The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-02
WITH A DIAMOND SMILE.
Ill sPARKLERs SET IN HER
FRONT TEETH FLASHING
BRILLIANTLY.

latest fno u "~cA "AO NouEt
Yotoriety-
From the New York World.
. -5-I with the diamond smile is the
feature Of upper Broadway. She
- particularly numerous as yet. but
inks are being rapidly recruited.
--s,-- long. at the present rate. Broad
viu flash and scintillate like the
- Of nature on a dewy morn.
~ Girl with the diamond smile has
,.-.,,nds set in her teeth. Every time
= ooens her mouth the effect is very
- ike that of the famous diamond
ed Of the hotel clerk.
The setting of the diamonds in teeth is
80, new. where they are used as the
-, or cap in filling cavities. But the
~, with the diamond smile uses them
g. M such manner. She has them set
- the fiat surface of her front teeth,
9Th that are perfectly sound, and in
mich a cavity has been deliberately cut
bv the dentist
The pioneer in this remarkable craze
vas il is perhaps unnecessary to say,
on actress cara de LONE, of the "Shop
Grip Company. The fashion has so far
bsen confined to members of the dra-
matte profession, milliners, dressmakers
and certain other women who, though
they weave not yet manage to make
very handsome showing.
II is doubtless II the fashion will spread
much beyond these ranks and classes, for,
as The dentist who has done most of this
work Dr. J. w. Leeds, said to a reporter
of the World:
ut is pretty in a pretty mouth, but
r's rather loud, you know. 1 shouldn't
care to have my wife or my sister take
B1t Miss De Lone is delighted with
her experiment, and so are her sisters,
Who have followed her lead. She is
very beautiful woman, Miss De LONE, of
oueenly proportions, standing almost feet
high She has a fine willowy figure that
shows off to excellent advantage in the
ueht-cOlOred tights that she wears in the
isst act of THE Shop Girl" Her move
ments are singularly pretty and graceful
for a woman of her size.
Her eyes are large and soft, and her
face which reminds one singuarly of
Mary Anderson, is crowned with
wealth of light-brown hair She has
very pretty teeth and a few years hence,
when the fad has died out and she finds
herself with the diamonds she now cher
fishes so much imbedded in such a man
ner that they must remain forever or
else leave a permanent designation, she
will probably rue the enthusiasm that led
her to use her teeth for show purposes.
At present, however, she is so much
taken with the idea and the results it
has achieved in the way of attracting at
tention that she is going to have two ad-
dltional diamonds set within the next two
weeks.
She has now a diamond in the first and
third incisors of the upper row of teeth.
The stone set in the first incisor is pretty
nearly half a carat in weight and is larger
than an ordinary pea. 1t covers almost,
a ring of gold, the entire front of the
tooth. The other stone is considerably
smaller weighing probably not more
than quarter of a carat Like its mate
u iC pnCirC1ad with cold
In conversation with the young woman
one will notice nothing peculiar about her
except such peculiarities as are common
10 most stage people. But let her smile,
and she has a habit of doing little else
since the brilliants were set in her incis-
Ors-and there is flash of light that is
actually startling.
How came l to do it? And do 1 like
~ Well, rawther." Miss De LONE is
English, and she broadens her as to a
most amazing extent. IT'S the greatest
ever heard of such thing on the other
side and when / so back there next June
or July won't just make sensation?
q like it immensely; l like anything
that's new and out Of the common, and l
think this is certainly out of the common,
don't your" The reporter admitted that
well. how came to do it; I'll tell you
] went to see DR.. Leeds one day about
my teeth, and he said to me in a joking
sort of way: You've a pretty mouth and
amends set in them? Then when you get
behind the foothghts, they'll flash and
sparkle so as to attract the eyes of every
person in the house.
That struck me as a good suggestion
and I told him I'd have it done. Six
weeks ago the stones were set, as you
see them, and since that time have had
hundreds of people come up to me and
asked me all about it. OF course, when
I'm on the stage, the people can't get at
me to ask questions, but they make up for
that by writing me notes,
Il have a whole bushel from gentlemen,
who address me as the Princess Dia-
mond, the Queen Of Diamonds, the Girl
with the Diamond Teeth They are all
mash letters, you know, awfully mash,
and don't pay any attention to them
But it simply shows that the diamonds
IN my teeth are at least a novelty.
Then, when I go out in the tramways
Miss de l. One knows no street carr and
on the sidewalk, / am frequently stopped
Dy perfect strangers, men and women.
Excuse me- said a lady yesterday. as
was leaving the theater, but is it really
true that you have diamonds in your
u told her they certainly were, for one
OF them" pointing to the larger ones, "cost
me- $50 and the smaller Cost s2S."
vo, ana 80 don't a you regret having defaced
Defaced my teeth?" replied Miss de
LONE, with indignant establishment
why | haven't defaced them, I've en-
belnShed them, ornamented them. They
are beautiful, and l mean to have two
oher stones set just like these. 1 have
already picked out the diamonds, and as
soon as l get back to London, l am going
20 nave my dentist put them in. Then
VIII have a sparkling gem in all four
u my front upper teeth and / rawther
mink that it will be as pretty an effect
as one could get with ten times that
manner"
Didn't it hurt to have the stones -set?"
IN, yes; it hurt pretty badly, but L
So i mind little pain when the re-
s51!lS are SO gratifying"
MISS de LONE will take her diamond
9.H9aced teeth to Boston this week and
tMnI Hash them at the gilded youth of
ne hub The Shop Girl company
P.dyed an engagement ending last night
a. the Columbia theater in Brooklyn,
S Sau the peculiar flash-light effects of the
erd "a 1lohd-studded teeth attracted consid-
tiSDle attention
:. ne latest follower of Miss de LONE
- Nina Cadiz, who playes the schoolboy
~ IHe An Artists Model company at
sSe broadway theater. Despite her
ss55S5iIsn name Miss Cadiz is a cockney,
Nv most delightful little cockney at
ia. She is as short as Miss de LONE
rit iloIg, and as plump as a partridge
c, irI bright, black, sparkling eyes, crisp
mory black hair, worn short, and a
tim and teeth that seem made for any
vld-5 put TO serve as backgrounds for
i Tysdr lewelry settings.
do MISS Cadiz announces that she has
So aeI mined to have a couple of diamonds
. ~ IN her INNER ROW Of faafh and that