit her checks, for
get-me-nots to match her eyes, lilies to be
in harmony with her hands, and vatican
pictures to symbolic the time in which,
If she had been born long ago, she would
have lived
American women are growing hand
somer as they grow older, because they
don't grow old so soon; because they are
better satisfied nowadays to retain some
Of their innocent delight in innocent
pleasures than they were fifty years ago.
when, after one married, one was sup
posed to find no more joy in life. People
who write about beauty say il is laughing
that makes wrinkles. Most emphatically,
| am going to be very emphatic about this,
l am going to say they are liars.
y HUMANITY II WOMAN.
q The woman who, through trouble of all
kind, can wear a smile, is the one who is
going to keep young. The woman who
closes up her heart to every human
emotion, who never weeps, and who never
laughs, is going to present to the world
at large a face like d mummy It is en-
ioying, it is suffering, it is being human
that keeps people young. 1t is the woman
of many emotions who does not grow old
/ have cited these women of the stage
because we all know them. OF the very few
with whom l am personally acquainted,
/ can say that each one has had
her share of sorrow and Joy, and that she
has borne it .braVely. Beauty books may
tell you neverto smile, never to grieve
to battle your face in hot water and cover
it with grease, and that wrinkles will stay
away and that you will look young; but
say no. You measure your years by your
heart. For every good deed you lose u
year Of absolute days for every bad one
you gain five in appearance. What are
you going to do! Cultivate your heart?
| would If were you. 1t is a land where,
if crop of good deeds spring
up, they SOW fresh seeds, and another
crop comes and every year you look
younger and younger, and you show your
youth in the brightness of your eye, in
the sweetness of your speech and in your
knowledge of humanity. We women who
are simply on the stage of life, are not
different from the women VINO are ON that
mimic stage and whose names we know
II they have kept their youth, il is be
cause they have been loving women kind
women and big-hearted women. What do
you conclude from that2
LENDING HAND.
That Ellen Terry would give up the
applause of the public to nurse a sick
friend? She would.
That Sarah would give her last penny
and pawn her diamonds to help a friend
in trouble She would.
That Mrs. Langtry would trouble her
self a great deal to make a little child
happy2 She would.
That Mrs Bancroft has been a kindly
woman, considerable one, and loving
wife She has
That Lolita loves her own people, and is
good to them? She does.
That Fanny Davenport is generous to
her friends, just to her enemies and de-
voted to those of her own household
She is
That Mrs. Bowers has been a good
woman, good mother and is a gentle
woman2 Yes
There are so many others about whom
| know nothing personally, but for all of
these | can yOuch, and every one of these
are women who will look young forever.
You don't believe it, Come back in your
astral body fifty years from now and hear
your grandsons raving about them. Then
you will know what it means when l
vouch for anything and sign it Bah.
AN ACTRESS SHOCKED.