Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
BEAUTY IN CALM SLUMBER
Aristocracy's Latest Fad In
Photography.
FASHIONS METHODS OF SLEEP
Complete Disappearance of
tho Peroxide Girl.
The Swell Maiden who Caters TO the
Bachelors Dainty Appetite--"Bab's"
Wise Essay on Babies--The Inner Home
Life Considered.
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Life Considered.
81 eclal Correspondence OF Gazette and Journal
NEW YORK, Sept. Sit is an undis.
puted fact that a pretty woman never
looks 50 pretty as when she is asleep.
The body is at rest, and the limbs ma
turally fall into curves; the eye.lashes
sweep over the face, which looks sweet
and calm, while the mouth is closed softly
and not as IL 100 often is in the daytime,
with emphasis. Beautiful women, TO-
cognizing this truth about her appear
ance when she is asleep, is now taking
advantage of it in q marvellous way;
and her latest fad Is the photograph of
herself In the arms of Morpheus. So
charming is she that the suggests to dis
respectful man how much more delight
full all woull be if she were in the arms
of somebody less than god. 1t is an
absolutely modest picture, and yet it is
most fascinating one. Usually she
rests on a divan, and the clever photog-
rapher arranges the pillows under her
head so that not single beauty is for
gotten by the sun, while the human
artist will clevely enough blot out the
imporfections in the retouching.
A FASCINATING PICTURE.
If my lady is inclined to be little
festive she wears in her latest photo
graph suit Of pajamas, and has moth
ing thrown over her. Then she looks
like pretty boy, who, weary of frolic.
has lain down to rest. This is G fetch
ing picture, but it is not the enticing
one, That shows Mademoiselle arraved
rf 10 tut, ,tnrl, "a
cascade,of lace close up to her neck,
frills of 1t falling about her wrists, one
baud resting just beside her, and the
other up under her head. In all this
glimmer OF White which covers her com
pletely she is the most absolutely femi-
nine thing imaginable, and one can
easily understand that the woman who
has her sleeping photograph taken in
this fashion will look with scorn upon
the jolly type that chooses the mascu-
line pajamas-for her night toilet.
The photographer who has made him
self famous taking these pictures told
me that the most marvellous thing about
it all was how few of the women had
pretty feet, and how very difficult it
was TO make some of them understand
that they couldn't sleepin high heeled
slipper; that either the little pink foot
itself must show naked like the truth, or
else 1t must be entirely hidden; and he
added that when woman had pretty
loot she usually recognized it quite as
well as he did, and was quite as anxious
to display its charms to the cold, glaring
eye OF the camera. That is fad number
one in the photograph line.
THIS is FRENcHY.
Number two has been transplauted
! here from France. IL shows a pretty
woman in a fascinating dressing gown,
sitting in front of her dressing Ia BILE,
which is covered with all the dainty litter,
utterly unknown to man, with powder
pull in her hand, as if she were going
TO put the last touch on her face. or
course, the face itself is seen in the mir
ror, and the effect, when the subject is
a good one, is decidedly suggestive of
Madame Pompadour, or of any of the
beauties OF the court of Louis or Charles
the H.; those beauties who permitted
their admirers to sit around while thew
gave the finishing touches to their
makeup, or let the fashionable man
hairdresser arrange their flowing locks,
This style OF picture requires much care
and woman with pretty profile, for
while the full face looks at you from
the mirror, it is of course the profile that
is quite to the fore.
ITS ENGLISH, YOU KNOW
Fad number three had its origin in
London, and may be mentioned as
simply silly. After the Queen had dis
covered a lot OF her old dolls, the
patriotic English woman began to look
for hers, and not satisfied with finding
them, she had her picture taken with
them. Dolls do not come out well In
photographs, even their most ardent
admirers have to confess that they lack
expression, and surely their pink and
whiteness cannot be reproduced. The
only pretty picture l have seen In
which the doll craze was introduced.
showed coquettish looking girl stand.
ing behind table on which are arranged
dolls Of diftfernt kinds ana sizes, and
she seemed like saleswoman in a
bazaar, and salcswoman who would
be quite certain to charge five times the
proper price for her picture, and ever SO
much more for the bury autograph
upon it.
Speaking of dolls reminds me that no
household is complete without one lust
now; but, of course, it must be a doll
that had its birth in some foreign
country, and which came over here
either TO see the Fair or was personally
conducted as q curio to its present
mamma. A large Japanese doll of my
acquaintance sits under an umbrella
and reloices i'll the name of Daniel
Deronda, and is regarded with awe by
a family OF dogs. They know babies
and are friendly with them; they have
an extensive acquaintance with rubber
dolls that squeak when they are bitten,
but this doll, which looks like mikado
and which has button on its cap show
II to be OF high degree, is puzzle to
them as well as terror. They know it
isn't alive, and yet, looked at from the
dog standpoint, L think they have an
idea that 1t will be some day, and SO
they stand off at a respectable dis
lance and admire it in way that we
always admire things we don't under
stand and are little bit afraid of.
MY LADY's HAIR.
Fad number four has nothing to do
with photographs, but it is fad that
wants to be cherished. 1t is the desire on
the part of womankind to exhibit their
tresses as nature made them, and il
means the disappearance of the per.
oxide girl. She was always vulgar, but
il took womankind a long time to realize
it. She had away of changing her color
when she didn't stick to the fluid that
was not pretty, and she had fast look
that well--you know the look. You
never expected to hear her speak in a
sweet, low voice; she was dashing, and
il there is anything that is abominable
in woman, it is that. She was not too