Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-17
BEAUTY LIES In COLD WATER
Fountain of Perpetual Youth Vainly Sought
Discovered Easily.
NINE. YALE TELLS HOW TO BE LOVELY
Simple Directions for Attaining and
Returning Physical Charms Are
Given Hundreds of Women
at Her Free Lecture.
E. YALE TELLS HOW TO BE LOVELY

The fountain of perpetual youth and
never-fading beauty. in fruitless quest of
which Ponce de Leon left his bones in the
uneXplored forests of a new world, is de-
fined by Nine. NJ. Yale as being simply a
pail of hydrant water, cold as it comes from
the pipes, in which a teacupful of salt has
body from a tumber.
She herself has bathed in this fountain
or some other possessed of the properties
ascribed to the spring so ardently sought
by the Spanish adventurer She stood last
Thursday afternoon upon the stage at Boyd's
theater and looked out over an audience
of women which crowded every available
inch of room. There were young women,
old women, women stout and women slender,
women with compilations and women with
traces OF what had been, and all. of what
ever condition and degree, anxious beneath
an airy and somewhat contemptuous ex-
terror to learn the secret of keeping or re-
gaining their charms. They, in their turn,
beheld, across the footlight glare. vision
of physical loveliness, garbed in various
costumes and crowned with wealth Of
golden hair, in which blazed a diamond
tiara.
In addition TO the feast of beauty, which
gladdened the thousands of envious eyes and
oyeycame the innate jealousy reposng in the
breast OF every woman, the audience was
regaled with a lecture, or more properly
speaking confidential talk, in which the
beautiful object of the admiring glances told
hcr less fortunate sisters how they, too, might
acquire that which Is uppeGmost in the heart
o! every woman-beauty Of face and form.
The audience appreciated the lecture and ex-
hibition at It's very considerable actual value
and took away from the theater not few
excellent hints for hygleDic living which,
duly and Systematically carried out, cannot
fail to make healthier and more attractive
women. And among the unreserved admir-
ers of Nine. Yale must be included-as she
graciously included them in her first words
of welcome-the few shrinking men who hid
themselves as effectually as might be in the
darkest corners OF that otherwise Adamless
Eden y
Some time was consumed In getting the
enormous audience seated 1t is safe to say
the Boyd ushers never worked harder in
their lives. n ,r.s
When the curtain was finally rung up.
after some music by the orchestra, a sylvan
scene was disclosed with back drop
the flames OF burning
Troy. On a little platform placed near
the center OF the stage stood Nine. Yale as
fair Helen OF Troy. She was habited In
flowing Grecian robes OF daphanous tex
ture, her beautiful neck and arms were
bare, and she made very pretty picture
without the aid OF drops and burning towns |
There were three poses to this part OF the |
each. II possible, more grace
full than the others.
The serious part OF the afternoons work |
began after a brief intermission, when Nine |
Yale. wearing an Empire gown. delivered |
The first and more genuine installmert OF |
her lecture on The Religion of Beauty"
and "The Sin OF Ugliness" She was eeen |
to be a plump blonde woman of medium |
height, with tapering and symmetrical arms, |
4 fair neck and snowy shoulders and !
complexion which a somewhat near view, |
aided by good glass, showed to be as deli |
,ate and beautiful as that OF young girl. |
The full measure OF her physical charms. |
loweyer, was seen In the next act when she |