The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-03-27
A GEORGIAN BEAUTY.
HOW SHE FOOLED THE NEW YORK
MUSEUM MANAGER.
He Paid Her Father 500 Advance Money,
but They Tricked Him-Hc Got Ono
That VA Genuine, However, if She Did
Have 70 re tainted ana Powdered.

AAAs& ~ 80
Have TO BE tainted ana Powdered.
Perhaps I dent lock it." observed
Mr.. William Eek rs he tilted his tlsi'
against the wall of the r-rlor III iii
home ca Pine street and laughed SOFT,
As IL laatcd Il his friciiGs. bat / Es:t.
e he ii tic GiEar museum fasiGess at.
have probably manufactured IS Ia;uy
o~ssitctl men and petrillcd Aztec giants
as any enc III the business.
BAT that IS not NY story-iast q
SOFT Of reason tie story should have &C
Cured. VIII rot mention the Lame Of
the museum because Ihasen't lccg Lecn
away from it and I faiglt 80 h2cl. there
scmc time. About a year ago 8 rival
mlscuLa-bcta III New York, you I'M
oerstaaa-seeracd 70 be getting more
patronage than We, and the manager Of
~ ccnccTn was much disturbed. O-c
Of the features Of this museums, and one
which drew tho largest crowds, was i
Georgian beauty, 50 called She had 4
wonderful bunch of chrysantEeEacn
hair and she was as pretty a thing Is
ever grew IN Ireland. Her brcgue CT
the stage was . revelation, bat she
never talked when sitting for the ed
miring gaze of the audience.
".Fcx,' the manager said to nc ono
day, we've got to do something to
queer that other place. You know that
alleged beauty they have? Aside fro.
that brogue of hers a Circassian or a
Georgian neve had blonde hair unless
it had been bleached. You take the first
steamer across the pond and get q geu-
uine Georgian beauty. and be sure her
hair is black, for that is the color OF
every native Georgian's hair. Well get
the words Of a few scientific gentlemen
on the sunject-men who are well
known-and show up the other people
and increase the attendance at our own
place
That's how I came to 60 to Europe,
and though Georgia, IS yen doubtless
know, is in Asia. / did not have to &C
that far. Vienna was the end Of nv
Journey. ! reached there one morning
and proceeded to a hotel much frequent
ed ty Englishraen and Americans.
THAT evening ] heard al unearthlv
noise down stairs, and. IS it was early.
] went down to investigate. Over in !
cc-ner | espied the source Of the noises.
Ii was an o-chestra-that is, they said
it was-and to n- surprise I found that
the musicians were al Gec-sians. /
wclldnt have been surprised to have
found gypsies- but I afterEard found
out that bands of Georgian musicians
are frequently met with in Europe.
They love music, but few can PLAY bet
ter than ! hair Tipped man can whistle.
Among them was q girl who was
very pretty. She had the large ewes.
small hands, little body and the abun-
dant black hair Of the native Georgian.
and ] resolved to get her for my show.
The orchestra seemed to be q sort al
family affair, the only stranger in il
being a handsome young man. who
played a trumpet that had no KEYS. !
addressed the father, who spoke Eng
lish and half a dozen other languages
lndlfferently, and made a very liberal
offer for the rental, 50 to speak, Of hi
daughter for the season. He insisted
that | give her 500 in advance. L fig
ured that hiring her would save the adj
dltional expense Of the trip t Tifis and
the morning before we had arranged to
depart | gave her the advance money.
She showed it to the young man OF the
company, who, 20 they told me, was
her lover They had q long talk and
kissed, and I supposed everything was
all settled.
The next forenoon I went down tc
call On my new property and tell her
that we would start that evening for |
New York. Twas met by the father. He
calm Very much 50. He informed
me that Notwithstanding give
their girls such names-had married
her lover after | had left them the pre-
cedlng night and had gone away. but I
could have Sweet Darling. Now. Sweet
Darling had no business with a name
Like that She was not good locking. |
and her hair was NOT TO be ccmnsrpd |
with her sisters, and accordingly I'll
kicked I had paid s10o for . girI and
j had 70 have somebody. % / ccmmo-
missed On Sweet Darling. She was 10 iii
she was . day, but I had been In the
business long enough to knew that paint
and powder would remedy that.
Q after | got back to New Yors
! got a letter from the landlord Of the
hotel saying that the girl / had bar
gained Tor was back with the orchestra
and explaining that the father of tie
happy family was indulging in hearty
laughs at the way he had fooled me. !
he had simply sent the girl TO another
hotel to wait until / had gone. She was
TOO valuable Ii the musical organize
ton &C Dc allowed 10 60 and her beauty
drew too much into the treasury of the
family 70 allow of her loss He wanted