The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-31

the singer and the beauty provides well
for those of her own blood who need her
assistance.
What is most interesting to you among
great singers belongings? You are a
woman, and so you answer as / knew you
would, Her jewel box" Here is one in
which there are not many jewels, but
many artistic jewels, and many jewels that
have interesting stories attached to them.
Here are strings of milk-white pearls
one with ruby, one with diamond, and
one with a ruby and diamond clasp. Here
Is ring with superb pink pearl, set be-
tween two diamonds that match 1t in size;
here is ring with black pearl set in dia
monds. There are many pearls, for the
singer loves them, and being an artist she
knows how well suited they are TO a beau
tltdl woman. Here Is superb sapphire,
set In diamonds, and this is its history:
At one time when Lillian Russell was
singing in San Francisco Russian man
of-war was there, and as the Russians all
love music, many of them came to hear
her sing. The night before the vessel
was to leave a number of Russian gentle
men were at the theater, among them a
prince whose name is known all over the
world, but who, personally, was a stran-
ger TO the singer. He threw on the
stage when she had finished her best
song, small bunch of violets. After the
curtain dropped the singer picked it up.
and after she got in her dressing room
took off the soft paper that was around
the stems before putting the flowers in
water. Under the soft paper was card.
On it was written: I'VE sail early to-
morrow morning. This Is to show that
even Russian bear can appreciate tai
ent." And further up, having been Slip
ped well over the stems, was this superb
ring. Another ring, one set with a large.
clear, white diamond, came in the same
way; a gentleman took a gardenia from
his buttonhole and threw il at the feet of
the singer Loving all blossoms, she
couldn't bear to see it trodden upon, and
although some of the company laughed,
sac picked up the single flower, only to
find 1t encircled with this superb ring, and
that no name whatever accompanied it.
Here are two strange jewels. They look
as II they were meant for a Childs brace
let. "A gold chain. a finger-length long,
forms the basis of each one on one side
of the chain hang tiny gold pendants elab-
orately engraved, on the other mother-of-
pearl pendants. What are they? Ear
rings. And they were taken from the
ears of dead princess. one of those Afri-
can women killed in the war in Matabele-
land just a little while ago.
Then there is a wonderful gold chate-
laine; on it is cigarette case of gold set
with diamonds that form a star so large
we'll as large as the evening star looks to
us earth worms. There's a matchbox
with a diamond crescent on it; scent bot
tie with star sapphire framed in dia-
monds in the top; a pencil a glove-but-
toner; purse, and a gold key set with
rubbies and sapphires. This is not the
key that tells how Miss Russell gained
her beauty, nor is it the key to her heart
but IL is the key to her writing desk In
the casket are innumerable brooches. the
oldest and newst of which is a little bon
NJ 81 wi inv f1trc
sent flowers upon IL. And, as we all have
our superstitions there is kept always in
this jewel-box a brooch In the shape of a
fonr-leaf clover to bring the requisite good
luck.
The woman who is having her face
steamed wonders what a beauty like Miss
Russell does to her complexion. The
woman who is being massaged every day
AMI eating special food that she may grow
fat, wonders what she does to keep her
arms SO round and white and plump The
woman who is taking little cologne on a
lump of sugar to brighten her eyes won
ders what beauty does to cause. her ewes
to glitter SO. And the woman who is put
/ ting all sorts of stuff on her hair to make
| 10 glossy, or wavy, or thick, on long. Won
| defs what beauty uses on her hair. An,
kmX friend, a beauty is like poet She. is
b0tn, not made. We. who are not beau
| ties, may improve ourselves by special
| temper but one must be born beautiful
! II is great gift-to a woman-and no wo-
man can be blamed for wishing to be a
| beauty. People who are not good looking
are prone to talk about the fatal gift of
| beauty, but doubt its atality in any but
| pleasant way. IL is a fine thing 10 be a
| beautiful woman. In history, we love
the beautiful women, while we accord only
a rather cold admiration to the great
| women. There is something about a
beautiful woman that appeals to men and
women in every state or condition of life,
| and in every country but our own there
is felt proprietary right in the beauty
/ who is born to it and which belongs to It.
| But we Americans are only patriotic one
day in the year, and then we express it ii
a way that doesn't last-that goes up like
| a rocket and comes down like a stick.
| wonder why we lack this fine virtue-tnis
virtue of patriotism? Nowadays, we car
be inoculated with almost everything
wouldn't it be a good idea TO the coming
administration to inoculate the nation
free of charge, with patriotism2- If you
will stand the pain of it, my next door
| neighbor will, and so will Bah.
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