The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-08
Bah AID THE COLONEL.
The Nan Who Was CleVeTly Dressed
as a Woman.

/ INT Van VIM vas Nititil1 DltSSGu
as a Woman.
The Politics Of the Day Diaseoted.
Was Judas a Politician P-The Colo
mel Loves His Countrywide Ward
Heller as a Tyrant-The hybrid"
Young Woman Who Appeared at a
Party in Reform Garments''-The
Colonel Respects His Mothers Sex.
What is the Next Century Going to
do for Books Pare the Majority of
the Present Day Books Wholesome
Copyright, 1880
New YORK, Oct. 81 have one friend
who is a never-ending Joy to me- He pos
sesses many virtues, the chief of which
is his good manners. He has the great
advantage of having been born sixty-fve
years ago, before the world was in such a
hurry, and when gentility was conspicu-
Gus by its courtesy, and brains did not
excuse brutality. Once in awhile the
colonel-he earned his right to the title
fighting in the Confederate army-gives
me an outing, and then drops in the next
day at O'Clock to discuss it over a cup
of tea. We are so used to the colonel's
ways that the little maid always brings
in specially large egg-shen tea cup for
him and a teaspoon that bears my grand
mothers initials. He sips his tea and
| thinks out his conversation. He is the
nearest to Henry Esmond of anybody
ever met. 1 believe his creed is to do his
duty to his God and honor the ladies.
And don't think there could be a better
| one.
AN ADMIRABLE DISGUISE.
| The other night he took me to see
| "l492." Together we joyed over the
handsome women, the pretty scenery, and
the colonel came in with his bartyone
| voice when all the men in the house
| joined Teresa Vaughn in singing ''Annie
| Rooney; he laughed at the worn out
tramp, but most of all was he interested
in the handsome boywho so magnifcently
made up as Isabella, 1.-The daisy Queen of
| Spain" AS we sat in the front row we
| had very good view of him. or her. The
next day, over the tea, the colonel
| said: II could not at first believe thas
| 1T was young man who wat
playing the part of woman, and my rea-
son for not believing it was that not a
| chord or muscle showed In the perfect
neck, that the arm was rounded, and that
| the hand looked as If it were made for
| kissing and not for giving blows. After 1
| left you, my dear, / stopped at the club
and talked to some gentlemen (all The
| cOlonels friends are gentlemen), and l
was told that this Mr. Harwood was a
| great big, athletic, handsome boy, grad
uate of Harvard, which, after our south
ern universities, is very good place to
| be graduated from. and of extremely
| pOn6 nnOnln f1hnp I 70 inly
| about men who in various times had i'm
| perSOnated women, and it came
| back to me that viii Shakespeare's
| Juliet was first played by beautiful boy,
| and that all his sonnets were written to
this same boy; and then, to jump forward
| several centuries, l remembered when,
during the war, l slipped through the
lines to Baltimore and had very Jolly
week there, going to the theaters-yes,
my dear OF course | went to see nv
sweetheart, and CHANGED being arrested
During that time | saw man who played
the part of woman, and who was as
marvellous then as Richard Harlowe is
now. This man was named Setchell-
Dan Setchell-and | have brought his
photographs for you to look aJ."
HOW EMPRESS EUGENE DRESSED.
The colonel arose and han ded me two
| little cartes de visites. One represented
stout, jolly looking young fellow,
| enough like Harlowe to be some kin to
him, and the other large
fine looking woman, sitting III an opera
| box and dressed exactly as the Empress
| Eugene did at that time. There was
| the elaborate hairdressing, the low bod
ice, the velvet bands around the wrists
| fastended with diamond stars, and the
| plaid silk skirt, under which l could al
most imagine the hoop-skirt. After |
| had looked, the colonel continued, Dan
Setchell made his first appearance on
| the stage as Bernard in Hamlet at the
| Howard Atheneum, Boston. He played
later on in a burlesque of Leah at Nib
| los Garden, and during that time it was
| impossible TO convince men that he was a
man man. Then ne came to Baltimore at the
Holiday Street Theater, and
| officers the city went wild about him.
| and he was clever enough to go out so
| little that nobody except the people who
| personally knew him was quite certain
whether he was a man or woman.
| Poor fellow he had a very unhappy end
| He started for New Zealand, and the
| ship was never heard of. Since that time,
l, as an old theatergOer, have seen men
| dressed up as women, but nobody has so
completely mystitied people as this young
Harlowe since the days of poor Dan
Setchell. do not know, unused the col
| OHeI, 'Wn6bnef IN view OF JnG many unde-
sirable things that happen pardon my re-
ferring TO things that ladies are not
supposed to know about), it would not be
better to have men play wOmen's parts
on the stage to-day, instead of subject
ing frail woman to the temptations about
| Them
If it had been Gnybody else but the
! colonel should have laughed, but one
must be very lost to a sense of all decency
when onecan laugh at sincerity Ipoured
him out another cup of tea, the sally lunn
came IN, and after he had tasted and APP
proved of it, l had laughed and said that
If they don't soon decide about the sill
yer bill, we will have no sugar in more
senses than one"
THE COLONEL ON POLITICS.
The colonel added: 'Politics do not
seem proper subject to discuss with la
dies, but, my dear child, as we count you
the only one among six brothers and
eighteen uncles, and as you have been
forced into listening to US before, should
like to give you my opinion of the politics
of to-day. Possibly may be severe; no
gentleman could be anything else i
have sometimes thought that Judas
was a politician, and that the
dacoonHad g.