Little Falls weekly transcript., 1898-08-05
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

The Troubles OF the Fair Lillian-Boom
For warship's Nswspaper-ksn
At the Show Windows.
Theatrical circles in this city are very
greatly stirred up over the marital diff
oulties Of Mrs. Chatterton GILLIAN Rus
sell) and her third husband, whose stage
name Is Signor Perugini. As is known,
the fair soprano and the favorite tenor
have divorce case pending. Despite
the stormy surface indications there are
knowing ones who say that Mr.. and
Mrs. Chatterton are very much in love
with each other and that the present
complications are exceedingly painful
to both. The signor's eyes are said to
fill with tears whenever his wife 3 name
is mentioned, and she has given evi.
dence on several occasions that aside
from the advertising features Of the
! uffair it is really unpleasant for her.
She was entertaining visitor when
document from the chancery court of
New Jersey WAS brought In. 1t was
bound together with violet ribbon.
ut is pretty and tied in Oupid's
,, knot" her visitor said. "A woman
! must have had the delicate idea"
"No, Perugini may have had it," she
replied gently.
Sho was dressed in white and pink,
without coquetry, to remain ut home
after a long ride on her bicycle. Tho
sun came in flood into her drawing
room, ornamented in tho oolors Of her
beauty.
"Was it unavoidable that Signor Pc
rugini should have cause to say that
you deserted him?" her visitor asked
diffidently.
"Oh, we must not discuss that, she
replied, in q tone that was decisive
"Then is there marriage in the
air?' the visitor asked.
IA more impertinent question still"
she exclaimed. "Am Blue Beard?"
mo, madam, for Blue Beard is q
myth, and you are delightfully."- real. :"
the questioner replied.
She would not talk Of John Chatter
ton nor Of the divorce suit. She said,
ION that subject have nothing to toll
anybody today or tomorrow"
| Boom For Warship's Newspaper.
Since the cruiser St. Paul visited this
port recently the subscription list Of its
newspaper, The War Budget, has grown
so rapidly that the circulation editor
hus been discharged because the de-
nland had exhausted the entire first edi-
tion. Tho last few copies Of the paper
sold at q premium, and subscriptions
for the next edition have been coming
in from all parts of the country. Such
publications are valued highly by SOU
venir collectors and by scrapbook his
torians. aud in recent years copies OF
newspapers printed on the field by SOL
diers in the civil war have been sold
for high prices. Editor White Of The
War Budget has been so encouraged by
the demand for his paper that he has
announced his intention Of issuing it
every two weeks during the war. A
very fourishing paper has been pub
lished for several years OH board the
cruiser New York. but to q landsman
many Of its paragraphs arc unintelligi'
ble Tho editor of the New York 8 nows-
paper worked up a very respectable ad-
vertising patronage on board. In every
ships crew there are few sailors who,
by their skill as BARRIERS or as tailors
or capmakers increase thoir earnings
very materially, and their advertiser
ments in the ships newspaper are
usually unique.
Men Before the Show Windows.
Before the window Of n Broadway
shop the other day large crowd was
gathered. There was something inter
esting going on just inside, but what
it was it was difficult for the later COM
ers to tell. 30 dense was the crowd Of
men and women. There was goolly
proportion of men, and they were so in
tensely interested in what there was to
be seen in the window that they crowd
ed each other, looked around each other.
and over each others shoulders. 1t was
the number of men in the crowd which
attracted other people. It could not be
80 unimportant matter as pretty or
q new design in gowns that would In.
terest a man. And it was not. The shop
was q hairdresser's establishment, and
in the window sat woman-not q
young woman-dressing head Of false
hair on form and without as placards
in the window stated, using q hairpin.
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