The age-herald., 1897-09-09
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 Mrs. William Geppert, better known as Dolly Higbee Geppert. a brilliant Georgia woman, has become quite fla nous as the author of a novel from which the successful drama "A South- ern Romance" was taken. Mrs Geppert's story is called Tn Gods Country and its dramatic possibilities appealed to the genius of B. B. valen- tine, the critic of the Nsw York Herald, who has made great hit with it on the metropolitan stage. "A Southern Romance" was presented a few evenings since at the Fifth Avenue theater, New York, and it was enthusiastically re- ceived by audience, critics and press The Herald and World both said all manner of gratifying, encouraging Kentucky plantation, ard throughout the play there is delicious tinting of local coloring. There is enough of tragedy in the drama to make it of
 
 than Mrs Geppsrt's novel, from which it is taken.
 Mrs Geppert was once the dramatic critic on the staff of the Louisville Cour- ier-Journal. She now resides at At lanta, and is esteemed as an exception ally intellectual, gifted woman. There have been so few southern plays which have been successful or satisfactory that it is a very great pleasure to chronicle the kind, gracious reception which has been accorded the work of this talented woman.
 In the quaint city of Edinburgh, Scot land, band of earnest men and wo- men are working out a sociological prob lem, with the most satisfactory results. In an old quarter of the town, which is very unfashionable, and far from clean until lately this colonly of re- formers have decided to settle Slem- selves, and have begun the erection of a number of pretty home-ike houses in proximity to the dreary homes of the very poor people of that section. These nsw residences have all the latest sani- tary improvements, and are offered at reasonable rents to the laboring people Some of them are also occupied by. the builders, who hope by the forca of ex- ample, to inspire their poor neghbors with a desire for higher and better things. These social reformers hold to the theory that the deep gulf which separates the classes should not exist; that the slums and ultra-fashionabl quarters are alike abominable, and that the antagonisms existing between the rich and the poor would cease to be if they knew each other better, and came in contact, one with the other. They be- lieve that knowledge on the part of both classes of the aims, aspirations, anxisties and responsibilities of each would break down the barriers that now keep them apart In the very midst of this settlement Lord Rosebery, the ex- premier, is building a very handsome home. He has selected this location, ttldt hC iiidy DC lhC PEOpiC, tlQScI to the great masses of humanity.
 
 Mrs. Cornwalls West, the famous English beauty, is about to celebrate her sflv@r wedding Twenty-Five years ago she ranked as one of the beautiful women of the world, and was one of that trio of remarkably pretty women of whom every one has heard Mrs rogf1 rol lie T Lady Da Gray, formerly Gladys Her bert. MT. and Mrs. West now live qui- etly at their country home Newlarlds Manor, where they have one of the most extensive rose gardens in Europe. MT. Wsst is still politician, but Mrs West has apparently lost much of her desire for the exciting, fashionable life of professoinal beauty.
 
 An English writer gives this excel lent advice regarding the preservation of the complexion when travelling It is alt present generally conceded that sunshine is the effsot of ligR rather than of heat. Thus strong reflected light from the surface of water or from snow will cause a severer case of sun burn than will exposure to the direct rays of th= sun. A coat of tan is really an effort on the part of nature to pro vide pigment that shall render the skin less transparent and sensitive. In Southern California when people are about to drive across any part of the Majoi@ desert, the stage driver invaria- bly recommends that the women shall grease their faces thickly with cold cream, then powder them freely with prepar=1 chalk. The result is grotesque