The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-04-29

VI IL nft"ays.tho world With deception is
Construo what men say with eroctn.ss
ss5 pity the Girl -
IN Soclcty's whirl 53%. 4
Z ~ W ~ .1ouoied with matter-of-factness,
Society was gully. meeting and fitting
enis week, Indoors and out-of-doors be-
ans equally attractive. The Invitation
entertainments were decidedly brilliant
and will be carried in like manner into
the coming week through the Taney
tion,the Echo Point dancing party,
ehe organ recital at st. Matthews P, E.
church. and Minnie Madden Fiske. AT
che theatre. The return to-day OF prom
anent society people from a long sojourn
IN foreign lands, and the departure OF
several others for similar Journey, are
items OF interesting talk In clubs md
ooudoirs. AS Wheeling girls. who need
take eecond place to no American city,
representatives. figure conspicuously In
these "on-the-wing" parties. the Inteli!-
gea~er reproduces PercIval Pollard's
clever article. on THE Girls OF all Ma
lions" with the American girl heading
them ali: Q Q,
TO be OF the opinion that the Amcr,.
can SRI is the most favored flower In
the worlds garden OF tem.n.ty 1t is not
necessary TO travel. There is cheaper
way and one that affords almost as
much delight. 1t consists o. observing
the girls that artists. the world over,
are plcturins from day to day as typical
OF their own town, their own country. II
is trlla. OF
see the world through his owa temper
ment. Yet no artist can altogether, es-s
pecialls, II he be q successful Illustrator
puild mere creatures Of his fancy, ire
epectiVe CT the fashions and the types
before him. So it comes that glance
at the various fair ones whom the Illus
tratlons OF oil nations are putting on,
paper, affords the observer q very accuI
rate notion OF how the young women OF
this or that land compare with one an
other.
Careless persons are OF the opinion
that the so-cal!ed Gibson Girl sums up,
oil that Is best in the American type
But there ore Sreat many sides to that
question. There are those who prefer
the Du Maurier medal, averrlng that.
as between two s!antesses, the English
mans girl Is the less weariso,ne But
that will always be q debatable point,
and In any event. I do not purpose 70,
dwell on such an old story It is more
profitable to point out tSat there are
new artists who are giving US far more
fetching young women than Gibson has
ever done. For instance, there are the
girls OF F. 4. Nankivell and Il. 3.
Eddy. I rut them IN that order be-
cause consider the girls OF Mr. Eddy
owe something to those OF Mr.. Nanki-
veil. Both have an utterly inimitahle
"c:ic," a something Partisan. something
that tells OF most happy draughtsman-'
ship. In both cases there Is q wonder,
full exhibition of how graceful O wo-
mans gown mag be sw!shed about at
the end OF an artists pencil, and both
prove that 1t Is not necessary, as some
Parisians think, to put girls into bath
Ing suits to suggest their attractions.
Mt. NankHel's young women revel In
goltng togs. and bicycle clothes, that
are the most picturesque OF creations,
though a triic too be-ribboned TO with
stand actual exercise. Careful peopb
will note that both these artists have
fad for giving their girls the shortest,
dumpiest feet. with high heels and high
fnsteps. Nj. Nankivell's longest suit,
however. Is bows and ribbons. He put
vast bows around the nccks OF his girls
1otS oeASAC Suut lsisDIoA aCtuaI1y Sel H.
Indeed SO keen Is his eye for the genu-
inely picturesque in modern costume
possibilities, that to follow the attlre OF
his girls as they appear from week to.
week, in Puck is by no means q bad
guide for such young women as refuse
the wiles OF mere fashion plates. An
amusing notion of the Eddy manner
can be gained by the thumb-naii
sketches OF the. girls telephoniag from
various towns OF the east Aside from
the various sporting girls of Mr.. Nanki-
vell-no matter how muck they smack
OF golf. or the wheel. or the billiard
room. they are always utterly and CON-
pletely fem!nine-there Is distinctly
nannish type that is we'll done by Rob
Wagner. Mr.. Wagner's young women
look as Il theF really had muscle and
would prove as tormida Die In a football
scrlnmage as would most OF the men
one meets. These three artists arc all
New Workers. to-day. Mr.. Eddy's work
appears In Harper's occasionally, al
though for the most part the Journal
was won't to be the only paper showing
his name. Some OF the posters. FOR the
bfll-boards and the l. stations, that Ed
dy has done for the Journal have given
the world OF outdoors, most charming
specimens OF American girls. Mr.. Nan
k!vell gives his work TO Puck, Mr.
Wagner to the Criterion. OF course
there are many others. But the foreign
or Will go far before he will find either
happier drawing or pret,!er fem!nity
than Is In the girls OF MAXWELL and
EDDY, of New York.
To most people the girl OF Paris
means The more or less undraped music
hall creatures OF Cheret. II has been
said OF Jules Cherct, that he Is the only
modern artist. who has changed the
face OF a metropolis: he has also given
the rest OF the world Its idea OF the
Parlslenne. But his ia by no means the
only French girl. There are the girls OF
Cari-Hao for instance. They wear 4
few more clothes than those OF Cherct
and they are prett!er There is n flower
girl IN the most impossible costume. yet
fascinating, who elbows Carl-Hap at his
best. The curious fnct is. however,
that II Is exceedingly hard for the out
cider to gain good notion OF the wo-
man OF Paris by the black-and while of
Paris. One finds either mere exaGgera-
ton OF fashionable modes. or else the
most shameless ugiiness. Steinlen. for
instance, well known as the tirelesg IL
lustrator of "Gil-Blas." rarely draws 4
PRETTY woman. Sometimes he shows q
neat little millIner. but mostly his girls
are of the rafilnee, Yvette Guilbert, type.
He delights in red hair. So does Al
phouse Nuchn. che young Hungarian
who did the famous Glsmondn design
for Sarah Bernhard. Crossing the bor-
der into Germany one fnds n fellow
countryman Of Mucha's doing great
deal TO prove that the German girl Of
to-day In no longer the dowdy. house,
maid Gort OF creature that past genera
tIons Of Illustrators have shown her.