The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-22
delicate. irregular face and movements

The girl Mr.. PASTOR writes about has
"a tall figure with the short waist and
long limbs of young Diana, a small
head set buoyantly upon the full white
throat, dark eyes, placed well apart
mouth of gracious curves and q chin
that was not a meaningless end to the
face but finely modelled feature in it.
self"
Gilbert Parker's heroine is dismissed
from the descriptive paragraph with
this haZy remark: "She had a warm.
impulsive nature, in keeping with her
black eyes and tossing. dusky hair"
The young person in Mrs. Burnett's
book had climbs long and most divinely
nodded. flashing. imperious black eyes,
crimson cheeks and lips and a dashing
MEN, She learned full early how to
coquat and roll her fine eyes, but 1t is
also true she was not much of Ian
guisher. as all her ogling was of u des-
tructive or proudly ogling kind"
In "A Whirl Asunder" the heroine
was beauty. Her tall. slim figure
was very round: the delicate neck car
ried no superfluous flesh but was APP
parently bOneless. The small proud
head was poised well back; rich ma
hogany-brOwn hair, crisp and electric
but curling unmanageably. dark-blue
eyes. warm whiteness of skin. the pink
ish Of q hasty sketch. She looked as
proud and calm and well-conducted as
young empress"
MODISH HEROES.
AS to the hero-well. there has been
but one ideal hero since the days novels
] were first written. Still, there are varie-
| ties of him. Gilbert Parker's hero in
"Valmond" looked and acted almost
like Napoleon. In George Pastons
story the hero was "a tall. distin-
| guished- looking man of 35. with broad,
| slightly dropping shoulders and a we'll
| shaped head. His face was rather pale
and long, with sharply cut features and
| eyes 50 deep-set that their color was
scarcely distinguishable."
Mrs. Burnett makes a fine figure Of
the duke of QSmond In her new story
He was man of unusual height and
majestic mien; he wore fair periwig.
which added to his tallness; his laces
and embroiderings We're q marvel Of
art and his breast blazed with orders"
Furthermore. he had a deep, tawny-
brown eye, and, though the description
is not more minute, one knows his fea-
lures were noble and commanding.
1t Is an Englishman one has to take
for the hero in Gertrude Atherton's. "A
Whirl Asunder." He is shy and con-
ceited. has the straight figure of an
athlete. closely cut black hair straw
solor mustache, a delicately cut. mobile
mouth and profile delicate, sensitive
but strong; gray eyes. full of fire and
humor and slightly heavy chin and
neck. Altogether he will take first prize
among this beauty show of heroes.
HEROES IMPROVING.
| There is more attention being paid
| the hero nowadays. He is dressed bet
ter and more conscientiously, though
no author has reached the point Of PEN
ming. "Adolphus entered the room
blushing sweetly above a dainty tie Of
blue and white. knotted in such an ar
| tistic way that 1t had the effect at first
sight Of being careless" Will any one
ever forget the hero in "Thaddeus Of
Warsaw? Compare him with the
modern "hero" and keep from smiling
II you can, yet the writer recalls the
day when the woes and melodramatic
posturings. heart thumpings and
blushing anguishes of Jane Porter's
principal young man quite filled the
a convenient window seat. At a slap
on the shoulder and Hello. old fell
low," this Thaddeus would have been
paralyzed. nonplused and thrown AT
| entirely, for he was too much engaiD !
in heartbreaking deeds Of valor and
| theatric devOtiOns to quite come down
to an earthly foundation. The hero has
improved Of late years as much as the
discussed heroine-if she of former
days was limp. lily and languid. he was
ranting, unreal and guy. So things
| are even.
Some women prefer heroes Of the
| Henry Esmond and Sidney Cartwright
type-others hold up Col. Newcomb as
a model; the school girl swears by dear
Van Bibber with his irreproachable
wardrobe, gentle modesty and sharp
brain; the queer thing is that through
a long search Just made not a girl or
woman, old or young, can be found who
has the remotest ghost Of good worA