The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-26
x-RAYS ON THE POPULlSTS.
MRS. LEASE WEARS CORSETs
THAT COST $50 4 PAIR.

Claims She Possesses the Perfect
Female Figure; Waist 81. Bust 30.
Everything 16 to 1. Even the
CIock--Mrs. DigRS Meets a POpu-
Iistic InhdeI-COnventIon Incl
dents.
1t is not stretching the fact to say
that the best dressed woman in st. Louis
to-day is Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease. the
Joan Of Arc OF the populist convention.
says the Philadelphia Records St. Louis
special Mrs. Lease confded in a report
er to-day that the corsets she wore costs
her $50 pair. She wears a new dress
every time she comes out. She wears
expensive hats and the most expensive
kind of patent leather shoes. Mrs. Lease
Is a bit vain, naturally so. Most women
are vain, but perhaps most women are
not so vain as to give their confidence
to gentlemen of the press TO the extent
that Mrs. Lease gives hers. For instance
she assured a reporter to-day, Young
man, my waist measures 80. my bust
measure is SO, and, l want to say that
is the perfection Of womanhood." The re-
porter did not ask for any further meas
willing to continue the discussion of the
subject. one Of the peculiarities of the
Joan of Arc is a vein which starts at her
left temple and runs down the side of her
face and neck. 1t is not the vein, either,
that is popularity, but the way this
vain acts when the lady becomes intensely
interested or excited about anything.
When she starts to speak this vein is
not noticeable but as she gets warmed
up to her subject it begins to swell. and
in a short time it stands out like a whip
cord from the roofs of her hair all the
way down to her collar.
Jerry Simpson may be superstitious, and
again he may not says the Trlbune's
special. He may believe omens, or he
may think they are beneath the lofty
1 mind OF a statesman. Whether he does
or not, he is not beneath noticing trides
that might be taken to have some sig
4 ni1cance 1t happened to-day at the con-
Vention hall. just as the man of the cloth
mad ceased delivering his prayer Jerry
glared at the clock He looked again i'm
wonder, surprised. Then he turned to a
colleague and said: Look at that Are
not the omens favorable to us?" His
S CON "a, ala look, and the clock stood
Just 10 10 /. In just quarter of an hour
and one minute thereafter it was /
o'clock.
Mrs Annie L. Diggs, of Kansas. sat for
several hours this afternoon in a con-
tlnuous debate, says the Tribune's cor
respondence, Before her were three lis
eners, one man somewhat old-fas hioned.
VINO seemed surprised, sometimes pleased
ana sometimes scared at hearing so much
speaking from woman's tongue. The
second was a Bryan man, who reinforced
Mrs. Diggs opinions with brief LITTLE ora
D On rtfnf 10 Z h.a
| California delegate, was unconvtnced
Mrs. Digs kept her place, however. in
the argument slapping her thin little
hands tobether, sweeping her closed "a n
IN the air before her opponents nose
and finally, when all these failed, appeal
ing to religion.
Il believe" she said, shutting her eyes
very tightly, as she does when much in
earnest, that Mr. Bryan is a man raised
| up from the people for this very purpose
by the hand OF Almighty God -
"Pshaw" said the California delegate.
DO you remember the infideIs PRAYER
! oh, God, why hast Thou made us ana
then forgot us?' Bosh! l don't believe
in this God business"
Mrs Digs was rather staggered, but
/ she began again:
"Oh, the hand Of Providence was in all
that Chicago convention. We didn't
KNOW II would turn out so, but the Lord
oVerruled so that the man should be Sc
lected who was the only man that could
tide us over the crisis that has suddenly
! fallen"
q don't believe in the crisis business.
either" grunted the unconvinced man.
| you've been ralzing up a crisis every
four years ever since I was a boy and
when night fell on the debate he rose still
unconVinced.
This little dialogue may be quoted saws
the Suns special. 1t was between two
whiskered delegates. one being in his
stocking feet and the other fully dressed
That man." said the fully dressed man.
gave up an $lS.0O0-a-year position to be
a free silver man"
The man who had his shoes off dropped
his jaw and gazed in Open-mouthed as
constituent for a moment, then he gasp
ed Eighteen thousand dollars a year
Gosh. when be they going TO take him to
the asylum"
Everywhere you go in st. Louis YOU see
either sign, mo crown of thorns. no
cross of gold" or some cartoon of Some
kind with the word cruelty on it, saws
4he Philadelphia Records special. At