The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-27
THE LAST OF THE SALON.

How to grow old gracefully. even if reere:fuliy, Is shown in the fife or the celebrated beauty, Madame Recamier. She did Lot use pant ana nawdsr te hold the youth she knew was going, but accepted the situatlon anu sstainsd her charfn until the end.
 Tha fol owing from Longman's Masa- .f,.s ,a q lesson for the woman wno n,skes A guy of herself trying to cheat time! o,a ana fot,Iry in health. Her friends, Chateau" hriHnd atfd Balianche, 3fe no stronger tnar sbe is. When, In 1s41, she makes ,,shst may be called her last great pup. ,ia snhHarance at the shbscriptloh so,rse she gets up for the sufferers from the floods of the Rhone ana saohe' she is GA years old. -,,..a .,, 'Tna scene should be iinmortaHHeu on canvas. Here is Chateauor1ano uolhs the hunots of the salon, anu accep .t aaeordins to long custom as It's nost' Madame f{achei Is acting. Garia' Rnbini and Lablanche give their ser. vices. Here gather the Wit anu fashion of that Parish which. since IL worshipped Juiiette's gifl-loveliness or rniik. aYd-roses, has been through suen disasters, anarchies, tfiumphs' horrors, cnanh aa are not compressed into the hisfory of another city iri hundreds or wears. The Saioniere has still some thing of that loveiiness which made men mad. AS. when one puts nand into q jar of pot-pourri, one sees agaln the rose, the garden, and the summer. so this woman keeps to the last the divine fragrance of beauty.
 Care has scored few wrinkles on the
 
 scared it, the thousand emotions, hopes, fears, tendernesses of one ap- sorbing affection have not written a bietory in the eyes nor drawn pathetic lines about the mouth. Juliette has still her calm, sweet smile; her easy grace of manner. She has resigned herself to the first touch of time" She is not desperately trying to remedy the failines of old age by art. She is never desperate about anything. when a friend, who has not seen her for 6 long time compliments her on her looks. "Ahl" she replies. V do not deceive myself. From the mo- ment I noticed the little 6avoyards in the streets no longer turned to look at me, knew all was over" But tonight is d rejuvenation. It is the swan-eong of the loveiiness which is the Balo- nisre's metieri it Is the swan-song of the salon itself After this. madame is seen in public no more. ChateAubriand is much with her. Her beautiful eyes are attacked by cataract, and she becomes almost entirely blind.
 Tn 1S47. Ballanche dIes and 1Madanne Chate9n briand. ChaAeaubriand asks Madame Recamier to marry him.. She refuses. Let us change nothing" she says. Tin so perfect an affection" She a- -A k4 posed--in 1S4S. Less than year after, she dies, herself, of the cholera, which she has always so greatly dreaded. Even that pitiiess complaint leaves her beautiful. She lies like an exquisite statute and Achille Deveria traces from her dead loveliness that esqulsse fidele which expresses suffering and repose.''
 Gen. Joseph Wheeler of Alabama |, registered at Greenbrier White Sul ,phur Springs, W. Va. His arrival al the springs the past week, accurdint to a private correspondent, was the oc easion for special social activity Fighting Joe" was given every atten tion possible at the hands of the sum mer guests. and especially from tho Southerners. of whom there are many at the Greenbrler.-NewO Orleans Plea yune.
 Carrie Bridewell of the Maurice Grar Opera Company. arrived in New Yorl from Europe last Wednesday. She ha. been in Paris for several months study ing new roles in which she will appear during the coming season at the Me tropolitan.-New orleans Picayune.
 Mrs. John A. Sellers returned las night from Gainesville, Ga.
 LIBRARY LEAVEy."
 The following is A list of the new books lately received at the Library:
 The crisis." by Churchill; "Eber Holden" Irving Bachener; The Palace