The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-22

a1alr Is likely to be brought ouf in paris
Oy the suit of a framemaker against n
society lady, whose full name will soon
appear IN the trial So far the Paris
papers cal! her the Baroness de s.
wen THIS lady has a nose, but it must
i;Tu. Ior moment be supposed that it is
IKE common peoples noses. Not a bit of
IT, IL IS relic Of the crusades. and fur-
euSr Oack even. In word, it is a classi-
"a nose par excellence. OF course, the
Ia1y Is very proud of this nose, and that's
where all the trouble comes from. Like
MRS Mackay, she went to a leading art
lsV 10 get ner portrait painted. The bar
gam was closed at a high figure. She
gave MN several stttings, and at last
=; 4lueIeu MN TO have the picture framed
dence. 4-0A A00A-
In due time it arrived. On seeing it
she screamed and nearly tainted. Her
nose! her nose! her nose! 1t WASH I
TlghG at least she thought it wasn't. IF
/ mad a nose like that. - she yelled. "Id
throw myself into the Seine!" Then
Flght away she wrote to the artist the
following foaming epistle:
Sir: Yes, or no, did YOU ever lool, at INV
nose nose DO you mean to pretend for moment
that II is pointed The one that Won NM IN
TINS portrait would cut the canvas I refuse
me picture Neither judges nor tribunals an
a. ~.
Iry 10 retoueh this horror, il you can; and
aooNe an things don't give me q fiat nose
now am your servant. &c.
after reading this efervescent piece of
literature the artist at first became an
cry. Finally, however, he took n mace
from his album and sketched a lot of
noses OF all shapes and forms, including
Gfeclan noses, Roman noses, Roxelane
noses, Bourbon noses; parrot noses. red
noses, .Warty noses, thin noses. thick
noses, long and short noses, fat noses and
Behansin noses with rings in them.
1hen he wrote to the Baroness this
note:
Madame: took pains to paint your mise
Just as it is; but regret thatI mistools v01r
intention. However. since YOU absolutely
want u nose according to your fancy. will Won
nave the goodness to select one from the en-
eIoseq collection which, have the honor to
submit. will then Immediately put If on
ana the difficulty will be removed
@, AecePt the assurance OF my very high con-
On reading the above the Raronase
tainted. On recovering she burned the
portrait. ih6 artist has not vet com
menced legal proceedings, but the frame
maker has, and the nasal trial promises to
be breezy.
We hear, says Clara Belle in the Gin
clnnati Enquirer, good deal about the
indulgence American society women per-
init themselves in wine. We read of
cocktails, champagne, brandy and soda
ana so on, and we are assured that many
women of position are really half intoxf-
Gated nearly all the time Now, the first
part OF the accusation is rank folly. but
the second is good deal true. The truth
OF the matter is that women of the better
class do not overndulge in wine. save in
rare and isolated cases, and, notwith-
standing that they are most of the time
half intoxicated, it is because other things
than VINE do it. Watch the average
woman at a ball. She is serene and
slightly pale when she comes in. Her
eyes are pale and indifferent, the lids well
open. Two hours later her flesh is
flushed, her eyes swim in a lumi-
nous haze, the lids are dropped, her
words are half formed, her motions
languorous, her gestures uncertain.
She is heavy in the arms of the
man who dances with her, and she is ac-
cess1ble and yielding when later he stands
with her in the cool, scent-laden air of
the conservatory. In other words, the
woman shows every sign of intoxication.
and further, she is intoxicated. Women
have more delicate organisms than men.
The average woman is sick long before
she can get enough wine into her to pro-
duce intoxication, but the heat of the
ball room, the swing and stress and pas
sion of the music, the heavy scent of the
roses she carries and buries against her
face, are all as pote2e as wine is not The
look in the eyes Of men as they do homage
TO her is an added intoxicant. Almost
every man with whom she comes in phy-
steal contact is either in love with her or
intended by her to submit to her beauty
and charm. The current of physical
forces that is set up by such contact does
for her what the wine served at supper
may do for him. The freedom of her
flesh from covering exposes her, unpro-
tected, to the Intoxicating vibrations of
the air about her-vibrations induced by
music, heat, perfume and the passion of
the human beings crowded within touch
of each other, vibrations of potent intlu-
ence upon her organism The woman
with throat and bosom bare needs no
TO set her eyes aswim when
men look at her, as they do to the swing
and hush of the measure of
which they dance. Remember that wo-
men Of the leisure class are never with
out the surrounding influence that serves
as intoxicants. The hot bath, the per-
fume and the laQguOr of the treatment
their bodies are put through after by the
maid the potent charm of
color and grace and ease that every ap-
pointment of their apartments combine;
the scent OF their favorite flowers, al
ways thick about them-and to many wo-
men, remember, the scent of a favorite
flower is as maddening and drenching to
brain and sense as strong wine to men;
the homage always with them, or waiting
impatient within call; all these things
keep women, as we read half intoxi-
Gated almost all the time" But it is moth
ing so vulgar and material as wine that
does it. That is nonsense.
Gan flesh is not the same flesh, " as it
has been truly said, and there are people
who cannot understand the aesthetic de-
light in what to grOsser sense is at best
a mere matter Of sensuous pleasure, says
the New York. Tribune, and in many in
stances simply an affair of dollars and
cents. What flowers are for instance,
to some feminine natures is Incompetent
Sible to less poetic beings, who, however
pleased they may be with the costly
beauty of eXotics, are quite incapable
Of feeling the true spell Of their lowell !
ness.
One of these true lovers of flowers, call |
ing on Mrs. Midas the other day, was
shown into her sumptuous drawing room, |
which, in accordance with the delightful |
fashion of the day, was filled with costly |
roses in the greatest profusion, and was ,
redolent of their perfume. Superb |
Gloria de Paris, the lovely Baroness /
lie Rothschild," and american Beau |
ties" glowed in stately magnifiCence in /